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Show THEATRICAL SEASON III LONDON FROSTY Moving Pictures and Music Halls Not Alone to Blame for Losses Special Cable to the Tribune. LONDON, Aug'- 2. Tho theatrical season of London closed with the- ending end-ing of the social season in July. When Ell the town houses of tho West End lower their blindB the curtains of tho leading theaters dTop until fall, and tho principal London manaRers ro touring through tho provinces. This last soason has "been anothor of those disastrous experiences like the "unusual winters so cj union in Indiana." In-diana." Moving pictures for tho masses and the music halls for the tired business man pet the blame xrom the maenatos of the logitimato, but I the lack of good new plays also undoubtedly un-doubtedly has had much to do with the slump In business. Revivals of old favorites have been tho real successes of the year, with only two or thTee exceptions. Tho plays drawing most people today are Sardou's "Diplomacy," "Di-plomacy," a veteran of forty years life, and Pinero's "The Second Mrs. Tanqucrav," with Sir George Alexander Alex-ander and 3Irs. Patrick Campbell jn the parts thoy played twenty years ago. Crowding them closely in popularity popu-larity is a revival of "Bunty Pulls the Strings" and "Milestones," which have drawn steadily through their second season. Many or tho new plays navo run brief and disastrous courses. English managers do not pay actor? for re-hearsals. re-hearsals. A current story is of an actor who requested salary for three weeks' rehearsing. When the manager expressed surpriso at tMs presumption, the actor said: "Pay me for the rehearsals, re-hearsals, and I will throw in my work for the run of the piece." Several American plays have been tried hero, as usual. Only a minority were fairly successful. Yet American managers Beem nover to tire of paying money to learn that London is not Broadwa3 Tho one theatrical event of historical his-torical importance has boon the faro-well faro-well season of Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson Forbes-Robertson and Lady Robertson, who was Gortrudo Elliott. They managed to fill the enormous Drury Lane theater thea-ter for several weeks, with "Hamlet" for the chief attraction. Today Drury Lane is a rival t the Covent Garden opera. Sir Thomas Beecham has brought the principal Russian opera ringers and dancers from St. Petersburg for a season of Russian opera and ballets, and society is finding the production novel, dazzling daz-zling and attractive |