Show NEW YORK THEATRE LETTER LETTER- A Famed QuId a Sod NEW Players s t to Compete With it I Reinhardt for Favor of New Yorkers I I S o a Kc t 3 ao h 4 try T Y 14 t 1 S 'S S E Ei 7 e t i Jil Y a J 1 R Schooled to turbulence are the theto thero to Irish players though they anticipate that their New Now York appearances will be very peaceful Pitched b bRose battles h kayo havo vo been beon fought in in Irish theatres as they thy performed Left to right in front are Sheilah Richards Ria ia Moony Cathleen Drago Arthur Sinclair Marie ONeill O'Neill Margaret OFarrell Rose Quinn standing Sidney Morgan J. J A. A Harry Hutchinson Teddy Ellis T Tony ny Quinn Joe French Michael Scott E. E J J. J Kenny N NEW V W YORK Dec 3 NEA-As NEA As spectacular lar as any drama they will w ever produce is the hectic history of the Irish Pla Players ers latest of th the European arrivals on Broadway The Abbey theatre Dublin which is their home has witnessed more turmoil and riot than perhaps an any oth other r in the woi world Id Irelands Ireland bloody times found echo In outbreak w wen plays did not hitch with mob moods and Sean 3 The Plough the Stars Stars' the opening play of the visitors' visitors New York season began its life in scenes of uproar and vio vio- violence 10 lence A drama of ot the historic Ha Ea t toi l' l week of 1916 it was taken I IEa I i by the tho first Dublin audi audience nce to be bea a condemnation of th the Irish Insurrection which which incidentally was far from the authors author's ideas A girl in jn inthe inthe the balcony took off oft her shoes and hurled them at the actors others ros rose and began heckling the actors actor's lines a youth leaped to the stage and tried to pull down the curtain and then a mob rose from the pit jilt and climbed to the stage A riot call caIl went out and police arrived arrive Today is a demigod of the Irish theatre He came camo from Dublin's drab north side He began began began be be- gan as a newsboy put but long iong before It was time to deli vet the papers ho he would make an extra nine shillings a we week lt Iii ll addressing newspapers ers I In a big agency agency From a he went to the Dublin docks handling the livestock that came in from the farms He was vas an Important figure in the great groot 1913 1813 strike out his impulse to write came in 1916 when an In Invalid invalid in- in valid vaUd he looked from his sickbed to watch the tho riotous events of Easter week That hat is but a sketch the sketch the rest Is a of Sinn Fein courts Black and Tans civil wars and such u I Out of such stuff are bound to come plays and ana players player with a vital I and virile quality unusual to Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way And such i is the contribution of the Irish Players Completely the reverse Is the Max Reinhardt engagement which came cameto cameto cameto I to town with the blowing of fanfares fanfares fanfares fan fan- fares and a a. parade parado of New Yorks York's In Its spangles and finery Here are spun dream-spun products out of Salsburg of which The lh Midsummer Midsummer Midsummer Mid Mid- summer Nights Night's Dream the openIng openIng open- open Ing lag attraction is typical Here Hero are combined l such visual beauty as seldom seldom seldom sel sel- sel- sel dom Is seen acen in the tho American theatre theatre thea thea- tre tre ballet music pantomime and expert playing Hero is the tho blonde b beauty auty of a Mrs 1 Ferenc Molnar and tho ability of Alexander l who has been called the Barrymore of 01 Europe but who prefers that Barrymore Barrymore Bar- Bar be he dubbed the of ot America No ro more spectacular opening has been baen seen in Manhattan Manhat Manhat- tan for many miny and many a year year and and none that brought a greater mation From The Vortex to The Tho Marquise Mar Mar- quise is v broad a jump as the Atlantic ocean ocean but Noel Coward author of both tooth plays has made the Jump The first was en earnestly serious play holding the audience as they say BaY spellbound And Tie The Marquise being a series of more or orless orless less Jess farcical situations likewise holds its audience as they say spellbound Above all all It It brings back to the stage after a lon long and unpardonable absence the charmIng charming charming charm- charm Ing quaint Billie Burke Durke who plays the title role Do you recall little Madge Evans E who used to be a motion picture star for William A. A Brady many years rears ago Well VeIl Madge Is a big girl now and she takes the role lolo of the marquises marquise's illegitimate daugh daugh- ter The marquise had an Illegitimate illegitimate mate maio ton son too but not by the same man and so you can see for tor yourself yourself your your- our self that things must have havo been Interesting especially when the fa fathers fathers fathers fa- fa wanted their respective dau daughter and son to wed each other Tho The Earl Carroll theatre which generally houses hilarity this time supports a play which might just as aswell aswell aswell well have been titled The Th Perils of ot Pauline Instead it is js called Spellbound d and gives Pauline Lord a n. golden opportunity If in n the epilogue only for tor her now widely known abilities ab Spellbound Ja Js by toy who here hero dramatizes the fam famous us 01 or infamous Thomp- Thomp son-Bywaters son case in England There is a general flavor of Freud and Jung worked in bY toy the author But Dut the play playon on the whole is a little obvious for general consumption |