The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1916, Page 7

Sir Herbert Tree, Knight Of the Theatre, Panoplied In Shining Armor of Humor Distin yuished English Actor Tells a Joke or Two on Himself, Hints at His Methods of Producin, Shakespeare, and Condemns the Practice of Standing on One’s Head in the Art of the Theatre. By Charles Darnton. it me that the ancient Greeks loved tre- mendous tragedies, and then put her- should ever be your ood fortune to meet that doughty|#*lf out to say that only dyspeptics English knight of the theatre,|CMtribute to the comic papers, I Bir Herbert Beerbonm Tree, don't| ought that rather good,” he added, | with @ pride of family dn bis smile and voice, “You know, of course,” he added, with @ glance out of the corner of his| eye, “that you have the best opera in the world—eo why shouldn't you have my production of ‘Henry VIII'? Bb? But that’s neither here nor there, though 1 do hope that New York will keep me here long enough to give tt several Shakesperian plays, Is tt my aim to present Shakespeare in a new Nght? Not at all! It is my hope only to give something illuminative, to| make the public see the play, what- ever It may be, as I see it. This much | the actor, or the produer, owes to himself and to his audience, Other- wise you might better stay at home and read Shakespeare at your eas You look to the actor to bring som thing fresh to your mind with his intorpretation of @ familiar character, or beauty to your eye with the pio- tures he realizes in the mounting of imagine for a moment that you are Gonfronting an altogether formidable Person clad in tho steel of conven- tion that chills the heart, Nothing Hike itt You have only to pterce his armor ‘with a smile—or better still, a laugh —for it ts a coat of humor that he ‘wears. He has a way of laughing! good-naturedly at the world and himeelf into the bargain, and by this simple means he disarms you at the Outset. In his leht blue eyes you ee something of the lark that sings to the light blue heavens, This ts the man—summer in his face fighting off the winter in his hair—a man whose sense of humor keeps him al- ways in the sunlight. Tt was only for a moment that the @hadow of the war fell upon hie face, and then came the flash: “Art flourishes in peace, and hap- ply you are peaceful. Here in Amer- foa the theatre continues to grow. | But it was only the other day that my daughter, in an optimistic letter from London, took pains to remind omething more than the keen showman in this distinguished veteran of the stage who now leaned forward in his chair. He suggested nothing #0 much as imagination—the lartistic imagination, I don't mean to say,” he explained, }“that scenery and costumes and all that sort of thing are to be considered | first of all, But I do feel it my duty, |.us well as my pleasure, to call upon AMUSEMENTS. _ _womuns all the resources of the theatre in HOW AT THE |) PFoducing @ Shakesperian play, not LOWES PRICE ||‘ make it modern, as the term ta & HIS SOUSA 585 THE SENSATION? L {CE BALLET Staged by R. H_ BURNSIDE ty Gitte BN tee wtp to Raster "TOMORROW (SUNDAY) ,‘3 YEAR'S MOST BRILLIANT PROGRAM MME. OLIVE FREMSTAD “Dich Theure Ha say that I have been encouraged in tals idea by the British public, To have been a producing manager for thirty years without becoming a bank- | rupt is something of an achievement! and let me add this has been done | without the ald of ‘backing,’ My main | support, #o far as Shakesperian plays are concerned, has come from tho Seat middie class. It is this class hat really loves Shakespeare, I have gained financial rewards from all of ny Shakesperian productions but one ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’ This cost me 60 much that I never hoped to ger my money back.” But with a laugh at his own ex- pense, he added: “You've no doubt heard the story of the old lady, back In Queen Vio- toria’s day, who watched Cleopatra with silent disapproval, then turned | to her equally shocked companion tn the dress circle and exclaimed, ‘How different from our own dear Queen!’ |Well, I had a somewhat amusing ex- |pertence with my leading woman in \this play. To fill a hiatus In the ao- tion at one point I arranged to have Cleopatra, robed in aliver, walk acrose the stage followed by her five children and then hold out he arme to Antony. ‘Five children cried my leading woman, ‘Tt doesn’t seom moral.’ ‘My dear’ I said to jher, ‘this is @ life of compromise.’ \‘put\—— she protested. ‘Well, then, make {t three,’ I urged, ‘All right? whe agreed. And so wo played tho scone with thres children, ‘There's nothing like making the | most of things. remember asking Charles Frohman, one day tn London, how many plays he had secured for his coming season, ‘Fifty-seven,’ } replied. ‘How many successes hav you, as they stand” I continued. ‘Seven,’ was his answer, ‘What wil! you do with the other fifty?’ said he, ‘I'll send ‘em on the road and Bu work them {nto successes. We have ik what 1s known as the flour trick,’ pe “DAVID HOCHSTEIN ERNEST SCHELLING. BAND AND HIS SOUSA LEARN To SWIM owimming gives healthful exer+ cise, pleasure and often safety In cage of mishap on the water. Prepare yourself to enjoy the sports this summer. Les- ir big tank every at Pand A, Ietuding ui hot room, eam room and pool. Department of Health Baths. id to give you the bi MURRIGATIONS work done by an expert | ind for free booklet Turkish and Russian Baths EVERARO poy hd BATHS, HOCKEY FINAL, 10-3193, ST. NICHOLAS vs. TO TON ®. 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A DELIGHTFUL INDOOR SPORT, WITHOUT AN UNPLEASANT FEATURE OPEN AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS SKATE ral AS LONG AS YOU LIKE at v jor GRAND CENTRAL PALACE, Lexington Ave Use 46th St, Entrance lot THE EVENING WORLD, [PLAYERS WHO WILL BE SEEN HERE DURING COMING WEEK LEDEDEDESE DEOT-O ETOOSCCOH CDPD OOLIDEVED DO? 099049 + RS Oey AMERICAN Sb DOE EOOE ‘At the end of the third act the comedian is sprinkled with flour and |the audience is delighted falls we try the soot trick, whi amounts to the same thing.’ ‘How fort for you,’ I remarked, ‘that America 13 a new country.’ ‘Was,’ he said s is the shortest ep!- gram I've ever heard, and no one but Charles Frohman could have uttered {t. It was characteristic of one of the most able men the theatrical world has ever known.” For a moment Str Herbert was silent, then a smile lit up his face again as he said: “Let me tell you a joke on myself: At tho beginning of . As perhaps you kn I put on * e' for patriotic reasons, my house manager came to me one day and said he thought {t was a mis- take for me not to have my name in the programme as ‘Sir Herbert Tree,’ espectally as it appeared in thie form outside the theatre, It was only when T pressed him for an explanation t he said reluctantly: ‘Well, Sir Her- bert, a man came out to the box-office during last night's performance and bough? three Uckets for to. mht He sald, t young Tree Is a fine actor but T never could stand his father.” So much for playing © dashing chap like Drake, with th and a bit antomime supplied the flourishing taches of Drak ‘As to my production of ‘Henry VIII." went on Bir Herbert, “T think IT may sa at least, that it the createst crime of the the: atre. $BOHD-1-0 DOVE LDS If that) | oS ER eee he CARON, “Sime: used, Dut to make it human. I may|he added, with a twinkle tn hts eye.!