Evening star., 1924-09-02
ADJUSTMENTS
Belasco-"M.--;ed Life" by
pr;rce Rihesco.

After being heralded play
wright of some parts. with successes
produced in several of the capitals
of Europe. Prince Antoine Bibesco,
Rumanian Minister to the United
States. presented WASHINGTON with
his first attempt at plavwritng in
English last nirht at the Belasco
Theater. A brilliant audience, nar-
ticularly for this season of the year,
attended the nremiere performance
out of courtesy to that most popu-
lar sta'eemer TITO n-ir"e ha" very
wide circle OF friends in Washington
and is admired on every hand for his
genialitv as host and his ability
as a dinlomat.
Just what the audience at the hrst
night which was TO be given for
charity under the auspices of II. X
H. the Queen of Rumania. thought
Of the play was. hard to determine.
There seemed to be some doubt on
the part Of many as to what 1t was
about and an inability to cone with
the shifting situations of the play.
married Life" was hcralded &c a
"fantastic comedy" The audience
seemed to be preplexed as to whether
to take it as farce or serious
drama with underlying symbolic
meaning. The heroine finds herself
at one time or another during the
unfolding of the play married to three
different men. and the switches come
suddenly and unexpertedly
One of the husbands is her real live
welded husband and the others are
fantastical or dream husbands. but
Just which was which is hard to de-
termine. The lines of the play are
not clever enough for il to be farce.
and the lack of continuity and hazy
Il Irft lNx ftrI. .fyYey u n q
from reality to unreality Ike it diff
fcult for the audience to realize that
il contains much in the way of pro-
found thought. 1t seems rather We
hicle for the prince to put across
some sound ideas of his own on the
futility. emptiness and extravasance
of the modern rich young married
woman.
Unfortunately. the prince chose for
his premiere the last week of the ap-
paarance here of the Relasco Players.
The strain of the hard season show
ed on the actors. None of them had
learned his part, loud prompting was
necessary on almost every line, and
this only added to the general con-
fusion.
In the audience was the Spanish
Ambassador. Senior Riano: the Mn
lister of ESthonia and Nine. pip. the
Minister oil Egypt ana Nine. fOuSrE.
Mile. Lutfa Yousry. the charge d af
faires of Austria and Nine. Proch-
mix, the commercial counselor of the
EritiSh embassy. Mr.. John joyce
Frederick: Mr.. Harold H. Sims of the
British embassy. Mr.. Jules Henry OF
the French embassy, MIR. Renato
Silenzi of the Italian embassy. Mr..
Conrado Traverse of the Argentine
embassy. Mr.. Leon Orlowski OF the
Polish legation. Mr. and Mrs. EIdrifge
Jordan, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Snow.
jr.; the former Minister to SwltZer
land and Mrs. Hampson Gary. Mr..
and Mrs. william Hard, sir a.
Maurice Low. Capt and Mrs Gordon
Smith. Capt. Austin Kautz. Jonkheer
rr. H. Van Asch Van Wyck of the
Netherlands legation. DIR. Santiago
F.. Bedoya of the Peruvian embassy,
Mr.. Juan Barberis of the Ecuadorian
legation. Nine. Phillip Soyez and Miss
Lllita Dawson. Mr.. de Buenavista OF
the Peruvian embassy, Miss Laura
Bryn. daughter of the Minister OF
Norway; Mr.. Mendes Goncalves OF
the Brazilian embassy. MIR. DemI
Dimancesco of the Rumanian Iega-
tion. Senior Don de Negri of the Mex
lean embassy. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman, Mrs. Francois Berger
Moran, Mrs. Horace MacFarlan, Mr..
John Porter. Miss Louise Lacey. Mrs.
Horace Maher. Lieut.. Col. and Mrs.
Lorenzo D. CATER.