Show 1 Henry Miller x er Likes i es England n an And n tile the Way ay it it Welcomed Him Film London Dramatic Letter Special Correspondence ONDON O I Thc Dee c 4 fAs As a Iliad final lega legacy le leC legacy L cy C to English playgoers Henry Miller 1111 cr before sailing ailing for foi New Neww NewYork York w delivered himself of som sonic observations regarding Ills his experiences ex here Miller I should say has left leCt nothing but pleasant recollections on omi this side his courtesy his geniality his lilt good nature have hate conquered every oel everyone one And although financially his ills sla stay stav at it the Adelphi can hardly hard I he be spoken of oC ofas oCas ofas as a success ss S It has hils nt at least served to establish him firmly in tho time affections of or our pi bile I have bean bem received Miller CUller de declares declares declares clares In an m Interview with a kim kind kindness l ness I l did tIld not expect Americans A who laving having spent p a I week wC k In Englund England reck reckoned reckoned reckoned they knew the country from Crom from end to end cud told mo me that I T should find final tho the Engl English sh against me Consequently I started with my b Jack back lek tot set t hard a the public And the result Well Veil I found that this militant Attitude was wholly unnecessary that I was wai like a alion aIlon lion Ilon at a tea ten fight t There Is one thing 1 I cant c nt understand continues Miller Miller rV oh Wiy hj are arc your jour our theaters so w dear In Inthe Inthe Inthe the St Suites States lies tho the best seats scats of the best then tel are only ani 2 and md yet ot et tho the salaries paid over thero there are bigger Perhaps tho the reason Is 15 that our audiences len s pay pa to togo togo togo go to the theater and half hal of ot them don dont t expect to get et In for Cor nothing Old Eng England England land lind is a rare country for Cot deadheads head tho the belief that It Is really a financial success So they fill 1111 the tho house with paper and keep on sending out to tho the newspaper paragraphs that nobody over ocr thinks of oC publishing of ot a T description descrIption description tion which Ananias himself would blush to put his namo nimo to t tPaul Paul Arthur who is now more English Eng English English lish than tho English themselves tells tell me 1110 that In conjunction with George Edward Edwardes cs s he lie has lias Just acquired tho rights lights for or this tills country count In Is Matri Matrimony mony many a Failure the Leo farce which I understand has been doing splendid business at ut tho the Belasco New York during tho the past fallt two months Nothing as yet jet et lets has been decided as to the theater at which tho place piece will twill be produced pro but there ought to be bo no great difficulty In obtaining one This week wook Indeed tho the slump in business has been most pronounced and every everyone ono one Is suffering Nor Is 15 there thero much prospect of oC an Improvement until the Christmas hOliday sot In and oven oen then the rush w will be mainly for i pan pantomimes pantomimes an and entertainments of a light Kind Tho outlook for H B Irvings new now play pia The Iho House Opposite pro produced produced produced at tho the Queens this week w lc Is eon con consequently not very ery very rosy Even at it tho time best hest ol oi times tho the piece pica which Is II lacking In real dramatic fiber would have but Jut buta Juta a slender chance chanco presented at such a n moment as this with a general election In the thu near nelli distance disaster seems as assured assured living Irving Irvin unfortunately Is but in indifferently differently well supplied with plays pIa s sHo Ho He has hm of course Justin Hu fly Mc McCarthys McCarthys c Caesar Borgia In his knap sack s ick but his lilt faith In It has hM boon been shak shaken en considerably and so ho he has ha begged bogged tho the authol to give gho him another year car In which to produce It Probably his next ne t venture will be Lord Arthur Aithur Crime a farce founder founded on Oscar Wilde lidos s story of oC that name llama t Following tho the example of so many man novelists Barrie Conan Doyle Doyl Maugham Mangham Hornung and Anthony hope hop to mention only a few fe H G O Wells Nulls has hns hll at nt last turned his hits attention to It Ing In His works of fiction are doubt doubtless doubtless less les as at w and an as popular In n America as the they are arc hero He Ho has hns also niSI made for or himself a very considerable reputation as a I w writer liter on sociological subjects Personally ho he Is a delightful man mean as unassuming as us he lie Is clever cleel The rhe piece he is now putting the finishing finish finishing finishIng ing touches to Is specially designed for Cor Tree who Is 15 looking forward to Its It perusal with the liveliest Interest Wells describes describe the work to mo me as aI of a IL a serl erl ous