#ew Tiay 60 Dr. Arthur Schnitzter—. Joaring
in Jummer Air“
By ERICH GLASS
TOLLOWING close on the heels of the f ereases in violence, Flashes of lichtning
world première of Hauptmann’s and erashes of thunder follow one
latest play (alrendy reviewed in the
andther. Frau Josefa thinks of her boy
SUNDAr Rurkaez), Arthur Schnitzler
out in the tempest. But he is not alone.
again appeared in the limelight with his
A niece, staying at their house, a sweel,
new drama,“ Im Spiel der Sommerlüfte
temperamental voung girl, artist by pro¬
(" Soaring in Summer Air?'), now lend¬
fession and segreathusiast by hobby (ir
ing the repertorg at the Deutsches Volks¬
Hot vice-veren), i8 with hinn.
theater in Vienna. Sehnitzler, of course,
Schnitzler rarely fails to ignore this de¬
has represented for many years the
lightfully superficial charneter-mhore
Vienna Drama at its best, and it is u
suited to the test of delight than to that
pleasure to report that all expectations
of Scharneter,? however—in his ever¬ F.
#e been excelled by this latest offering
reverti.ig runge of portrayals. We feel
of his.
we know her the minute she enters thie
Possessing, as it does, such qualities,
stage, even before we get to know of her
che plot itself docs not matter. Yet it is
affairs witha young hospital doctor wilom
worth recording in brief, because it some¬
she is enger to“ drop“ in order to frec
how throws new light upon Schnitzler,
herself for the smart lieutenant she hus
now high above the clonds and looking
just mnet, und whom, ineidentally, she
down upon his charneters and the
pes to know more intimately ere long.
tempest arising in their emotions.
But at tiie moment she also is n vielim
of the thunderstorm, andeno Cceinei¬
dence? could be better than the secretlz
SP
plabned one—we soon realise that the
voung student of high school and lise,
und son of Fran Josela, is safely sheitered
in thie girl's arms. A fitting reward for his
Unving conscientionsly rehearsed wirn
her u röle in whlich soe is about to make
her debut on die Inesbruck stage.
Fran Josefa is worried abeut her son.
ont, as she believes, in the pouring raift.
Also her husband is not witl her.
I. C
has been delaged on an urgent business C
matter und has been compelled to spend S##
the niglit in Vienna, as he had often done
before. But to-day she has misgivings
concerning hiln. II is not jealousy wineh
she fecls. No; nothing but disappoint¬
ment with a life whlich has refused fulfil¬
ment und satisfaction to her.“ Can Da
this be?? queries the chaplain.
01
have a husband, a suecessful, loving hus-
band, and a bright and healthiy boy. They
will both return, your husband early in
the morning. your son whien the storm has
passed.
They will return,“ Frau
Josefa replies,“ und still—they will not
be present.“
No wife fully possesses
DOLORES DEL RIO,
her husband, no mother her child.
who is starring in“ Evangaline“ at the
Piocadilly this wock.
Fight Ageinst Sin.
The dialogue in this scene, wilich euglit
Schnitzler eces all the dffliculties which Ito be quoted in detail to snow its over¬
have many a time led his characters to
whielming power, leads up to tue point
u disnstrous end. But to-day he smiles
wiere thie priest loses moral ground as
at their tragie troubles, whlich are dis¬
his Holy beliefs are utterly shaken. He
covered to be petty in the extreme once
tights to rid himself from the gin—the
thie storm has passed. And the storm
sin that one human betng has been on
does pass-the emotional as well as the
the verge of fully understanding ansther?
atmospherie storm which leads un 10
und tears himseif away to his dutg, to
brightening flashes towards the end.
adying patient who desires the last con¬
The core of tie play is a scene between
solation from the priest. And if he has
Frau Josefa, the wife of a eculptor, and
the strength to console him, the Almighty
Ferdinand Holl, a chaplain who takes
will have pardoned his sinful thoughts
sheiter in her conntry house on his way
and the stain of them shall be remover
to the station. He must eatch the night
for ever. But the patient died before the
train for Vienna. Sométhing terrible has
priest arrived
happened. Hie brother, a lieutenant in
Dramatic coils are all laid for a cathar¬
the Austrian Army, had left a farewell
sis on a large scale. But the following
letter, begging absolution for his sins,
morning wiien the storm has passed there
this letter to be read the day following
is nothing left of the sultry summer air
his death.
in which the characters had beer oar¬
ing. The girl has had a fine time, and will
Life and Death Duel.
continue to have it with à growing suc¬
cession and smart selection of young
The chaplain reads alond the letter, a
men, not to mention the lieutenant, who
missive which by chance he had come
was, after all, not killed in the duel—
across and read a day before it should
nor was his opponent. The sculptor re¬
have been opened: heart-reniding, re¬
turns all the better for his Vienna esca¬
morseful words hinting at ine death he
pade; Frau Josefa will go with him on a
to find in a duel. Hor to prevent the
trip to Italy; and #ne young student who
life-and-death duel which is to take place
has had his first“ nip“' of life will now
in Vienna the following morning? His
bury himself in the studies of Greck; the
0
brother, such a smart officer, to d
voung hospital doctor, in whom it is said
Impossible! He prays. Is he justilied
Schnitzler depicted an ineident from his
in praying for sne life of his brother?
