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Show MAETERLINCK PLAT IS GIVEN "Aglavaine and Selysette" Proves Interesting UNIVERSITY CWU5 THE 5CENE Setting Is Ideal, but an Orange colored Full Moon in the Cloudless Summer Sky Vies With Play for Attention By Vanderheyden Fyles New York Ju v 18 1914 AGLAVAINE AND SELYSETTE A p ay by Maur ce Maete llnclc (New Yo k Un ve s ty Campus ) Me eander W muth Me k Agla a ne Ida Ham on Se set e Zena de ams Ma grane Caro pe Newcon be Yssa ne Margaret S e by NOBODY n New Yo k seemed to have the slightest idea how one could get to New Yo k un ve s ty I inqui ed at the hote whe e I 1 ve I p eaded w h a po ceman I flung my se f on the me cy of a subway gua d He a o e had some d n no on he thought the un ers ty was not downtown As I had passed it many I times and knew t to be n t e reg o of Two Hundredth s reet th s d d not nsp re confidence I make bo d to p ed ct that that gua w ne er d sco e t e no th po e un ess per haps b the D Coo out As I sa I have passed e un ver s ty many many t mes and on e I stopped there to ake n he Ha of Fame and te mjsef t was too draf y to make mmo a y des a b e anyway But t at s and the pass ngs by were n moto ars that were the propertv of re at ves o fr ends of m ne The othe evening I was alone and fr end ess n the great c ty I became es e anx ous Impat ent of de ay t e pe fo mance of Agava ne and Se yse te noud be nder way befo e I got the e And Master inck is d fficu t enough to fol low even when you begin at the be g nning Fina y a man in the sub nay thought that f I took a B oad way exp ess to Two Hundred and F fteenth street I might land mo e or less near the un vers ty Th s I did on y to disco er up there that another man thought that if I took a car back to One Hundred and E ghty fl st st eet I m ght be w h n two or hree m es of my des na on I thought of he mazes of Maete nek and passed o At One Hund ed and E ghty fir:t st eet I found the sub way stat on so deep down in the ea th that the on y way out was by e e ator Th s took me up and "Up unt 1 I thought I was on my way to heaven or Fran W "Woo worth s apartment for light housekeep ng on the fort eth floor of the "Woo worth bu ding Howeve the e evator and ed me on y on he eve Then a tro ev car speeded me away past flats and chl d en beyond the realm of ce cream pa ors th ough unpaved st eets of detached houses and whe e even such we e few and far be tween yea even to that outer w demess whe e motion p cture thea te s are not numerous You ''ee we had to go in and out and round about and up the h on wh ch the un ver s ty build ngs stand and around the crest of wh ch the marb e esp anade of mmorta y runs f one may use such a wo d as runs n connect on w th anyth ng so s ate y and im pressive as the Ha 1 of Fame THE cable car was fu 1 of learned look ng persons who ne erthe 1 ess had aken the precaution of b Inglng cop es of the p ay The car took us to a po nt about a quarter of a m e from the campus and gave us fu perm as on to walk the rest of the way but as we trudged a ong in da kness o er grassy mounds and mounds that ere not grassj I was chee ed to hea the st a ns of Get Out and Get Under and to know the Hall of Fame and Maeter nek we e near Present v we passed a bu d ng eviden y connected w th ea n n fo through open doo s and w ndows I saw w se ones tango ng Most of t e learned ook ng peop e f om the car s opped the e and jo ned them I too hes a ed but I em nd ed mysef of my duty to you &nu p essed on though as a mere mat ter of ac urate de a I mayment on that I bo e no banner with ne s ange dev ce exce s o The scene of the pay was beaut fu Teg onous fancy of Mae e nek h mse f cou d hard y ha e con ce ved a love er se t ng fo s drama Befo e us as a background fo he p ayers vas a sc een of ees and fo age t at m ght have been he , densest forest behind us ve e he w te majest c bu d ngs of the un vers ty and the arches of he Ha oi Fame To the