Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-02-14 | Page 27 | Mr. Barrie's Early Plays

Mr. Barriers Early Plays. With two plays running In Now York and four In London within one season, Mr. Barrle Is very much to the front nowadays ns a dramatist. It was early In tho nineties nine-ties that his name first appeared on a playbill, as tho joint author with Mr. H. B. Marriott-Watson of a romantic drama called "Richard Savage," which had only one performance. "Except for a gllmpso of that alert faculty of Invention which Is so fertile and surprising a resource In Mr. Barrlc's later plays," says Mr, MacAr-thur MacAr-thur In Harper's Weekly, "there can scrarcoly be said to have been any traceB of tho successful dramatist of today in this long-defunct play." Mr Barrio's next venturo as a playwright was a skit called "Ibsen's Ghost." Later came a one-act piece. "Becky Sharp." and after that "Walker, London " With this piece, produced pro-duced In London In 1S02, Mr Barrio began to attract serious attention as a coming dramatist. Following "Walker, London,1, ho wrote his later and familiar plays, "The Professor's Lovo Story," "Tho Little Lit-tle Minister' "Quality Street." and. finally. final-ly. "Tho Admirable Crlchton" and "Lltilo Mary."