The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
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New York.--A play that has a strong
final curtain scene is as rare on Broad
way as walking stick in Omaha.
Even in Outward Bound" the best
play of the season, the last act is
considerably weaker than the first two.
And Shaw's gorgeous est. John" is
marred with a silly epilogue.
And so when play such as Glenn
ence Danes "The Way Things Happen"
comes to town there is cause for re-
joicing. The final curtain comes down
upon a, rousing situation, upon great
conflict of emotions. 1t is by far the
most stirring moment of the play.
A girl has sacrificed and suffered
for the man she loves. They arrive
at the place where he must realize
his obligation to the girl, or allow her
to part from him.
There is nothing especially new in
this situation, but it gains force
through the manner in which Miss
Dane has handled the details of ac-
ton. She converts woman's cry of
hate into an avowal of love; which it
usually is. And in the moment of
the mans regeneration the curtain
comes down.
This play is by no means so sub
stantial work as either "Will Shakes
peare" or "a Bill of enforcement" two
plays by Miss Dane which met with
only Indifferent success in the United
States, However, the very effective
final scene of "The Way Things Hap
pen" promises for it greater success
than was attained by the playwright's
previous plays.
Katherine Cornell, as the heroine of
"The Way Things Happen" scores one
of the big individual successes of the
season. In two short years she has
forged to the front rank of actresses.
One reviewer calls her the Duse of this
generation. Another says she is the
best actress on the stage. Fulsome
praise, perhaps, but Miss Cornell is
headed for place in the regard of the
public as secure as that attained by
Ethel Barrymore, Jane Cowl and Lau-
rette Taylor.
But being performer of the stage
only, she Twill never achieve the popu-
larity of such screen actress as, for
instance, Mary Pickford.
New York rejoices at the return of
Fritz Kreisler, master fiddler of the
age. Seats to his recital were sold
out week in advance. Carnegie Hall
1aII oil b.
him.
This writer knows practically moth
ing of the technique of music, but it
is his impression that Kreisler better
than any other instrumentalist can
convey to the listening audience the
beauty that was in the heart of the
composer as he wrote.
Kreisler removes his own individ-
uality from the stage until it seems
that only little red box, with a few
strings across it, is there to create
beauty under divine direction.
Few writers could make dumb
dora as interesting as Arnold BENEFITS
Elsie in "Riceyman steps" Unlike the
Bertha in Fannie Hurst's "Lummox,"
Elsie has 20 gypsy tumults beating
within her breast. If she were to be-
come articulate, she would have no
deep emotional or sentimental express
sion to utter.
Few writer's possess the consum-
mate skill required to project such q
wooden-head in an interesting light,
And because Bennett has made this
creature and her equally obtuse hus-
band living realities, he has turned
out one Of the finest bits of writing
to be found in present-day literature.
Bennett doesn't allow his char
acters to do much talking. He
creates the illusion of their reality in
the external details of their lives.
Under his hand inanimate things
take on animation and wrap them
selves asaAt the living characters.