Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-18 | Page 7 | Many Popular Plays Entirely Rewritten

MANY AMY POPULAR PLAYS PAYS YS' YS l REWRITTEN r ENTIRELY J Th New York York ork ne Review i W ha has a a. very Interesting interesting in- in article dealing with the rewriting that ar are so the plays of ing of man many popular popular on the stage toda today It says Jn n fl part The young joung playwright whose play is s and changed as a rule rewritten cut recognition suffers all an the almost bei beyond ond pangs pang that a mother goes through when disfigured through some accident accident accident ac ac- ac- ac her child chUd is or operated upon by a n. surgeon to and usually voices the violence done clone the progeny of his ls brain in loud protests protests protests pro pro- or producing manager tests against the director stage It Is true that Ibsen Mo- Mo Moliere Here liere and Shakespeare did not permit any anyone anyone anyone one to dictate changes in their scripts and would have resented the least suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- on the part of a producing manager manager manager man man- ager to make any chances as an Impertinence impertinence Im- Im pertinence but our young playwrights of their are tar far from being the masters craft that those great men were In ono one of the most successful producIng producing producing ing offices on Broadway it i 1 is the proud boLt boast that all the plays plas they present are entirely rewritten before product production ion and that the managers have given up hope of ever obtaining a play which does not of re reconstrUction reconstruction reconstruction re- re to through the pr process cess have go construction and nd rewriting There is is' is not nota a a. producer who docs does not reserve the have such changes made nade as ashe aslie privilege t to he lie sees fit lit In any play that Is accepted for fog production Within the Law perhaps the tho greatest greatS great est hit tt of the decade was entirely rewritten re- re written and In tp its Us final form fonn bore but butin in faint tnt resemblance to the original script The Woman one of ot the finest American n comedies the stage has hM seen lOeen in in recent years was radically changed after Its first production in Loa LOR Loaf LORf f Angeles In In fact no one who had seen the play there wo would ld be able to identify It as presented in New York but the re rewriting re re- writing was all done by the author Dr Louis Louls K Anspacher himself Another famous success On Trial was completely rewritten rc before the production and so It goes down through the entire list of 01 successes Surely these unimpeachable statistics vindicate the Judgment of the producing manager in general as against that of the playwright as to the advisability and necessity of c changes and and rewriting rewriting re- re f Y writing of original play scripts