Show I I Percy Hammonds Hammond's Letter I By 1 EW YORK Jan n Last lO-Last 30 week was wag a tro troubled period for tor forthe the he St lous playgoers After Afler a as as s 15 aBon ol of rubbish and ard triviality my nry ny found hemsel es cawed called upon 10 o r two taro of or the dramas drama's ai el riddles Eugene Eugeno t Nulls Null's Irs Great God Brown and Frana Frans The rhe Goat Song on Bolh of ot le works r pro rov d to a 11 majot- majot uv 11 v or ot the tha scholars and aad left them them Yet In their con con- confusion con confusion fusion they showed few tew pl dismay As Aa one ono of or the most of their number described d it II their th emotions Were ere hot nd Br Mr t ph phell lj in rn d il the he i he mo-c- mo mo enigmatic or of t m II w no u a So were II us prof that i that I i y Tal rat ot of the i t agre agreed ll that It would ouid r l attendance or 01 nir ur times In III order to 1 t 1 iu way wat out It Il should be said b before tOre this account goes any Illy fernier that your our Correspondent orrs orr's has bas recently been a sick man anI has hall been unable to penetrate for himself the tho cryptic arcana exhibited In InThe The Tho Great God Brown and Tho The Goat Song Thrown from Crom II a horse In the tho neighborhood of ot Cen- Cen Cent Central Cen Central t l park he is now dIctating I from a 0 hospital bed of or pain some words of or information gleaned from other sources Though the torso was but an electric horse lorse In the tho gymnasium of oC the New r York Athletic club his fall tall from Crom It WILl was no less Jess Injurious and Its results may deserve as much sympathy os as If it it had been from the tho back backof backof backof of a steed more mettlesome mett The Great God Brown Blown ac- ac according ac according cording to the tho more authoritative of the local intelligentsia Is both very bad and very good It Is hear a there a botch In botchIn It several persons wear false faces In order to hide or to re- re teal eal their their true characterIstics Billy Brown Drown a successful arch archi tc ct I- I thus steals from his dead a as- as associate as associate Dion Anthony the mask that has hIlS enabled that wastrel to wIn the love or of o two taro one women women onea II a crack lipped prostitute the theother the theother theother other a II female of his Ills own class claM Other figures In the play piny lurk Jurk be behind hind and peep Deep out from similar racial facial ambushes until even the expert observers are aro at lit their wits ends to know which is which what is what Though puzzled I by the tho HoudIni happenings all nil or of ortho the tho experts agree that Mr ONeil O'Neil In The Great God Brown Drown has done one of the tho most mo t and no Important and no things that has ever been done to the tho American drama As to the Theatre Guilds Guild's pro pro- pro production of The Goat Coat Song S it is III Isas as most of the reviewers admIt too early to say what hat the tho play Is all nil about Nobody even cen the most detective of or tha drama lov Jov- lovera lov lovers ers era has invaded its Interesting mazes But Dut in the background there is said Bald to be a symbolic symbol monster representing something or other In the hidden n recesses ot of otIL ofa ofa IL a dejected Teutonic dramatists dramatist's Idea of or life lire Miss Lynn Fontanne as asI a I looking good something or other grows pregnant from con con- contact contact t tact ct with this evil curiosity halt goat halt half man and altogether II a creepy adumbration Mr Alfred Luot Lunt la is they sa say admirably cast castIn castin castIn In one ono of the hundred or moro more roles as are Miss Mies Blanche Yurka and Mr Dwight Frye Loth both mem mem- members members bers bete ot or the movement nt The week was not without its piffle plene Mr Lew w FIelds that earnest clown actor hitched himself up to a comic old back called Money Business and caw ca cavorted around the tho stare stage of the tho National theatre with his 1118 custo custo- customary customary mary cunning Ho He represented an East EMt Side delicatessen 1 merchant caught Inthe In the tho vortex of or Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet Wallstreet street His Ills ventures leading lending at first to rl ridiculous luxury even eventually brought him to the tho prison Jat gates s from Crom where ho he wall wait waa rescued as the ending curtain fell tell Mr yields buthis himself was interesting efting but hiS 1 play lay was only a 0 rough copy or of the Potash and dramas Sweetheart Time Yes that really Is le its title believe C bell ve it tt or not In It Mr Harry B D Smith Nestor or of the librettists librettist tampers wIth Willie Colliers Collier's farce Never Say Bay Die aided by nu- nu numerous nu numerous notorious writers tune and dancIng masters The result Is II a an lIS full ot of musical allow comedy glucose as tho laws al- al al low Mr Eddie Bu a sleek orthe little Broadway fellow is one or of the numerous sweethearts MIss Mies Mary Milburn a pretty Broadway prima donna Is another The play is just one ono ot or those thosa Broad Broad- Broadway way Broad way candy kisses oozing the simpler Jam jams jama from every v ry pore I left Jert the Imperial theatre the other night dripping with such sorghum h as this the this the refrain retrain of o Sweet S heart Tim Times Time's most essential hal hal- bal lad Ind Ind Girl la in Your Arm Armst From Bagdad to Berlin Remember a girl ire 11 Your arms Is to worth Tao T r o 0 in your dreamt |