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Show "'4" iMma For the Stag?," Which Will Net Be Enacted In New Tort. An American play writer has been for ,ome time engaged in the composition of a drama of contemporary life in which the chief character is to be a famous fa-mous American statesman, now decej? ed. The title which he has chosen for it is "Blaine, a Tragedy." It certainly looks like bad taste to dramatize, at I least in this generation, the career of J the American here named, but the author au-thor maintains that he can do it inoffensively inof-fensively and in Buch a way aa to dig nify his subject, as the life of Mr. Blame was full of dramatio material, and aa in it -which would be especially serviceable for a drama 01 real Ufa He Bays that Shakespeare made nse of personages who lived not long before his time, and even of some who were his contemporaries, and he gives the names of other playwriters who have used their acquaintans in their stage compositions. When reminded that even the greatest and most picturesque Americans Amer-icans of past times, from the days of Washington to those of Lincoln, had never been used successfully for dramatio dramat-io material, as Shakespeare used the . . n 1 J U vnnliori flint. t.Yi tings 01 iiingiuuu, uo ivv. was a thing whioh would surely yet be done in this country, aa it has been done In rvflioi. lanrln. an d that, in any event, It is his purpose to begin the undertak- -Ing. "Is there any manager in New York, " we asked, "who would bring out your tragedy?" "I do not know, but there is a manager man-ager in Chicago who will bring it out If it suits him. " "Do you not fear that there would be a storm of popular reprobation if you ihould make your chief character re-lemble re-lemble the original?" "If there be anything of the kind, 01 If the work fail to prove attractive, i Will he withdrawn after the first or second sec-ond performanca But there are in my subject euch striking elements lor a nrs? class stage drama and for a winning ene that I shall not think of its failure until after it has failed. " "Would not the relatives of the d ceased statesman object to the work and get out an injunction against its per formance?" , , . "If such an objection shall be raised by any one entitled to speak with authority, au-thority, or after that one has bren present pres-ent at a performance of it, i will bo discontinued. The man of my title role has been a subject for painters, sculptors and other artists, and there is no good reason why he should not be made a subject for dramatic artists." After the playwriter had expressed the views here reported, The Sun reporter report-er asked a theatrical manager as to the prospects of a drama of the kind spoken of. He answered that he did not believe a single respectable manager in New York or anywhere else would bring it out, and that, if brought out in any American city, it would be a flat failure. fail-ure. He believed that the execution of the playwriter's project would notb tolerated by the theater going Tommuni-ty. Tommuni-ty. New York Saa |
