Show e 9 2 I I N ftl F ILI 1 so 0 + T On A M I oll C 0 I I U3 N 4yf 1i n11 Mr TnEATREq 711 f i + + J = I V rk 4 lzA l A 1I 11k W IRZ za ly k 7 1 UIX zs5 I r p L 0 If 1 X n 1 I I 7 to eKl It 1 4 I I j I jr 0 I i A I rtff I I I 16 I N p vv I fi7 I Az I po MAKD hire pit said Hit ell To I onk tint catch your hart 1 To miki a modern play nut ml four it o 0 Tim win when the dramatist wit hit own pathfinder Then was a < lay when lit scorned lo I be Hit Lutriii who gathered up tho crumb of a tnokmak Ing Dive When Wllll rho 14wen trod Iht board ot the little Ilobt theater on the Danksldt and Urn Jonum h will forth at the Mermaid It wai the pub Usher who went abe glng after the Itsgt manager Productions wen turned turn-ed Into books and not took Into pre durlloni Nowaday lilt that If J changed To dir wt behold a location to nelse on lue nZite Control novels twin oH and new and after amatlng emendations and transformations trans-formations lo I dish them up before the fo ll ihli lo a Iubllo that are evermore ever-more edicliu for ouch dramatic lid Uli Th novel adapter don this with tho facility of Hit Monlmartrt nttau outdo t who tikes him rail mutton and by mysterious and unipeakahft methods meth-ods convent It Into n recbiuRt ill router It eon not tiKMMrllr follow that such a condition of affairs argue thai the modern playwright lacks l Meal and Imagination It hit however In own particular ilininnnct sine 1 iht suit that must ever separate tin artist from tho men officials the adapter from tin seen for In a wide one Uut whether wt like It or not the modern manager lilts ordained that the entrance to the a 1 due must IM by way of Iht publishers Office The present son do n accordingly fairly bristle with drum flood novels Among the dIRcrent totlt 1 which already have boon or horlly art to U presented to Now York audiences In this repulse form of dnmillo retreat art inch books at U03 Whn KnUhthoo1 Irma In Flower she lack Holmes llenllur A TI l of Two ClllM Slpho The Children of the Ghetto lleslde the Illinois llrler Hush The Oadny and last but ont of the most Important cf all Vanity Fair The play founded rn this last 1 mm llonM nnl It I the current attraction at the Fifth Avenue theater In thin city here III I original performance tr lira Make and < a particularly large and Illustrious company attracted a J teat deal of attention Thatrousims for title were many On was hat AIts risk b1 cause to Ile I too find on as 4 morleas greatest tH Anil lit IN All thaI many pon regard Vanity rate I m the world greatest novel mill nolllfr source i of Interest OIlh1 Tharketay hail alwaya left the real guilt and the eventual fate of the Unit blackleg heroine of him tail moor mo-or Its I In doubt and people I wen one I loui to moo Just how Mrs Hike through Mr I Langdon Mitchell the adapter or the novel would until the gordian knot Hut the stanchit lupporltr ot Mrs 1 Flake must have trembled for her ni Illllo fate when ht first beheld her an tricky Sharp The play In the fin plact was Inadequate Incoherent and virld Ton thermostat this Omahas lotto giolc far Tin spirit of the original work of Thacktrar with all III whimsical humor III lncommnl delicate but do ill horrlI14I1n and abort all Ill redeeming klndtlnem showing Illoco sunlight patches through In clouds ot satire and cyalclim halt been Mt In Innlatlon Wllll such a wail dratit feelings meant brutalliatlon end It Mr 1 Idngdon Mitchell has filled he may console himself with the reflection that such failure wai lo a degree In my liable lIut ovtn In the tar ot th ratenuillnic clrcumetanoei the adapter of Vanity fair will not readily bt forgiven for tht lltwrlle hi hu taken with the literary masterpieces ot an author thor who to I no longer on earth to I ud him own with that lacndnesi with which a finished work of art always should