| Show LONDON NEWS f Special Correspondence ONDON July Jill Calne Caine LONDON L would do anything for tor the sake cake of ot when the tho realism concerned Is III that of on one of ot his own plays or novels noveli Even Evon risk rl k khili his hili valuable life In fact tact it seems ms that Iha t tr Mr r Caine did endanger his hits existence a awhile while ago although at t that time noth about this heedless SI act ad of ot his hiM was al iii allowed a lowed to lo reach the public PossIbly It was then too tar far In advance of ot the production of ot his hili saw new play am and the thrilling tale tal might have bae lost bet lo t some of Its lis effect but now flow no tin the production of ot the lonO imn rU M Drury If Is bd thawing drawing d ln nigh and so 80 we ar are told Hi History the Ule story of or how bow ho this tbt author flouted death I without any 11 reservation r or sparing of ot painful details U It wa wu In 10 Italy that the thing hap happened posed whence Hall Its Calne Caine went last lut spring In search March of local k cal color for The That drama by the way na Is located partly In hi Italy Itay and am partly partir 1 in Sardinia although the novel places the scene elsewhere and antI It seems that among Its othar attractions are to be bea bea a II real Sicilian curt cart and a real reat Sardinian donkey donke also alO a veracious Its Ital Italian Inn ian farm tarm scene with 1111 genuine cows and ant actual haystack ll guaranteed by 11 Hall altie Ills last piece The Prod Prodigal Prodigal igal Son It may mar be 00 remembered con tallied a HUre enough flock of ot sheep t toast It 11 did as liS produced at Drury Ine l ne Whether hether there were sheep shepp In the Amer American Ameran Amerlean lean ican an production one on Is III not certain and If it there were wore not hot II that Is one ona reacon why h the pIN piece failed cued to duplicate MIte eats In the tremendous suc sue e 1 cees which Its minor author has figures fi urs to prove It scored In lit London In Itt The there thero Is to be he a 1 sulphur mine minI too and so M we romeo rome to the actual details of ot how the Iho Intrepid Hall RIM ains and Arthur Collins who runs Drury Lotte theater heater placed their Ih lr lives In deadly peril all nil for the sake cake of ot realism r For to tn see 1 dm the real In Inthis Inthis this line the fearless pair visited one of he Italian tome come comel 30 l miles from Naples and there It ap op appears pears pearl arll their hazard was truly great nat The Inferno was at It Its very or worst worn or t says the graphic account which tics readied reathea me mt on oil the authority of or Hall elm aln himself yet 11 both boti author and und manager trod I on this boiling surface though It 11 Is III no an exaggeration r to in say H very tery ef often at A I the peril ril of their For Jor the In question stands on 1111 fi te Cf crater of a n volcanic mountain which had hal overwhelmed overwhelm mountains villages and killed hundreds hundred of Inhabitants In m the Ihl fifteenth century The 11 is Mr AIr Ir Caines So It In Is easy to see Iee that n II risk U is too loo great for this author to run when It Is Pt a II question of local I color and It 11 mint t be hI admitted too that thit Hall hail Caine alne eclipses himself fn from ni ear t to for tor prior to producing The Tile ProdIgal Son on If It one mO remember rightly he ho contented with an all study stull of or Monte Carlo However The This promised vroni to 10 be II a truly trul great root production antI and antIor I for tor or the Ill star part the management hall hail hallI engaged I n Mrs Irs Pat Pelt Campbell who vho hud been mediating an American In tour This promises to 10 be nearly nearl as IlK hi big lg n II adraw draw as aM was vas 88 the th engagement of lea Oeo oo Alexander last yr eRr for Cor the leading part tart In III The This Prodigal Son at Al tho the thol liette l i awl another prom promising Mug en ott engagement Is that list of young Henry Alit Aln ley Ie IC who WItS was t l un 00 III In America with Maude Maurie and Ind who Ii tl I now ap appearing appearing at t the Court C urt In lii Bernard Shaws i You Vou Never Can cn Tell C C Clust Ju lust a al the London season ea on n chose cloae Arthur ha has h brought out n It new 11 play pia at t 1 the Garrick with the Id K fl of ot keeping it II on through h the autumn If Il It ga go sow well with end 1111 nUIl cH The Th actor manager r hum Irna In tn hIS thU MM ea become ac ae having made Inalle his own adaptation from the Ih play pie pia which Anatole Anatola France l one of the moot moat brilliant of or living Frenchmen I hunt built out oUI of a grim short story stor lor lie h wrote rote lately lat I called haa hila transferred the lie scene from a II P Parts ParIs irl slum district to a 1 Lou Lon London Loudon don slum district t and hag lie lis entirely fn the characters Thi Th tale fate of the Ihl play pie pili will be lie for the plot U is of ot thi th t her ther Ii is I no love loe story In fact fart no woman In Inthe Inthe the tho pUr plu except a as regards minor character put In for the Ihl sake of In Incident incident ant local color the whole Interest centers center re round a e 1 half ha wilted old C who ho has hall barely barl managed 1 to keep kell body bol and cud soul oUI together by b wiling vegetables In the lie street from A d cart Through cheer cherr amiable stupidity ho lie of offends offends fends n policeman and lintl IK is arrested In Int t th h second net wo WI find him him In a police court before an nn Irn petty who takes no III trouble to plumb depths of the old mans stupidity and i him to tn H a 1 short Imprisonment for tor creating a street t disturb disturbance alice ance 11 In the third act art the Ih h victim of miscarried taw IK is tack bacic again In his hla street l Hn HI frado has S been stolen n his hl barrow II Is Islo lo lost loat t his hili hi feeble Is II gone 10 lit sail find his hili old friend have hae hi turned agaInst him bl e li lie hI Is III a jaIl bird He III Is III as all pathetic a 1 figure an as iii one could couldwell well tell fluid find HP lIe tries In aln to Insult a ft 1 policeman In order that he lie h may tite ma he be taken bark back to Jail ail and at last lIar starving starving ing aid It lid utterly broken he lie otters letters off to 10 the 11 river to put nn an end to his mis misery ery Cr In tho lie English version hit his bar barrow barrow barrow row Is restored to him at tho Ito last mo no moment nomont mont ment through the iho efforts of t a kindly newsboy anti ami the lie play ends with a ray rj of ot hope for tor or the th old ohl man A liner per her than that of M IU the tho decrepit and dirty dirt could scarcely bo be found fount It la Is a n real really realI ly Jr I wonderful blending of ot humor pa patho p thee tho and bitter satire of ot carlew jus justice JUstice tice lee Hut there U Is I untie none of the strong ploy plo pIa of emotion and conflict of or will willand willand and ami thrill and excitement required by bythe 11 bythe the Ule average audience CUITIS |
