Show p 0 I The Thc Plays Play's tho 1110 IQ Thing Thin b bV I o V o v vIll oUY UY Ill ZA CLOVER CLOVER- Xe New York July 12 The 1 The first fortnight fortnight fort fort- night In June Jun usually marks tho the en enor end of or the regular metropolitan theatre sea sea- son By then all aJl tho successes havo have been scored cored and nearly all tho the failures allures r carted away Occasionally somo some bravo brav e I soul amonG producers will try to pu put t over another trial or will try t to o stretch tho the run of at somo some sho show w for tor effect on the thc road But it Js Is rare Indeed that any unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual production sees secs the light after actor June 1 1 with tho the exception of or the elaborate dab dab- I orate fr frothy thy and gIrlY mediums for tor summer r nights night's entertainment only So It Is possible to look back over tho the seasons season's achievements appraise them with calm Judgment and anti select those that have really been notable In character and In cast Out of or tho the more than a hundred plays playa that have hae come and gone ono or come and Stayed It Is not difficult to number on tho fingers and fingers and thumbs thumbs- of or ones one's two hands tho ho really tive tivo works I J shall not attempt to them In the order of or their pres pres- Here th thy they y are are- Dear Brutus Redemption Friendly Enemies Walter Hampden's Hamlet Tiger TI or Moliere 1 The rho Jest John l Ferguson son flon The rhe Better Retter Ole One is impressed ed with tho the fact that practically every ono one of these plays Is of a serious character of or t them hem are arc of or a tra tragic lc character Who Ph 0 will dare to say then that our stage stase Is running to froth rind and frivolity Ono One is further Impressed with tho the fact tact that few tew now new start stars have havo flashed across tho the theatrical firmament In this array of or notable productions William In Dear Brutus John Barrymore D In Redemption and The Tho The Jest Frances Starr In Tiger Tiger Henry Miller and Blanche I Bates Dates In Moliere h Sam Bernard and andI I Louis Loins Mann In Friendly J Enemies i have all had an established place in stardom for man many years Walter Hampden's remarkable char char- of or Hamlet and Frank Bacon Ba Ba- con In have havo won a new and hl higher her pIano for them in this seasons season's work though neither has achieved tho the meteoric Probably th the tho most moat promising promis promis- In ing figure has haB b been Jen John Barrymore Nor Tor must we neglect lect to give especial mention menton to Blanche Bates who whoota o Madame Ma- Ma damo dame Montespan l In Moliere 1 gave ave her the best chance she has had In years a. a a chance chanco to which she rose raISe with day daz finesse It is a n matter of ot regret that In enumerating this thin list of outstanding successes one must record the tact that American playwrights had co ro i ismall small sm a part In tho making of or them hem h Four our out of ot ten Is not a n satisfying proportion pro pro- J 1 portion |