Show T Two wo Dolar Dollar Road Shows Are i t Giving Way W ay Before Movies Declares Theatrical Agent f o J Vv By 11 HENRY HENBY MACMAHON I f Advance Advance Manager of To The Tho Blue Bird O 1 1 I look took for revolutionary changes in the thc 1 V ts d during rn the tho next two to or 0 years e In fact tho the arc ire ro now In r- r 7 p Progress and d P en by the sup su- su p I The l legitimate c combination Is Is doomed doome excepting productions ns n's like liko kc Thc Tho Buo Blid Kismet and aud Ben Hur Hur Tho stellar f 1 Is 1 likewise I c doomed although t the he pl pilgrimage 9 91 tho tar me t will 1 not be a thing of or tho past pst Already cheap ip Is Jet petting getting g DO DOper o per per c cent nt Of or tho attention and press presE In most clUe of the thc middle West Yest fa far rr West and Puth D Dy By cheep cheap chelp amuse amuse- L I 1 mean motion or 0 audo S of or about cabaret excellence or a k I mixture of or both In In Inthe the East th the tho nl night hl stand tand theatres o j- j Iia o already tready seen cen tho the handwriting pa the theS I S f wall most of oC th them m pet get Jet no legitimate at- at IM nt what whatever r after ncr January 1 and andi i put Jut in pictures c burlesque or I But fl Jf r tho most sign sig is wil heil week S. S stand theatres 1110 the he Broadway in iu InS r S- S Denver Den rr are arc aro obliged ed to lo remain dark for fori weeks at a time This simply Pimply mean 8 that iLS i the tho efforts or of theatrical the producers are v at a s standstill I or have been diverted dl- dl rL to tho motion moton picture Industry p Tn In ln three years more moro the combination W cal Io so called meaning the players erH associated C P e er en tour tOUr for tor ono one season eion eu on In tn th the t S.- S. tion ton of oC s H I play with wih or without a tar star i Cell dead at at K a door dol nail nan I the te Old Days I What of ot the future Tim Tho great t art artist t I will 1 never neier neer bo be b outdated Neither will the I public be b satisfied with his photo shadow V v In ln tho form tor of ot a a motion picture The tS tf Ura las will wl sun stIlL revolve In their courses but author th y did forty years ago ego coures without I 5 t companies S companes Tho rho big and the big musical pl pieces cc will wil also allO continue beK beS be- be S K 11 tt nol c h he hI v r d. d Th The love IO f r er et the and d weird brings 1 S lh the tho patron to Kismet 1 cr or 01 Tho ml I. I Th th the Amo samo UK ur that mke him blO pa patronize ollie the thc big out out- d door T In thu tJ i But Jut the great creat majority of or traveling ho be replaced 1 b by the motion moton picture drama of of rapidly Improving ex excellence ex- ex and 2 by 2 b home hom drama tho the I latter later b by far tho the more moro Important It I IP Is IF the thc striking lack lack of oC dramatic art sense no noha that lat t h bus his s hitherto prevented pre th the th nourishing flourishing of or local drama drama In this country countr There Ther Ther arc are some ome tine line lne exceptions to thin criticism In fact I understand that tho the Home Dramatic club In lt ait Lake City to sUpport Booth Barratt BarroU lough and other stars on their str appear appear- here The ances complete plays were re- re hedi cd b by the thc local actors with dum dum- mica mies to rea read the lines of ot tho tue stars wih Thus a complete tc production I was as prepared by th the local locRI talent with wih the exception of or th the one or two stellar rules Homo home Drama Drain Dalna a Abroad In England and Ireland the thc or of homo home drama thania has hau been recently demon domon- Lady Gregory picked Ld up In the thc of or Dublin so to speak black black- plumbers bricklayers counter girls maids mals what not and welded couter them into tho the Irish players declared b by critics to bo be far tar superior to all but many the best professionals Miss ni took tok Manchester amateurs amateur similarly In lund land Englund Ingland Eng Ing- and organized them a us lS tho Man Maz chester players The They have al also o won on a great reputation Every ery Important city cHy in times had lt Its HI homo borne drama Every Even Important European Europen city now has Its Is home horpe hore opera There Is no doubt that the dramatic feeling develops with civil lu and I therefore look forward wih to tho the time when every o Important Amerl- Amerl can cau caiz city will have havo It its own cl wil Iu municipal theatre thoI the tho- atre Its art ait Is own director of homo home or for for- I eign origin and its own OWl corps of ot thor thor- drilled drie homo borne actors who actor can sat sat- at- at cn entertain their thIr local public and whoso whose efforts ne need J he only occasionally by a a visiting supplemented star B By local companies I do not mean the eo present order of stock stok companies which by the way a are arc entirely extraneous th the tho lire life le of the thc city cHy they happen to bo be In In to Just as alleged b baseball nines have nothing to t do 10 with wih the city cit they tey represent sent Oth other l' l than that they are drawing salary Rather I look forward to tho the era of or home companies mill f oven IP Ic that of ot home homo drama Let me mf ad add add- that th these thoa are orr of or- r feted not in nn any dOJ dogmatic tc or dictatorial manner but m merely a n m my per personal onal td Idea of what of-what what J Is likely t to lo be the outcome of or tho the f I present theatrical chaos chao |