Show STUART ROBSON ahe great comedian chats pleasantly about the drama when stuart robson was asked to give the modern darna to tai be heartily answered certainly and graciously invited the reporter to come to ul dressing room during the presentation of comedy error mr robson is a well read roan thoroughly posted on matters pertaining to 1 a brilliant talker and exceedingly cee pleasant in his conversation in reply to the qa etton Is the drama kalning or losing la popularity mr robson quickly aid the stage ts getting better every day the drama has many like for instance the profession of medicine there are so many specialties and of course any kind Is produced to suit the public taste borne people think because farce comedy and burlesque opera are in demand that the has token a woeful tumble this is not the case legitimate drama I 1 in just as good demand as ever it i only the demand for the variety which enables farce comedy to live another reason why the critics say the stage I 1 deteriorating Is the older people look upon their day as the palmy days of the stage and never about the grand old thy saw in their youth it was h came with their fathers and their and will be the bame till the end of kimn this IB the time of the and is getting DC you like shakespearean pearean bolest asked the reporter very much so shakespeare stands alone in the field of literature no matter how mar aspire they all must admit superiority we sometime the bible but we never question shakespeare in the comedy of errors we have one of bis masterpieces it has been stated that this play is noth ine but a farce there could be no greater error than this A farce Is not supposed to have one line of seriousness in it the comedy of errors abounds in ery grave and is about evenly divided in its comedy and cerious scenes it is classed as a comedy and if left to shakespeare judgment it certainly la one he has named it so what do yon think oatho donnelly ciphers cip herr it is a fraud nd a poor one at that I 1 cannot think for a moment that anyone but shakespeare wrote those plays it can be illustrated a incident which came under my own notice when we first began rehearsing the henrietta I 1 told the company to do exactly as the author aronson howard told them this was done one day the shakespeare bacon controversy came up and after both sides had been aired I 1 asked how many believed bronson howard wrote henrietta they all said aney knew he wrote it when I 1 asked for their reasons I 1 was told that no one could explain the play and direct its presentation so accurately unless be had written it I 1 then told them that directed ell plays of his pat on the board before his death him self and that if he had not been the author how long before fellow players would have discovered the fraud how ion could he fool envious old lien jon conf no atis impossible to be otherwise shakespeare himself wrote play the cypher business la very delusive only a baoit time ago writer attempted to prove by a cypher that napeleon was a myth and had never lived upon the earth and succeeded if the cypher argument is considered a logical one it must be admitted that napoleon Is a creature of fancy the only reply which I 1 applicable to the question is the answer of it is not worth mr robson chatted pleasantly about his experience on the stage and emoke complimentary ot such time honored names as keane booth burton mc barrett etc he thinks the coming tragedian of the american stage is walker whiteside the young actor whose fame is now beina sung in the fasti mr globson began bis stage career at 18 years of age he is now 68 ills position on the stage today is a rival |