The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1906, Page 7

) “ Bee’ ‘It's a beautiful work,’ she 'T must be very pleasant to be a playwright from time to time, and it must be very, very pleasant to be fo pleisant a play- wright as Mr. Alfred Sutro. It was as cold as organized charity in Mr. Sutro’s rooms at the Holland ‘House, but the affable Englishman waa at least 90 in the shade and Denmed like a July sun on a cloud- less day. His head helps him im- mensely {ih the beaming process. There Isn't a straight hair in it— they all curl—curl around the edges, to state the bald fact. His conversa- tion also curls, and, like his hair, it ig sunny. When he remarked that “1 like the happy ending.” he was burning to write another play he has in mind I almost expected to see him burst into a blaze, It would hhave been a unique way of taking the chill off the room. But it was my fate toshiver while Mr. Sutro glowed. “I am very happy here,” he said Ughting his pipe instead of himself, alas! “It is just the plage for me. ‘An extraordinary thing happened this morning. It did astonish and please me so! I went downstairs to have a letter typed, and found the typewriter—you don't call them type- writers in this country, do you? Oh, do you, indeed?—I found the type- writer busy doing—what do you sup- pose? Busy reading ‘The Life of the said to me. But that wasn’t all—oh, dear, no! The clerk gave me my next surprise. He came to me and told me how much- he liked my translations of Maeterlinck. And he; was reading ‘Monna Vanna.’ Most extraordinary, it seemed to me. Is that -sort of thing common among employees of hotels in this country?” I informed Mr. Sutro that in Bos- ton culture-ine extended to chamber- maids. “Really!” he exclaimed. “How very remarkable! But I have al- attention next week is Alfred Sutro's “The Fascinating Mr. Van- dervelt,” which wil be acted for the first time by Miss Ellis.Jeftreys and an English company at Daly's on Mon- day night. The comedy is sald to have @ satirical vein ani th be notable for the brightness of its dialogue. Mt, Charles. Cartwright came to this coun- try with the author to assist in staging the Among others in Miss, Jof- freys's support will be Frank Worth- ing, Herbert Sleath, Claude King, Ar- thur Lewis, Ruby Bridges, Lena Hall day, Eset Dane and Constance Wal- ton, 0 NE of the four new plays to claim Raymond Hitchcock will be seen tn a new Richard Harding Davis farce, “The Gallcper.” at the Garden Theatre on |AT “Tl 'Trovatore” has an abid- ing hold upon the affections of music lovers was demonstrated enew at the Metropolitan Opera-House Jdst night when Verdi's old opera was presented for the first time after & rest of three years, The fact that Caruso was absent from the cast and th: noNcament) was made of the in tion of Nordica, whose place was taken by | Noldi, an unknown Singer, had no effect upon the gathering ctowd, When the curtain rose the house Was packed. Standing room, behind the Fall was near the suffocation point. | It was an old-time night, with the old ®eueration partly sharing ite enjoyment ‘nd partly amused by its manifestations of joy. Even the oritical bowed to the ervasive influence of the melodies that, thanits to the hand-organ, have flooded he world In low places aw mwell as in hich, No pretenac was mate of obrerv~ {ng the proprieties, Principals came down to the footlights and sang at the Rudience, or acceptéd recalls in'the mid- die of a. situation at will, But what matter? It was a happy night! Artistically the pentormance was not Rt SoBIES. Gepet: pe ineemtes smineeL Whe heroloally tried to ML Neeson shoes as Leonora, was youthful and pleasing a: ) TRO says PLAYS should nof be wriffen fe * Il Trobatore,”’ Revived, Draws a Big Audience. vard radiantly happy and the younger | © neat Ave NS csi! | SEE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 19u6. ways believed,” he added, “there |for me to reel off dialogue. It is the s must be a larger and better reading |construction of a play that requires public in America than in England,|time and thought. An