Show 1 I i ji f Fresh Fr h Plays Pa s Go I ta i in Gotham Goth G th m mI I T 1 r BY FRANKLIN FRAN IN FYLES oj T c j I r York Feb 15 Ellen Terrys i 4 adoption or of the most modern mo ern manner I 1 r 2 at t drama In her first American tour In 1 I from Henry Irving I i i 4 Brings upon her an avalanche of at fer ter ferI fervent I f vent praise and IH blame Her HerI I j I start tarL with Bernard Shaw was only a q i stepping stone tOne n sen flen flent t to the th stark realism of ot Her Herman HerI I man whose play of ot The Hope Is In the foremost art effort H of it this theatrical week A good num I It I ler er of critical people on the one ona on hand han hani I i f f applaud her sympathy with the if I Ass f of at moving times in I I ft it l the better thought by producing I I Shaw Shuw and amI as a sh did im immediately ImI I I j V mediately desertion of Irving I i Another large body to toi I f M i Ier ft r charm and genius g Throughput throughout full tull frn ty of her fifty years fear of alac alacI I I 1 r f bewail her of or a new I i form irm of or art which they ther endeavor to tol toI i l and make no effort to under underStand I I 1 I Stand Mind MindI I i iI v I I r The tragedy of at The Good Hope is to toIne toIlie tot I t Ine Ilie he stage stag what the or Gorki are i I 0 the th library anil an d what the Russian Rusan 1 lists efforts eff at dramatic writing I i nave aye aimed to tP tob is the I j i Dutch dramatist ot the day dayI I 1 I and nd he in takes rank with Thudas Haupt Ii 1 mann span s Echegaray M f n t anU Ibsen Iben He Tie pos poR po poI I i Ele th of or vivid 1 d dramatic form the lack tt it c It Tolstoi and Gorki G Ca with 1 F all Just short of a eo I I Tn Ito sue In the Uie theatre It Tt Is thus t that IB f able to write with the tremendous tle power of simplicity I I The Wie Good Oo d Hope Is simple pIe Its It start discovers a dull Dutch community of or i 1 folk humble In Its Ite older gener ener u u y atlon of at ship owners but butI I francht In the younger generation with the Iho the spirit of or revolt In the central theme t m the old widow of ot a fisherman I I ln n since lost at sea iea typifies the peas pearl peasant peasant 1 ant spirit of dumb resignation n Two of I 1 Her Ifer Tour four sons roDS have h ve been spared from fromI the t e ocean death and the elder eIder of them themI I I 1 Questions quest ns the right of ot a capitalist to tol wax ru wealthy on the meagerly rewarded l labor J bor of ot the poor In this and other r 6 r of ot dawning thought he has hM ha harvel served ened six In prison on a ate h charge and ana been b en ejected eje ted from froni the H navy vy He returns return to a community hem women lomen wom rendered by bythe bythe bythe the sea must mut needs send their lr sons me no more than boys out to the rH where old men their usefulness exhausted by b years of labor for the fish fishi i i re grudgingly and mEanly succored In Inan inI Ina an a almshouse I 4 I 4 t I Presently this rebel against hard conditions prepares to embark upon a with the Good Hope a aI ahti I that lint is rotten as are most of the tho 1 i i craft and his mother old r I needy has persuaded ed her younger 4 boy loy to make the voyage too That has hasiot hasI I j i hot t been bean easy sy for tor thead the ad Is II I I i i by terror of or the sea But his mothers r ii poverty with lil hIi his girl cousins taunts i duce him to go The mother re rewards reI 1 I ji 1 i r wards ards his Ills bravery braver by fastening In his I I oars the silver rings by which his fa fathers faI a I floating corpse was identified t twelve wele years before At the moment of ot otI I I Setting out however an old 1 I i i ra a drunkard rd since his hi own sons death t j 10 iU l the deep reveals to the boy the tha I I t Good Hopes The rhe I i 1 t puth uth Is hysterical with fear tear and pleads begs and battles to remain I hore But the mother terrified by bye byi i e wrath of the ship owner aids aid the therbor therbor i police In dragging him to the theat I at herself loosening his hh clawing I hands bands from the door Jamb to which he clings jUngs in screeching desperation I i it itIn I In the third act a storm rages out outI I VI tl r ide the cottage One of the theod theold 1 od old d men at the almshouse and another I r ire are f reon on their way to fetch tetch a doctor They I nave hiLve given forlorn comfort to each I oJ Q ther brightening their t fading starved I days ays with of ot the adventures 1 l J lures tures of their youth at sea Sell But the 1 says sas the pauper and tho the thoI I tord lord away They The he thinks I ii I are ire to God oHly only as the fishes fishe were to toJ tod d J him the thc fishes fishs that seemed emed to look up 1 J into o his hl eyes eres as a he chopped chop pel j 5 I heat after head from quivering I j i bod I am alt giving space to this t ls be because beI I j I cause It shows the difference nce between j f q and aini a mere re facility In i writing a iI a em II 1 a aJ J The wives of ot the fishermen gother in inI 1 I t he cottage to knit in the light of the 4 i jre to try tr to laugh down their dread dr d dJ J I i of nr f the storm In spite of their theli appie 4 r I j 1 J f en The details are pitiful and ana 4 they he lead lea up to tidings that the Good GoodHope h I 1 Hope has bas foundered