| Show I r NEWS OF THE LONDON STAGE STAGES I ONDON ONDO Dec SO Yet another bin LONDON L lilt hit must bo ht hI recorded for Co or that uncommonly U successful young oung An Alt Al Hubert n dramatist usury Henry lelO Ind nt itS 11 a a consequence nt itt lt home hOlo will 1 have to wait waita a n while for tor or the tho return visIt I lt to tho tim UnIted States tes which Sir Wyndham had planned to make IMke early ar arIn In January A while ago ugo when whon Ethel Barrymore played his hil OI hoer hep u it 1 con conviction I on gained ground that Davies hal had lest tome some fOle of his bits dexterity for tor the tho play was wait and an a u failure allure But ut It speedily developed that Cynthia Was al toot not the latest Ille t but a it ery wry early arl work of oC the tie OUI playwright anti and If it any proof were ere needed that tho th author of oC I Cousin Kate lal Is la well veil w 1 up vp 1 among thi th I Im m n who are to 10 be le reckoned with It Is its Isto II to 10 b IX be found In hit his hl new piece Capt Drew On Leave with which Is la now packing his theater In St Moor Mar Martins I tins lane Oddly O nough both this play piny and ond the tho theother theother other Davies comedy which Wyndham produced Mrs r el Necklace were slated by the til th as ion 1 unreal but their success seems to prove breve that the young OUI playwright knows l his public POlitic The Captain Drew Drow of oC the tho present piece Is nn ion 11 old 01 with wih a 1 strong tendency for tor flirtation Ono One of oC the th at ott a 1 country house he Ito makes love to his lois hosts wife viCe Ite just Juat for a lark hark and ond not moot only wins her het affection hut but falls rais hopelessly In iii II love with wih her hoer him eIf upon which horrified nt at lt what ha toe hud hiI done obcone me he lie tiles flies from the scene IcelO anti and tithes takes himself oft off or to 10 sea Thus hUR up oh II It I toil nil 11 found a 1 little hail bald but tho tue thing is done HO so 10 deftly dettl toad and Davies has bias nt d Sir Charles Wyndham anti and Mary Moore with 1 h congenial cong parts partH that tha an alt al unmistakable success has hai been scored at the New theater And that Is If why who Instead of playing only six weeks In anti and then hurrying oft or to America as II he had In Intended tended Wyndham li is II staying on In the metropolis Indefinitely Ho lie will wi to 10 leave heave the tho New theater almost Imme inline Immediately It Is IR true for or that playhouse Is it leased to Julia Jula anti and Fred Terry Terr but hut Captain Drew on Leave Leve Is II merely merl to be b transferred to the play pIl playhouse house In Charing Crosa Cross road hl l bears hears name and atoil will wil he be continued there as long ns out 0 Its I popular popularity ity It lasts lusts Meanwhile bile American tour li is I expects to bo he made mado lao tonic jomo time tinie during the spring when tho thin Davies play IH is II practically sure sumo to 10 be he the tho attraction S S S SM Meanwhile M ea perhaps Ps the t hoe chief chloC topic In cliches circes here hereIt IP It II thin the rather ruther lively toilet that hoes has brett been going on between Henry lel Arthur Jones Jona und and playwright 11 It I ItC C Carton in II the course of oC which some nome excessively I tart lart things have been said lall U It I toil nil sprang from that now famous In Interview Jones JOIS gave gace ga out coot olt In Ito Amer Atner America ica ka 11 and atol lul In I to which o to ichi he hoe ht calil sa Id that thu tho Eng English g to tn tomfool tomfoolery Cool helm lish stooge o win IS given up top cry ery or Ish On On hi hIl hilts return Mr II Jones Jone stool stood for that added 1111 that since Mrs II lanc ane Defense no too I drama had hlll a I success In London Lu nina Perhaps the tl t he author Otto t hour of o Lord and Inu Lady La Algy AI who too lotte hUl pin pio PIO orl successful comedies III In Inthe thou the l last t year Yr or BO iso 0 load had been beell a it trifle tl that word nettled by hoy I anyhow ho hoe ventured to question Jones the Inter In offered to give gle 11 KO 00 0 to II charity churl If Carton would ull a n successful serious piece dece since Mrs Data Dam Carton promptly lit ito Iris Iri and atod Letty LeU The Walls of or Jericho and lul l euh I Joness Joncs reply lell was to deny deity del that thai either elhel Jericho or ot Leah was a drama which ho bitt defines no as ni n a study of oC modern life Itt unstained to an nit Inevitable able ablo unhappy unIon io cool Ind coollie He lie would woul not tout bo he as ati Q to 10 the tho Pinero plays for a I perhaps obvious reason As n a matter of fact It was wa not 1 o understood cither cuber of or theta them did ll more inure than pay pa expenses Accordingly th argument lotus host hUl raged tins question whether The of oC Jeri Jerl Jericho cho chu queston and Leah Leoh 1 uro urn serious drama and the tho rather heated bersy hery between the Iho two turn leaves It unsettled So Ho nobody gets getH ell Mr Jones ii 50 00 0 S S S By B 13 the time tle these lines appear In Ito print William will bo ho hack back In ito II America again mod and It Is supposed here hiete that he Is II a it little sore Ron Shortly bu be buforo le lefo befort fort foro fo he left heft let the tho actor announced that he would play liY no too more In itt II this lola country the reason undoubtedly Is that ho hoe hoIs hI Is II In hot II British audiences I I II critics Neither el hel liked Clarice which Mr Gillette recently told lohl a friend he lou considered lois lils hil best hest Play or ot Thu Tho Painful Cu I Predicament lea of oC Sherlock S Holmes HohneR hoist his hl little Itlo piece about the thou great I ibi Ind 10 mid a ti I female luna lotion lunatic tic so no to to them tho the odor actor Ictor isott lIt coming cOlln back no ito 10 more Of Ot course everyone eron hopes hopel hu hoe hl will viii wi change his to is mind ma tad and In II the III iii e tot I mote curios Ity It prevails to see ee how America will wi treat trel t Clarice S S S Forbes scouts Rooms to tn hu come another cropper To most folk I who saw uw Mrs Irs Grundy on un the tho IratI I night II ht It appeared 1 doubtful doubt Cui If IC this new I work by b Madeleine He would duplicate the success of oC hoer her herI hoert I t Mice h ice and ton d Men Iel en and Ild tho I ho now Indicate that this belief beleC woos was i When then was WIS talk u it 1 week weel or 0 two I wo ago of oC moving mooring The Son Sott SOl to It the thu Scotia Benin theater It I lint Forbes was willing the tue fact that float h ho hI woos was WI playing IrtI I there then nightly and now It IH Is II anno ItO 0 jd that loot t tho t ne tar has haft Influenza and nl so lois his n toe will wi havo hl to tobe to tl tobe be closed dosed It I will wil reopen rUIen oer haps hoops with Mrs Mis 11 Perhaps |
