The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1921, Page 17

~ THE NEW PLAYS “ Pagans” jLamely Temperamental { BY CHARLES DARNTON ptt may bé that the success of Ben-f miin "Sameon and Delilah" en- couraged the production at the Prin- cess Theatre last night of “Pagans,” &n extravagant study of the artistic teqpperament by a hitherto unknown author; Charles Anthony, There's no denying that Mr. An- thony has brought an idea to the the- atre—the idea that a sensitive man who has married a silly, empty- headed girl, bound to kill him with mistaken kindness, turns desperately fo a Woman of understanding, not to Save his life so much as his hap- piness in life. ‘Doubtiess, many a) Wife ‘has talked her husband to death Without even suspecting the, enor- mity of her crime. In this case @ mother-in-law also runs true to! fongue. The poor victim of words 4nd more words is heipiess in an in- yalid's chair until a prima donna Sings him out of it, He speaks feel- ingly of having met her in Paris at dawn—not the usual thing, you may take it—and then having lost her be- cause her musical education was be- jug carried on financially by a pa- tron of the arts, who married poor Dickie’s mother-in-law, Mister Mac- knight, it appears, manufactured garters, and after a break in the market was supported by the large means of the prima donna, now called “a creature” and even worse names by Dickie's gross mother-in-law. But the prima donna is generous to such | & degree that she gives up a night at the opera to sing for Dickie, Her voice gives him a lift from his chair, and he is quite happy and hopeful until his wife comes back and asks him to give her another chance. Then he sinks back into his chair and dies. The opera singer might easily have taken him for a walk through life. But plays are plays and seldom logical. “Pagans” is surely an ungodly play. Joseph Shildkraut acted the sickly hero vividly, and Regina Wallace was sympathetic as the wife who returned to him. Helen Ware wes a highly Mannered prima donna, and Alice Fischer gave high speed to the part| of the mother-in-law. But in spite of everything that | @ould be done for it, “Pagans” re-| mained lamely temperamental. Pr {ning for Schubert's trio in B flat 1329-1331 BROADWAY Near Gates Ave. | BROOKLYN Stokowski’s Turn to Show His Virtuosity By Sylvester Rawling. BOPOLD STOKOWSKL, in the present carnival of conductors, had his inning last night. Lead- ing his Philadetphia Orchestra at 4 concert in Carnegie Hall, he set off fireworks in Liszt's sqgond Hungarian rhapsody that might well make each and all of his contemporaries (1 came near to writing competitors) sit up and take notice. A thrilling, nerve- stirring performance of the work it was that he gave, admirably sup- ported by his players, It evoked en- thusiastic applause from the crowded audience of New York music lovers who count themselves among the social elect. Beethoven's “Pastoral” symphony, played more or less conventionally, led the programme. Perhaps we are a bit “fed up” this season on the works of the master. “The cheerful impressions excited on arriving in| the country” at the beginning in- | duced somnolence that the “Thunder | Storm” of the third movement did! not quite dissipate. How musicians and music lovers, like everyday mo:- tals, do bow down and worship a: the feot of their gods! Between the Beethoven and the Liszt mumbers Mr, Stokowsk! presented . Debussy’s two nocturnes, “"Nuages" and Fetes,” daintily and charmingly played. The Beethoven Association's third subscription concert of the season at Aeolian Hall jast night was graced by the presence of Evp Gauthier, the French-Canadian soprand, whose art- istry is too seldom exhibited here nowadays, But why, Mme. Gauthier, sing “Der Erikoenig” in French? Efrem Zimbalist and Ernest Hutch- | eson were heard‘in the violin and piano sonata in F major, opus 24, ane Zimbalist, Hugo Kortschak, Louis Svecenski and Willem Willeke | played the quartet In C minor, opus | 18. The otherwise all-Beethoven pro- gramme was set aside at the begin- major for piano, violin and ‘cello, ex- ploited by Hutcheson, Zimbalist and Willeke. y reduced in bought at Clearance of 200 odd frocks. Mostly one or two of a style, in both silk and cloth materials........+++ New tricotine frocks in dozens of attrac- tive styles. Elab- orately trimmed with bright tricolette sashes, embroidery, ete New frocks for after- noon, street and in- formal wear. 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