Show PERCY PERCY- a ER Co 19 HIS 1953 3 New York Tribune Inc You ore are ar tad fod od up tip perhaps with dl di disPatches patches concernIng the tha Moscow 1 Art An theatre and Its sway say n ay over the th Sew e York playgoers So this account r of Tiro Tho Cherry rr Orchard willbe bo o a small emall one As the en gase teen went t progresses r tho e grow Really crow itis is World cally it Is a I World SHies Series causing much talk and long Iona fanatic lines In front of ot the tho ticket 11 nin lows dows Predictions ar are being made mad that the tho Russian will III have havo II e effect on dramatic and histrionic art In America The 1111 play wright and l the tho th players pIn tors have taken I up the Moscow troupe and arc are at- at attending at tending In largo large numbers Matinee I are 10 gl given riven ven on Friday afternoons so se soI I that the local 1001 artiste artist may al si at the th feet leet of or the masters musters and an the ha mastic I pIeces from parr pt pan Hundreds of them nero ero p p- p cent last Iasi y an and anil l there wro pretty demon I demon of regard on both sides rOT For ro Instance John Barrymore our local Hamlet felicitated who plays la s tho the role rolo In Moscow by kissIng hIm on both cheeks In the tho naive Rus- Rus RussIan Rus sIan manner a a 1 graceful tribute Looking about me last night at Jolson sons son's theatre I saw a 1 a score of or cele- cele celebrities celebrities In rapt observation atlon of ot the rites rite s sIn In The Cherry Ol 01 Orchard chard Ethel Cthel Barrymore and Miss Laurette Taylor were ero In a bo box together together- together Miss together Miss Bar Bar- Barrymore contentedly nursing her wounds from the Romeo and Jull Juliet t debacle and MI Miss buss s Ta Tailor lor offering condolences con con- condolence dolence possibly po as one sU ho o ala al also was as not understood as tho the Capulet girl Au Augustus ustus Thomas rhoMas sal sat In a front row ChannIng Pollock Samu Samuel 1 was there eagerly The rho technique and Aaron Hoffman Mas cas to be b seen taking notes J Keenan who 1 ho looked cJ it at that lust was on his feet at the end shouting bravoes bravos Arthur Brisbane left after tho the second act but Norman Nor Nor- Norman I man HapGood Hn Frederick Palmer I Frank Cro Otto Kahn Mr t Belasco Miss 1 Fanny ranny Hurst Charles Hanson Towne Tonne Wallace Irwin ln Sam Sam- Samuel Samuel uel Hopkins Adams Mr Hearst and other notables remained and were demonstrative at the tho end nd It Is for for- forbidden forbidden for forbidden bidden to applaud you vou ou know until after fter the performance is 0 over oser cr But here her I am endeavoring bres- bres bretty tty and not doln doing very verv well ell at t It it In InThe Ir The The Cherry Orchard tho the Widow Impersonates the Ibo shirtless sh tl of ot a ruined Russian estat estate and Mr her foolIsh sappy middle aged brother addicted to sweetmeats and billiards Around them Is a casual neighborhood nel and an household I group croup roup The Tho characters come band In i and go BO out out talking endle endless endless- endlessly s- s ly to and about themselves and some Mme sometimes sometimes times all at once The Choir r Or- Or Orchard Orchard Or Orchard chard heritage crumbles and dissolves os your l our eyes eves ees It if l not lour our ears and tho the helpless wells do ar are dispossessed of ot It at the finish They start for Paris In a t tumult ot or tears alter after sentimentally embracing the th wails nails aIls and such furniture as Is s left they forget all aU about the 01 old 1 serf whose hose demotion de to them has been a symphony of faithfulness No o report of a Russian drama Is complete un- un unless un-les un less th the word symphony Is used He shuffles shuttles In to the deserted an ant 1 dismantled hying Ih Ing room after they the have base gone ron and discovering disco that ho he hohas has bas been forgot he curls up on a shabby sofa and dies As A the CUl falls the th found Bound of axes cs Is heard cut cut- cuttIng cutting cut tIng down the tho Cherry Chern Orchard rd tomake to make malto mak room for suburban bungalows It Is 1 a a play much Ilk like Gorkis Gorki's Night Ight Lodging One of oC them them depIcts the casual tangles of the tre 10 lower er de depths the other the similar futile of ot a a hIgher cuss cliss Among the th fascinations of the Mos Mos- Moscow cow actors actor Is that they seem to thIn only of ot their characters and the pia play Themselves and the audience do nt eat