Show I PERCY DS D'S LEUR I IN N NEW W YORK YanK Jan No 30 10 No No one on seems to believe In William A ABrady's ABrady's Bradys Brady's discovery Ory that the radio Is the cause of ot the present sur- sur sul faring ferine In the dramatic business i r Ever Evel 01 since kince ho made in-ide his announcement the newspapers have hale ha e been full of ot alIcle ai tides proving that th the Deut od nes und and dynes dines d nes a ar ate e the least ot or the theatres s ailments aliments Mr Brad Brady like lIe Mr dog doe Is of o an nal regarding reg every everyne ne newcomer comer with distrust But Cut to m ma toa a to these dispatches the theother theother th other diy day he admits that his ht critics ar arc right and that the th managers persist in ln harboring n curies much m moro more harmful than the radio A majority ot of those who ho correct Mr Ir Brady Brad tell him that the high I public cost ot or tickets is keeping the pub pub- put lic lie away from the tote theatres On Monday night for tor tor Instance S 50 5 v waa s as char charged U for tor a single Ingle seat scat at Mrs Partridge Presents Presents- Presents a comedy but entailing n no 10 treat scat reat ea e In production prod the th atres affiliation with the tho b brokers and speculators Is an an- an an ac dent clenT source of or complaint but never was as resentment so no deep as asIt It Is at present In er to Mr Brady s a s outcry many people willIn In to say Bay that they have ha e abandoned aban- aban I because of the tl preponderance ot or bad Lad sho shows s Oth- Oth Ottus ua Is Hit tIL me mc that they refrain fron from the dramas on air account of ot uncomfortable uncomfortable seating arrangements lit ill of theatres and a D n- n eral disregard on the tho pan pall of the manages for the comfort of ot their the patron patrons You ou 1 ou would be surprised to 10 know kno how ho many correspondents say hay ay that thi their cl ci kf let against the theatre I la Is discourtesy In ln the th box offices Customers L for Cor the less ex- ex expensive c pensive scats cats make m ke their purchases at t the th ticket windows s and there thue they complain they thy are to indifference Insolence andIn and hu mil rt Disdainful young men m treat them with an in Impatient con con- contempt coi tempt especially 11 when hen the warts waru ur are ure popular bo So lather than have havo tia their feelings lou hurt t or their Ire li roused they the heck keck other means of i reel rec cation Following Is a 0 can sam sam- sample sample pie of the nume OilS protests against the tho unfriendliness of ot the theatres atres Sir Can you ou explain why by SKI semi ers era of or tickets at the tho box offices of theatres theatre hold the tile public III ht contempt 11 do they t frown when alien hen th the serve a n Why do they snap at him when wh ho asks about the pi ices and lo- lo location location I cation of Is li It one of the qualifications of a 0 successful ticket et seller aeller that he o 01 of she sh be b lis as ill ugly ug and unpleasant unpleasant ant as when taking the theatergoers money Are all ticket sellers dyspeptic or do they work for tor nothing or o odo do do ordo they feel that thaI the public gets get I too much for tor stoney mone or u are ar re they merely dejected because of ot the tha low state of the drama drana drain THOMAS STEEP STr P In no other line of o pato dl Is so 90 little attention paid to amity between buyer and seller sellI T suggested this to a manager the theother theother other day as a reason renson for hall half empty theatres Ills His ans answer anser er lef let 1 me mo with B no rent What's the th t r use saId aid be he It If if I have havo a show oho they want ant to se see they 11 come to t 0 it and If It I haven't they wont won't 1 ont no n matter how polite I I am MIs bliss Blanche Bates Is the eta etar r of a a bright little serious rlou comedy y called ailed Mrs lr Partridge Pre Pre- Pro bents enta the th authors of which are tWo vo young youner and obscure actresses s named Ruth Hawthorne Hawthorn and Mary Kennedy It was so popular wl 1 its first audience that it seems seem safe fe to Include it in lit a t list of o f the season seasons season's hits Mr Mrs PartrIdge Miss Dates Bates 1 Is Isa 9 a delightful widow Ido of course courso who wh o has ha suffered Buffered from matrimony lIa bythe been rendered unhappy by b the ring she who determines determine to make mak her progeny t of ot edlock's wedlock disasters Her son eon must be a a painter her daughter r must mut be b an actress upon the th e roadway Broadway stage Binge Both Doth of th the e ee et hd e other othor Ideas But Bu t Mis Bate Bates 1 la 19 so lovely 10 ely and b hD p noUe noti Pint fiat at aho h misdirects their r careers career and tries to send nd thorn them to t horizons that thai they do not care car c e for Cor CorI I Mis Mi's s Bates represents this love love- love loi Ily ly lady as I a a handsome humor humor- humorous hum ous ou adventurous ad milliner and an a d I haberdasher as aa well as a n witt r hen beu who also ho clucks j prudent advice to t 0 the th contents of her egg egg- eggshell et r shell s shells hells I have seen with Ith much mud s satisfaction Miss Bates Bate pIa play In Inmany 1 many plays plais pIa s But I belle believe belier e tha that In Mrs Mrs Irs Partridge Presents Presents- Presents she ale ah lesi so far tar as liS the the stage will allow her to do so o a com eom- pl te Interesting and human be- be beIng l Ing ag Admirable also s the th perform perform- 1 ance of Miss Sl SI Ia ii Field who q ks I pathetically frightened by her so so much so that she hesi- hesi hesitated hesitated for two t acts and ond a halt half herI to I abandon tho the drama for Sidney II a shrewd and handsome farmer of oft o I county I I liked the sophomore cynic of or Mr Ir Fd ard Fd I Jr aIse a wise also and promising actor It if ever eer thereas there was as vv as one I liked Irked Mis Mi's Ruth Gordon too loo as ashe she Impersonated a new kind or of quietly but eloquently orI I Imploring laughs Miss Gordon vas as very ery good and obvious GordonI She split spilt the difference bet between een life lite I and the he theatre almost as expert expert- y ly expertly as Miss lIss Laurette Taylor Tailor Ta lor dots does I shall read In other journals Journal to- to today to today day that she slie was as the hit hit hll of o the performance yet tt et I shall still sus- sus suspect sus suspect that sho she was aas as ml merely the shrewd wd and wise else Ise show woman oman |