Show I I How It Seems to Play Playa a Comedy Times I I By Br DONALD BRIAN BRIANI nm I have haYI now played Freddy Fredd In The Tue Dollar Princess two hundred I times limes Two hundred Is a great real trinity many times lures to sin sing tire the same sante songs say Mr tho the satire same lines and anti make mako the snare samo gestures S tures tunes People ask asIc me If I do tin not set get tired of it My I answer is no If It apart a apart apart part Is a good goed part rt and the actor or Is I trying to study his itis art continual repe rope repetition I does do s not Dot bore him or get on his hiI nerves nen s There are arc two reasons for this First he lt trios to play pIny his iris part a little ittle bet better better better ter every eEr night Second ho he always alwa s plays plas it to toa u a different audience Xo No two performances p are the tho same bc be I cause canse no two audiences arc are the same Thus my m two hundred and first performance per pcr performance of The Thre Dollar Princess I will be strictly speaking as rt new ne an experience for tot me tire as It is for the an au audience that has bas never neer heard the tho picco piece before And I hello believe o that lint I 1 snail shall be as much interested in iti the four ConI our hundred Imn re and first performance as in III the tIre two hun bite hundred hundred dred and first ed Prince Dan DanHo Danil Danho Ho il In The Merry Widow a great n os an l grew tired of that thaL Although ram to become a t star 1 l do not want ant to leave Th The Dollar Princess tot for a long longtime Ion lorr time Tho They say sa that the tM last person In n the tho world who can cart give tho ho right explanation for tor the success or failure of a piece pi ce Is an actor who ho is playing tin ln It Perhaps Per this Is true truo We arc are apt to be Lie too ti near it to see Reo it in the tho right perspective but whatever it may amy maybe lIa be hc worth my m explanation of the suc sue success success cess of The Dollar Dolier Doll Princess Princ is his In tire tho first I place the pi pic ce Is ex cx exceptionally exI strong from front a musical point of view 10 There are arc at LIt least four Co 11 distinctive lye and attractive melodies besides luIcIe the th famous Dollar lollar Princess Waltz all 11 of which can ho whistled ll and ancI by h barrel organs If II tho tire average acra o musical comedy has one cure lU such tune it is 55 a go o More ioro than Iran this the lie orchestration is very el Mu Musicians Iu appreciate this titis anti and the thc public which Is 18 not so well velI educated d musi musically cally enjoys it without perhaps know knowIn In ln the tIre reason why In n a n musical comedy com d you Oll must have music and you OU must havo hao comedy In lit The Tue Dollar Princes Priness there hero Is not only music but comedy also The Tire Idea is really r all tinny tunny and It is well worked out mit And what few appreciate is in that the little touch of oC straight acting in the tIre last act when the Dollar Princess PrInces shows real ral feeling and real sentiment height heightens heighten ens en the tire comedy effects by its con contrast If you ou will use u e your our memory you vout will recall that tho the same mme note was struck though in a n different note nole by lullaby lullah in Erminio Erminie bj b I Ithe the song SOls In The Geisha of ot Tire Tho Dear DeRr Old Days All noise norse and drums and hurry with no contrast of or melody and sentiment grows grow u tiresome A great big success cannot come this hits way wa But there la 19 laa a third clement Also ls in tia Lra hes success of or The Tire Dollar t which Is Jg essential tu tr c every ny I good musical com conr comedy edy cd and that Is tire the wonderful pro production which Mr Ir hr Frohman has lies made o oot of ot It Musical comedy have hae an aa appeal to lie tho eye There must lie be beautiful ea tiCul scenes and costumes won wonderful d tableaux ll and ami stage tae pictures AU All this Iris Mr tt Ir Frohman has provided together with f hem as a 1 tr fn hi ui als Fur Furthermore In via C nd idy thore th rc arno ar arno r no nG act lirt o P |