tt guarded Iletkr Bharp la I a fort of theatrical routs cafe Instead of being on Mil 11 blended I coherent organic draton ot four act It ll a consloinerutlon o r tour I dlillncl and drtnrhrd part > each ont on-t which swims Independently about In hi own color live 110 graduated ll < iuld In that variously colored drink of the tlait toulttardlrr Without cant Thickfrar to fall back on the iprctato at tile riflh Avinuo thAt would l be loll hop lM lr at > ra with ones Thackirar In mind ont la I Ml In a nlouih of dnpond It leaves I tile oltoc later between tho devil and the Ip pea for since n novel ot ouch complex Itr and utallh nt Incident an Vault I I rlr could l not nil be crowded Into A ilrania the ndnnttr has taken rtalt only the Lord Htrrnt Inckltnt at the backbone of hit riot Tile rest ot the drama story la I lull In narrative mot IrM I broalhlrn lixlloui norrutltr through whhh lira I risk 1 64 UoloJ In a low I olrrd Monotone audlblt ilsovably to tht lint thru row of orrht trn chili but not much beyond In fact I II to risks hail an affection for the low yoked monotone HUM dom II I 1 no It mui bt iiultt right Kit ailinof ti MO tore It on I nilurnllil nut Ilkt most good things II can U I oii r don Aire risks 1 ovrrdiwi It 11 is I nut until tile uirimt third act the nl Inc ot llnwdon Cruwlor and Lord firm jn that site Times I to an thing like her I real power sent Mokpo one forgot for tile talons nt lur l > hical I 011111011 ncolloni for ouch a role 1 HI tht bultful tyxl 1 little lUickv Mini liy the war Would never have twin Irmllt hy Thackeray to ill In a el 1 in of pink lUht I end nlhnntall moon n1 whln ever tier past Pine the hardness a r tho world anti the wickellintelin ot horn hor-n uslo AM Jut why on entire del abouldl linn on 10 lrnllnlC the r f JJt If f 6 I I It Wt > I I r I V vt I 5 V to I II IV 11 i jr fJ 6 7 rl i g J 7H I II 1 < > I f Jlct1r1i I I I r i t A Z1111 I e Ik i 1 t J 1 7 to j314 I el I I I I f I rqJaJ Il a W iiiT k P r 1 I I I I 1 4 N I I 1 I j I W 1 tj i I I I I 1 d I I I 8 P J1 k 1 4N J I aV = = ± s i I jM 6 llt I I I Ir Im I UN I 4 t rrti 666 i11r 11 < Vr l 111 t Ol V i i z I ics jfT X VS inSV I I r I I j 10 I I 1 I 41 I I 4 41 I 1 I I > l Jfitrl I 9 C Ui I J 7 ip i tI Xft t I 1 21 > P 1 11 AV We i1 4 J 1 r I fd < fit i I II I 11lip Z I Au 441 4 I W I 11 v I to A Z j J If t v I I VIiev I I r = P I I ft se F jjq Wli r I I tF I k l I rJ r r 4 J I jJI If I t m t A t j I I A 11 I q lib Il It > I I Il I 1 I I i 1 I 1 I I 11 1 lljJ 1 I ol r I 1 f I OP44 Iif I 11 i I UJ i t I I I A u 1 1rJ I O I r O I I lL i If Au a 0111 J I II 1 I I I i A j tc q 1 I rJ i 0 fVij rj I I o 1 f 1 BALL110011 SCENE IN BECKY SUARP pretty tnoulh tableaux of the Ducho ot JUtbrnond baUI Is equally hd 10 an motor Maurlc narrymor ai Itawdon wit fly no mtani NnTlntlnff In a part fillet would have vfovl an 11 Dorado to I an tier ot talent Vince 1 In fact It as the fatlMt root In the play Tyront flow or mum the Nforquid of HIyn use oo J1 ctllcnt aa Wilfrid North was Inadequate In tile part vf the ood hearted 411 I > obl > ln whom lit I converted Into an nine doll Itobtrt Ktrtux oo Sir IM Crawltr did admlraMt work Anil hi dome might lit I Mid of William Ow enN Joe Hniltr thouih It could 1 not possibly apply l In Ttnaldt William In rrelation of thi roll ot Amelia The play on the whole might bt call d a maininont failure for until tie factory at inhat ont might call lit ir little and iplrltuM prMtnlatlun prov ell to br the mechanical ivrfMtlon with which It woo put forward wit brilliant 10 the extreme In view ot this act and remembering the great tot lowing which the ilrmrlly and un comproteloinic earnestness ot Aire 1 ilkt has won for the Impersonator of llclKrra there will even lit certain rr Ion who will claim that IkKky Sharp U a great play Hut their Denied will not