THE THEATRE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 9

THE THEATRE.

. [Br StLvrcs.] jplift World's a .tlrcftiiaj" t.bo li.iftb a stage.--Hey wood. Art and the Actor. Sir Herbert Tree, presiding at .a ro* emit meeting .of tiles I'oetrr Society, surd i "I i hink tfcit in art the only tiling is lilts artistic temperament-. Nearly ail children iiro good actors. Tliey'-flTij .Very good 'ja-r : ofp'ssibimi&,' Wo only bficoiho ainatwra \viiqij wo grow tip, In .noting file :es'sqn't'ijiil thing' is the tiling which we cannot help doing. That is wli.v children aro good a.ct«rs j thtiy .Ki-nipiy let ihomselves go." In -a fejiiinisccjice of Ms. .early clays oi* t,|io stages, "Sir llc.fbert said Dion Hmicieaul-t -sent for him ■, and asked liini how 'he Juui been oh the -stage, -On hi-s- repfe'iiig ''About a j - e«irj" t tiio .-great stage liiaiiager saicl, ''ii-njidssiMo; you lu'ive ailfhe trieks the trade,'* Asked what Ire meant, lie said: "l;br instance, you aljoiv tlieapJJiOjiriatii .gesture slightly to precede the words it illustrates." Sir Hcrbeit replied that he did not know til is, and' ho woul'a tr.v >3ot to thvi?h afys.ut it 'for i-eaf lio should do it \vioiigh'. "Kvoi-v----thiHjt.ki Mm art of acting,"' he aiidoil, "is in .the absolute ' filling . of tins moment. 1 '

Tho Stage—Twsnty Years Kcncc. Beceiiitly the Xew Eork ■desh'Qd to ascertain what the stage would he Ji'ko .tweij.ty yews hence-, -Slid' obtained tlvo opinions -of several of tlio leading produccr-iiuutagers. Hero are three of thein.— John (joi't; "'I don't want -to siiy what I think thw theatre will bo like ■ !!i. tWe'iity 3'Kvr-s. Tho truth isrf't j» flattering 0110 io tho public nnr encouraging to tlio manager. Tho theatre ■ in twenty- years will probably f;r- iisMiipe'd ' by moving pictures." . o'lkttr Mwosco: "Twmvt-y .y.e;'ii-s -from to-day American comedy will ho tire supremo comedy 0? the world. True eom- ■ '"ly, in its 'healti.fi.cst, Sanest, InO:sfc vijife . essence, is mt sole natural dramatio expression., for Ave are a -nation vouiig, uncfliiquerably tiptiinistio, full, ofdieauis, having- telepb.oio'e.yj;.s coivStn.Vit.lv ; to-morrows hack into day., Europe nil! have been invaded by our drama as siKiressfiilly as shti '..has been -.inva-.dad. by our ciiiiled pig .anil railroad steel. ..Drama, is going; to h>) tlio first .'Anioric.a.i.l art tb ■ successfully' ■ make- |lto c'tp-ssiug." . ' Airthvif i Iftptciiis: . '■ 'Tiio Aiiierica'ii -fitiigo 111 'the past has been chiefly divoted to people who sought only afmiscTiio stage in tlm future limst be;devoted, to poopl'o wlio. Eec!. ideas aii-d' 'j'j.)o !l sM>" WTajiptd up in . amflsijiiieiiL ilfinlviiig ■ !iiidieii( ; es not only attract finer' plays, bu-'t..-.b.ott.er performances and productions. They are quick , to. wcojf though it lie porti'ayed in ■a- ve-ry niiiiivr relo; With this sort of au nudiencu. any good play will succeed,':' . .'J.:,,

Now York Turned Down. .MV. F. B. llensmi, iii<> ontliiisiasiio Shakcspi-reaii rtetmy is- to tour tho United. States under the hnsjiices oi? %, O.orerne.rs of the Shakespeare ..Memorial Tiieatm. 'jii.o r-nrprisiiig f.nnouiiceinent has been made that tho company will ' hi; seen in (-very largo cvty_ in the, Stages wi'yli. ill : vo exception of Xew' York;..where. .it is. said that tlio taste, o-f. 1 j?njyfie-;'lws;'foilcn tot) W for jiiero to be aii.v real apiirt'eintioii of' S.biil>es])rai'e.. 'i'ii.n. ollki.il explanation is tvs follows;— . ..