and description Tao TilO ue use of or the second adjective Is justified by bj the fact that the action of o tho the story takes place OO years hence Whet What V hl t wonderful discoveries what marvelous new now Inventions In have been made by bv then It remains for Wells Veil 11 to show Per Pcr Perhaps Perhaps haps In him there may maj bo be forthcoming another Barrie Banle As a n matter of at fact Wells Veils Is a much more moro fertile writer than the tho author oC ot The Tho Little Minis tor whoso fount of oC Inspiration seems to have run rather dry diy of ot late Apropos here heie Is a 11 little circumstance known Imon only to a very ver limited circle What hat Woman Knows I has lias everywhere eer been regarded r as tho the latest emanation of ot Barries Barrios brain In reality the original Idea was conceived some seven or eight years ago If not more moie and two acts of the play pIa were then actually written But bo ond that point Barrio could not lr w wb b a J vc F r dun M r rIN IN I tL r 2 1 r t t u ut t YA rt J JN N jC mi miJ a t s I J 1 Z MISS MINNIE MINUTE SELIGMAN Who tho Will Appear AJ J c r at nt the tho AH AU Next Week In The Tire Drums Drains of ot Doom The Tho last remark Is I unfortunately only ani too true In America If a piece Is 15 a n first night failure allure It H Is la whipped d derr off err at onto once In order to make room for something more likely to catch the tho pub public public lic lie taste Here however how er many man man managers managers managers agers are arc victims of o tho the mistaken Idea that If I one ono can keep a piece running for a time goers will bo be gulled into seo see his way wa clearly and accordingly the manuscript was put aside to In be b betaken taken from Its pigeonhole later III tel and finished In order to satisfy Charles demand for tor a i new corned comedy from front his pen pon Paul latest effort Dear Lit Little LIttle Littie tle tie Denmark has only turned out a It halfhearted success at the Prince of or So thin in plot and devoid of Incident is it that I personally a ajust run 1111 just a little surprised ed that It should have hao proved even een that It ends its run a week hence honce and Curzon Curron has hes ai ar arranged ranged to transfer Charles I and The Little Damo el from Wj V nd ft to Ss that th theater a Immediately 11 t tJan at To the tho t former n come on Jan S Seymour Se mour Hicks and l In a II now non musical piece Cap tain Kidd 1 w written bj by b Hicks composed bj by b Leslie Stuart and founded on Rich Richard Richard ard aid Harding Daviss Dass The Tho Dictator In which William Col Collier CollIer Colher lier her was starred some time ago asa Cur Curson son M n for Cor the moment finds linds himself un provided with a novelty tor for tho the Prince of oC Wales s but ho he has summoned hast halt fly II Frederick Lonsdale Londale author of at 1 Th h King of to his silo side placed him In touch with Paul Rubens and md bidden the two set their brains to wok work with tho the object of or producing the desired material within a few weeks will bo be responsible for or the tho music As Asa a mattor matter of at fact if ho lie could 1 only be convinced that ho Is much moro more of oC a n composer than a i dramatist his ills sue suf ceases would bo be fir far moro more numerous than they tIt C actually are Maurice tho the Belgian Bolgan has Just arrived In London In order to attend the tho final re of his fantastic Canto tlc play The Blue Bird to be bo produced next week at nt the et I hear that ho he Is iIi not wholly satisfied with tho the way In which things are aro being done there as the Impression at that theater seems to tobo tobo tobe bo be that the tho author of a piece Is tho the least Important person concerned In Its production That Idea Iden is all nil too common in this country and It Is surprising that dramatists havo hao not in their own Inter rests r eats ests combined combined long ere cro this to assert themselves and to uphold the position IJ to which they the UfO are rightly entitled I re remember remember remember member laving having h a coat on tho the point many years ears ago with Isaac Isnac Henderson w who ho wrote TOto Agatha ii rind and Tho he Mummy and tho the Humming Bled Bind In Now York he said Bald I am am tho the thoI I proprietor of o a powerful newspaper and when anyone enters my mj office ho takes I off orr his hat hut and addresses addressee mo In cour terms ilIa How different nt has baa been my experience In London Instead of being ushered Into the tho office orace of ot a man manager manager ager I am kept kicking ny my heels at tho the stage door an and an 1 singularly Impolite Impolito person pers m Informs me fie that Chat I must mutt wait walt mj my m turn although In reality lIty there I a aIs Ila is la no one ono In front of ot me mc and nd weeks nay months month pass before I can oven even pene penetrate penetrate Into the tho august presence of tho the English |