bt let 1 Ion Comparisons may M edition but they an Inevitable Tn nauirn up Uroud way from byte Airs 1 risks U I showing ht world the subtle wtcktdntM of Mill IlbMoa Sharp Mr 1 John llrtw u I play Inll In that dllihirul comedy ot man more Vy IId Ion chmWi The Tyranny Tyr-anny of Tears loln from one to the other la I Mk stepping out of the did Ktlnx room Into a plcturi gallery Time li I a fascination In Uholdlnie the stands anl lnton and arteries of an Immoral character theatrically laid like i by tuch a iklllful knife ai that lldxl by Airs rikt but ont can ot filed of pathology and pir < homachy and Ionic fur a milt loud wholnumt fresh air Such frohnects ont can find In The Tyranny ot Tears II la a combination combina-tion of rrnntd art and Rielly playful humor wall morlarrd Imrlhrr by kind nM and common swnw The story la I slender l yet ffllcllou while that quiet art anti piquant IfOOOI nature which John Draw billet under a bland and rt lioMful manner art Irrfilllblt rise Tyranny of Tours lit I rolffll named A young London author named Potbutor has boom Inorll1 rot fly Y410 to it will whom ht love Inrerely anti Whaps tmi irneruuily 1114 wlft love I him Hut the U n sensitive crentur often lo Jealousy and ptoni lo burn Into fears I on the illihtttt provocation In tact else M loves her dear husband that the always want to U with him She evtn dole on hearing him dlclatt an article Fht invading lilt I iludr Mho Intull his work to bt klutd Pht drives Assay Iht oil frlrndi who UM to take up him Hint Phil nnnll It ill Ph makes him give up hit club and U I even J alm ot All t W Mlwird the youni author wrelary IVihurr rneroui lovlnv asset I matured whlml At 1 and easy gain gives In In title gon tic tyrant Inch by Inch until at the tnd of his nit > cira of martial lift ht finds himself the I absolute rUt of a overfill but none tin IMI I tynnnlcal wife HIM I UxHlnaid the mrttirr rltlea poor rurbury and whom In a motherly anti > purely Platonic ran of way she kl > t i 1iirburyi photoiinph hll In I riltcovrrid dulnn MI by that aentlrinnn Wiry tht cutout of both husband and photograph at ow oustlectsthe nIt n-It dlimlatea Mill Wooilward on tile pot Mm ixihBid dtrllnn to tie I dlimlitnl I fly any ont but Iarbury him I lf Airs I Iarbury of Mo top regard that no n very small i point and at cars r = i I marchM In her lurprlMd I liuhand anti I 1 asks him to illml hit iveretary Now I Iaibury known AtIoN Woodward It I worth tier wtliiiit In gold lo 1 > him as nn iiililant and mi to the consternation of him battle half nally refused to did charge the lady until ht It I shown lit common for to doing Airs I Iarbury knowing how weak poor men all ars dart not tell him hot rtaxmt and after a stormy won the heretic loaves I the 1 IIOUM and good homo with her good natured but dltconcertetl old part Our her papa she weep for ont entire night l Hht U Very mlMrablt without her husband Her I huband too li I very mliwahU without her Then lira liar bury learns that the Induilrlou noun radical n-oun lady U not the lean Into In-to with Iwr poor huband and gen trouloir rvllnto Iorbur heArs ot the photo kidding trno rralllra the ah urdity of thtwholn thing and tnkti his wit back to his home Chastened 10 rill r-ill trials throuth hlch she toed paned pan-ed the owe tearful and Mlrllh young wife learns tile nobility and blciiednei of Kit abnegation and the two staff I ft civet again Mli Wonlward yields 1 o > Iht wooing ot her ml 11 lover a young man ot the world who dellnhti to pot as a cynic and whtn the curtain awl down It falls on a gentle llllle pity 1 hat It I filled with quiet philosophy and right obiirvatloni and li I entitled lo ht honor ot bring a purl comedy In the highest itnit ot the word of such omedlti ai The Tyranny of Tears Nw York cannot have too many ARTHUR J 8TItINOIn Nw York |