At the end of ot the 1 J II 1 i t I we sue see the office of or the owner He HeSs HeIS 1 IS 4 Ss IJ I concerned lest test the rottenness of Qt the c i J be found out and the tte Insurance 1 money withheld The eager r questions of or the sailors relatives merely fret hire him The body of the tile boy floats to the shore and Is td t by y the earrings The Thi Theother other oth mother walls wails very velT humbly am anti and g goes i away The capitalist gives her b n no aid but issues a proclamation of sym sympathy pathy for tor the men of at the Good Hope and anti appeal for tor money for their wives I and mothers mother Ellen Terry Is I a great eat actress That Tha has lias been known knon long and ind nd amply rec reco recognized o It ft has ha not ceased to be a tact fact And for her performance of ot the Dutch fishwife in The Good Hope sh she I seemed l to have pulled Dulled herself herselt together for a supreme su effort Her bad memory which need ned n t not be accounted to ad I e inasmuch as it ba baten bad ten years ago mars her acting with uz certainties s fal tal false e starts start and recourse to the promoter l cannot fall tall to ruin n Actors asking her questions question had to whisper the answers to her herand herand he and sometimes repeat repent thorn thom before she could fix words In her mind so 50 as to speak them to the tile audience But this was less leas a blemish upon her perform performance ance than that which nature created In the making of her Ene Terry is isa Isa isa a beautiful woman and time though ageing that th t beauty has not effaced It She Is hi fascinating with grace refine refinement refinement refinement ment and arid beautiful with In Intellectuality Intellectuality Intellectuality of face tace and regal with Innate dignity of or mind and person And Am all attributes which have made her a queen of ot tragedy and a very god goddess dess 1 ss of ot poetic comedy disenabled her herto herto herto to embody the fishwife ot or She endeavored end 1 to roughen her voice olce and enunciation and we e saw the effort without the Intended effect she he splashed her hands clumsily in a bowl bow of or water and we felt fet that she was playing at coarseness and ind wooden shod shot though she he f i she seemed to glide Ilka he fair Rosamond The figures gures around her r were quaint with Dutch rough sturdiness but she shewa shewa wa was an ethereally lovely old lady lad whose cap was ices not of ot peasantry but the linen crown of ofa a gentle duchess dowager Sitting In a surely tion of the famous Whistler portrait of his mother she added to the gentle lofty loveliness of ot that study in age a beauty of or face dee ce that made her posture memorable When The Good Hope was Va over o r Miss Terry seemed suddenly to fling aside the floodgates of ot her boundless buoyancy in Nance Oldfield as an 4 An actress who resembles the Eng English English English lish Ellen EUm Terry Terr remarkably Is the American Henrietta The re resemblance resemblance resemblance semblance extend from face and fig figure figuro ure uro to voice yolee and method It stands the test of ot seeing Terry in Nance Old eld eldone one night and in All AU of or a Sudden Peggy Pegg the next night the characters being In hearty good humor I believe that If It either were to substitute herself for tor the other othel in inan an any one onu scene with a copy of makeup and costume the audience au lence would accept the counterfeit for the genuine If It there were doubts they would arise close dose to I the stage and from nothing but the much greater age of the more famous woman I T feel sure that Crosman has not enhanced the natural likeness by imitation that she ahe has copied Terrys ways and means for she abe was a very slowly rising young oung actress when the theother theother theother other was wa fully risen and too hard worked in stock companies If not too scant In purse pure to go g and Study dy the Englishwoman English h woman oman Henrietta Orosman had struggled long ong and anti assiduously before sh was Ohio to York discover her In Mistress Nell en Now New she self elt again In another saucy Irish lady lad delineation But All AU of a Sudden udden Peg Peggy Peggy Peggy gy made a long tour tou before coming here her lere and nd to 50 0 I must not give ve space to Ernest Dennys comedy But to those who seen it I may say that the Peggy eggy of ot sudden impulse gets herself Into nto what looks like Uke an elopement with an English that she spends a night nl ht innocently InnocentI yet scandalously in his lis bachelor apartments and that tat her whims caprices and ever keen serse o make her a char character character acter acier which Dion would have been ben glad to originate or pla plagiarize plagiarize not a though but buta a n Why YIv Henrietta Crosman as In intern tern celebrated as EITen n Ter Tel Terry Terr ry r If a s 4 I T say she is a double of ot that ss Because she he born In ln EnI chance upon u ona a Henry Trying with whom ta wed herself in dramatic ti art and was tage red In Inthe Inthe inthe the arriving United States tates Instead of ot the tila Great Britain The Th differ nce In opportunity I Iloe love them both for being bIng players pla ers of ot congeniality who have caused more smiles than ears 0 The Th name of ot a