| Show 1 F PERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S LETTER I 1 5 NEW TORK YORK Nov The 24 Broadway drama Is ts not teaching us much this season about Amen Ameri Amerlean American can ean life Ufe and character A great deal is to bo be learned from Irons current concerning the careers and plays habits of Important foreigners tor front from Casanova to Queen Victoria little ed owr existence Is ii a II but our Olin 0 I nel le Stars and entertain entertain- entertainments entertainments ments abound from other lands und and In other languages and esen en Out OUI resIdent artists seem more In- In Interested in interested In things abroad than they ate alc at home borne It It v ere not for the tho British Mr Zan Zane ill 11 and his acid comments upon us we should be bo without help front from the rostrums At risk of being statistical I shall make an Incomplete pleto list of the New Now York drama topics are alien The Dancers British SprIng Cleaning British British- The Camel s nac Back British Al ent We e All British A A Lesson in Love British Win Windows s British 1 l Marl Man Many Marv Quite Contrary British Little Little Miss British Robert E Lee Writ Writ- Brit Brit- BritIsh British ish Span Spanish ish French I The lab Lu 11 ench Cyrano de Bergerac French Seventh I i-fe i ts en French The Failures French The The Tho S Swan San an A Royal Fandango MIddle European Sancho Pan Pan- Panza Pan a za Spanish White Cargo South I Besides thes we e ha sae eo e or ha hase haC C had r recently Mme Duso Dusa In a Scan Scan- Scan lna and and Italian repertory Sir John Martin MarLIn Harvey In ilk things with nith Ith ancient Greece t se o Denmark of Hamlet Hamlets s period and Bel Belgium lum under the Geiman's Gelman's heel The Grand from Paris Instructs in fat far away assay manners manner as does the thO th Moscow Art Theater In InI Incase Incase Incase case iou ou are desirous of Information Information I tion regarding the tho American sou OU are limited to Able Abie s Irish Rose nose Chicken Feed The Tho Ner Ncr Nerous Nervous sous ous Wreck and The Whole Towns Town's Talking to mention some of the lighter studies and to Chains Tarnish The Shame Woman oman Sun Up The The Change Changelings lings and Rain in the tho event I that you are harder to t please S Mr Morris Gest the eminent Pot Is la neal no simmering under the tho heat of ot tour four nationalities Duse's ties ties Duse's Italians tho Russian of the Moscow Art Theater and the Souris Chauve-Souris Chau e Max hardt Rein Rein- Reinhardt hardt the German and the audi audi- audiences audiences of the United Stites The They all seem to bo fusing pretty well except the tragic Mme Duse though pla pia Ing to large and recaptured congregations appears to be and Ill J at ease case The othet othel day at the Century Theater when hen the tho gallant sky be- be besto be bestowed sto stowed ed a wreath reath upon her she lis- lis listened II lis listened to his compliments with Ith all the co indifference of a n dead macker mackerel el ci And though she was the guest cuesto or oC at the first performance ot of the Russians she quit her bo boc at the te end of the second scene and went home It Is said ald that she shedid shedid shedid did so because she could not un- un understand Understand un understand the language of ot the pI play Mme Duse'S defection did nat pt apparently chill chili the Muscovites In their performance of epileptic The Tha Brothers Karama Mr Leonid Leonidoff as asono ono one shatter-brained shatter brother vied sith Ith Mr Mn Vassily as an- an another an another other In exciting exhibitions ot lofty and I Before ground and the play was over oven thereas there as aas little I that the audience al did not know Imo about lunacy among the minor lans Mr specialised ed in the quieter hallucination of I an imbeciles imbecile's nightmares Mr dr Ie Le i Illustrated l the more tren- tren tren Leoj clad conduct duct of a mad and aleo alco aico sensualist Both exhibitions I were verS complete You may ha base hae e of ot the Ra of ot John Mo- Mo Mc-Cullough Mc Cullough upon the ancient raph R graph Those shriek and aberra aberrations tione s ere viero era as soothing as lullabies when compared to the tc graphic In- In Insanities In Insanities of the brothers broth- broth ers rs I I Queen Queen product of Walter Prichard Eaton one ono of the most satisfactory of the drama drama- dramatic dramatic tic critics and of DIn David Id Crab an- an another another tin other other scholarly scholarly If it lEq less reno ned N Y V journalist Also I X suSPect of L LIton Iton whose sly cly ly and some hat erue cruel biography of the Queen may have Inspired them to write their comedy The play gives andI you the tho same Impression of and I hers her I Prince e Consol Conso t that Mr Stra Stra- Stra cheis r ches che's pungent nt history doe dots does It ItIs Itis ItIs Is fashioned after aCter tho the manner of Mr Louis Loilla Napoleon Parker s Dis DIs though thou with much more hUmor and much nueh less theatrical punch Miss Beo Bed Berl I Mercer who ho hoI hoIS IS noted for tor her er impersonations of eder elderly slaves and London lodgIng lode lode-Ing I leg Ing house hous Keepers acts Victoria as an abashed and middle aged middle charwoman suddenly called to nield led a scepter At that I suspect sh she Is a more e comfortable coun coun- counterfeit lt than Miss Laurette Taylor or Miss Beatrice Drew would base ha both been both of v whom horn horn were ere consider consIder- consIdered considered ed Cd for tor the he role In Queen Victoria Vl iou ou find many familiar quotations as yoU do In the piau pias ot of Thus when hen hen Lord Palmerston tells a naughty in the pr presence sence of his sovereign she responds We Weare Weare e are not amused Again anN Mr Gladstone speaks to me as It if ItI itI I were a public meeting The out out- outstanding outstanding out outstanding standing performance of the play Is given gisen by Mr Mn Ullrich Haupt as the Teutonic Prince a Conort Consort a fine fino Ithe blending of the petty and the great I Mr Mn Haupt was as recently discovered by the Equity pIa ere the pro pro- producer pro producer ducer pf p Queen Victoria In a aGerman aGerman German stock company I in Chicago I 00 |