««47 THE CROSS ROADS” COMES TO THE LEXINGTON of the South during comes to the Lexingt one week only best night, Thursday and Saturday. deals with a family Dayton Thornton, has apparently, as his second wife. is kept as @ servant Her child 1s betrothed ‘Tom Martin, grudge against the those old feuds that rv erations—and he plays when, after consentin riage, negro blood daughter by favorite, Her jealou when she weds a tram to be a count This tnatigation of “Doc” Kerr, a + Kerr fin mulatto husband. marries wife after she She Is prov after all, and her daughter ts marrt to the lover who woul up even whon her bloo [to be tainted. Estha | the principal rote “At the Old Cross Roads,” a play slavery times, on Theatre for inning Monday with matinees on Tuesday, ‘The plot whore head, wed @ mulatto, Ble in the house. rows to womanhood and to a young Southerner, The girl's father has a Martins: one of in through gen- his trump card ig to the mar- he declares his daughter ha» in her vetns. the first sy Anoth wife ts ¢ is punish p who prote he does at the ambler the su; posedly » has killed her ed to be white, d Id not give her d_was supposed Wiliams acta oe vol! PICTURES AT STRAND, duiness. "Thou Shalt Not. Nore’| KNICKERBOCKER, PLAZA. should be written tn golden lettere oo over the door of every theatre, Anj axpenditure of taste, with a sufficlency of money, {s my {den of the way to give Shakespeare, T don't believe In etlded fairies, Tho thing, after all, te to give a kindly word to the eternal Tt is not a genuine endeavor to stand on one's head tn art.” ——- ROLLER SKATI. FLOOR AT DANCING CARNIVAL. Becaura of the popular demand in the city for roller skating at moderate prices, Manager Grundy of the Dano- tng Carnival has opened the entire third floor of the Grand Central Pal- ace for skaters, ntitles a person to skates for the entire afternoon, An inatructor is provided at the same price Bwimming augurated at the Everard Health Ratha, No. 28 West Twenty-elghth Street, where five classes start to- lay under @ competent teacher, jentitied by Heotor Turnbull. dian convent who wt from the assassin in the man she loves. For the first half o ne in “The Ruling «inning Thursday the tion will be “The vaudeville features w ered. The Knickerbocker have aa its chief sc “The Habit of Ha; classes have been In-| Douglas Fairbanks as the star. Vampire,” travel pictu: numbers will gramme, Vivian Ma ust. Yer, she ried, William Bertram has 1 a good picture of “Margy of th for the American Film Company. William Farnum, Fox star, |be @ boy cornotist in Buckport, Me However, the people of the town have | torgiven him, The Pallas concern has enlarged its plant In Los Angelos. Dustin Farnum ADVERTISEMENT, nat Foothtils ne Wavy, PW Phoune katte! WETTE GUILBERT Sunday Evenings, March 19 snd 20, at 4 18 rata Mar a es DIRECTION CATHARINE Ao TEVMMEAN, Princess Theatre, Mon, Aft., Mar, 20, at | Last Lecture & dong Mu btal REIMERS. Fy iste an ated Hox Veolian Hail, + March 17, wt Site #28ra, GERTRUDE HAL Biokete on sale at Box Often, used to! NEWS NOTES OF MOTION PICTURES, FILM PLAYERS AND PRODUCERS, role ts that of a novice from a Cana complete the At the Strand Theatre Fannie Ward will be seen in @ new photo-drama “For the Defensa,” written Miss Ward's tnesses a mur. der and then secures a confession order to free Thera will f the week, the Plaza Theatre will show Claire Whit Passion.” Be screen attrac. Soul Market,” featuring Olga Petrova. A number of Twenty-five cents | \ ft Ml also be of. Theatres will reen attraction ppiness,” with A Keystone comedy called The Village res and musical pro i. ys Hulette 4m houser-Mutnal he Fight Bertha Ka! ‘tucky for her, jo'clock each evening. can make fine mri working tm “Davy Croskett’ out the star of a Picture called chess," She ts happiest at & Harry Hilliard, Juventie, has stened a long term contract pictures. They say he {t's only a rume | Gaumont h: Kin Jack |didn't know that, “Pasquale,” by Geo: Law cea MoClosky, by the Morosco Phot , F we to act tn