,_■ (SftVojaioF.Si of. "j'ilit; Shakejfieai'o '.rhciitro. u.i.tde-V wiioso'dircctkm tlio tour is -made, bavn readied the decisio'it not- 'to send the' company ts> Xew I'ovk.. Tii> y will visit ©very other import,int city on. the f'o,ll- - .with .b.alf a -cloven exceptions, and will lmi sail for England until next; June, wlien tliiij? retinri to givo tlie ,ai.tuual feSt.iViil' .at 1 Stviitfo'i'tL

"This resolution to s;n;n Xwv Yoik was hincle iargßly bocsiise Of $ict 'gpji, oral tciwr of plays that scorns io engross the metropolis at tl.i-i-S time. in d< i"i; this they arc following tii<> example of the Alanehesior Flayers. Miss llorr.iman's company which paid a visit ■to Canada- last year., appeared lor six tweks in CJticago, and after pjay-i-ng in several Ne\v England cities-, .sailed track to England .without ever toiiohin;-; X-.-w York.

"'fjns.jpj' seem Irkc -.it strip i.i.t tlm face to the nrany-towored Canu'lnt of America, hut- it cannot lie %id thai it is wholly undeserved. Now Ytirk im givefl: more endortFagmmit to cabarets ■d-iti mttsSCal co.in.edies than to those productions to which oven its own critics haye accorded the highest, .praise. it has become .a "show town" i.ivstead of a, r-iioairicat centre ior tilings woriii while."

La Lotcria. . In. the second cditian of tho- -review l -: "Coi.io Over Hero, 11 at tl.Ui Lonctoh Ojier.i House, La Bello Gtoro, tho French dancor, introduced it uovy -'.act, entitled "La > Loteria" .{tho lottery), ■ '"Tho Lottery" tvas done In French, savo for 0110 littlo Spanish song. Tiie scene is Sevillir —a vst.riking pioiuro— aiul the principals am Conchita (all Spanish dancers ,a.ro.Conchita)-, I'cpito (her loverbully) and a Parisian "fc.lub.ma-iii," witli a r.ithef s.ufliy .ho is showing around, After a spell of daiiee and song, Conchita induces tho Frenchman 'to i.my a lottery ticket-. ■ Gallantlv lio presents her with a half of it, mnblcm. of hor share, should it Win tho gross I lot, as, needless to .say, it dries- Hitt; ' trouble Ivr.S aiisen. l'opito is jealous of Hubert, who has 1 danced a tango with' Conchita. When iho winning number is announced, and l'epito finds hi.s ficklo 6uc< theart in possossion of only half tho ticket, ho at ouco sots lorth to get tho imssiirg portion from tho French*, j niau by means of his .stiletto. Thero i is quito a fight bofcweon tho pair, Hubert winning. \or is this: his on!" for Conchita, taking his arm, leads hint away, after coiitoinptuously throwing tho two halves of the ticket, in I'cpiio's face. Tho value of Iho jn:i//> was 20,CJ00 douro.s—-whatever that. may. represent in lOnglish or>-Ailieriean eonvane. - and its reSoctioti iiius-t bo. taken t« imply si wnifident belief m -ilio length 0.l . ilubcrt.'s pvtrso.

Note;;. ' It is' iiow fHinitciv announced .that ''Jtaiitv f titts tlits w,iil lid : pv<v> (lured in ■ Aust rali.i in June next, nn*i that. SlisS Jiuto Moila.tt, tho original Utility, will ;-tivtiiiti '.li<» role, in .which she lias beeoiiio famous, Mr, Graham M' flati, _ who wrote awl produced "liunt'y," has .'l.q.u-g since eo-iiipiicd a. forttinp out of his plain homespun Scotch tday. It has. novel' bc-eii produced anywirero without w'hie:iii£ aii astounding Dcinilari'.y, \md tliero is no reason, to beiievq that, there is not big moiiey for tho play m Australia niul Ncw- Zealand.

. . Ivy Schilling and Fred Leslie have a Ilia loatnro iin'the J. (J. . Williamson, Ltd , ionic, 'Come Oiei lleio.' winch if soon tis bo staged in Melbourne, Jjife .is tho famous "spiders; WebJ', speciality, presented by ai-raiigoimiiit with tho directors of tho 'J'lu-afre Maiigr.y, .Paris! ;On a hugo web/which sproacls aeioss Uic entire proscenium, fed Leslie, as tlio spider, aiid Ivy Schilling as tho Inittorilyj dispoit themselves with und leilisiii. 1 lio tttrn is described a's tho. best which Mi Leslio and Miss ScLillmg b.i* o yet "iveiu

■ Somo of tho:' pictorial postets cf "Joseph and Ills lliethio.t, now played in MelbourneThcatio Rosal, lt.no tho titlo of tho pieco in Hehieu as noil as in English, Tlio othei day some .interested people woro iiispectinc tho display outside tho Tlioatio 11muf. "NMiat nic thesofunnj markings 01 ' asked ono of theiii, .pointing te tlio Hebrow oiiaractera. "Oh, tiioso," replied a nmu who was standing bv, "arc tlio titlo ol Uio play doiio into luiuio." *