Show RUSSIANS mm STIR PlAY LOVERS Actors From Prom Moscow Art Theatre Win High Compliments I I I n nr K Kg ETH g I t 1 tn Copyright 1323 1923 by The Th Standard- Standard I Examiner Examiner Examiner- Russian Rusian w l-w YOnI Jan J The 33 IS 3 The The Rus Ru- sian Invasion or ot New York advanced anc ad d to its final this week well After Ater I the had laid down its 1181 I 3 fourth barrage Broadway capitulated I before the concerted assault s 's o 0 of tile tie Moscow art theatre i 11 Concerted Is exactly the th word The They I Moscow art rt theatre has not won Its t reputation I as the th foremost playhouse and acting company In the th world h- h be because II cause ause of a New York Bernhardt or Duse In ita It rink ranks Through 25 years yar of ot indefatigable effort It has rear reached Its unique eminence b by building Ip ip rp II a company compan that gives an almost perC perfect ct performance In every part from the largest to the smallest It has ere cre it'd Itada a great acting machine people call this an au ensemble but it be becomes be- be becomes becomes comes clearer to the th av at lI crage trace American Ir if he h thinks of It In term terms oC of the Ger Ger- German German man war nar machine machin or the Harvard football team at nt Its b best t BIG DIG RUSSIAN LEADS The Percy Haughton of o this ma- ma machine ina chine Is a gigantic Russian named Constantine Twenty five Twenty Twenty- fh fie e years ago aco he was VM an amateur ac- ac actor ac actor tor pith IUt a II group of oC o students and aC 1 al a little theatre on his hands Another tt vv c e mn may as well call him an- an an another I other high other brow broil and be b done with It who taught dramatic art art joined Stanislav- Stanislav sky ky In opening the th Moscow Art theatre In 1898 IS it with nith a historical tragedy by Leo Tolstoi's cousin Alexie Tsar lyo- lyo ryo-dor ryo dor 1 ano Itch After a a quarter of a century this tills same sam play Introduces the th company to a new audience and a now new nowr If r world orld One single fact shows the chara character ter and the th Ideals that have hate won th the Moscow Art theatre Us lis reputation On J the first performance In New ew York neither Sky Stanislas sky nor the important actor was Inthe In inthe I the cast cart Meeting the test of the th I Broadway death watch this organization organization I used Its second string men They were so good and e every ery actor ln in the th support was Mas as so good that Stan Stan- Sky Isla went ent blithely ahead to show America how a company of players pIa ers j could not only gite gh e a repertory of scores of dramas but could give the tre lesser players a B chance at the ti bl bi parts and still show j a magnificent en- en ensemble en ensemble UNUSUAL UNUSUAL T TEAM 1 WORK ORK I The third night quiet quiet- quietly quietly ly replaced the th actor Ios kin bad played the th weak eak Tsar and Stanis- Stanis lavsky I- I lavsky himself tool took ln In the secondary part of Russia's great military hero Prince Ivan I The Th fact that each gale raie a somewhat better performance than h s predecessor isn't at all Important The Tho hll important fact Is an Ideal of ot organization I an Ideal of team work absolutely absolutely alien to the th American tragically alien In tact fact I IThe The Tho play Itself Is alien allen but not so 50 admirably To us it seems shadowy and confused Just lust hs as Shakespeare's Richard II would to Russians Th The Theriot Theriot riot of Russian colors In the th half barbarian costumes of ot the sixteenth century the th backgrounds I the pageantry or of o the scores of or players each ench one on a B hid lild figure figure- this Is brilliant and exciting full 0 of I the racial fascination which has made such a 0 furore furors in the th performances performance of the th Russian super-cabaret super the Souris RElLo ACTING The heart t of oC the production n ho-n-cier ho hon hon- honeter I eter cr Is the performance ghen gh el en by the 16 principals This il h s magnificent In InI I its sheer Marvels els of up make up united with the most sensitive th tive tho e understanding of character pro pro- pro pro due I produce duce a gallery of rent portraits portrait And each portrait Is instinct with life lite with nith suffering pith Hith humanity From Front the tho blinking futility In the face FromI of I 1 Tsar or the th tragic Incompetence incompetence tenc tence of down to the last little rat nosed courtier lu m i the th cro crowd d life Ufa and Art Flame here As a welcome elcome to the Moscow Art I theatre and one more angle to the con con- consummate con consummate con I summate campaign of publicity w Ith which which Morris Gest has Insured the I success of ot the com company pan which this Ini Intrepid intrepid In- In i trepid manager has Imported to Amer Amer- AmerI AmerIca Amer- Amer America I ica lea he lie announced a fourth and last bill of the Souris Chau Bulbous the Ballett-the Ballett tho of the bril- bril r J i llant Ilant little theatre that houses this Russian variety show responded show responded with I another of ot those amusing and tarle varie arleI arle- I I gated entertainments for tor which he h Is Isnow Isnow now famous IsI I There is no show shop like this blazing little playhouse high e abote Central Pal Park Palk k and no show that quite meets the challenge of ot novelty no hu- hu humor humor hu humor mor acting and good taste whit Ballett Balieff has flung Clung in the th face of ot our managers night after night night-at at a the fite dollar top since price price Ince January Janu iry 4 1922 en these two 1 enterprises I and and neither of ot them bv by the way wa a is 11 Calar Ca lar to the general America catches a pretty complete view stew of the whole n hole hoi Russian theau e c And also n a alesson lesson Jesson in th the al art ait t ot of acting and inc ins Ing which it has got crot to heed I MUCH EY IY 1111 Winthrop Ames has not taken the I lesson to heart In his production production ill I 1111 Shakespeare This big bir bio bio- biographical blo blo graphical drama droma by Clemence Clemente Deans DeaB who wrote a bill of ot divorcement dl is a presented by a Il long lone and rather ex- ex ex expensive pensive cast Much money ha has bai been bi spent on the painted hand and bril- bril brilliant bril brilliant co costumes designed by Norman Norman- Norman Bel Del Ceddes and on his towering sc- sc scenery ery But the acting seems seeing inadequate I inadequate after acter a at the tho Russians and the tho settings ha have hate e bern been bee n so 80 o poorly lighted as aa to spoil half halt their s illusion Y Tho The play Itself proceeds on the nape o theory that Shakespeare wrote his plays plas or didn't write them be- be because b be because cause some come lady or other his other his wire wife Mary Sutton FUton the dark dult lady of ot the Sonnets bonnets or the suppo goo Queen Bessas Bess was as bossing him The Tho Theauthor author is Il a fl woman One piece ot of acting does something to reo re- redeem re redeem deem the th production n This I li is the Elizabeth of Haidee Wright who played the th part In London I 00 |