Show am J u i r 5 LONDON DRAMATIC GOSSIP l I thru tn S Correspondence I ONDON ONTON Nov Nos No LONDON L I really got Jot when she In The Flute of nf Pan Pall the other night but It was not because she he was IU booed loot J that the ac no actress tress burst Into Inlo lean IparA at the end eta nd ot of the tue third net act HOOK there were w n In plenty and anil In the Ih hoodlums hoodlum who mall made thorn them at attin tin Uti expense lIln of ot two tun wOnton women have bR VI been roasted coasted with stith B goad od d reason ID lit the news newspapers papers which art are Sr asking vi n lita at t st Will lie be put pu t an nn end to It was however a 11 series aches of or and W which told Miss Mils that lien careful and expensive production of ot Mr lr latest IAtt play pia was Ill not lIot to be b n a success For these th manifestations of amusement came In the midst of ot a 11 supposedly moving scene and showed as aa It had hall been shown that afternoon In lit tile the cae la of Ut UI new 1111 play pie pia produced by Mr 1 r that the audience aullen web wat not In lii the manner width which tha hi had intended The file scene scans was Willi that of 01 a princess prine abdicating her right II to the crown of ot an Imaginary continental tal state In order that site she might retire Into Intel private life with the man she loved loed It H Will was a 1 difficult performance tot for Miss MUa played the he and hud had to read reed three or four tour lIoNs proclamations with big red seals harping to them und uld It was 18 charac swinish of oC the gallery crowd rowa that they laughed openly nt lit the Ih no IC tress discomfiture No wonder that when uben the curtain rose roto again after afur tall fall fallIng talling Ing at the nd did of or the act It discovered Miss II with her handS hande ham over her eyes end and nJ her frame shaking with sobs Ib I Hut flat the tact fact remains that thIS the gallery merely expresses what the whole houa felt more or Ir less lees utmost from the th Loru amusement at what was Ra intended to 10 be betaken b betaken taken seriously rlou l It 11 Is not necessary to 10 detail the story of the Place piece It be beKins begins gins Kins with the princess mai ma mariage to 10 An nn old lover of at hers who has gone gotte In for tor alter after being cast nit Ott by b her because she he needs a 11 man to loath lead her hr armies Th There Is II an I lion tion In her kingdom lIe He consents on condition that sh returns to private te life with him after arter he hI hOB has brought route peace to her land and to 10 this condition site she agrees RII So 10 far so 10 good tood nut Jut then hen we VI get Ret H n whole series of ot Jealousies on the part of or the wedded pair pAil which the merest word of explanation on either elthor side Itle would have hae set Ct right I ht Also AIlI a II great display of ot pride inIde on both bolh which prevents those th e explanations from belli maiD made In this way sympathy Is III lost last 0 before the play Ia III Is half over oer And In Iii Inthis I this once cane oo e Mrs has hns tailed failed to re ro redeem r deem tn eI of ot her plot by b I the brilliancy of or her dialogue In thorl there was Ra little enough In the mrk w rk to tl recall either Tho Tue Ambassador or The Tho BIshops Move fave anti what led Miss olles to lavish money 11 IJ on giving It IL Ita a it sumptuous London production with an au uncommonly cast ca t Is 18 not clear a a S SIt It Is s an unhappy coincidence that lint two actresses both to Americans and null beth buth engaged enguell In lii pro producing ambitious ploys plays on oti their own hook should have hll come como to Co grief In Lon Lou London don dOli on the same earno day ilay cia For Mrs Ir Brown Potters experience with lor icor Church or Stage StAg lost last Saturday afternoon was WIlS less Je unfortunate than Miss Mini Ia with The Flute Fluto I lulo of ot lan Pan lanin In the evening The former li is n l piece that the tho worthy Vicar of who rho has hal written saver 1 novels under the name of Mud Athol 1 Forbes wrote for I Mrs tra Potter some somo time lime ago ngo 11 ami anil de Ie described scribed before Its It I production an nut n t little well welI Us JIll hero Is II I a n who falls In lovo with an and I then after several precarious weeks renounces her end and goes back to 10 his hl I lock Hut alas although the tho piece place was wall not without evidences evidence that thRIlls Its