Show Abna Anna r Christie akes kes kes Land London on S Mi American play and an Amerin Ameri- Ameri n actress have subdued London tj manner to which theatrical his Ms- r seems to furnish no parallel the theIs Neill's Anna Christie In 1 Is s of Miss Pauline Lord has hasl r l' familiar to American audiences wo o years and it is ia no surprise the lie merits extolled here should f cognized abroad London how how- quite completely outdoes all nil wn papers it in the extravagant s 5 is of praise pi-aise lavished upon both bothI I play and the players anG and I If gh there e are endeavors e r in itt some f rl r I II Hers to discount 1 o the effect of I chorus the they are seen to be the at steadying themselves felt whose hose who have been carried Its S t their equilibrium far further a an i. i comfort relishes s. s The first Ii ng Ing for example is expressed the Evening Standard In say say- g gr To gf To be confronted for the tho first me on me-on on one evening en wi with a play of f tremendous e and extraordinary ro and power and with two of a a. q quality ty so altogether I erb and triumphant in their art Miss Pauline Paulino Lord and Mr ge Marion leaves one a little Mr ONeill O'Neill in a word u us says the London Truth mo nd he had got us by first getting factors It should not be P to repeat the story familiar I to of the past two years ethe poor Swedish waif walt of the I i betrayed by her own imily dragged by circumstances trough tough a sordid life reunited with father who had neglected her y lt the years of childhood r redeemed by the l f ps es s of lovE and the sea to which iterations of her family had given lives Ve hate hare been heen brought up In this in the belief that American Americans Americana la a s 's are either hopelessly vulgar s sentimental pays Fays Mr Sunday Ohr Ob- Ob ohn oha i Ervino in the r London nut Hut Mr Ervine Its iks so highly of this play that t should fail to draw large fences for a considerable time shall be bound in honesty to todon tolon lon don our belief that we are any er r than the most mushy-minded mushy rican we can Imagine I Inter Inter- ter- ter T inal ronal nal compliments relative to the theja theS S ja a arc are among the most poignant matter and our own haVe jv have cs not failed In their J of English taste A Able Able ble bio occasion was vas the prompt I ure re here of the great Englishe English e es s of A Little Bit lIlt of Fluff let lH us IS turn to one of or the most niost I comments on Anna found in rhe The Nation and Athenaeum and signed De De D e e have already had some taste r. r Eugene Eugen O O'Neill's qualities a as Chris Chrls- and fter Annn we e te feel l that we can hardly o. o too too much of him For here In general S mediocrity the mediocritY the a sen e ew lew genius and the silence Of ec- ec of ot the established men menI mene men men- e I leaps toward tow us 1111 a a. force and we were quite prepared for tor fors America we weS out of s to come BBS ot expect them to come out of S American thc It was rath- rath musing to the critic of Anna Istle to that w. w wile Mr ert i ert Edmund Jones collaborates h Mr B. B Kenneth Macgowan in Ino Ina o a Iks ka k proving tha that the realistic i ta a is la a thing of the past he is 1 ilo Yo e same samei time providing the s seta set Bet ts t- t is s a to the plays of one of or the I it I t. t powerful realistic playwrights the Saxon Anglo-Saxon theatre has for generations On that u. n mt t there can surely be no coners con- con ers ersy Mr tr O'Neill's work has the theS S authenticating rings ring of actual- actual You can not doubt that In a aS alike alike like ke Anna Christie you are S of life ting InS one of those slices ich cli ch ar aI artt momentarily not to the taste Mr ONeill O'Neill has tr l' l styles we know beside the theIstic latic but he does m use e that style Is s a a. master in it and may very Si y initiate a revival of it For aUty when all is said and donen done n element not to be spared from theatre We Wo are gripped i at once by the fidelity or of this ure re of sea Ilea and waterside life citi tho moment the tho curtain rises the Johnny dull and andraid raid Id saloon The barman the Inkers the tho old sailors the drab drabe drab drab- e e seems no attempt to embellish I II make them theta horrifying I Item liu I or to S ire are here bere Just as they would o C f C you could get tet to the water- water nt t of N New w York York and ork and find them s B quite Impossible to doubt this I i your confidence In the truth truth- less ess of this tills 11 study udy only increases s sR S R thc he larger characters are grad grad- J Ii ly 1 y revealed Chris Christopher Christopher- barge o the old Swedish I as hat as J t brought drunken het his sentimentalist daughter l to to who the tho the tho streets by hy leaving her herrow away from him on a a. fn grow row safe saCe up so he hol holds from tram the tue r the theCO theCo theco sea sen and I from sailors all 1111 storm and disorder r of ot co ia j herself tho the frail like child whoa snatches of slant slang reb reb re- re c rR of the he flashes deep gul gulfs b bv b r tho giant i allor Mat ta enslaved to 10 his Ills tre ti-c- C e. e feebly passions p a and nd hull bullying inK lous on these Is what of or Rth not gilt not one a call ave ve come to I that ut t Is III not In his accuracy It lut secret really lie lies I O'Neill's Is 18 th thA basis basi of or his ap- ap gh that of or passion lT It In Is the run fury that con- con lon I action the tho of his nis chlus the tho ties and aill elemental a Is In The Tho crazed paternity of or 0 of offish maniac passion paRlon the father nth unchaining tho the fish sailor are dare daro e C l-ioto l humaine and you ou acrus I the he tempest r f or romanticizing The Tho Thein Oin in h h Anna Interrupts the affair of or knives and over over- ed an furniture between 1 her r IRand fn- fn a- a confes- confes and lid her lover 11 b by the tho of her r real nl life since girlhood t unbearable In it t moments almost literary DiC Di- Di From lOf l' l courtesy of Funk and WagI Wag Wag- l I iCo Co Co |