| Show nn What v Kind of American Drama Does London Really Like London Dramatic L I Special Correspondence I T ONDO ONDON July SO Although Enl Eng England I I land has hag never taken very ery kind kindly 1 L I ly Iy to the murn um serious varieties of ot American there thoro Is la no question of ot Its Iti delight In tho ho brooder effects vigor Igor vigorous bo be worth OUK ous OUI western wester plays It I might tho hue while of ot American managers with London to meditate e tho thu t I I tact fact that heat The Great CuIl I The Lion und and Ild the Mouse Iou e Paid in tl 1 Full Ful and anil The h fl Dawn of ot a I Tomor Tomorrow lolor row 1 OW did dil no great things hurt hure ho Milton Hulo A White hUo has bus Just been len put on un agaIn In tn London nt at the tue Lyceum where whelo In Honry old play Lila house hOUs U It to have un us UI big blK a I an as anIt iK iKi asit It i did at nt tho ho Lyric Lyrl tho luno sort of oC solid lull luce won lucre here lre by Mrs ot of o tho thu Cabbage author 1 II is In town ton tills this week by the WI lle I I Chorus Ludy Ld Lai ILd other oilier oppositions of ot tho ho more mar unconventional Ihl sot of Amer Arr lain life 0 It Jt was WI tl New cw end of ot it I that Ihu killed Tho lh Great ireat Dividu lu here hore and tho Iho society part hart of lC The rho he White Man ll would havo itaco i I done for tor the he play in London If I It ho l I Inot I not lint lot coma com ut at II the beginning of or tho thu play playa I I a and i d l b acts en of ot no consequence The sari cri i j of or The Tho Chorus Lady clue ous moral part i bored London to tears The Tho ho uplift In InThe InThe 1 I 1 The Dawn of or a I Tomorrow to pull English audiences tha the wrong way vay wayan an uplift that BO go o down so 10 to J i speak It 1 U I a not that bitt London ln ol audiences audIence lire are on the average IVer e but i I I they thy do hate to ti be uplifted Lon Lotu J don dun Opinion W IV A prediction that thul In Iii two years year CIrs Jn I would be Ki going to America for a a large lane proportion of o Its plays plaN says saysA A careful dud tudy of at ti I native natI American dramatic i tare faro moot moat 1011 certainly dots docs not hot Inspire In III the that two year aos will work Walk so 0 great geat a II change chance I With variety varlet turns th the case CRae Is I far tar dif clif different t I relent ferent Th rhiny y belong b long to 0 a 1 cla clasS a of ot en on In which the American l lot i of ot ovary or ever kind of or origin excels and I 1 Ifor Ifor for tor one urn eager caRe to admit that without the Ihl American u to draw upon our vaude vaudeville vIlla ville viI programs would be he far Rr duller even 11 than they BIB ain at let 1 present which Is 13 a nn H II Rood good gUlt deal Hut Bitt this hold hol soot good In No So sir not nol by b a S o 0 C 0 The evident success I of ar Josephine Jo Preston prize piny Tile The he PI Fl PIl l per Ir er at the tho Memorial Theater nt at a t might ml ht b h Ia thought to 0 the above Mc ob observations h I for tor II IL Is I a u literary pIt 1 and andIn ano andIn I In verse vere I but af a I th the h Tinsel J oC the thelIA Ie piny lIA y yesterday t morning there was j I I nothing shout about abut It St I to t Its Ameri mori I Ican I can origin Americans ao so 1 fur sit t a RII as w we can generalize continues the Ih Thun derer rather grandly regard ngar the Mid dlo ili A AI es B with either eithe too to touch much tId respect or too little On the tl one hand they I I produce for fir popular consumption his historical hl historical novels and anti r plays y which violets violate j i history and care taic an not t hat ha thy they th I are Ar at itt lt with historical diameters a so n long i iHS INa i HS Na the th thing go with a snap 11 On th the theother other they UIl he worship to 1 a degree tin un t L I I 1 t I I I 1 I i I I I I In Jo every evry stick and an andI I stono 11 scrap ot or papel paper that boasts u it 1 couple cOIle of centuries Judging Ju by the tho accounts printed here tho the performance resulted In something more than titan a I literary success nod Is II likely to lead to the he production of at tho tim piece at a n West ost End I nd theater this nu RU There Is I no Indication of any because an American authors play w n chosen cho en front from tron the that lIntl Thi author who ho In private life la Is Mrs Irl Lionel Marks wife or of hit tha professor of ot engineering at nl Harvard came over hero with a babe babo bab only five Ovo months old anti usa ban hlll been heen nearly tired out with the tho rehearsals and all the tha excitement Incident to the hue award of or the h prize this week welk She Sh and her hr husband leave for tor Switzerland next week nod and era are ro to re return reo return turn lur home homo about abut the tho tit of r Septem September tier ber They The Te havo have received cabled offers for tor the production ot of Tho The Piper rIper In lIt America and arrangements to that end evidently I can un bo be b announced In n a week or two Iwo wo o C 0 C Weedon edon Oro Is itt 1 looking around to find Ond to 10 take hi lii place In ill IIIi the tho h sensational farce tarco Jill Bil Billys ni lys hys I Bargain which himself wrt wrote under another enother name namA and pro dUld nt at tho tue under his hi own Oli management and ant In which h lie has baa the star part It 1 high art but It Is Isa I isa a 1 tumbling roaring banging affair that has han proved amusing goes go over to America on Sept 21 to appear In II IL I C Cartons eRron Mr PredY and 11 the Ihl Countess which has hM already had a long run here and unless lie Ito In can get gt someone to take his hI place will wi have hl to hang up his hi own play pIl until he ha gets et back It f Is I hoped hod that hll this pop popular popular ular comedian Is I In America Amerla some come dramatist there thre will I supply him with witha a n play that gives hIB him hint a II chance chanco to 1 get getaway Iet getaway away from what are known hero hAre ns as ni worm parts would give gC a lot for tor a 4 thence to appear as a some seIne something thing else than as al a n squirming and lov lw lovable untruthful but somehow always able abt hI little lite bounder but hut the public In Insists no sit on his hll Keeping to 0 this particular line lne o C 0 e C eTh The Th Palace theater which was bult buit bult to In ho bo Urn tho home horl of or genuine English comic romle Olto opera opra and which came caine to grief because e thorn thero were no successors to 10 Gilbert anti Sullivan has hll found In dancing chancIng the lurk luck It find In opera Maud Allan drew tire all al London thither for tor months anti now no Pavlova lalon has l hen been een making It Impossible to get gel geta 11 a it I sent there nt at any nn price unless you OU bought tickets ticket days da In advance Her return to 0 America n a few trw weeks k enc nl would be postponed If Ir there acm any an anay anyway way ay of ot getting her to throw over ocr her lu II t American contract She amI the tho T r rry ry r girl nt at lt the tho t n sharing tiie the honor of or being the tho theatrical sen sensations n I ot of the tho slImmer To TI satisfy tho tb Pavlova crowds crowd three extra are to 01 be lie given at Ot I the Palace 1 die IP loaves II Ken on Aug ug C G Even Kven th the state stately ly burnt lur 1 out Into Iota a n column of rf r rapture fleer oter her last week ek for f r no en rea ica reason R Ron the h writer son con nfl except that bat wrier could contain himself no longer u |
