| Show arm Q 1 l MU s L The End tid of the te Dancing Doll 1 S U n nn n n n ri n n nn n M M Special Corre Correspondence i I ONDON Dee Dec eo per perI LONDON I and after all that thaI L I commotion The Te sudden udden n collapse of ot I nero comedy A Wife Without a n Smile Smie at al make mik this certain crin at al least laul that the famous dancing dollor dolor a I as the time TImes Time Tm critic crl called cled per perform 11 form torm no flu on the American stage For or certainty certainly no play ply over got gota ICI a more amen magnificent advertisement then than Wi was va bestowed gratuitously upon this thle comedy cmar In dl I and ad It If all al the talk about th the dolls donl suggestiveness and amid andall sill all al the nu fits Ol thrown bv b tV the f Mr r Stead Sled failed fall to 10 drw 1 th LA LIJO id i II lie le for tor or more mol thu tha i l ck the Ule Atlantic III chut u It I 11 i 1 iB 18 Onu Quo would have hae thought that Ihl I declaration that Ihal he his hind had been ben made malIc to I I laugh at hell bell hol and the hys hYI appeals appeal to 10 the censor of other antics would have resulted In the dolls doll dancing for Cor GOti GO nights on Oi end and amid Ild no noi n I i doubt they would have had the public l also Ao found the play pity ply Immoral Immoral Instead It teems seems to have found It Mm merely a ai 1 i I wire bore and II to so 1 time the Ihl Dolls Dull H ue ns os some orae one dubbed Wyndham theater Ih will wi close cloi on 01 Saturday evening next net It will do Mr reputation no n good Pih 1 P haP p no an M It II Is I the author authur of ot I Quei ought to be b grateful for It If It I had not nt been for tor or the over tho Iho th I of at time the dull 11 probably A Wife Without a Smile would not nol hae have run for tor a ii I fortnight I Hut Its four tour I or no so 10 since Im 11 1 had a 1 real nl ueral and n at 1 ix Out t lacking who I that t t thin Ih playwright U tl begin IB to r ter out ul Iris was WI n a com coin comIn In JIH t I Fa iU I Ut 1 mu nd Ind I etty which 1 ilium laii 1 Fi IRI I is II now using at Il I home homp hud hardly a 1 hundred nights to toUs Us 13 credit credi when It I finished at nl the Duke I of Ct Tonics Yorks whereas Tho The lay doy Lord Lor I wan vas played 40 W tImes nt or r mow lucre Anti And what must make the situation es us S i annoying to Mr Pinero Is the Iho fact Hint hl lii hll younger rival J S M i liar lar I ne Is la going oln stronger them than Ulal ever eVl For Tor several years Henry Arthur eu lenry Jones wa was In iii a poltOn to dispute Im fix Ve Ive title ot l hit t more marl tl or lea ISIS but ul of or i lite Itte Jones line has 1111 dropped out lot ot of th time tun zun tog ning and glen given place pubs to 10 the witty resourceful author of ot The Time tAttle Little I Since made hi hue lot liSt Mr big hit arr hais hll hi Quality Street ant and Little Mary AUry 1 1 Probably he lie with will wil hit hilt It tiff off uc with wih th Ihl this now new play he lie wrote a I while ego ago for tor Ellen Terry and In 11 Ihl meantime the time most eagerly awaited I I Item Hem hem of ot the Christinas Christmas season sennon la is new mu they lusy for children outer older folk too 10 which he rails calls calR PM llor Peter r Pan or th thu Hoy 1301 Who Grow Up UI UI This Thi In iii II a fairy story In II three lures acts act acil no Ito one omme ole who read Time The Little White Br Bird lid will wi need to be told loll lint It II reveals the Ihl au nu author thor In III bin hil 10 happiest most mOt I mood thI Th The he piece will whit wi b le be produced nt at I tho time Duke of Yorks u it 1 few tew days before buforo o I Londoners I Christina and If I It II pleases II will wIl b bi be given Iven In iii tile the th United States In Inthe Inthe the tho new nw year Its Is hero Peter Peler Pan In Is iv a aboy boy bo who has hOM the tho to over overhear oer hear lucRE his hits parents parent discussing what they th y will wi make moke of him when whon he ho l grows up 11 whereupon ho he determines never nEver to grow up iii ond promptly pronty starts for tor 1 This fairyland by the way Is by no n means of ot the pantomime order but hunt of ot a childs with h pi pl I ratos red china crocodiles wolves and other oth r t tImings things ns I n Mr Mm liar nn ne loves lov a to 10 shoUt about nitre flite wIl bi bl bia bla bea a touch louch of ot pathos too 10 in It I ono One of ot i scenes which will 11 simon show tender i mothers who have lost their little m n t s for tor or thus the boya los or gIrls from from whom homm thoy they nave b ln n patted parted It Is II promise that the time scenic effiat of ot this lisle play n ii nhe he be hel of this the molt mOil ono 01 which l IS IA laid IBId In iii thin the Tre Tie tops top Tho cast cart which will wil give the thi Ih play In London will wi be n a particularly strong flirting one Including Nina who ho made such luch n a hit lilt In Little 1110 Mary O 10 Iu Pauline Chase Clulee th the erstwhile Pink Girl GirlS S S Cven v ln n Hall hail URI has hll an 00 original turn o oi 01 mind tur or the lie new MW burlesque which he Ime IH Ia I writing for tor I s ho bo boban hohas has ban lilt hilt hi on aim I a 1 rather novel Idea He lie le Imi hal Ima written a I new riem version of ot roust Faust I In which becomes a n fn ri and Marguerite around Iceman the tIme town ton When completed the new nel burlesque will wil be he produced nt nl the tho Gain ty UP t eorge Vance who WiD wrote A Chit Chi nese asic leRe his hla libretto Honeymoon in Is helping Hall flail Hal with I S I IA A now no play by Captain Marshall Marshal whom Mho ho wrote 1010 The rho Duko of will willbe 11 willbe be I In III London by b Charles about the tho end cull of oC January JanuaryS S S SIva Iva I n tho thuD American gui Il who wm came Caine over with time the Prince of or PI en timid like Camille Clifford company lkc Camio stayed behind In now a success successful ful tul UI turn luru nt at t the thu Palace Music Mu lo hall hail CURTIS BlOWN |