ef bejond a s e of aw were many ees over wh an o ange co ored fu moon o e a c oud ess summe ski And a ou r ght far be ow the ab up s eep 1 on the ed e of wh ch we a a panorama of New Yo k ag ow w even ng g s st etched as fa a eye cou d see A hough the Be g an gen us w o e Agava ne and Sejsete in iiat h s was the f r t pe formance n New York I ope you ha e read the p ay because I f nd myse f en t e y unab e to desc be t adequa e Yo see I have ead tony n Frenc and seen t ac ed on y in the open Not et me has en to say t at he company assemb ed by Mary Ha land K nkead and Arthur Row (under a lot of ausp ces and w th the k pd in du gence of Gertrude Athe ton a a not speak c ear y ndeed Ida Ham ton and W mu h Merky as Agla va ne and Me eander spoke so weu t at they rem nded me const nua y of Ed h Wynne Matth son and "Wa ter Hampden who P ayed the parts some jea s ago in London w tn Mabe Moore as Se yse te Pe haps t was the beauty of the scene tha r s ng of the most wonderful moon mag nab e when more than two are p esent that d stracted me Any way I found my thoughts wander ng repea ed y not anywhere n part cu ar but just out out nto the n ght Th s was a p easant re ef f om the subway I hope I did not look like the flat chested young woman in front of roe In a p aid cashmere shlrtwa st, who was drinking n the symbo sm hut Met a good deal i ke Eugene Marchbanks That doubtless is the way Maete nek shou d make one fee but t does not make for accurate reporting- THE scenes accord ng to the pro j gramn e took p ace in and j about a med eva cast e most y I may add about Two huge trees about flf een feet apart marked the j m ts of the stage Beyond these j one was s pposed to see nOth ng That nvo ved a ot of p etend ng When Se jse te expired by fall ng i from a tower to the rocks be ow whe eas a of us who were not b nd cou d clear y see that she was stand lng on a so d quare of mother earth ; and dodged beh nd a t ee we were ! w ng o meet Maeterl nek s imagl i nat on w th our own But when Se y j sette ran far far away but actua y . stopped st two feet beyond the left t ee and stood there it was hard to i s ay n f a ry and And when Me I eander who had pu sued her came I back breath ess and sa d she had i outrun him I for one could ba e y restrain mjsef from stand ng r ght up in meet ng and sajlng Mee ander you re a a I saw you stand ng by Se ysette s s de not mo e than twenty feet away f om me But one cou dn t be harsh with a 3 oung man w th such a charming i name as Me eander If he had been John or Isaac or Je al but never w h Me eander What enchanting names the Be 0 an does d scover or invent What eluded me in Ag a a ne and Se ysette in French and in the open w as the symbo sm I assume was the e Due to the moon ght o the wo drous panorama of New York o he mosqu toes or what you w a ha I made out was a ve y c a n n s mp e fairy ta e Most Mae er n k p ays of s per od of whel The Death of T ntagi es s p obab v the best and most tip ca are fa ry ta es and more But poss by th s one is not Ag avaine and Me eander were v ing toge her n and about the meS e a cast e but whether or not they e e e a v ma r ed was not tated If anyone lad at empted to p oduce the p av in Ame ca in 1S96 hat po n wo d .have had to be c ea ed p G andma the demon hape on was there t is true s e had o be there be ause she was pa zed and cou d not move from her cha T a he sa d she cou d no n o e but w en the ghts we e sh f ed f om he stage to nd ca e he end of an ac and a change of scene tna was p re m ,j g andna o d ge up and lffi! Grandn a a had no o e ooked n e bt bu on . lodious names S e was Ma pjj1 XT ELL a was we wn,s and Me eander unt Abu ar ved I 0 eaned on W2 h Idea who she wa whe e ihJ i om and why she d d no s &l Anyway Me eande ga e he h i o er and wa a up w u?1 He oved Ag ava ne and h0 w Sej sette There we e abou . een ac s Up to two o h a U the ast everybody d d no h b?i d scuss ove and Me eande i lava