Show 0 0 0 0 David Belasco Died Looking on Life As As- Asa a Lie Play He Was Writing With Noted Author at Time of Death Shows j. j Drama prama May Never Be Produced Pro Pro- I Bec Because use of of Difficulty Diff I- I culty of Casting SkI I t By fly MORRIS WATSONS WATSON VATSON it S Associated Press 8 Writer NEW YORK NoV 2 20 David David Bc Be- Ec- Ec lasco la-co believed life Ute wasa lie He That was his swan song and he never lived t to hear It sung sting It Is in the hands now of Achmed Abdullah Abdullah Abdul- Abdul lah Jah In the form torm of Pantaloon a n play and play and It may wait walt yet awhile until actors worthy of ot the tradition are found The great producer producer until bl his death lat last May the dean of them all wrote the pIa play In hi collaboration with Abdullah and so says the latter lat lat- lat lat- ter ur he be meant it to be the symbol of this Jils own philosophy Hs HIs philosophy was Remorse and forgiving will In Itself do away with evils evIls' The play concerns the theater For Forthe Forthe Forthe the characters tho the theater man drew upon his ancestors and made Pantaloon Pantaloon Panta Panta- loon oon and Harlequin the chief dispensers dispensers dispensers dis dis- of his philosophy Belasco's father was Vas a famous Pantaloon of Engl England rid His grandfather was Was Wasa a and ancestors ancestors' before him back to the middle ages have been showmen ho e of ot one type or an an- other ITS irs GOOD THEATER Its good theater says sas Abdullah nothing highbrow symbolic but interpreted interpreted in in- In strict terms of life Its It's Its It's a play for tor the masses Harlequin delivers the tho theme a prologue Sirs I beg your pardon I 1 do donot donot donot not mean mean to to disturb you But But But- do you know what Is back yonder yonder- back backstage tige No Permit me to tell teU you t t tn an n sirs Back yonder is Truth my my mistress Truth and I 1 are lov lov- by- by ers em For the sake of Truth I change the patches on my suit day after day Why Because Truth changes Because Truth is never twice alike Because Truth i Is a thing in motley and bells Aye Truth is the road down which I travel Truth speaks under my feet teet all day Therefore should there be any liars Hars amongst you sirs will wUI you not have lave the goodness to leave leavo the thea thea- ter-so ter so that Truth may not shock you you you-or or belike beUke that you may no not shock Truth Ah Ali No one departs Capital Capital Capital-by by my stomach Now then between men and men pardon men pardon I I perceive some ladies ladles In the audience All AH truthful ladles I entreat to re re- main But as ns to those who arc addicted addicted ad ad- to lies and gossip out gossip out with them Do I ace right Not a lady departs Good Good Good-by by my tall tail We Ve arc all friends And so so ladles ladles and sirs sirs pulling pulling curtain aside behold Truth TRUTH IS A ALm ALIE ALmI LIE LIEI I wonder though would you know Truth If you saw it face to face face face- you who are arc so 80 truthful No Ah Al permit me to tell you ladles and sirs Truth sirs Truth is a lie Life Lire is a aIle lie Love is your pardon ladies ladles and sirs We Ve are arc at a play play not not at ata ata ata a sermon And the play goes on Mr Belasco spent the last lost two years of ot his life Ute working on the piece Abdullah helping with dialog A character dies in the first act He is alive aUve again in the third Remorse Remorse Re Re- morse and forgiving bring him back Abdullah says the play pIny will be expensive expensive ex ex- pensive to produce and difficult to cast It requires two and and both of them arc In Hollywood he said Columbine must be a great emotional actress there actress there is none |