New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
The Theaters
Lectures and the Drama
BY Percy Hammond

HE persuasive tongue oratory beginning to succeed the ready
stylus press Of promoting attendance at
e dramas William Brady for example has established lee
b with chief speech maker the object being TO ndear
r general and his enterprises in particular 70 the puoc
/ n It is inclined to be passive
sp me discourse" SAYS Mr. Brady and will enchant thine ear
~ or many phases Of theater The list of his topics
8s The Theaer To-day in Central Europe The American
haW the European Theater The Theater OF Long ago, me
y The Tbeater in This Country" Actors Have Known
m % Years in the Theater The sermons are fe 70
organizations thinkers church and social clubs and educational hs
has fully equipped bureau in the Playhouse ano " ~
n demand During visit the other day. for instance ne was en-
nd for Columbia University and Cooper Union phy spokesman
Brady decorating addresses with rhetoric picturesque
run His is conventional manner OF prop
He never saws the same thing in the and he
sorrowu though not an angry codg Oh hos VIM
= Indifferent TO drama a utensil OF Improvement
v Of proving forum mighe than the press m
took up the case "The Insect Comedy last week That I'M
importation had not been doing well at AL Josons
r under the fooe "The World We Live In" The balconies
en panzed but the ghrprced seats had been LETT vacant
Of the drama lovers The production had been anon
utmabe by journalists who declared to be profound COM
baton and profound Czecho SiovaKlan
sy staged altogether sight But despite this II was
ng TO Brady dsprOpOrtonae were the receipts
/ he large disbursements.
10 which he many members of the classes as
could find and the social registers They came IN large
% and were addressed by Brady between the acts He chded
gently their remssness and nmaed that the ambitious pro-
upon the support the less peunou Of the popu
@ hghbowed rch he said others have said before him.
in the theater In all MS vast experience as
had never undergone heavy those he under
going with T Insect Comedy" He would have he inferred loud
nsr when he indicted for being merely CONNER
dh regard for the lofter undertakings
The Of the Joson Theater show that
hight thereafter the paquet doubled Ever
@ there has big until The Insect Comedy is no longer
parasite but sefupporting Mr. Brady attributes its new
e power the husngs Where the press failed the aoo
% Brady generous fellow that his brother man
@ Mr. Woods Mr. Erlanger Mr. Dillingham; troubled by nom
~ should the board and monographs and resort TO
Ultimate, personal appeal Of the chautauquas'
Since the first performance of "The Cham
Pollock the author and part of the play has made O o
the subject his work During the first fortnight OF line
there indications that be neglected and ne"
- which lure the theaergoe TO is per
ees As Mr. Pollock is q platform artist OF no mean prowess
Suggested that he deliver harangues before the clubs and
y successful his homles that now ne fits from
to rOsum expressing belief in his drama which has become
cous favore He makes" hve pupits IN day. ana
from Sing Sing through many clubs and churches
Haett for Radcliffe College
TREADwELL having discovered flaw two in Grinso at
opening performance touched little here and there
w It's narrative smoother and direct The present endhg
Bessie the halfbreed she deserts her American fatn
% the trail deepdyed bandit carrying his saddbags Tor
This satisfactory than the other terminus an
triangular pendant with the young paehst and the mining
aser In conflict formers handsome wife Mr. u
characterization the mountain corsa should be meuaeo IN an!
the acting the usual chrome OF Mexican
but an unsOyed, picturesque study OF maieVoent' hu0,
ng and times ridiculous buceaneer Just TO make more ui
M Mr. Ruben the author her creation 10 De oneye anu
% oils Ru she gives him grim gracefuness OF Ian
and conqung way womenvelvet words with iron
IN Srngo is fortunate everywhere IN It's players %
os inpersonation Of the flaming little haforeso as
aion Miss French girl in The seventh heaven
% Eagl Thompson though of course so spectacular
e'yeness We regard Mr.. Rapey Holiness acung oi e %
~ Rain of the outstanding impersonauos " % nc
~ sno we suspect that Mr. Frederick Perry as '
pOSpsctOr in "GringO good with less opportunity