The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-09
TO AWARD PRIZE
FOR BEST PLAY
Pulitzer Prize TO be Award
ed to Best Stage Play
on April 20.
WINNERS SPECULATED


New York. - They'll be counting up
the change and passing out the bou-
quets for the present theatrical sea
son in few more weeks.
The Pulitzer Prize of $1,000, it is an
nounced, will be awarded on April 20.
This jury dominates "They Knew
What They Wanted" for the money,
with "Whas Price Glory" q close sec
ond and receiving exceedingly honor
able mention.
The Pulitzer offer is 'for the orig
inal American play performed in New
York which shall best represent the
educational value and power of the
stage in raising the standard of good
morals, good taste and good manners"
The award will depend--this year
more than for long time past
the definition of morals, taste and
manners. Each of the two plays men
toned reeks with profanity and in
each the girl is not orthodoxy good"
But they combine more than any 9TH
ers the qualities of power, sincerity
and truth, and they win this vote.
Now, what play actually will get
the vote of the prize jury? There's
no telling. The prize might even go
to one of the two favorites here nom
mated. 1t might go to "The Fall Guy"
shrewd and gripping comedy in the
American vernacular by. the actors,
James Gleason and George Abbott.
There are also "Mrs. Partridge Pre-
sents-" and the departed "Minick,"
easily admissible as to morals, taste
and manners and possessed of certain
powers. Juries differently constituted
might pick Dancing Mothers" or the
O'Neill tragedy "Desire Under the
Elms"
Certain noteworthy plays are al
most certain not to receive the prize.
First of these is PROFESSIONAL" the
most bitterly attacked and the most
enthusiastically praised OF them all.
In its cruelty accurate satire, some
Jurors might see the greatest lntiu-
ence to raise the standard of good
manners. There is "The Dove" the
best of the seasons melodramas, and
"The Firebrand," a comedy of inf
deity by an American author using
medieval Italian material in the
French manner.
Foreign authors ineligible for the
prize have helped brighten the New
York season. These authors include
Shaw, Ibsen, Molnar and Galsworthy.
Last year, it may be recalled, the
prize jury selected "The Show Off"
to receive the prize, but the advisory
hoard revised them and gave it to
"Hell Bent Fer Haven" "The Show
Off," incidentally, still is prospecting
here, while the wirner departed. LONG
since. And last year, beyond the
pale of eligibility, were such impos-
ing productions as "The Miracle"
"Cyrano de Bergerac," Saint Joan"
and Outward Bound
Another Revival.
Congreve's Glove for Love-" unexpur-
gated and robustiously laughable, has
been revived at the Greenwich Village
theater. 1t is the second play of this
master of Restoration comedy to be
given here this year. It is frankly OBJ
scene for the sake of the fun it can
give. The cast is thoroughly compel
emit. Among them are such Province
town players as Edgar Stehli, Walter
Abel, Abel, Adrienne Morrison and
Helen Freeman.
Ready for Big Season.
The new play, "Ostriches," is in the
hands of good company which in
cludes Katherine Alexander, Janet
Beecher, Amelia Bingham and Orrin
Johnson. Miss Alexander in particular
is excellent as fapper daughter. The
story might have been borrowed from
the French stage. A young woman
falls in love with the elderly man who
is the lover of her mother. The two
decide they wish to be married. At
the end the girl suddenly .reverses, de-
cides the man is repulsive and every
thing concludes for ? the best. The
earlier situations is not convincing and
the solution appears to result from
the authors " i'm rather than his
logic.
Jiggs is Back.
Visitors to New York these days
may find at the Lyric theater an old
friend, Bringing Up Father" This.
cartoon musical comedy" has been
touring the roads for years and it's
success there led to Broadway. 1t
doesn't pretend to be important. 1t
is not far removed from burlesque.
You can take it or leave it.