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Show NEWPR0DUC1; IS SUCCESSF ON BROADS I ; Young Author, Too. P! Hit With Old ! i Play. , ! By A LICK KOI IK. j (Written for tho I nitort Pi NEW YORK When Ilorac right of Boni and Liverigl . nouneed his intent of beeoi j theatrical producer there v good deal of skepticism and j : good deal of hope st irred ! i venture. Paring to publish j 1 which do NOT feed the . ! Mediocrity is a much differe.,' position than producing plays si reels of commerce kuov Broadway. It is therefore an occasion to rise in nwiny an iuspirin that the first production of II ' firm Schwab. la'veright ami I has "gone over" as an umpi success. The play. ''The Firebrand.' i forward also a new playwrii ; (hough I must confess Edwin ; Mayer seems a nyt hing bid j j perienced. Mayer, aided aiu ; 1 ted hy a fine discriiiiinal ion f theater on Ihe pari of his prod lias dramatized, or rather sal that; braggart-genius of fhl tecnt h ecu l nry, 1 ten venule ( This phiywriuhl has done ! Ihiug unique in the hislory ' bile costume play. As the pi! si a les.. he ill ilized ra 1 her ! I chronicled ( 'ellini. I n a sp I ! delicious sal ire he lias wi il I c I j comedy, in whii-h vivid color. ' , stage pictures, br.-niliful ens 1 are backgrounds fur as so! ' d;illia nee wit li t he proper! res : 1 I nrncil t wenl iel h cent ury I :i ' j I lie sixteen! h. j in me wnuinur cm ine r ; Niniirl, Anurel:i, a Uoccaecian li arises as subtle us l In- spirit xtill liaiinls ihe villa overl l-'lurence where I he poet fi ha veil. I a ni sure t his pla y wit h his unerring i nM inct I'm j mg Ihe spirit of Hie pasl Im , urrcd in hose cypress walk--; it is ii j easy IliiiiL; when the s ' ( ctiinerly, ni nsl'er il I hroiiuh 1 1 ' t n ncs Pi t he preseiil , Juseph Skildlcniul is star I he l-'irebranil," but to me I erprcl a I ini, of Ylli ni is t he i sa t isl'iK-tory inl e in I he play. Mnrgau as Ihe 1 Hike of J-'ln're Ihe o( her ha lid ves nil tnlii i performance and the be; A nelii of Kden ( ; i ay inn 1 Miehess rf Nana I'.rynnl an in the piclure. Well slain A rt h ur i Itirley and ben ul i l b , ' Woodman Thompson's els ni. t limes, this play at I he ,Mon an attraction imi u lie Jnissei . ! |