author must just as there is a greater theatre-|know his characters thoroughly before going public here,’ Your magazines |he can know’ what they are going to ere better; your editors must havea/do, He must walk with them, talk very wide field from which to make! with them, be with them day and their selections. I know I have been night. He must learn to love them: able to sell my stuff here when I/to be in sympathy with them. It is couldn't find a market for it in Eng-|@nly in this way that he can know land. ‘There they were forever ask-| what they will say and do under cer- =a, EE ESS) “One needs repose tc write a play.” ing for little love stories, and they | tain conditions. He should know the wouldn't take my stuff. But here my| minor characters es well as he knows little duologues were accepted from) the principal ones, for they are just time to time when I needed a little/as important to the success of his “ Writing Plays Is Jolly Work.” money, you know, and they seemed! play.” to go very well.” “When you needed a little money, then, you did not set yourself to work upon a play?” Mr. Sutro was not so enthusiastic, however, about the acting of minor roles. His dancing smile tock the veil at my question. “Bless you, no. That wouldn't do the whole. Yes, we are very well| “Is it true,” I inquired, “that you|mendously. But, dear me! I jat all, you know. Plays should not| “That is tho greatest difficulty served," and the smile came back.| contemplate writing a play of Amer-| shouldn't dream of writing a play|Papers. And we do want to tell you ‘be written for bread and butter. A|that confronts a playwright,” he|«your American actors do put such| ican Jife—have you come in pursuit|about him. I shouldn't dream of|how much we enjoyed your play. It good play cannot be turned out in a|Sald. “Many plays have failed simply |enap ‘into their work, don't they? I|of the American millionaire?” writing a play on hurry, because of necessity. At any | for the reason that minor parts have|jixe that. And what a beautiful per-| “No, no,” laughed Mr. Sutro, “Do subject, in fact, without first living| etter than getting nine Invitations | rate, I couldn't write a play under | been badly acted. We are very well/ formance of ‘Petét Pan’ Miss ‘Adams|let me explain about that. The pa- | here for two or three years. It would stich conditions. One needs repose | Served, as a rule, by the actors whol/and her associates are giving here!|pers have had me saying things,| be absurd.” to write a play. Beautiful leisure {s|take the principal parts; but, now!1 went to see it last night, and was| haven't they, though? My friends] I fluttered the “soclety play” at|had sald to me; “I'll never be a absolutely essential. The mind must |that the old stock company days thoroughly delighted. Miss Adams| have been giving me a talking to. I|the author of “The Walls of Jericho.” | great playwright, because I haven't be free to give itself absolutely to|are past, it 1s not always possible /is so charming! If there were no| really must be more careful in what ‘The Walls,’ he the work. It must not be harassed |to find well-trained actors for the|such word as ‘wistful’ it would have|I say. You see, we are not trained to| never intended as an arraignment| “Nonsense,” remarked Mr. Sutro,| cai) nis ‘pose’ that has made Shaw ‘by the worrles of necessity. I must smaller parts, But we shouldn’ com-|to be coined just to describe her | the newspaper interview In England, |of society. I don't Haye plenty of time. on plain, and I don’t. I always feel|,wouldn’t it, now? I am going to|and I suppose the clever reporters| about the ‘smart set, ‘How long a time ordinarily? sorry fcr the actors at rehearsal.|write Barrie about her. I went back| do set traps for the unwary at|know anything about “Well, not less than eight months.| ‘Poor things!’ I think, ‘it's a pity|on the stage to see her, and wag/ times, do they not? But I was going) pose in writing ‘The Walls’ was| well. He is simply himself. He is) mr. gutro said: The mere writing of a play is a mat-|to make them go over that wretched | astonished to find that she seemed|to explain: At the Hotel Gotham) to set for the selfish ter of a very short time, cf course. |stuff again and again.’ We have no|smaller than she did on the stage,|on Sunday Mr. H. H. Rogers was| used ‘society,’ as it 1s It is the easiest thing in the world| right to expect an ideal cast when|They tell me that melodrama is in| pointed out to me, and later when/as a setting. The selfish woman is|argument, and always ready to argue. | CHARLES DARNTON. AAA AA_AA RRA A A APAPR_A AAA RAR AAA WAAC AA ARRAN NARA ARR AP POA ARRAN ELLIS JEFFRIES, RAYMOND HITCHCOCK AND THE HACKETTS. IN NEW PLAYS NEXT vas Monday night. The play deals with the) dissipation tea adventures of @ devil-may<are New|from the Treasury Deparimeat. ‘The | from Daly's to the Majestic Theatre on | Play, her.old role, Cella Pryse, and) “Pagliace!” at the Academy: Carlotta, Young and De Vole. Jack — ony York clubman who gues to Athens dur-| Little Gray Lady” rescues him from | Monday night. on|® John Drew in Auguetas ‘Thomas's Musto tom rrow night. Norworth in a now monologue, Chessa- ard ner ing the late Gross>-Turkish war dnd trouble and tn the end they start for| Mrs. Leslie Carter will begin her sec-| jee G Re, yenees”s Will Be at the) VAUDEVILLE OFFERINGS. the juggles ene BB Sve Mepriey a janie Opera-House becomes a war correspondent In. order | South Amorica to begin Ife anew. Julia |Ond week at the Academy of Music by| “Buster Bi-wn” will be at the West, R. A. Roberts, the English actor who to win the gin of his cholve, who has] Dean wil have the <itle role and Dor.| “hpearing in Zaza," ee a | dhschs Roberts the neti acter whe] virginia ane will be the headliner at Hammer- include. B nots will be added) “The Confestians of a Wife” will be | pin = Ni : at the Hippodrome| the attraction at the American | <4 The company embraces Naneite Cm-| Suse of all che trouble, The new-comers will be| ‘Bedford's Hope” will remain at the | jiher, Sein oes stock, May Buckley, Helen Lactaye, regory troupe of acrobats; | Fourteenth: Street Theatre, where It (7 1 “Town Hall To 'T, Daniel Frawley and Edgar Daven-| James K. Hackett will interrupt tho | lflle. atlas dering horsewoman; Ra'pi| has score) a big sucwess. Vane in “Town Hall To- port. pi run of “The Walls of Jericho" by pro- Sobnwons) Bie ist, and the Four Dun-| Th» Murray Hill ‘Theatre will offer a, gone to the front as a Red Croas nurge. iby spoons ¥ will Pay ene} pares ofa ir new une 2 5 ducing “The House of Silence” at the new efition of “Happy Hooligan's Trip) 771s" and the dalskson *Channing Pollock's play of Washing- . Jack,” in whith Alice Fischer | Around the World.” atre will be Luc a singer; ton life. “The Little Gray lady," wit; S8voY Theatre on Tuesday night. Her-| soored a suc: will ‘be offered by the |" “icing of the Oplum Ring” ia an-/PMS i. win be Houdini, “The | Will 1. Murpay ane anche Nichola tn man K. Viele is the author of the new | 8tock company at “Prostor's Fifth Avo- nounced for the Star. t Keith's’ ‘wi enon and| “From Zaza to Uncle “Dom,” the Bix be seen at the Gurrick. on. Monday| piay, which tells a tale of modern Brit-|M¢ Theatre, with Amella Bingham in || “The Eye Witness,” a new virilier, by| Handeufl King”; Louls A. Smon Wit) ci reretts, ‘Tem iiearn and Garden will be Taye night. Most of she caracicrn are) tany' in a prologue and three acts, Miss | ta,ditle rule, a Lincoin di Carter, will be seen at the Grace, Gardflion ‘Kent and Frank 1. The bill at Proctar's ifty-elenth S lor, Eline Niblo, the Three clerks In the Retiemption Agency of annering and Mr. Hackett wilt)». The Guat ta, the Hoorah” will come | Thalia. ee Peaene in. "Jdust Dorothy: Callahan | Theatre will include John Hyams and| Nudos, Dixon and Holmes, Lena and . A fh == principal roles, while others in pera-Houre, “Prom Rags to Ritches" will be at the Sour, the| Lalla. Melntyre in “One ‘Thousand | Lehr sind Du Bell, contortionist. the Treasury Departniont. Anna Gray I'be Edwin Arden, Migs May| William J. Kelly, for the past two|-pnird Avenve Theatre and, Mack, ‘the Avon Comedy Four ie | wi Barrows, Lancnster and. com- ing the Wer In the curio hall at comes from Canton, O.. to take @ clerk-| Biayney. pave Glassford, Owen Bax-| seasons leadiag man at Proctor's One| Florence Bindiey will be seen in “The| Mysterious Zancigs, Grace Heder Roe | pany in “Tactics,” Meivilie and Stetaon,| Huter's Museum wil! he the Man with ship and ts followed there by @ young | ter’ Prank Patton, Rex MeDoural, Jet-| Hundred and Tweaty-fiftn Strest ‘Thea. | sircet singer’ at the Metropous, salre and Doreto, Harry Kdson and fia) "5. Duncan and he T 3] the Tron Skull, who delights in having and Peter La: 4 ead of his| te at the Dewey and the Parisian) ©: . Broeters One, Hundred and ‘wen The mysterious Zancigs will be the He takes to drink’ whon told she is in Fe 8) ows company for the balance of the | Widberet at tre Gotan ‘The Alhambra will have Joe Wetch,| at Proctors On t rl hte aftPacion (Bln "Mee love with a Secret Service man, and “Cashel Byron's Profession,” with! season, beginning Monday with “Tho! ‘phe Royal Italian Grand Opera com- Pr we have not provided an ideal play.!great favor here. I have only one|the reporters were there, and the We can’t demand genius when our! more night of leisure, and I'm going} conversation flagged a bit, I spoke play is not a work of genius: now |to see ‘The Squaw Man.’ They tell|of your American millionaire as can we? We are very well served, on| me It is quite typical.” a character that interested me tre-|Mr, Sutro! We know you by the him te take a $100 bill . James J. Corbett, will be tranaferredRoyal Box." Miss Gertrude Coghlan will ) pany will give | “Cavulleria Rustleanay and Musical Cuttys, Howard and Ni Jose, the tenor; Serra, a Buropean | Lester and J Aimee Angeles, Ned Nye, Tom Nawn! fifth Street Theatre will play “It TW: AD 2°29 BUTTER “2ermnion to be found among all classes. She|/One night, after Shaw and Ly isn't necessarily in the circle that/and I had been to a meeting where ao plays ‘bridge.’ That was a mere|we all jawed a bit, we went to i incident. I wanted to make her|Shaw’s rooms and jawed some more, consistently cold and eelfish—to leave| He was writing ‘Man and Superman’ her so in the end. But I couldn’t/at the time, and we discussed the afford to do that, of course. It/play and the characters. He’ wag would have been ruinous to the suc-| glad to have us criticise, but the al- cess of the play. And, anyway, I) ways asked ‘Why?’ and fought for like a happy ending. By that I don’t! his views as expressed by his char mean that the hero and heroine|acters. It is not what some people =. “Better than nine Invitations to dinner.” should be wrapped in fond em- ; brace at the fall of the curtain. But it is a very good plan to bring out the good side of a character. An audience is always quick to respond to the good in a character. All classes of theatre-goers’ love the ‘happy ending.’ I was greatly sur- prised in London one night when two shopgirls, coming down the gal- lery stairs, exclaimed ‘Oh, this is pictures of you we have seen in the any American)did end so beautifully!’ That was to dinner.” ‘That very day an American author replied, “was, pose.” Maeterlinck vs. Typewriting. care tuppence|when I mentioned this. “Posing | successful—it is his extraordinary * and I don’t}dcesn% help a playwright. Shaw? brilliancy."” it, My pur-|He doesn’t pose. I know him very) of English playwrights generally woman, and I|/Shaw, that's all. He $s perfectly! «we are ail of us. imitators of called, merely|natural at all times, always open to\ypgen.” * mpany in “One Touch of Nature,” King.” a. rle and her Six Johnnies that wil Clarke, In “A Modern. Staley. ind Birbeck, the Plor- | James H. Jeo,| i ard Mr, Tee hi and compury in will head the biti Others will Cinquevalll, the y and Blanche troupe of 2 night," the 6ix | a jumper and leaper from family of acro-| Ait Proctor’s AMUSEMENTS. Most Hkely will be sulted; And’ we won't be surprised to see |THE CLANS Said face of Castro's booted.) Now York Fonieht 8 uy Telephone Lew Dockstader Fini’ gi nd when she foreed it shrill; and | For Bowen's days