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Show London Theatre Demonstration Demonstra-tion Excites Much Comment Com-ment and Speculation LONDON, May 1. The breaking up of the first night's performance of J. Hartley Manners play "A Night in Rome," in the Garrick theatre last night by a gallery demonstration continued con-tinued to bo a sensation today. I Tho afternoon newspapers held the ground that the attack was organized, although the motive remains a mystery. mys-tery. j Miss Laurctte Taylor, American star in the pieco is to resume the piny Monday. Sympathy from every quarter is jboing showered on her. I Ono theory is that the ancident was caused by a desire to create bad feeling feel-ing between the English and Americans. Ameri-cans. Another Is that it was instigated instigat-ed by Germans because of Mr. Coch-rane's Coch-rane's refusals to produce German plays or music or to allow Germans i to enter his theater. One play manager said it might have been due to a remark of Miss Taylor in America aftor her return from playing "Peg O' My Heart" In London. She had been upset by the German air raids and was quoted as saying she was glad to get away from "that dreadful England." Still another theory is that the denunciation de-nunciation was directed against Cochrane Coch-rane because he said the reason England Eng-land did not produce stars was because be-cause of tho snobbery of the British: stage and that the average English actor and actress thinks more of a nod from a titled individual than they do of their art. Another suggestion was that tho troublo was made by disgruntled boxers box-ers or ring-side element who may have been antogonized . during Cohrane's recent fight promoting activities.. |