western drama was as ch a bit for New Ne York introduction tion U Jh An actable Sarah Ellis ElKs Ryans nov Its title for fora a by b as As to that th t tot of ot e book so making It As the r v f Now It v i Is Genesee of or the Hills Hili Between the two of or the play there has hiS been beena a row TOW The trouble as al I perhaps mis misunderstand misunderstand misunderstand understand it comes of too ninny many play playwrights wrights at on Job Edwin Arden an actor who w wrote rott Eagles Eales Nest years yean yea ago ngok and is the son on of ot an author Arden Smith perceived a role for himself In InI I Geres e Jack lack the th cowboy and ani an scout who in Miss Ryans story tory was sized up in Montana as a n bad man fit t for forthe forthe forthe the loop but In IIi whom a sweet girl Irl from froin th the east discerned so good a areIl reIl w that the he wanted anted to arn him anti and therefore undertook to develop him from a tough condition Into Int one of ten tea tenderness tenderness Genessee is the kind of ot a ii hero that take kindly tc to that audiences like usually and an that th t are re nu flu numerous erous 1 In tn American fiction Ard Ardt h led fed r l McPherson to get rote from Miss Ryan the theatrical thea right to her hEi story Mory and the actor assisted yay so much mul as ts collaborated ln the making of or a play of which in Chicago he was for months the head centre entro As A I 1 hear hearIt It Miss Ryan Rvan disliked some of ot the pla piaS 2 flom her book find and Turnbull was va willing to amend them but hut Arden was obdurate to keep them theta In The management sided with Miss R struck out whatever Arden had put In and give ghe to New N w York Genes Genessee see of ot the Hills by Marah and McPherson Turnbull MI Miss tIIS 3 Ryans Ry ns Insistence that the primary primary primary mary author df dramatic material ought o ht to have h lye the in ill its stage use U makes mal s it pertinent to tell about a u controversy between Mrs Mr Leslie Carter and E Edwin lwin Milton Royle It Is so so soso soso soso so interesting to New ew Yorks theatrical circles cirdes yet the fact of a tJ physical en encounter encounter encounter counter appeared in print I trust truit It was a 1 stage performance and therefore within the prescribed scope of or this correspondence although u h the public doors were not open to It 11 it which I was wai at a rehearsal of CIco Cleo Royle had rewritten from Article 47 for tor Mrs Mm Carter to recall yet transcend memories of or Clara Ciara Morris It is agree agreed that Mrs I Carter made such alterations alteration as all she chose chOe In Royles work anc and against his hf protests sti until he declared himself a fighter for far the clause In Ki contract which forbade any change without his consent Mrs Carters hair hai and have hae stayed red since he her herge severance ge rance from Belasco She crossed the he state stage to Royle flung a hand Into ItI hi face fac and differ as to whether she snapped her fingers or gave ga him bin a slap but anyway anway there was wa a 2 1 sound sund like a spat True she had been implicitly to Belasco with subtle she now mentions him as Father David but take t he dl di cf Royle not if he had w written ritten a dozen Squaw Mans instead of ot one and had a score s ore of handsome SeUm Fetters for wives WelL eIL a n cant knock a lady down Royle quit quit the he theatre to go to court and get an order forbidding the production n of or the play lay except exactly exact as aa he had written It t That meant a triumph h of ot dignity at probably heavy cash losses for ii it if the he play Is dropped Royle will get no nomore nomore nomore more than the advance fee ree ot or a thou thousand thousand thousand sand dollars with no royalty and no matter how the tile row TOW turns out Mrs Carter loses lose a month or more at the best part of the year in her return r t rn to tg he the stage a benefit matinee be arranged d with a repetition rfD or th encounter ris s a thrilling act settling the question whether it was vas a l snap of the actress fingers or a alap J slap lap of her palm valm that made the noise like Ike a spat In Royles face It would fill the biggest theatre at the highest prIces prIce S SIn I In the case e of ot Genessee of the Hills I cant tell the difference between the Chicago and New Ne York plays caused by y the original author having asserted herself against an actor a tor but I dont donl think they amount to a great deal more than han the substitution of Robert Drouet for or Edwin Arden as the th Genessee Jack who vho rises to the demands of a crisis at athe atthe he the peril of or his life wins the eastern beauty away a front from likelier competitors competitor and nd figures as the resolute hero of or me melodrama melodrama of or the th border where men white red and otherwise various meet and mix it The theatrical spirit of Broadway is isone Isone Isone one of mockery and to overcome it a melodrama of ot crude rude has to toe tobe tobe end and romantic be e peculiar pecullar very Genessee of ot the Hills did not spell spellbind spellbind spellbind bind its It first New York audience An episode meant to thrill intensely the emergence of or the tha hero from a wan wall ol or of orrock rock by b breaking through from an old mine thus making a |