down there ai te and skill she showed in tne| And “Loomis, Actini gone; ™management of it were lost in the | 8° we may gee a dreadful war spaces of the Mg auditorium. She ts| Before another dawn. AMUSEMENTS, “| AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS, Dizzy Diplomatic Doin ’S Ss. “iiaun’ | PROCTOR’S New Amsterdam 4241, 2ve.s.5, ff) [EMPIRE rari Wel eau 48 $ Wed. Mi: Pay Dd ; Leste (aR “ Get down the Big Stick, Peio ha pore figured out the 4 “45 |} Minute rom Brady af AR ta To APM oy ate ieetnn Pina et Ae Rete ae mechs see meena And ring up Lawyer Root, i Ie France is wrong or just. ne ma GRITERION Bess iat } 2 [star Co. Nient. 35 28! WEEK s Lesile Carter as “LALA.” For Castro's loosed the dogs of war, And what Ted does, let's fondly hope Ethel Barrymore deville. Sun. Royal allan Grand Opera Co, And made a face to bo t. ‘Will suit the Asphalt Trust. “TANIS’ ay Aue Pantaloon, with Lion ny, Q—Munical, | Cutive At | in Salt si sacra alneet Cand be thei wae iat lookalike be ——_—_—_—_—_—_ Theatre, 43 nts others, Night, 160.2. 850,50 | J BFLASCO) Hv: §, Mat, Saturday. 2. | Th LIBERTY fenfaat ain sens mst 8 Allstar Vaudevitle—sanel sc || BLANCHE BATES in 3 1. Wed. wis ‘sna * Directory , |) Pris faa 6 ett us Kinley, Gleasons vis & Bio 8 ry Hay (eooth rime | in Lat Tid Ralheen, preeohia ads year nN. WARFI ELD" MUSTO MASTER, Hers” Museum Man with rt ‘Skull. eae Btock Co, PATR. oA. M 11 P.M. — SIXTH WATIONALE— an American, wife of Alberti, a bari-| Then drag out good pld Doc Monroe, FIELDS i Aye hintaan | |SAVOY seatingta ude a ase tone, and lately was prima donna of |’ Revised right up to date ie eromreta nnd op-te-aate Nba. veo. o* iat & ae erste halts! serich, drow SHOW the Itallan opera in Mexico. Ste was | BY Theodore, whose thumb and’ toe York City. SINO Shee a¥ LYC' thege engaged for the part at only a few| Are n all ples of state, ) ry THE EU ON AND THE mouse, Browne of Boe hours’ notice. So buckle oh the Big Stick,, Ted, Spring edition goes to mu @ DADES the DALY'S THHATR, Gerins 815 MADISON SQUARE {E GARDEN A: Medica” Marvels Bs Incidentally the question will pro-| Wor France {s now afie:d, ‘ press Friday Fel. 2d. . (3, CORBETT in Bernard Shas RET ahtreedtigh- Cle trude itself: What are Mr. Conried’s re-] And Caatro swears he will be dead a * Sais Ei, BYRON'S. PROFESSION: ippea RY Coser ae sources when he has to go outsile of] Before he'll ever yield. era qanoey, or changes : ip’ aon damnea Forbes his company <@ find a substitute for) (Though we must say, on strict a, t, paths ‘Conte Sonauuirate paul: : roar Cen Jay Concer Nordica as Leonora? That in his verbal heat arti 7 che DESPERATE on ee i Knote endeared himself to the Italian | He slipped a word and meant that he Telephone 9010 Cortlandt. Un or Die arene ARS BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS. devotees of Caruso by his Impaasioned| Would be a dead, dead beat.) y| “HRENINGS ATs. Reecancraennaeanaanagnennnns 1azd St, & 3d Av, Ev. Axe MEW YORK TELEPHONE 08. METROPOLIS: Mon. Wed & Bat “SOM, De singing of Manrico, 'a part-in which he “ ; LI. In “Monte. Cristo. peared for the first tkne. He won| As Ministers upon the run Day Street Florence Mndley. The Street Slinger | new laurels, euaintaining the boat tra-| Hiked for the bound'ry lines, Siepe ca the Jan whol singing. | phey printed, in a burst of fun, He bade. 9, nn avoiding ‘agociats | ‘Wo “Border "Wanted" signs. AMU Sat. Phe Braisley Diamond {Homer ga’ Azucena, ‘whose dra~| With Baby’ Verieauela sick SEMENTS. wear | lc reonation wus better than| yor Castro comes a roar LS Lh Pat aaa ee are epee ane cc ' 5 THEA, At éth {hinge go tor your big and trusty stick, 4TH ST.THRA,, Aho Av, Mat. To-day. at's, | Grab quick, ph, Theodore! BEDFORD’'S HOPE | HIREN HSH HOES 3 ota NErHERSOL ‘TheLabyr.nth, to- t, Mad and the GREAT AUTO RAC! And 0 wake up the dogs of war Git Mat me Mele woe LEE i tarent * DREW in DE LAN ‘And trot the Doctrine out: Lah Ro ayer maar ENTE ‘YORKVILLE kuward Uneriga nisi Though what it Is the fuss ts for i 420 St, 25, rr Bp. 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