The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1908, Page 7

fhe Evening World Daily Magazine, WILLIAM ARCHER, London’s Foremost «x Discovers that the American Stage Is “Going Ahead. " By Charles Darnton. | HAT Bernard Shaw has called “the almost Calvinistic seriousness of Mr. Wililam Archer” struck me the moment I was confronted | with the six-fsot-something of the London orltio who is better Imown here es the man who “saw” Itsen when the reat of the Bnglieh-reading world was studiously looking the other way. He ecemed | as cerious as one of his prefaces and quite as modest. Dogging my foot- steps as I entered his hotel had been the fear that I might meet a printed | person as heavy us lead and es cold as type. Idle fears! | I was still engaged {a the humane task of break- for the conventence of Patfence on a Switchboard, ‘The meeting: W ing my name {nto bi 1 friendly volce came over my regions, a who was to sen to the higher shoulder thus: | “My name ia Archer, How do you do? Iam very glad to meet you.” | J shouldn't think of presuming to call Mr. Archer a brother crite, but { should like to call him a big-brother critic For that matter, he is tall enough to be anybody's big brother, and every inch of him seems to sult the description. Hoe has Scotch eyes, blue and canny, and an English (face, lengthened by “sideburns” and sobered still more by a drooping, townish mustache that looks as though the London fogs had robbed | of all {nterest in life. “Shall we run off into a corner?” he proposed; and with long strides where we could of a Chicazo drummer or a thy to a sequestered sofa, fee set the pace across the talk without interr Pittebire miliional With Mr. Arch qpelling. He had come fm judgment on words that Yaw allows. Why he shon'd bother | very well in of thought > of the moment was stmplified | ert with a board that fs tn git/ > letters than the simplified | sod about Httle things of that in the got old-fashioned way, to spe! wort, when he maneses was e matter that puzzled me, “ut It war nove of subject. Sim: my business, Simp!ified “chatty” ified eriticism epetling did not appeal to me as a seemed more to the point, and to bring Mr. Archer to foned the er by doing it 1 me heartfelt desire of Miss Nethersole to simplify the whole me away with dramatic crit! The Critic on Criticism. delieve"” * Your plays: are closer lo Everyday Uife han ours.* Saturday, sbsisacssessccu envecesacescosscs asnsshststaatatateesesssoesesshes setestsaneserestessssssese setae DASE IVEL AABMABEOE AESODBEPAEDEBASADAAAEECAEADOEED | ats questo: | Archer's Answer to Shaw, iBetty | The Seben Ages of Great Men i3 ©: Vineent’s, TISTAGE— Born AT ‘ A.dvice on | G HEMPSTERD,L-1.1N 1848, AND Courtship WAS SAID ‘TO BE SO AVERSE and Marriage. | TONOCRL DEMONSTRATIONS THAT A COWBELL WAS — FASTENED ABOUT HIS NECK TO DESIGNATE HIS WHEREA BouTS Does He Love Fer? jetepleteeiebieteleielebeie be ieleieieteinteintelotefetedets a) * et 1908. April 4, ‘ 4) SEBEEREDEEDALOEAAS HEBBEDOOOLODOO OES EASES EDELSOEOEED hc Dramatic Critic, J-and amma doem’t go to the toes.) new scheot—and I don't think you whatever else !t may do.” J are quite alive to merits, You And as though to prove his words he | have no man of genius Ilke Jefferson, Jumpe! up with a “Pardon me!" and/|to be sure, and you have no care viled a boy with « telegram who y trained company like the Daly was industriously trying to raise th rs of other days. But you have i Ar-rehur!” After hool a actors with a pecullar believe any- to ray a new phase of of the English | American tte. Tt may be middle-class, And {t's different, worse hing about t genera and to stamp as a; Dut It ts very good. can't say that he goes to a. ¥ {t's shes off a re-| tl and, but eyenburoanved(: than ours. where it my opinion, drama y representa- Reniand printec whereas ten any rate, ft approach to Wit 6 of a play, ng a time a Ne, remaining at the theatre until perhaps, and then going to the | ir to a cafe and writing for an/ or an hour and a half, But a re- pallet of Us jcent ptece of enterprise on the | r ;the Dally Mall, a he'penny paper, It |whieh now gets on t ainatvat Al s as wel) in London as 1 Miss Carlotta Nill- . has 1 do even other papers | | and now go to press at midnight.” i} ould doubt- |“The Midnight Review.” But 1 cane y Jane’ without Mr, Archer ton of the midnight It is all | AUss Robson Plays That Fail Abroad. Tall enovghX™ “The wrong, he satd lo be alte should be given time to think ‘Some Americ ays are not sue 4 not be co cessful in J y : Lin 1 cause they are anybody S nto print c Archer. In has fallen on t no’ ‘Strong: bp brother.” play. There should either be a exa any- G rehearsal or an aftermoon 1 1 game |for the oonv liked ‘Mrs. Wiggs jten lines recording the prod for the broad a play, character and the pres n. 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