ne and he ysette talked o favor te subjects toge her an " of hem hashed the ma e a ! Me eander Then too Ma a good dea to say about o? the young man And when w were in any danger of benrtu! out Yssa ne piped up Yssa Se ysette s t e sse a i e ated w th a 1 the wearytj? s stance and mono ony of ha of M ss Jenn O Jones But .2 a much of Mae e neks aei. 5 mote ext aord nary cha m L from h s adopt on of the t. O Jones stj e JtJ! One ra ny day about the u teenth act Se ysette came upon i.f a ne s eep ng on he edge o a ,,, an S e was temp ed by a wu dea She expressed much SS beaut fu y and more b un y h bu" n her bonne was 0 ihJ Agge into he wa e and be n her Howeve gentle th o e came he and she remo ed ose olo ed oak and sp ead on, Aga a ne a& she s ep es shea o pe chance a sn ff t m su h as Leano a s daugh e sow f om And a sn ff e od not ha mon ze w th Mae e Howeve t e gen e tou h of W se e s c oak wakened Agla a was a handsome coak a erj andso e oak o e away tti ho h I ma be a used o ifi s ou of Maete nek Agla u d d not eturn Cann g xat W hen he ime omes o buy i 0 e coa I am go ng o s eep od i ed e of a n p uous foun a n ii see w ha happ n o me r om a n nen he pi Vt d ffe en w ea o e Th oved The oved Me ean the o ed a h o he A o ed Ma grane And e en Y a So somebod ad ode Th of thought ma no be ea on but th s s Mae e nk A la K wou d go awa fa fa awa Se ysette wou d k ers i! eander was nfo med o e,e. eral p ans to e ue h re om p. ljamy He was d s essed bu helj less Me eande was a ke lio. Ing boy wearin b ack ghia a sh u ow a he roa he was the on man n he ti. what ou d he poo g Is do t, af er e gh o en mo e a S j-e j moun ed o her m a enou m-pe m-pe haps he on one of Mae rlbc i manv owers no desc bed as L-dow L-dow es because f t had b w ndow ess Sel sette coud n ha fa en out Bu that is idle speau t on IT took a lot of p etend ng on r part to be eve Seyse e wai her tower espec al y wnen she oob out of an mag nary window and i ser bed the rocks and aea W when actually she cou d see n L be ow but her own feet on. the pu She took Y sal ne up to the to and spoke of the loose s ones bo c ch d would report that she had fall and not jumped Then she p e est' she was reaching out for a pasr bi d and ducked behind a tr e. T next scene was the last It bai to described by Eleano a Duse as c most beaut fu or at least one of fl most beautlfu n all drama- I d mg Sel sette s borne In on iDti and she induces Ag avaine and lu leander to believe 1 er dea h was it c dental a , The cast was made up ofa ton lift known to fame but It was n ta Indeed quite sat sfactory n U ta ing members The gi 1 "who plan Yssa ne 1 ad a very trying to ce . the woman cast for tha panlrt g and mo he lacked the mysfiry j we dness for such a o e a naide Wil iams was often admlra f -though very uneven as Selves and Wi muth Markyl was p uiesr as Meleander and spoke very The best performance was m A ava ne by Ida Hamil on. I fo gotten a 1 about Mjss am She is an Austral an, who came b w th her husband about imp ears ao In a fit of d scourageuf over d smlssal from a company enn rehearsa s I be e e he hu-fc k ed h mse f he se u ed a ton with Mrs Fiske. However was ass gned to very sma re; Then in the autumn of 19M. A F ske gave her a pa t in M Magdala that though small-one small-one speech a narrat ve abou Kj m ac e pe formed by Ch st ... member that enab ed MlBanH to make a ht Her rap d adJ ment then seemed p obablv w ne er heard of her aga n and nafl gotten a about her when h s pm-: t on of Ag avaine and S i b ought her back I be e aw j lied and ret red from the stagt loss was ou s for Ag ava ne era her to exhib t many of the fli t at make Ju a Mar owe aud Wvn e Ma th son the fo em. ac resses of the pe od. She w pos ng beauty a majes P8""; ch vo ce and a c ea emin a and he ontro s these attr tm fine n e gen e I am sorp w to add tha when she ac ed P 1 she pe er Ida Tda mav ha e been an ea snip"1 Maeter nek n her s s em f r |
