Show I LONDON STAGE NEWS I I I O lO In S LONDON L fellow playwrights must lie he lost IoU lostIn IoUIn In admiration n at nl pre nt over OWl the quite extraordinary me exhibited by b this dramatist the theother theother other night when hl nev 11 t piece Tho Mr Ir was WR pro produced dull rot foi the Ort time In II London There is l u II tradition In the metropolis that when n 1 dramatic author la IA not nl In the houfe on n first Oret night lie ho Is gen wandering dismally about the tho Thames embankment waiting In pitiful for tor a I devoted friend to 10 fl all II tell tel him hll whether U I gone sone or nt but the tho au author IU thor of Walls of or Jericho J Is thoI nn to It that rule jut Just ns ni ho Is to several othe one v l I most coM of ot ts tK h hl I IU capable of ot nothing heroic lerol ona 01 a firm fret night nigh than 10 lO J 1 I hist hil s fateful telegram In II the depths of or his own U study stUd but us M for ro Mr 11 SUIt he II go gOM gaily Sll to tn some MOte other uther theater than that at It which his own bantling Is getting ll first frt presentation and then IH aH tran tranquilly Is quilly home Just as lS If I ho hall had not Ilot th the remotest idea Idel that a Il piece from tn his own pen 11 bring offered to met metropolitan playgoers for Co the first Ot time At least that Is b what Mr Ir Sutro last II t Tuesday Tle night nIgh when The Th Fusel 11 Mr Ir ns given Its Is premiere at the by br Arthur Arlhur This was nn al Important oc occasion occasion casion too for tor although Mr II Vander velt had really already II been performed In II the States UH Il author Is 18 to t have huc made ninny alterations In II the Ihl piece prior to 10 Us I production In 11 Lon Ion lion don and after uter all all the of or u II uc Ut ce or a n failure In II the th metropolis bv b any an means en dorse Ilor 1 an nn American not to ll be dismissed f with wih n R shrug of ot the haul deis tes Hut Dul fur for nil all that lr Ir autro and Charles I Interested In the London production tion ton of ot Mr calmly went off or to 10 the Imperial theater and 11 sat through the entire performance of at Sir Arthur Conan Doyles atler CJ Our r I ard and there the appearance of or t tl lu lulu lu two o on the night of or In in important pro production of their own Immense wll Waller the Ihl and manager of the thinking at nt first that the playwright and the th Im Impresario In must IU t have made Ilde n and Kon to the wrong theater Tor It be hl explained Mr Ir last Il t piece Illece but one The Lover 1011 was given by b Waller Waler at t tho Iho Imperial t C few tew months ago Moreover when the performance nt tho Imperial was Wi ended cn NI Mr rr and Mr Ir went Int out to tl supper to together t gether Kether quietly quIet and received no 10 word whatever as S to the reception of o Mr until th y reached their respective homes hOIK As already mentioned new comedy before It I W H cen in London 01 wa Wil somewhat t d from UH IH Ameri American merl merlan can an form torm One wonders wUI r for tor Instance If t a 0 reference to the lynching of or ne net netI groen I 1011 which offset or et pretty 11 com oom compliments to Americans the American edition The play IlIa was thor thoroughly by IJ the parts of ot the house hOse although there some vocal evidence ellen that Iha t It was aft not strong meat for tho Iho pit an gallery Probably most people who ho rend lead Th The the vivid novel noel by 1 Alice Alc 1111 Claude Askow which made mod such ci 1 lenSton n I or 11 two ago II were struck by b its 11 possibilities pos at n n piny and now It seems that tha t u 1 log version 1101 has been heel prepared und 11 bo done lole at attlio lt tto Savoy Saor almost Immediately by L Jon JonA ni A This means Hint The rh Bond of ot Ninon the th costume play pia by h Graves with which Minn ll Ashwell start started ed operation nt the Pinny recently ha hn hanot not mado lallo good and It I also nl o menus menns that this emotional actress M will 11 have h o n n vehicle n a good deal moris mort suit suited ed 11 to her temperament for The 81 WIH nn ni undeniably powerful novel and should provide some lome effective tive tho stage atRe situations Tho Tie dramatization tion has ha been II en made by ono of ot the au authors ni thor thors Askew by Ed I d Knoblauch and the company compan supporting Miss IIA Ashwell will 1 Henry ho made hits his In Mere Iere Merely ly I Maty Ann and Paolo and Fran Frn cesco and also Norman Normal and Miss 18 Beryl Mercer Ier t tr All 1 on In account of ot bad management a n of ot amusement nt that was 11 one 01 of tC the most promising In Iho world wor Is III an nil nw on Oi the tho joint 1 of falling This hll Is II the tho London Coliseum tho great a IL day Iu house hou e was opened In London london about u year nr ro 0 which holds OM people and hi hia a and u restaurant r and writing room and which might easily have hn C been the thu biggest kind of 0 a success Hut But Its I manager Oswald Stoll Stol whose Napoleonic described In many man columns of ad adulation Just before the tho open opened ed t apparently that the plays tho thing Accordingly from frol the every fer one unE of ot the four show u It day Ila given hen nt at this Amusement has hiA been IJ PI to 80 an al to bo ho a 1 complete boie and now the result hai his como come to puss A gigantic sum Is owing to tt the Coliseums creditors ordinary nary IY shares which were nt first quoted at lt are aro now no down dowl to 1 cent und and It I appears unlikely at lt present that an thing thin can an save tho enterprise from Crom lie he Ing speedily p ell wound up 1111 That Is especially t a 11 pity pi not nt only on be he the original scheme of or the Col I um was wall n good one but because Its I management took tonk the lead hal In away awn with wih Ih ho pit 1 I and QI reserving ev every n ery 11 cat In the theater then tel but ft a poor bill bi will wi provo prove tho finish h hot of ot any amusement em nt house houle and so e there need fate nl 11 bo no 1 surprise over oer the Coliseums The world famous Vienna enna Manner i U IA paying n I vUlt I 1 t tn Lon London Lonon don on this sea ca on an when It will 1 Rive give concerts at ot the Queens hall hal on 01 May lay 25 and 25 assisted n by b the London Sm phony phol orchestra The Tho proceeds of or the conceits e to be glen given entirety to charity and ld King Edwards hospital fund U la one ole of or the chief t names nameH on al the tha thet Hut t A month later the Vienna V 1 11 ni Phil Philharmonic Phi harmonic Orchestral society will wil be hI here and 11 give h two concerts In the Queens Hall and one In II the tho Albert Hall I I I This Thil society hns hn u I rec record reI ord of oC having had come of ot tho mo mot t distinguished men an BY conductors tho world has hal ever or feen I It was Wil with tee feel feelings I ings In sot of deep regret the Vienna public received the news leWA of ot Dr res ru resignation ignation from this 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