| Show William eare as a Fortune u ne TW Teller er London Dramatic Letter SI l Correspondence 1 ONDON Aug n There teems LONDON L to 10 be lie confusion the Ih future of oC The Piper PI Ie r tho the poetic dra lira drama ma mil with which Preston Peabody Ploll ll captured the tho Strat for prize for Cor or America anti and nn won the tho approval of ot mo Tibet mOAt t of ot the Lou Lon London don critic critics theater bigwig who up UI to 10 see nee the th Henton perform performance line ance of nt the play Hanson hoi litti the tho rights right of ot the lie piny JulS but bUI luck lack luckIng hc lackIng Ing IlIg a London theater know et t what he ho In is going to 10 do co with thorn the Iho six II performances performance at al thu Ih Shake p theater In III Stratford Ho Ito wanted tIme the American rights right but time the theauthor author had hall already lied hall mi an offer for tor them from frum ruin l co Owing to 10 the tho length of or time hint before could or would produce time the Ih play In New NewYork N NewYork York I 1 understand Dm thu th New the theater ater atur ha baa hae captured the thi play by b cable The Ih play ula ha h has been beau translated translate Into German ami arrangements arrangement are ato re peed pend pending end ing In for tor or It tt production 0 0 0 The author of ot The Piper Int su au u but she hail an experience juat just the by b the Ih lieu Hen nun lion committee that Ihal was we astonishing She he received 1 word worm wel l that her play plY and andone andone one other oilier had luau been ben choen from rom time the s sOot int In III to 10 be 11 sent to 10 the tile Duke of at Argyll for tor the tho of ot his hie committee In Tn her hr anxiety as mis to 10 time the th thIt It the playwright Ia turned to II her hr beloved wh works work are ar to 10 her a kind of Bible She said IIRI Just JURI for tor or the Ih excitement of ot It Ill take Ink up a H volume volum nt III random and open It at random and anul see ee If It 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Ih success uc ot of f th thi performance he opened Richard 11 nt her e cue e fell upon Ih c word Your ran eon on Edward m am lr l the tI king I Ie a The Th wolds 1011 a re so 5 apparently that thaI MM Mic X Mark In writing rIUn that day da to h hr r then In America menu ment i lu i tin hI runner mustier ns as rather a bin bInd K u r fr i pear as asa II a aa a B Ti flu fh u xi li uli the 1 r 1 J IM ir rr i unexpected death and the th postponement of ot the their ther ir r of or The 1 riper In cones conse ni I S 1 Pt ut 9 r Mie lK K i im n i this II lie 1 off r no of oC It except n a as nn ito coincidence It lint a pr nt tutor for or everyone who knows krows Prof sor and Mr Mrs Marks Mark knows know they th time ate HIO not hot the kind who whim KO go o In for tor advertising H n A who lio has hM the Ih part of ot Sherlock In n Conan onan Doyles 1 play The Time Speckled Hand had hail toured the provinces In the first fire I Sherlock Holmes Holm play piny pIa long Ion I before J foro he lie tame known to London audiences On um the th occasion W of f his hi perform performance ance anee us as the great he I III a II Seat merll pipe pi with his hi own H thereon Last Satui ilay da CIa night s IV emit w his hi thousandth I of it Sherlock and enI Dole has hAA ha just JU l I ted the Ih occasion with witha a magnificent gold gob 1 cigarette case Aee A friend of ot George Ol Tylers tells ella me mu m that Just JUH before that astute actuate American manager willed for Cr home last lul wok week w k he hf the opinion that It would only I Lu a very er ery tel few years before England nil would have to 10 look leek to America for all its strongest play pha In lii Is IR i nearly dead daI Tyler T It r although nit hough the Ih playwrights playwright dont donl know It yot et 11 However he lie went rent with a dozen of oC those plays In his hi pocket lOCket t Sir Herbert T is III home from his hi cure Mt lit and His HIli lii Maj laJ theater Is III a lively place again a ln with preparations for the Ih big scenic pro production of ot Henry Hrnry JI nr VIII ITI III on Sept 1 I You Toil can lIn always count on nn Sir Herbert to In da something unusual This time It Is III Isto isto to he an extension of the stage Io of his hi theater In semicircular shape out over the till m so AN as to tn form the tho apron stage stape In use ties u In day da and enable the Ih actors 1101 who have big speeches to 10 deliver them almost from the th midst of nf the whenever the stage pie pic picture ture tur tu permit dates dal can ran be b rearranged there thoro will be he h another notable on September Ff r 1 I at theater five minutes minute away from His thu 1 ell I where George Georgo new nw play No 0 1 1111 Daughter Is I to 10 Introduce Our Ger Gerald ski ald du do as ao a an Rn I T hear hr Du Iu u own onn part pan In the Ihl III Is III ns au a different ns nil cnn on be from tam the burglar parts pert In which We have been liNIn seeing him for no fin long and is lii I not ex PC A II star pert part either h sneaks well for tor the Ih voting oung It IK I n II comedy with strong situations ge Paston Is Ii in to life MI III E I M 1 S mends monds daughter of that distinguished man timan of uC let 11 later r the th late John Johll Ad Sj fly S mend monds Oddly enough nough two other fern fem Inlo mm Georges George h have o juat soul sold pl plays s too O rl who ho Is III Mrs GeldIng and anul Ge Fleming Flaming who Is I Fletcher |
