Show STAGE 81 AGE ARTIST DOCTORS PLAYS 1 Writes One of His Own But But But- It Proves Pro A Failure t NEW tEW EW YORE TORK YORI Feb By 6 26 By The On On tho the door of ofin ln n o of oC-lc ic In 4 street Just oft Broad Is Sam Forrest General Gen Gen- ral eral ral S Sage e Director lilts Sam Forrest doctor of ot plays play Th latter title denotes denote Q a a man who ho tor for II 18 years h has ls corrected aliments In dramatic productions and transformed them from flops or near flops Into hit hits or near near near- hits 1 orrest t began b an staging staging- plays pity In Inthe Inthe the he Wallingford Wa days of o Cohan and Harris Most of ot our big bit successes were fixed up at rehearsal al ho slid said S Stop Slop op Thief Thier was way an example All w cot ot out of or Its first trial In At- At l At l nur City to encourage us was a 0 auh augh from tho the audience when they thought an old od f man who picked up his wit s oar ear trumpet was a kleptomaniac It was WM a 0 million dol- dol nr tau lain h Wo rewrote tho the whole pa p ay around tho new I Idea lea and It Ita Ill a a great crat hit for moro than a al ay ay y l U am ar The only play entirely wrItten by Forest st was a failure however AU Ail he got out of It were commendatory d letters from lawyer and ministers Forrest says uy he has staged about a hundred ph plays play s moot mort of whIch needed something something- The changes ho explains are ar duo to the difficulty difficulty culty of ot meeting stage require require- requirements requirements ments on paper He picks pick the weak spots In fn the tho first rehearsal and plans plan ahead When a II change Is Imperative he Is ready with th It nn |