Show Successful Theatrical 1 Season Dispels Dispel's the j j 4 Fear of the Movies Movi s' s sEW l I EW V YORK June June 17 For or For the first time In ht a decade New Yorks York's theatrical N I N year is closing with managers actors and playwrights mutually ly optimistic optimistic and satisfied overalls prosperity Though lg Broadway Bradway is generally supposed to have more playhouses than is good for it It the S Shubert Shu- Shu Shubert ubert u- u bert are starting the construction of at two new houses in Forty Forty-f Forty fifth if th- th street adjoining the Astor on the west and Brandon Tynan is to have his new Theatre of the Heart in Forty-eighth Forty street But most important of all the producing man managers gers believe belleve the theatre has found itself to the extent of overcoming the unc uncertainty caused by the sudden 1 m rise of the moti motion n picture industry They have found that thai the spoken and nd the 4 silent drama get along quite well each in its own sphere t 1 t The uThe stage and the screen are no longer in competition I if if Inde indeed d they hey ever were said a well known manager Every attempt to manage a motion J picture after the manner of ot the regular two dollar doUar playhouse has failed not 1 only in New York but throughout the country Managers have made the the- the the-J important discovery that the crowds which persistently fill the be better er sort of 3 picture theatres are not the crowds that habitually go much to the regular j theatres v j t And producers instead of ot playing down to movie patrons are playing M tip up to the old forms forms' of ot art and making the difference between the stage and t the screen as distinctive as possible fj i Even the actors and actresses who who rushed into the pictures because of the large salaries salaries' are are beginning to realize that their easy money has been y obtained at a price and a very great price at that This applies of course to j 1 6 the really worth while player Many personalities with pretty little abilities abilities' have taken their beloved temperaments to the screen where It Is to be ba hoped l lOJ t rl OJ that they will remain i Just before beCore th the motion picture craze raze developed the stage was in crying need A j of new talent and the removal of ot the artistic dead wood has been one of at the a f reasons for tor the brilliant success of the season now ending 1 It is believed by quite a number of producers that the war has helped the theatre theatre by giving to it the it-the the first and exclusive ve output of what new plays were written In Europe and by interesting the American public In home amusements since they were Yere unable to attend the theatre in Europe to any appreciable cx- cx S ex-S ex tent And encouraged by the new new hit interest rest in good plays and good acting man man 1 agers are s seeking both tl theatres and plays for next season 1 The he American public will not lack Its Barrie its Shaw its or its i Barker Musical comedies from Vienna Sienna and adaptation from Berlin BerUn also have been announced Only In Paris which is almost wholly abs absorbed in th the heroic prosecution of ot war wart war is there lack of ot amusement material i For Fox American dramatists the year to come promises to be even more golden golden- than the one one e just ending It one ma may dePend ap tryouts lf upon the announcements of ap ap- and other preliminary arrangements arrangements |