DRAMA BY INSTALMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 8

DRAMA BY INSTALMENTS

Hints'of a, very remarkable extension of his -"drama, by driblets!' 'experiment at; the' Coliseum wore; given, '•■ by: Mr. ,Oswaia':StoU ; :'.reoently ,tt-;a-iJfDaily Chronicle',' representative.' - Mr.- Stall has'been presenting Mr.'Charles Klem a ■''third degree!'.play "Find tho.-Woman . •in weekly instalments', after/the manner of a serial story, Jn's patrons - -makingthe acquaintance of .the first act ini one -week, tlie'second 'in : ; the'Vhext,'.;ahd ; so 'until ■the-finish.--r-. : V-U\:,-';-S".\.';-■".*,.•;'.,•'...■'- : .--, "Mr.' Arthur Bourchier and-his compahyi"fsai3* Mr.' Stall, -."are now playing in the- fourth and': final act;, and, so lias been this' method gf:dealingiout' the-story ;of a dramaat an act a week v that I/am: making arrangements ; for presenting'other pieces in a similar manner.^".' I should not 'bo surprised t<i find three provincial .or- suburban .theatres' conveniently near to one an-nther-.combining'-together to split up n drama, an opera, :and a comedy, and by giving. ah; act'of 'each' at cacli house, making a'triple appeal to the play-going "Whenever:the third act of a 'drama is reached at one of the houses, oil goes-the'.'first;act of a'new drama, and; so; with'the operas and comedies.