Show Ann f I LONDON STAGE NEWS C u g j 1 n nfl Vt n 11 i 4 Special Correspondence I ONDON Dee Dec 17 Gorky Gork LONDON I has found a way of ot dealing d with witha 1 a B hostile theater audience which ought to commend nd Itself to play playwrights wrights and the tho world over oer Heretofore It haa has been for tor the hue dramatist whose appearance after tho the curtain hits lias been greet greeted ed cd with Ith boos lilaces or catcalls to I take it nil all In a B chastened spirit timid and to i retire apologetically anti and with a n crest crestfallen crestfallen fallen bow how hut Gorkey has hos changed chanted oil nil that For If It the telegraphic ac nc accounts i counts are aro to bo he believed un nit audience which hissed the first performance of ot his hili new play pIa Tho Time Hustles Rustics in St Petersburg J the other night was treat treated ed In truly withering fashion by the au ou author autimer timer thor i The curtain was says NIS the tho cabled account and Gorky Gork appeared his hula head henl thrown bjick ol n a look loa of ot contempt on his countenance o his huI flats tato clenched smith and his hili face faco livid as IS If It ho lie wished to fling In the Laos of ot the peo people a U deadly insult S S 0 SIt It sounds effective For Instance e how much more inspiring It would have been boen If It Olga Instead of ot breaking down and holding out hf her hAr r hands to the pit crowd which booed her 1111 recent recant first night intO had adopted the simple expedient of ot twiddling her fingers applied to time the end of at her hem nose David Dald lie precipitately before beton the tho London boners of Zaza and oven on William Gillette ventured only to make a R sardonic p re remark reo remark mark or two when the tho Lyceum gal gol fell upon Sherlock Holme to so It t will wilt be Lc Impossible to say lIay what will wilt be the Ule effect when a n Jeering crowd In thui country beholds Its victim with say RIlY hi hili shirt sleeves rolled up UI or his hula fists clenched In the tho Gorky manner Perhaps tho the day would have been bean saved atI had hod Clyde Fitch appeared with his hI head thrown back bark his hip taco face livid and nM a I look of at contempt on his hla nIN on that memorable night of ot The Tho Cowboy timid and the Lady or had hod I U V Bamond I smon Instead of slink slinkIng lug Ing In out of If the sight night of ot those thouc tho c who had booed When We Were V ero stood up to them then manfully end and put out ont his Ills tongue 55 The dinner given to Terry Teny the tl other r night III In honor of ot the Ihl veteran actors first fiCat t visit to the United States State was n a great success mid amid by 11 tar for the most lOut Interesting feature of at It nM n a 1 aletter letter from A W V PInero In which the author of Letty I anti and Tho The Mrs Mr T isid a n high camilli compliment ment to tn Terry Terr amid Incidentally a 1 higher her one ann to American theater goers gocr I trust truet rot Pinero In for tor or not being present pres nt nt at the tho dinner r lint Mr Terry To fry have a prosperous season In Amer America mH tea Inn HH lie JJ will nt at least find the tho keenest anti most Intelligent In the I world And of ot Terry Torry himself lf the time play went wont on ho Is II nn no aCtor who ho ha lIe me to depart from my rule MIlt not notto notto notto to wItness performances or of my m own plays for on those thole occasions ho he iota has appeared In a 11 piece writing I t have felt cure Fure that hl his hili skill Inen genuIne humor would en on enable able ahle me tue to forget et the of or ofIn my In nd in this I J have havo never been I Torry ot of course coura mado his ble greatest t I I success In Sweet Lavender I which he lie ho ha played over times S o S S Since tho the production of The Walls of ot Jericho which Is II so o successful that the American rights already have been I Hn secured there have been many MIlY at nt attempts tempts to fa make a I stern morn list l out of Its It author Alfred Sutro Hut while the role of at social censor een or lion hia been un umu undertaken with considerable profit by several 8 folk of ot late Inte Sutro declined It and prefers to 10 be recognized as tie It u a 1 mini dra dramatist matist whose what motto It Is I success He Ifs put It rather ruther neatly In itt an 1111 Interview the theother theother theother other day dar Illon he said Mid My business Is II merely inertly to o write plays that hat In III people Hut But I dont mind ad lid admitting mu that I J naturally sympathize with the sIde of the angels while I dont admit for a II moment that the tue stage lg is n a pulpit hut you rou annoyed was the time Ingratiating g query nt t the tho word ord con as Ail applied by 11 some semite or ut time the I s to The Walls of ot Jericho Uy ily no means answered Sutro One or two critics remembering my association ocl atlon with deplored that I wound tip till tho the play ilia in III the good way 11 1111 that my m In general treat Ireat was not more original Well let my timelier author be this book hoole he lie pro durd a n neat title litle volume olum tram from from a shelf elicit elicita a 1 play pill of mine tome published five live years ago called lIlIed The lbs save of Illusion It received high praise from limo tho press It was u as Judged to be original In treat trent treatment ment anti and powerful In Itt Its ending which of course was unhappy Two hundred copies of the Ih book were soul paId In mull all not nota a R manager lIu ever evor asked me for tor It today toilS It U Is co entirely forgotten that The W WHile li of or Jericho watt van referred to by nearly nil all as AM my toy first attempt at a u ahila play hila 1118 other than titan a II r rI S SI I There niece seems likely to be quite a II boom In Oscar Wilde In this country Lady Fan I revived by Gorgo Alexander ia mitt IU a stopgap ut rut tIme DIP St ft Jamee Is 18 or one aIM of or the hue rather few t w real successes of o the moment mid from ruin Germany regarding tIle the i of ot Wildes drama drains The Time DucheM of ot In Pu that th t country ore are PO ro en n that thA t Is II likely to 1 lit im don ilon its h London before long Moreover Wildes last lut hook book In Rending heeding Jail Is I Ij just j et about to be lie It Is III sold said to be bo his hll literary Jut will and tests testa testament ment fluent line nd It Is I called De 55 t Charles Charleys Aunt lies has h now a 1 total of ot performances to Its credit which It Is in s satti ld is a R greater number than hiatt any nn an othar play fila ever evor has lies attained After flerIS 15 16 years yearn the actIng rights w were fire re acquired In the beginning by W If H h hare vc Just reverted to tim tho author Thomas Thinning who ha lies celebrated the occasion by hy reviving tho th piece at th the he Comedy where Ills His If h My I Husband rec recently 1111 up lii III the tho ghost In lit consequent consequence P of ot Pen PI loyn Ic Illness tile this part of Lord Fancourt Is II being played lit mit t the tho Com Coma Comedy edy cd by b Stanley Cooke who has hll It In tho thio provinces for Cur several years lIr while the author himself plays hits his old ol part hart of or Col Coh Sir Francis y Dr I r Richard Strauss who seems to 10 conquered his lila critics and to bo be considered now tie its time the greatest of ot liv lii ing com rompo composers poet er r U Is I tremendously rushed at nt present his hili duties dulles as conductor of at the th Royal In Iii ho hI has conducted IS 15 concerts concertI within i the tho last lait three weeks Ills His only emily appear appearance once ance In London this thi will bo on 01 D Dec Deo c 19 with tho time Queens Hall arches orches c tra Ira mind ami in his bin wn es worlD work will willbe m bo be the In 1 mi ip il 1 r 11 ii i iS S S 5 Ki iV I I c the he I old mor c play piny Ii h liu hi lit ott wi an much i on In III I mill tIu United I e t MIS wal I ui to tn l is e in 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