| Show MISS ALICE ALiGE KAUSER IS BROKER IN PLAYS PlA y S Woman of Interesting Occupation Occupation Occupation tion Is a Visitor to Salt Lake DRAMA ON PLANE PLAN E Sh Site She Speaks of Element Which h lei I Cau Causes Plays to Ll Ll e e Demand Greater Than Flinn Supply M Miss OJ Is-OJ Alice Kau Kauser er of New York the most prominent pla play agent In m tho the world was registered at the Knutsford hotel last evening Sh She will remain remaina i iI I a portion of today and then continue her journ journey y Miss 1183 Kauser I is accompanied accompanied h by her Hr brother Benjamin Kau er and Miss file Anna Constable also also al also al- al I so of ot N New w York The Tho party Is lt taking a pleasure trip through h western America Leaving Lea New York Jul July 1 4 they have e traveled tra to Salt Lake Lalie by easy easta stages ta es stopping at Denver several days en In route From here hele they go o to Y Yellow Yellowstone ton Park Parle Returning the they will pass pas through h Salt Snit T ake ala on nn their wa way to Los os An Angeles les From there they will go gu to San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco then through the Canadian and back to their home city over the northern route according to present ent plans Mss Miss 11 Kauser Is probably tho the best Informed person In theatricals In her line lino in the world She represents both the tho tru trust t and the independents dents in the placing of ot stage manuscripts manu manu- scripts For next season eason Miss Kauser I stated she has already placed fifty- fifty five Mrs Fiske Miss IIRI Henrietta Crosman Crosman Cros- Cros man Marlowe un and Sothern Martin lIar p Margaret Anglin the Shubert Shu- Shu berts bert James Jame T. T Hackett and antl Klaw Kia anti and Erlanger r bin being among her hel clients I On Pia Plain lane Ill Miss RS Kauser Kausel talked most Interestingly Interest Interest- of the drama She believes th the e drama is now taking the place h In s which It properly belongs The days of or decadence of oC the drama have hav passed she said Tu The t e tone of the play i is hl higher her the elemental ele elo mental features are based on a mor more substantial foundation For awhile anything that contained dramatic action action ac ac- tion outside out the real Ital elements of a human heart story was successful The Thc senses were welI sated but the heart did not respond The basic plane of the drama Is he the th heart The rho simplest stor story If Interwoven In- In in n theme that appeals to that hat one onee sense sens or rather feeling by which we Wl gaze gaz through h th the gauze of or orthe the he outward and reach the Inward Is ho tho one that after all not merely pleases plea es s but hut endures Iben Ibsen Ibsen Ib- Ib sen en all those great reat writers appreciate that hat fact and work with such end In view lew I As g to t the he problem play What hat Is It t The tendency Is to call anything or of f a morbid and antl questionable atmosphere atmos atmos- I phere here phere a problem pia play But Hut that Is Isa Isa isa a mistake It Is the ethical play piny the ba basic ic pin play that contains the thc deep elemental elemental elemental ele ele- mental principle of heart throbs that i are called problem plays plas Bernard Delnard haw lacks the deep Insight that Is Is required to place him where he can reach each that plane For Instance I term and anti The Lion and the ho Mouse louse problem plays yet l lt they thy are ethical plays Permits Wide Itle Scope Our language of tOlla today permits of or ofa ora ofa a wider scope of expression It Is rich in color In rhythm It Is har liar harmon harmony mon mony But the majority of people nn and especially writers dont don't realize that th they fall tall to grasp Its Its' potential iesI ies I believe as I said before that the he tendency of f the pia play Is toward a higher r plane Education and environments environments environments environ environ- ments are bringing about just such con condition The melo melodrama mma with its lurid lurl effects an and its unlimited action still appeals more or less be he- because cause ause it has It Its place just as aH all conditions conditions con con- demand certain r requirements But Dut speaking generally I believe bellevo that the tendency I Is Ia all up to a higher an and more dignified plane With the numbers of or great successes or or rather I shall I say plays plas that have been I brought out latel lately latent talent is beIng being be be- ing developed Is coming coining forward Demand Greater Than SuI Supply The Tine demand for plays Is much greater than them th the supply In my case for Instance I receive hun hundreds re s of or orpia pia plays during the course of a year ear To ever every on one I give glue my any personal attention attention atten atten- tion ion reading reading- analyzing sifting a weighIng weigh weigh- ing If there is the tho slightest hope Inthe In Inthe the play even to the last line I 1 aril ant elated it hl is a moment of gratification to me But Dut there are so o few tell writers welters so many who tr try and antl who Iho fall Play w writing requires an education essentially essen essen- dally Its own It requires stage technique tech command of language but above all all it requires time That's Thal's the lute great essential essential time Too many embryonic dramatists believe elleve the they can write a a. pla play In Ih hours hours' when the present pres pres- ent day ent-day masters w. w take e years Time I U 1 Uthe thing the thing time experience an and Jal- Jal talent ent eat |
