Show AMERICAN AUDIENCES LIKE HAPPY ENDINGS FOR DRAMATIC DRA tA TIG STORIES Willard Ma Mah k who has hos won tho approval approval ap ap- of oC Salt L Lakers kels kel's by his splendid performances talked Interesting with Tho Republican representative yester- yester day Mr Mack said I In n part CI Circumstances Circum stances In the United States Slates tates have havo become bo- bo come corne such that dramatists dare not write In English an any play piny not ending happily This Is 9 not the tho case case however abroad especially In Germany where tho dramatist will write exactly what lIE LID thinks should bo be tho the sequel to a a. play Th-o Th ending of ot Zaza In Its original inal form was tragic but David revamped the tho play to suit the tho fancy tancy of or American audiences and tho the financial result Is too well known for tor me to comment comment com corn ment on Ibsen stands as ns a remarkable example example ex ex- ample of ot the thu mo modern dramatist who vho up until his hie death wrote plays with tragic endings 8 and In fact ho he absolutely based his conclusions on hard facts and had no regard as to how tho the public would receive o the ending of ot hl hit his efforts cUorts Somo of ot Ibsen's plays such as ao The Dolls Doll's havo been financially successful successful success success- ful tul but the tho majority did not prove provo GOThe GO so The happy happ ending gets tho the mone money atthe at it tho the box office and the tho audience like that form torm of drama whether logical or metrical illogical Take Tako tho the history of back to the early days of ot tho drama and tho foremost exceptions to the rule of at th the tho happy happ en ending are Shakespeare Ibsen and Goorge George rd Shaw Personally Per Per- I like any play to bo be o lh ocal no matter matler what the ending but I am ama a servant ant of ot tho the public and close study of ot what they want in their amusement tins has confirmed toy tny belief bellet in the happy ending coiling |