cler riel clerical clerIcal I ical Ital author lair hUll come feme dramatic ability It Is II much touch too amusing In n a quite un unintentional Unintentional intentional to Its extreme extremo extremely I ly h serious purposes e For when a 1 burly squire offered the tho gratitude of ot the whole parish to 10 tho the actress It If she he would give gl up 11 her ecclesiastical admirer a 1 frivolous audience e rocked With laughter And id disported Itself similarly over oer certain episodes sup cup supposedly nf ot a heartbreaking description lion tion which occurred during durin a dinner which the tit all but hut pair found discussing at the Savoy Other laughs punctuated the renunciation scone rono In net fact the afternoon recalled that historic evening at ut the tho same Iliac thea theater tar ter not long Ions ago to when Mrs Potter lotter pro pr her Light It Is II I another stroke nf or bad luck for tor Mr Mrs 11 which her friends will viii regret while feeling that It might have ben been avoided by byn bya n a little moro more discrimination In the lie choice of n a ploy piny pin pinIt a S SIt It was understood some ome time lime ago that hilt Charles Frohman had gained an all option on everything written by b A W V ro hn o tIters there has lias been ben a II good goot deal of ot surprise at the time announcement that thaI the first of 01 British playwright t Is II writing a serious play piny for tot George Alex Alexander ander It will be remembered how however however ever eor that The Tho Second Mrs Tan and The Princess 1 and anti tho Iho ho Butterfly wore WOrD t produced by this manager Alexander by the imy hns has hall hail more moro bed bad luok of ot late lale After prosperous tines times with If It I Were King anti Old OItI Heidelberg ho hn harked hacked lo icier er in Loves Lavas Lov Saturday to Monday and The Garden of Lies Nou 11 IK h IH Iu to io 0 r Win un I il M liin jOI by hy Omar isar and It ItI I l II In I bo hI untied Hint I I In III t will wi I I this his I time irit tIIt th tit on fin tha thEl t he program a 11 I li i t of v NIt II he lit filled ID I do 10 when thon wh n lle he US tie Tim Ito p of niesi r time hue n lieU agi KU KUI S S 4 I Ju in Uv Marie Tempest l When Limited Md nimo llImO GordOn GoMon she Che en gen eni lit Il i 1 husband who Is II rich nl nd w 1111 vIiu lm romes of or u a family that thaI insures I it lull net Ion in itt Anti And tin who II the knack of nf writing or adapting u that fit to a ii I T 1 I his hl gIfts gift foi fol folI I Although Tho rho he of ot Kitty w was WIM s by 11 no n metal piece It mightily be hI cini liter c of nf the 1110 opportunities It give its II le jig lady to in lie I ca rt and fascinating rite Tho net nev n 1 Lennox play pIll title week nt at the therit Criterion rit under the lie manage bent ment Is I much the lie some same order oidor of ot thine resembling re Its predecessor even In th thin detail 11 lali of at having a 1 particularly good gomi gom first act oct and thereafter hereafter thinning out duit appreciably nut But It II gave gAva Motto Mario Tom Tem pont pest her lice chants and Dud oho alto took It II Hor list ulel wit VII of ot character and re cc remarkable command of facial expression would have h carried to sucrose a 1 much less comedy corned titan than Tho ThoI Freedom I of 01 The Tho plot or rn part of or u it was 1111 by b ono OlIO of ot neat fit a nod 1111 vt with the tho experiment of ot II it frisky WItS wife who ho got Rot a n divorce from train nor hr husband because he his objected to 10 her Of course when site Rot not l her r I freedom she he dl that her lice hUN hue was n a hotter bolter fellow tollow than titan tiny nn of at the th rest rut of at her admirers and HI she want wanted wanted wanted ed him hint rot got ot him the plot Is III so thin hut the lbs din lore loge foul and action are Of a bright and sonic Home times daring ns as for tor Instance In time tho lest last act when In love lovd again with her liar appears uninvited In 1 his hili bachelor flat One Ona of at her clippers Is II wet t and her hili husband IB I permitted to 10 remove It II whereupon It Is discovered that thal tho the dainty silk stocking also Rho It Ic wet no so that lint after flue due coyness co nell the tho audience In IA to 10 tho the spectacle of ot ofA n A delighted young tenderly t ton fon a pink little foot loot anti nn unburden lug Ine himself of proe pro roce c noem on tho the Jb jert DROWN I |