no exist in their performances performance q Thelmo Their mo movements moment ment upon the stage tt co arc are those tho ot of human beings not puppets jerked around by a stare stage director I am told though h I doubt it that In the th first net act ct ot of o The Tho Th Cherry Orchard I the edge vf of a 1 a rUt rug le Ie 1 purposely turned the tho shirtless shiftless people movIng up so that Ing Ins a about bout tho the room ma mayI may 3 trip D on oat It I as a It Is done in real rel lite I was a n tit lit tittle little tle mystified bv by one on ot of the tho scenic represent A A I to ads which abich purported by a 0 a Roadside Road Heie Helo was tobe tobe to 1 hummocks hum hum- be seen all tho the bunk as can mocks and the tho th trees clouds to early oran grant t on and l common I opera It If Mr Ir W A Brady Bridy had h d dared all nil base haic would so 10 dire a 0 wo we been very ery ery very cry cry cross with him dm haCI I I Atonement A A performance performance perform- perform ance by Miss bliss Bertha and nd oth- oth others adaptation of ofa ofa ers of ot Bernard Shaws Shaw's a play by Ly Siegfried Mr r Shaws Shaw's l oun sponsor and translator in Austria MIss Kalich portrays rl s the th middle aRid aJ I wife of Professor I a DanzIg who i lS is I Uly in 10 lo e 0 with Professor Eruna her hor husbands husband's pall pul and an 11 i v fello Mant SI ant During Durins one on of o their I t secret cret rendezvous ou Ir r dIes die of he bout hont II t disease and ind his paramour prudent of her rood good name n-ime sneaks sneak I away from his remains Not ho- ho hoI hoe hon ho i- i I e oser cr until she his has strewn n somo omo ro roses es I thereupon thereupon- a Sha l torch the he heI I rest of ot the hc play Ilay is discussion concern concern- concernIng concerning Ing the tho identity of the lady In Whose arms the doctor d died d Ills His aldow Ido hopes that she sh Is a 11 woman oman of ot the th streets his advanced ad daughter trusts I that she aaa 11 aa a 0 noble female worth worthy Mr 11 Shaw ot of o a parents parent's passion turned his friends friend s dram drama upside do dorm don n and made It a little jocular As he has done It over It seems to l teach us that a respectable married oman should hould s l not base o a lover who wh whIs Is afflicted pith nith angina pectoris un- un unless unless unless less she also has a sense of o humor I Gise Gl Gh e and aDd Take Tako A A loud laugh laugh- laughable laughable able conscienceless up framo by Aaron Hoffman Hottman Introducing Mr r Louis Louii Mann and Mr 11 George Georgc Sidney as Its it principal ious se-ious clowns ns Mr 11 Mann Mana impersonates a manufacturer or of canned fruits ho aho ho is forced by the tho new to turn over his plant to his Ills Mired hired hands headed by his hi foreman Mr Sidney Financial dis- dis disaster disaster disaster aster ensues but is 1 succeeded at tilt the end by blissful prosperity A maniac IN N Y millionaire Douglas Wood ap- ap appears ap pears with Ith a 1 scheme schema for tor a fleet of o automobile grocery shops shop to ti send end the product of Mr Manns Mann's can can- canneries c n nerle And so Miss Vh Ian Tobin Tobis as os the tho pl putty daughter of the fore fore- foreman foreman man becomes married to the hand han hansome some son of ot the proprietor The Thc mad mad- madman man is declared by the tho courts to lie he only a little Insane and Mr Mann and Mr Ir Sidney after much comIc quarreling are Ire affectionate at it the terminus Cant Can't you see the long loni procession of Illuminated automobile grocery stores across the tho back badt backdrop drop is lS the curtain curt ln descends on the happiness of o the tho last act Why should WO we write in approval al of the Moscow Art theatre when hen such American classics as this tillS are ore at lit hand lland It r you lou ou sill bo be until net nest ne arek ek you lou ou will be bs told about Nari moia mosa in Dagmar mir an adaptation by b Mr Ir Louis Louts Anspacher from a work hy by I ee Herc author of Cosmo Cosmi Hamiltons Hamilton's The Silver ro Foa ro Nazi Nazi- moM mesa in the dram drama is a t naughty con con- continental con mental countess countes of the sensuous type ype nho 10 takes her lovers Where hero she shi finds them and has ha a 11 good time gel get cei rally until one o of them kills her Miss Jane CO Coals nl's Is I's Juliet is also a net nett ne nen 1 n celts celt's program an n pros pros- prospect 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