New-York tribune., 1922-02-12
Marie Lohr Plays
Outside of England
For the First Time

Far flung are the various entities Of
the British Empire and of necessity
Britains sons and daughters have
grown up a venturesome race. eager
for new exploits and the quest for the
bizarre and unknown. The young man
sets out for India. his brother roams
the seas on merchant vessels. Some
times his sister stays at home aud
sometimes she does not. She may not
join in a dash into the frozen Antarc-
tic but the spirit that has made the
empire what it is cannot be suppressed
entirely. In some way, if she is real
daughter OF Britain she will seek the
adventure which is part of her birth
right.
Marie Lohr has chosen to cross the
seas and brave audiences far from her
London, which knows her work so
well Brought to London from her
native Australia when a child. Miss
Lohr has grown up with the theatcr in
y.
first time she is displaying her art on
foreign shores. The actress-manage
sailed across the Atlantic to Canada
and she toured The Dominion for months
in plays in which she had appeared sue
cessfully in England before venturing
south to New York, where she is now
playing in Victoren Sardou's "Fcdora"
at the Hudson Theater. Before she
took this trip she had not acted out
SIDE of England, and scarcely ever out
CT London.
Miss Lohr is fast becoming acquaint-
ed with New York, which she is visit
ing for the first time Several days
intcrvened before her premiere per-
formance here and her arrival from
Montreal, and she spent them rehears-
ing her company and trying to absorb
as much OF the New York theatrical en-
VIronment as possible. Her first eve
ning IN town she went calling, so to
speak, on different theaters. listening
IN On bits OF four productions. She
topped off this busy evening with a
visit to Ziegfelds "Mjdnight Frolic" on
the roof of the New Amsterdam The
| ater.
Il was fascinated with the midnight
show,' Miss Lohr .aid London has
nothing like it, The more see Of New
York, and have seen very little of it
yet. you know. the more am ! reminded
OIL Farls. New York, to nc. resembles
Paris far more than it does London.'
MISS Lohr. who now manages her
own tneater, the Globe, in London. has
had rich and fortunate experience in
the theater. Her novitate was served
under Mrs Kendall, and then, a few
years later, she play in Sir Herbert
Trees company. Her engagement with
the latter began in the spring of 1906,
and the manner in which she secured
a place with this actor reads like
p'ecc of purely imaginative fiction.
Sir Herbert was rehearsing Colonel
Newconle,' but he and the others asso-
Grated in the production had no end of
trouble in finding an actress for the
role of Rose Mackenzie. Michael Nor
ton, the author, careworn and disap-
pointed, was on his way to the stage
door after weary conference. In
moment he rushed back on the stage
and cxcaimed
I've found Rosie!"
When Mr.. Morton had reached the
stage door he met Marie Lohr, who
asked for an audience with Sir Her.
bert Tree. Hardly had She finished
her request when she was inside the
theatcr, busy at rehearsal. Later Miss
Aohr appeared at the Haymarkct in
Michael Morton's "My Wife" Some of
the parts which Miss Lohr played With
Sir Herbert included Marguerite in
Faust Lady Teazle in "School for
Scandal Ophelia in Hamlet" and
Marie Odile in the play of the same
name.
Early in 1918 Miss Lohr decided to
take over a theater, and in January.
1913, she opened at the Globe in Love
in Cottage" by W. Somerset Maue-
ham. Another of Miss Lohr's produc-
tions at the Globe which she plans to
reveal to New York audiences before
she returns to London is "Her Des-
tiny, from the French of Louis YER
neull, adapted by Horace Annesley
Vachell. 1t is study of the new spirit
OF social life. She revived Sardou's
Fedora" and also appeared in "The
Marionettes," Pierre Wolfe's comedy, in
the latter with Sir John Hare before
she took over the Globe. These, too.
may be presented in New York BY the,
London actress manager.
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