New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1919, Page 2

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JiffyJet 10 Flavors, at Your Grocer’s 2 Packages for 25 Cents | of the WINCHELL SMITH ADDRESSES CLUB Tells Women's Organization That Play Must Appeal to Audience “A fine play is not worth # ‘mo ment's consideration unless it has the quality of attracting an audience. A play without this quality is like a beautiful airplane that will not fiy. A play will not n't attract Otherwise if the draw- er. I suppose my opinfon is shamc- fully commercial but it is the stand- point I helieve declared Winchell Smith, Farmington New York playwright, before a capacily audi enco of New Britain's society folk uf tho opening of the winter activities Now Britain Woman's club al Meadow club house last eve- go if it does will be put in and Shuttle ning. Mrs. Traut Presides. The speaker was introduced by | ars. Frank L. Traut, president of the club and Mr. Smith traced achievements of American | wrighting down to {he present duy, told of tho prejudice that existed for a long time against native plays, the great work of Augustin Daly, and the interesting mystery of the play that Wi enormously suec ful the opening night at one theater and turned out a failure, against the play that was roasted by beth audi- ence and critics on the first night that turned out a tremendous on the west of its run First Play in Woman' spoke informally. the history nd success In speaking of the history of the drama in this country, Mr. Smith said that the first play by an American author was preseuted in New York in 1786. It was led “C'ontrast,” and was written by Ro: Tyle native of Boston, Harvard graduate and a chieg justice in Vermont. For many vears not only had Tngland but America as wel] felt that play to be a success must bo by an Euglish au- thor. The truth of this is a matter of guess work, perhaps but very like- Iy the American product was crude. Without doubt, however, this country saw the best of English plays of the time here Our condition {hen was a zood deal like Austr: which is practically without native playwrights but be- cause the theater there makes so much money they are able to pur- chase the biggest and best of Kng- lish, French and American plavs. English Plays Favored. During this period of against the Amerlean playwright which was beginning to boro the Americans, society people of 1800 be gan to imitate in dress, manner and speech, the Tuglish aristocracy. James Nelson Barker wrote a play and had it billed under the name of Thomas Morton and attributed the success of the plav to the fact thal he didn’t have hls American name at- tached to i(. Joln How B who wrote his first ploy at the age of 16 vears, went to London and had it produced at the Drury Lane theater, where it ran for two successful ye: Indian Plays Hissed. In 1830 Edwin Forrest, a remark- ably fine actor, was greatly upsel re- garding this prejudice and did all he could “o bring out the development of the American plavwright. He of- fered $1,000 and $500 the best play nd succeeded in securing 15 or so American authors to write plays none of which were a success except an Indian piay ‘This, of course, set every American playwright to writing Indian plays so that the markel was flooded with them. At last it go so bad that any man coming on f(ho stage as an Indian was hissed So in spite of all his efforts to de velop him TForrest, in the opinfon of the speaker, did not improve the con- ditions of the American playwright “Tashion™ \Was Satir In 1845, however. a certain can wonlan wrote play called “Fashion” which was a mild satire on the American lives and customs of the day. She treated these from a most. life-like point of view. It waw a hard job to get actors to act nat- ural in those days, hard to get them to even try, said the speanker. RBe- cause some folks felt that the play might not be a success because it did not bear the London trade mark and had been written by a woman, a man was secured to write a prologue to apologize for thesa shortcomings There was no danger, however, for the piece played to a crowded andi ence. This work according to the ¢ was a most distinct advance in the development of naturalness in plays and even greater advance than Sheri dan’s who was considered the first of the naturalists among playwrights This woman's work was presented 20 vears before Tom Robinson produced plays with the first really natural kind of acting in London. This marked a new era. We had this idea 20 vears before and didn't know it. But no attempt was made by us for a num- ber of years and from the time of the production of “Fashion” until the re gime of Augustine Daly in 1869 nothing of importance in the Amer jcan playv tool place. The American play seen here al that time was onc to thirty or forty English ones Daly When Daly theater he put prejudice for Amer! ealker to tho Fore. secured w Now York the drama on a higher plane than it had ever been dreamed of being before. Wallack’s theater was where the finest of Jnglish ) were produced but Daly, little by 1t tle, managdd to ontstrip them all. e secured a six weeks' lease on a w York theater and spent a ridiculous amount of money to fix it up. When it was ready and he had a company selocted