The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1905, Page 9

ie! The Evening Wwurid’s kiname Magezine, Saturday _Evening, if "In Most Cases the Comparison Is to the: Disadvantaye of the Latter-Day Author — There Is Too, Much Sugar and Water and Not Enough Roast Beef in the Current Dra- matic ' Provender, ‘Declares Mr. Lack- \ aye. if way is a heap sight hardor _ than the way of the discoy- j ered tranegressor, What a difference between the big and the small actor; what & contrast between the dazsling } star and the flickering asteroid! Huddled upon the anxious seat ina | dark and marrow ante-room, where fear waited on hope and ambition ‘wilted in tho waiting, was the nucleus of a Brady “shob.” Hopping gayly over the mops of scrub-ladies and then dn turn experiencing the ecstatic joy of rubbing elbows with the “per- Gesh” in the New York Theatre Bulid- fing elevator, I had duly arrived be- fore @ door inscritied “W. A. Brady,” and walked unawares into the midst et @ mixed company, such as haunta * every theatrical manager's office those | istressful apring days, They were a sorry lot, wayfarers trom that lmit- leas region of the One-Night-Stand, ' weertng Corn-Belt clothes and that tell-tale look of Opera-House To- Night. H, KALAMAZOO, and lke- wise Oshkosh! truly Broad- { you in here,” he gulped, leading me past a Another door, od Ca rd rd Pd * Gloomy refisctions on the pathos of the emall-fry were soon dis- \ Dolled, however, in the effulgence of Mr, Lackaye's physical and sartorial glory, I had never believed it possible for an actor to be so hemtwome—off the stage, He made nie fee! Uke a tramp. But tne beauty of thie wabfect Sustified my action in bringing along an accomplice to “draw” Mr. Lackaye, “You don't mind? I assumed, Justice with mercy,” consented Mr, ry Hi modemy waa charming, but hardly convincing. Justice he might ask, but meray—well, if we were all Wilton Laokayes we could walk into a photographer's shop without worrying or trying to “look pleasant.” \ “My, Lagkaye may not be the most diMdent man in the world, but any-. i (way Ne bas less cheek than he had'the last time he dtood for » ploture, Gee that cheek,” he remarked, pointing to 4 chubby resentment of him whioh ‘adorned the wall, “And see this!” bringing’a hand straight down along one side of his face, - é It was like a before-and-after-taking demonstration. “How, di4 you do it?” I asked, “By doing without things that I like and dolng with like,” he replied, “I knocked off fifteen pounds in two something out of respect for Svengall's reputation as a human spider, you knof., You can Judge for yourself,” and as a further proof of his sacrifice ‘to “art” He took a handful of slack in the waist of his trousere, Needless tp aay Iwan greatly, Impressed, 0 tar es new productions are con- r the geason ts that I-don’t Thad to do enclit Buck Mask will be put on at eo The Crackerjacts. company will be ot the Dewey amd the City Aperts company ot the Gothann f ‘ Continuing et: other Ton fac Kye Views [he oseph Adler as a Yiddish Cd * pened at Monday night’s performance of ‘Trilby.’ ‘The most marked on- thusiasm of the evening followed the loging scene of the third act, And what was that scene but frank melo- drama?..The audience didn’t stop to ask what it was. It didn’t care, It accepted without question, The demonstration was not so surprising when you stop to think that you sel- dom see anything happen on the stage nowadays, That is one reason why “T'rilby’ has survived these ten years, It tells something, It has astory, I was surprised in reading the novel again to find {t as femcinating aa it was ten years ago, Du Maurier not only wrote an intensely interesting and hu- man story, with marvellously drawn chamoters, but his discursive passages Gre real gems of essays, It's easy to understand why ‘Trilby’ was more than One of ‘the six best-selling books,’ ” o Fr Pr) re) oto. HILE Mr. Laokaye looks forward with confidence to the day of W more solid dramatic food, he has little faith in the originality of the chefs, “Tho playwright,” sat he, “site on the fence and ‘watahes the proves- sion go by. If something that strikes his fancy comes along he pounces On it, dresses it-up in other clothes and puts it gm parade. The manager, too, is on the lookout to commercialize any idea that is making money for fome other fellow. Thus it {s that a successful ‘Old Kentucky’ is sure tobe followed by a New Virginia and a Middle-Aged Massachusetts, The idea's the thing, The trouble with the play-market to-day'Is that it's ehort on ideas, Most of our playwrights have written themselves out. We all have at least one play iu us—-one story—but not all of us can write it Bome Mr. Lackaye Feared thatSvengaliMight Be Giventhe Laugh, —Hypnotismls Nowe So Commonly Ac-' cepted that the Farmer’s Wife Uses It as Her Excuse for Running Away with the Livery- Stable Man. 4 Playwrights make no pretense-of bes ing original. Charge Paul Potter witts! originality’ and he: will Indignantig deng ét, I complimented tim onse of: & moene that ecemed to me strikingty~’ Original. ‘Not at all, my bom’ he aaid, ‘I copped that trom old @yttie. tus.’ ‘Who the deuce was Hpiletuet® I asked. ‘One of the minor Gress poets,’ he whispered. It» always ‘Mpbs\! Getum,’ only every Blarertsh) ie) at) as honest as Potter. The only thing! an author oan do when he uses an ong” idea is to get on the safe mide ofentiiy) cism by disarming his public befose«: hand, Potter did this clevesty tm |) Trilby.’ As originally written @pisode (nm which Little i mother comes to Trilby and pleads with her not to marry the boy woul! have been the cue for the critics az} public to cry: ‘It’s “Camille” over again, with a mother in place of a tether!’ Potter fovcsaw this, =“ what did he dof He disarmed the? erithes and the public by dragging inl the skeleton, by telling them that ‘Trifby has cried over Camille’ at the, Odeon, and by having Taity say whi Trily promises ahe will give up lover that Billee must merry her— that while that sort of sacrifice is all well enough in a play, in real life a0 man who gives his word must keop {t, Here is where the playwright, gives you the laugh and chuckles ‘T saw it first.’ He's got you on the hip,” s s r) 6 Cd * ‘'T was with consMerable fear and trembling that Mr. Lackaye brought i into the light of 1906, iter was an altogether different proposition from playing the part ten years ago,” he sald, “At that time the average person had hardly a bowitig| acquaintance with hypnotism, while now it {s eo commonly recognized that) the farmer’s wife who runs away with the livery atable keeper explains her, conduct when brought beck to Manistee by saying: ‘He hypnotized me.’ It has been turned to even more humorous uses by the vaudeville performer, who has been getting langhs these ten yoar# or so by putting on weird wie kers, clawing the air and shrieking: ‘It is my vish!’ My greatest fear on! Monday night was that the audience might take o humorous view of the character, One laugh would have floored me, I should have been down andi out. In the old days Svengali was taken se seriously that I frequently found | anyeelf embarrassed and humiliated in consequence, A number of people, imagined I was a monster off ap well as on the stage, Once when a wile meaning but impulsive friend Cengans me herons 6 Toessmrnss fe. CEPA me to a lady she turned her head and sald she diin't care to meet me, if? all the absurd stories told of me had been true Z: would have mate a promis="i understudy for the Evil One” \ et “Pid you notice any effect from the constant paying of the role “Yeu, it finally got on my nerves, I became cranky, nervous, irritable, / A part like Svengall would give one the ‘jams’ if he kept at it long enough, / T was glad to get out of it,” i It was now time for Mr. Lackaye to gat into ttagain. The-matnesdear | ‘was close at hand, We walked out together. The “wolves” were still-atthe Brady door, Thin ti envy in their glances was mixed eda a tion, Who wouldn’t be a “lon?” CHARLES DAROOt ‘ Dil at the Atlantic Genten Tao, Mr, ude. M wi Mra, the cross tion, I went to see Mr, Lackaye in the hope that he might continne the iteelf, Mr. Lackaye rewarded me at once by coining this nice, new epigram a a A s a 66! I . "Mr, Lackaye, “Yeu, that is true; but that’s just the trouble, it’s wholly superficiia) ings, It's clever, yes; but what is it all about? 1 bdelieve that people are must have something more than epigrama, It must have someth| happen, He wants. Thoatregoers have been fed on sugar and water 0 Jong that Fitch, who put a large slice of roast beet into his last play. See what hap-| ‘Wolters and Wi feeson, and others, Ss treet At the Fitty- Heldelberg” Ll) be Vi iber’a, But all this was incidental, and was probably not intended for publica~ Ubtle talk he gave atthe New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday night—a talk #0 interesting it has caused more talk than the successful revival of “Trilby”’ in afswer to my question as to his opinion of the “revival” generally: “The revival is a criticism of the present playwright.” O his advantage or disadvantage?” I asked, “In most cases to his disadvantage, I should say,” replied “But don't you think there is more cleverness, or at least more super- flotal cleverness, in the plays of to-day?” cleverness. The modern so-called society play is all prattle and no story, It’s hilt on air (no, he didn’t say hot air) and decorated with amart say- alok and tired of the teacup-and-saucer play that tinkles with opigrams, Bven the epigram loses its sparkle in time. A good play; an enduring play, ‘When something dods happen we are apt to call it melodrama; but, call it what you please, the play in which something happens {a the play the pub- they want something more substantial, Playwrights are beginning to reo- ognise this, A sign of this on our aide of the water ts furnished by Olyde Shylock at the American. im “A Wight tm a Fool Fipune,” Wesson, | ot ' Provter’e theatres: will be ¢he star at Proator’s Twenty- bra, om his AT CONEY I@LAND, teh Roba ce eorn, Avoording to the annual report of the Volunteers of America, of whom Ball- ington Booth ie the leader, the con- gtegations at the 96,000 services during the ery within the ‘volmuteers’ halls and buildings reached. 1,008,055 persons. Se A DIFFERENT MAN, dol J. 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