The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1919, Page 31

® THE NEW PLAYS > “Aphrodite” Magnificently Alluring iy CHARLES DARNTON »y can be no dowbt that Venus is still worshipped by the best of hot ty mention the women who made thelr way last night to the where the belated “Aphrodite” was supposed to # to the imagination and thereby create the theatrical sensa- | ary | A perfectly kalsomined lady stepped from classical heights vel of the stage as the animated statue, a la Galatea, and the| ed her with the soul that all artists are given credit for pos- | As for the symmetrical lady, she ip likely to keep audiences notiy of th Be » the calm eulptor sing. Wand aguin poetry gets its chance in the theatre; but tn this case n danger of being given the elbow of curiosity. Is the goddess in| question simply herself, or, as you might ask, is the lily gilded? Once. ‘gain, I should say she’s kaisomined. Anyway, the paint she wears serves ‘il the purposes of @ union suit. ‘his ts said merely in the interest of curtosity—and I take it this is the attitude New York playgoers will take | toward “Aphrodite.” After all, we're all tuman. Frankly, I don’t belfeve “Aphrodite” qill create a great sensation: Happily so, because this so-called “romances of manners in ancient Dgypt” \\ggests good manners in the aesthetic sense. Care has been taken to sko it artistic, @s everyone knew last night, when David Belasco was rought out as last aid to B. Lyall Swete, who staged the play. Comstock Ad Gest have done a big thing in the way of production, but Morris Gest the luckiest man alive in having Belasco for @ father-in-iaw. “Aphrodite” is magnificently alluring. As a apectacle it is supers, but \s @ play {ts dramatic interest fufla, from time to time, to quicken the pulse, The chief character in the highly-oolored ings, as you may know, is Chrysis, who has made her name an expensive by word. Accord- ngly, she lures Demetrios, a sculptor, to his mortal fate after he bas nade an immortal statue of Aphrodite. When Aphrodite appears in tim in his dreams, he adores ber, but Chrysis, the courtesan, still holds ertain grip on him, for she has compelied the sculptor to steal a mriror and a comb and to commit murder by way of proving his love for her. The story, 60 far as its dramatio power goes, might be put into a novelette, but the ecenes are another story. In this age of extravagant productions, “Aphrodite” takes the classical apple. The “Bacchanale,” flung across the stage with rone leaves dancing in the air, was a beautiful thing beautifully done umler the direction of Michel Fokine. TM the dramatic performance high places were touched by Lucille La Verne, as a fortune teller, and by Maude Odell, who poured out a torrent of wrath against Aphrodosia, amd so brought about the crucifixion of that omergetic dancer, Mile. Dazie. Dorothy Dalton was a well-behaved Chrynis, Hnzel Alden, @ girlish queen; and Frederick Macklyn, Richarés Hale, Mayne Linton, Dtienne Mraniot and others acted agreenbly. McKay Morris made a mouthful of every word he spoke as Demetrios. ! The young women who danced tnto the picture again and again aid thetr bit in making “Aphrodite” great spectacle. ; “LA GUBULE DU LOUP” | THEATRE AUDIENCE CALM Aus tyeicatey reeNcH.| ALTHOUGH DENSE SMOKE POURS FROM VENTILATORS No Semblance of Panic at the Cen- “La Gueule dn Loup” opened tts performances last might before a fairly large audience in the Theatre Partaten. It was @ typical product ot the French stage, light, @ fragile tury When Waste rape plot and replete with complicated Catches Fire. situations of the type which are pecullarly delightful to the French- man. At every turn of the story as it un- A striking example of the discipline of a New York theatre audience was popeitrer®: lie T i] “clum Iiehts they became intensified. | guished without the ald of the Fire Phe fourth scene of the second act ts] Department, Presented with the theatre lighted. | | AFTER COAL FO FOR R THEATRES, Following this scene comes the ‘ ‘Bac- chanale.” le | ope to Get Rnone to Keep Doors Although the theatre was flied with smoke when the “Hacchanale” mi aghod was given, there was not the slight-| 4 committee of theatrical men mot est semblance of a panic. Two dozen |Yerterday im the offices of Marcus Persons left their seats in the gallery | Loew, after reports had been received and one or two persons in the orches- peat hentres in Kanras City had tra sauntered quietly out toward the | been forced to ‘close, om accom ‘nt ‘ he coal shortage. Telegramm. trom Feat exits. One woman who lett her | the ifitdie West gave warming thet seat with every outward appearance of mental calm returned later and | Claimed the Russian sable coat she| had left behind hor. The “Hacchanale,” it may be re- |, | marked, did not receive the undivided 1st fon attention of the audience. The burning paper jane, ,fnottage might spread to New W ‘intam A. preey, appointed a eom- hic’ t last night for ington. to ‘canter witt Beice ett of the Railroad Administra- in charge ‘of the fuel problem. committee will look after ‘as extin- ie The Kind You Have Alwa: ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and SS supervision for over deceive you in this, ht has borne thé signa- and Eas been made under his 30 years. Allow no one Countertelts, Hmitasions and Sonic et Sane *’ are but experiments, and endanger the “What is CASTORIA oun Vhat.is CAS a Shituin, Drops and Soothin; faa ium, Morphine nor other na: lc substance. 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