there was no money for the engagement., He had a fine company with nine players in each cast on sal- ary. He began with high class come- dfes which he had (ranslated from the German and French and succeed ed in popularizing Shakespeare by ju { dicious stage of the text mounting and cutting When we consider, sail My. Smith, that Daly weeded out the old people and secured the young new, and absolutely unknown one took this company to London where his success was such that he set Lon don crazv and then went on to Paris where made both i financial well as an artistic success, it is re markable. | feel that this was tho rreatest theatrical accomplishment in o world, said Mr. Smith he as Praises “Secret Service,” of American began to come forward he mentioned Bronson Howard and William Gillette He said that the latter began with the writing of light pic then wrote s “Held the ISuemy,” which in the opinio the speaker wus miles ahead of Then Gil lefte wrote “Secret Service,” which Mr nith considers the tinest Ameri- can play written. Ile then spoke of the appeal was nece v for a play's succe the efforts of those uplift’ the American drama cstablishing the New theater in York city. He said that it was amusing to watch the attention paid to the new movement by the com- morcial managers. LONg newspaper accounts describing the playhouse, its beauties and itp comforts. Bvery- thing was fine intil at a meeting of the board of directors someone asked “How about the play?” No one d thought about that. No thoy sent round robin to all the American play- wrights that they would produce cvery | they considered worthy But nearly all the p shis rea- lized that while & long run at one of the regular theaters would mean $50,000 a year rovalty, a few show- of a play as was the intention by the New theater company would mean about $5,000. These authors could not see the New theater's proposition so that SotheM was finally secured to play Shakespeare. In speaking play wrights who at this time of henandoalt ever that s and reviewed who tried hy New n Reminiscent Mood. Mr. Smith then of how he and reluted the story Gillette attended the performance. There was something the matter with the acoustics. Be- vond the first five rows one couldn’t hear a word. “This is the most de- lightful performance I have ever wit- od as T don’t have to listen to dialogue.” Mr. Smith said the New theate worked Vv Winthrop Ames devoted much But they didn’t have the idea plays that dréw an audience. said that they defended them by saving that they 1ad a subscrip- tion list to fall back on. But the New theater hadn’t been playing long when {he personnel of the mailing list decided that they couldn’t stand going fo see the plays and turned their tickets over to their servants who fore them up and spent 50 cents 10 the movies. Deplores Cheap Plays. At 1his point the speaker said that he did not stand for cheap, trashy plays but asserted 1hat he had never known a play to succeed no matter how great that did not have an ap- peal i, A play must amuse whila it feaches, wald the speaker. He said that he was told by a friend to go and see “Justice” Galsworthy's play and this would convince him that his theory wrong. He went but found that the appeal was there, that there was a love story., shadowy but there fust the same. A poor littlo lawyer's clerk loved o woman with five chlldren whose husband bent her. Galsworthy never showed on the stage the husband, and children. If he had the play would not have zone a week In speaking of {he smart, drawing room play, Mr. Smith sald that Italy, France and Fngland had outstripped ns. Clyde Fitch was the most con- spleuous example of the Amerlcan smart play writer. Tle was most pro- lifie in his work sald the speaker. Heo had many successes and many fail- ur and would have had more suc- cesses if he had heen a more careful playwright He would be entertain ing some friends when he would say that hie had to finish the last act of a play for Trohman and do this while carryving on a cenversation with five or six different persons. Another thing about Fiteh was that he would forget his plot whenever he conld find a funny scene. Mentions Other Pays. The nearest and finest e the smart play by an American play- wright is “The American Idea,” by Tangdon Mitchell. JIp felt that Mrs TFigke no doubt, had & lot fo do with it as she acted in and worked upon it. “Salvation psychoelogical play ter's ‘“Easiest V although strong meat, told a strong moral was so well constructed that it crowded the thea- ter for a long time. He spoke of the great melodrama, “Under the Gas Light,” which was produced and sue- cessful by Augustine Daly, in spite of the falling to pleces of the railroad engine on the opening night when it was supposed to run over a victim tiod to the track. The thing.that Amerlean play is however, satd M. that ihere is an behind hard. time of He selves that those see was mple of hows that advancing mith, is the <lowly, the fact increasing demand for American plays abroad. Big man- agers here have previously preferred the English play as 1t was possible to see ifs effect on un audience over therc. It was very untsual for an \merican play to make good they thought. Ho then spoke Gillctte’s advent of ingland and Low when he played “Sherlock Holmes,” and apparently had won the audience he was booed, Mr. Smith said that it is an old cus- tom in England not to mention the author's nume until after the play has been received. No demonstration of approval or disapproval is expressed until after the last act. The Gillette play had just finished and at last the cry for the author came. Fvery- thing had met with hearty approval up to his time but when Gillette, as the nuthor was brought to the foot- lights, pandemonium let loose. "The audience booed and hissed. Gillette stood motlonless watching the house, Finally tho uproar stopped. Glllette amid terrible stillness then addressed iu;u audience as follow; am tre- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER MMPLY told, the Eacre Suirt doesn’t begin its career with fabrics that every other manu- facturer can buy. The makers design [and weave their own shirt- ings — clever cloths with exclusive, individualized patterns. You will want these fine products of *he shirtmaker’s loom. EAGLE SHIRT Connors-Halloran Co. Always Reliable : 248 MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN Also Hartford and Bridgeport mendously interested in this demon- stration and I am proud that I come from a country where such an, insult to an actor would never he tolerated.” After the show was over some one in the audience passing out of the thea- ter sald, “Why he really resented it.” They did not think they had offended and only carried a custom of many years' standing. The Dividing Lines, Mr, Smith said that the line be tween a play's success and failure was very slight. The theater box of- fice is an enormously interesting thing. Tt is futny how one show that on the first night is condemned, plavs to success while another that is ap- proved on the first night meets with failure for the rest of its run He spoke of George Broadhurst as the man whe with five failures to every two of his successes would laugh and say, “That hate that play, I'm going to write anothaer.' “Bought and Paid Yor. He spoke of the peculiar success of “Bought and Fald 170 which, when it first started, the management was glad to get all the waiters in the Lambs club, department store em- ployes and the like but was an enor- mous siccess because the actor who plaved the leading part couldn’t play jt. The part was that of a drunken brute of a hushand but as Mr. Emith said, Charlie Richman, who played the part was such a lovable person that the audience liked him in spite of the vicious role. TIf Wilton Lack- aye played if, it would have been dif ferent. The play also made Mr. Smith's friend, Jimmie Craven, as thé latter had always played butlers he- fore. He sajd that when Jimmie went to London he saw the powdered wigged and liveried attendance at the London clubs. Going up to one of these he said, “I've plaved hundreds of yon." In closing he related his experience in producing » play with George M Cohan, in Trenton. The play was to be produced in Trentor But due to its impossible lines it decided to cancel tha engagement. This was booked for a New Year's matinee however, and was played. Tt was a success, plaved nearly u year in New York, had fiva companies on the roud, and made A million and a half dollars. e attributed its suecess. to the fact that it was played on New Year's Day because the manager had sold out the hous Augustus Thomas was was to have spoken hut due to the putting on of | one of his new plays at ‘Atlantic City he could not attend. WIDOWER OF 69 TO WED WIDOW OF 48 Horace W. Booth Will Take Belling- ham, Washington, Woman as His Bride Next Month. Horace W. Booth, 69 years of age, a widower, father of six children, and one of the wealthiest real ostate own- ers of New RBritain, has wooed and won the hand of Mrs. Ada Crigmore, aged 48 years, widow of the late Judge Crigmare of Bellingham, Wash., and mother of two adult children. The | wedding will take place in Chicago nn{‘ November 29 and Rev. Dr. O. S. Davis former pastor of the South churchy here and a friend of Mr. Booth will officiate. Pollowing the wedding, Mr will bring his bride back to Connecti- cut and they will make their home for the winter at Mr. Booth's place at Short Beach with his daughter, M Louise Manwaring. Although Mr. Booth and members of his family are extremely reluctant to discuss the approaching wedding, they admit the facts in the case I'riends of the family intimate that | the romance between Mr. Booth and Mrs, Crigmore came about —through the friendshlp of Mr. Booth's daugh- ter, Mrs. Olive Morse, with the ter of Mrs. Crigmore. As a resident of Belllngham, Wash. is an intimate friend of the daughter of her mother-in-law to be. Ar. Booth | Boath first met Mrs. Crlgmore while he was visiting his daughter several months ag0- BAILEY—SUPRENANT Well ennized NUPITALS TODAY | Known Couple Married diy Morning—Rcception Follows at Home of Bride. A wedding was morning very pretty vesterday at Yester- s0l- 9 o'clock af. St. Joseph's Catholie church when daughter Prospect Mi; Mary of Mr streot Mary Baliley Bernadine Bailey | of 83 became the bride of Edward F. Suprenant, san of Mr. and | Mrs. J Bailey best n o v Suprenant of 42 reet. A nuptial high mass elebrated by Rev. Patrick Daly. 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