Fox handsome, but ompanies work Ah, ha, yo bet you. rge Beban and » Will be produced | oplay Company with Mr, Beban starred, | Seventeen film rs were seen re Seently N rk Roof watch ing pictur they had acte Iara Fox “love p Ways remains in bed on Friday, the 1th, She says she's taking on Uparun nan Sanenuned Coaine nits |Goldberg to release a janimated cartoons, Bury Molntosh 1 the Goldberg | Will be seen soen in be | other pictures and musical numbers. | rs | to use In @ Metro comedy When he reached the studio that day he found goats butting all ov the pl George Ovey, in one of the new Cub | (Mutual) comedies, ts isted by an or named Arthur Mudd, We suR west Arthur Delmonteo, ¥ t's your] entry? | Fannie Ward, John Barrymore, Le- nore Ulrich, Marguerite Clar BATURDAY, ad HOEDHLEDDYGHHO OO anne 4 e @ Mutual masterpiece called Pardoner.” It will be his fourth whack at ecreenologiem. Dorothy ernard, when ehe tan't work n Fox films, cull As fertilizer she feeds groun 40-88-00 00-9940 TRee «~ New AMSTRRDARA THEAT AS MAROH 11, PI DDEOAD DDH EDN DEES 1916. PEPE RE ROE +P DDD D9G1O98O® nds and soot. ony! ates roses, then coffec Lena Baskette, working at Untver- sal C | Mutual, Harold Lockwood and May Allison | ity, has been call , any land! Herbert by ur says | and therefore | the truth.” wi ager of the Fox Film Corporation, has gone to Great Britain to increase the demand for Fox pictures there, Oh, ding! infield R, Sheehan, ouber ministe 1 Anna Pav- ehe's only , better known as Pal- anding Pallas \s agent of the! ra son, naturally # stickier for neral man- have signed up to appear in Quality and we can prove tt. Doris Pawn is the name of a new Sidney Drew advertised for Pickford and Marie Doro are uled for appearances on th he 8 he come ney Norina Winslow wi lay roa | Fox star, thon when the Doris Soak. trand soon, first Metro-Drew dy, in which Mr Drow are starred, he Count of for Universal : re acting. She's way products Steger in ith Grace Cal and Mra ye he will spend the spring and sur plebu ! n in the The Hilindness of atures will be shown at the Now Y atre to-morrow, Miss Va working in @ new Rolfe vith Lionel Barrymo Edwin Carewe, who | Vallte r heumaticks tn one foot and t aferro in “Her Groa | pictures to be released by the Metro It bothers her now and thoughtless call her | 1 a a sereen at Lele-ree! the Metro March 15. ork he was affitcted with corns. A mo was had Gale Llenry, although she ts a wom an, doesn't mind making he Wf ay par unattractive in motion pictures She {e quite an artistic fright itn “Hubby Put One Over." Ethel Barrymore ts acting In a fitm BURLESQUZ called » Kias of Hate.” A pack of Wolves was used in the making of me K« All the actors were afraid for the wolves were growlers tha: Would bite you tn a minute. Hdna May will be seen on the acreen the second week in April in a filin called “Salvation Joan,” made by the | Vitagraph is in seven parts. | “Once Upon a Time” ts the name of 1 forthcoming Balboa release, which vill be seen on the Pathe programme Helen Marie Osborn, three and a halt yoars old, is featured, Twelve film stars will appear In per- w's New York Theatre and jursday night. They are Gail Kane, Carlyle Blackwell, Alice Grady, Robert Warwick, Mollie King, Arthur Ashe, Frances Nelson, Gerda Holmes, House Peters, Muriel Ostriche, Nellie Charleson and Jane Grey Robert Whittier, Thanhouser actor, | was asked recently to dive in @ bole In the ice on a river, awim to another hole and come out, Whittier was ng with a bad cold, but he de- 1 to make the dive, However, he usidered It worth $0 extra, eince [he was taking his life in his bands, jana ho asked for that amount aa a honys. The Thanhouser peers read. ily agreed to pay it, Whittler made |the dive and came out safely. 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