Show Belasco Predicts Deluge of Zenda lenda Romantic Plays Tho The Day of the Current Events Drama and the Problem Play Is Near Its End He Ie Declares David nela declares that hat the United Unite SlAt States s In is going to see lice an almost almot immedi- immedi immediate ate return to th the romantic drama dmm of oC the Prisoner of or Zenda type In an Interview Interview interview Inter Inter- view with Magda Frances France JI West In the October Green en Rook Book ook magazine he ays cays 15 Love clean wholesome roma romantic anti and It If possible domestic love will lo will b be the popular popular pop pop- ular exposition of or the tho theatre of ot tomorrow This Cor forecast Is fo based baaed on an Invincible law or ot stage tago physics night flight now the current current current cur rent events event drama IB is In Its twilight t hour The dawn of oC the tho da day of oC the romantic dramas drama's revival revl already Is with us I understand that this coming coining season lealiOn will wll mark a Inn In I Enl England nd h when Bori B im Tr Trec c- c fo co j I jha ha have be been n told will stage Magr Drake an hili historical tori- tori cal and romantic dl drama mu Sarah Bernhardt Bern Bern- hardt Invariably is I. a keen theatrical thermometer ther She hits has Just JUIt been playing In Queen Elizabeth No More Paid In Full By UBy the curr current nt events events' drama I mean of ot course that lon long parade of oC plays dealIng dealIng deal deal- Ing with tho the exposition f c a theme lifted from the actual occurrences of oC daily liCe life Paid In Full Is an excellent example so o also Is 18 The Eu Easiest WB Way The They hit have hite e served nerved a purpose And the reaction I In Is both due and natural For or It In is beyond human endurance to see sec be beCore before before be- be fore Core the footlights th the strain and the tension ten ten- sion slon of ot the working out of or the dally daily Iro problems lems of at the common lot Now the pendulum pendu lum lurn must swing back again or the wire Ire will snap Very OlVer shortly we e are arc going to have hR a veritable veritable- delu deluge e of or romantic pieces Swashbuckling will l soar supreme Love e unselfish h all enduring happy happ ending chivalrous omnipotent old fashioned fashion ed partially partially par par- domestic at least and amI above all faithful and true attuned to the knightly motif of ot Odele will come corne Into Its own theatrically Plenty of or Sword rd Play yes yes most probably probably-I these Ii ese new dramas will smack vigorously of ot the Prisoner of ot Zenda type Undoubtedly the majority of thorn them will bo boast t several good cheerful killings of ot the wicked d. d the t and anti the traitorous there will be hairbreadth escapes and conventionally con numbered d acts with plenty plent of or sword play and stately dancing And as u to the of or reception them let rno me refer O to Disraeli Die Dis Check up on the success It has en enjoyed en en- joyed now for tor two seasons and a a. third season Is ha awaiting It There you jou ou have your Jov love story stOOp your our historical parallel and best bOlt of ot all your our epigrammatic dialogues dla- dla logu even avon though much of at the tho of ot tho the repartee went over the tho heads of at hundreds of ot those who went to see Bce Disraeli Die Dis melt merely morely for the sake ake of ot the romantic story of at the play |