The strong-minded wife of the sculptor
own life, will have to console himself;
and the chaplain will continue to do his
eeeins to unnerve the chaplain, Ifthe
duty-ignoring and forgetting the suitry
oflicer’s life is to be saved, the life of his
opponent must be lost, she argues. 1
theughts of a sultry summer evening
which might so ensily have led him to a
the guilty orthe unguilty onc to abandon
tragie infatuation and à more tragie dis¬
life, the officer who no doubt had seduced
a married woman or the husband wilo
belief in his faith and in the elementary
had called for the duel as a chivalroue
terms of life.
The play is well filled with humour.
solution of the situntion? Can a priest
pray to the Almighty for such a thing
Even theught-drending onlockers mag ob¬
to happen
tain plenty of fun out of it without renl-
While the chaplain hesitates the storm
ising what the author is driving at in bis
which had driven him into the house in- new “ Comedy of Words.“
in Jummer Air“
By ERICH GLASS
TOLLOWING close on the heels of the f ereases in violence, Flashes of lichtning
world première of Hauptmann’s and erashes of thunder follow one
latest play (alrendy reviewed in the
andther. Frau Josefa thinks of her boy
SUNDAr Rurkaez), Arthur Schnitzler
out in the tempest. But he is not alone.
again appeared in the limelight with his
A niece, staying at their house, a sweel,
new drama,“ Im Spiel der Sommerlüfte
temperamental voung girl, artist by pro¬
(" Soaring in Summer Air?'), now lend¬
fession and segreathusiast by hobby (ir
ing the repertorg at the Deutsches Volks¬
Hot vice-veren), i8 with hinn.
theater in Vienna. Sehnitzler, of course,
Schnitzler rarely fails to ignore this de¬
has represented for many years the
lightfully superficial charneter-mhore
Vienna Drama at its best, and it is u
suited to the test of delight than to that
pleasure to report that all expectations
of Scharneter,? however—in his ever¬ F.
#e been excelled by this latest offering
reverti.ig runge of portrayals. We feel
of his.
we know her the minute she enters thie
Possessing, as it does, such qualities,
stage, even before we get to know of her
che plot itself docs not matter. Yet it is
affairs witha young hospital doctor wilom
worth recording in brief, because it some¬
she is enger to“ drop“ in order to frec
how throws new light upon Schnitzler,
herself for the smart lieutenant she hus
now high above the clonds and looking
just mnet, und whom, ineidentally, she
down upon his charneters and the
pes to know more intimately ere long.
tempest arising in their emotions.
But at tiie moment she also is n vielim
of the thunderstorm, andeno Cceinei¬
dence? could be better than the secretlz
SP
plabned one—we soon realise that the
voung student of high school and lise,
und son of Fran Josela, is safely sheitered
in thie girl's arms. A fitting reward for his
Unving conscientionsly rehearsed wirn
her u röle in whlich soe is about to make
her debut on die Inesbruck stage.
Fran Josefa is worried abeut her son.
ont, as she believes, in the pouring raift.
Also her husband is not witl her.
I. C
has been delaged on an urgent business C
matter und has been compelled to spend S##
the niglit in Vienna, as he had often done
before. But to-day she has misgivings
concerning hiln. II is not jealousy wineh
she fecls. No; nothing but disappoint¬
ment with a life whlich has refused fulfil¬
ment und satisfaction to her.“ Can Da
this be?? queries the chaplain.
01
have a husband, a suecessful, loving hus-
band, and a bright and healthiy boy. They
will both return, your husband early in
the morning. your son whien the storm has
passed.
They will return,“ Frau
Josefa replies,“ und still—they will not
be present.“
No wife fully possesses
DOLORES DEL RIO,
her husband, no mother her child.
who is starring in“ Evangaline“ at the
Piocadilly this wock.
Fight Ageinst Sin.
The dialogue in this scene, wilich euglit
Schnitzler eces all the dffliculties which Ito be quoted in detail to snow its over¬
have many a time led his characters to
whielming power, leads up to tue point
u disnstrous end. But to-day he smiles
wiere thie priest loses moral ground as
at their tragie troubles, whlich are dis¬
his Holy beliefs are utterly shaken. He
covered to be petty in the extreme once
tights to rid himself from the gin—the
thie storm has passed. And the storm
sin that one human betng has been on
does pass-the emotional as well as the
the verge of fully understanding ansther?
atmospherie storm which leads un 10
und tears himseif away to his dutg, to
brightening flashes towards the end.
adying patient who desires the last con¬
The core of tie play is a scene between
solation from the priest. And if he has
Frau Josefa, the wife of a eculptor, and
the strength to console him, the Almighty
Ferdinand Holl, a chaplain who takes
will have pardoned his sinful thoughts
sheiter in her conntry house on his way
and the stain of them shall be remover
to the station. He must eatch the night
for ever. But the patient died before the
train for Vienna. Sométhing terrible has
priest arrived
happened. Hie brother, a lieutenant in
Dramatic coils are all laid for a cathar¬
the Austrian Army, had left a farewell
sis on a large scale. But the following
letter, begging absolution for his sins,
morning wiien the storm has passed there
this letter to be read the day following
is nothing left of the sultry summer air
his death.
in which the characters had beer oar¬
ing. The girl has had a fine time, and will
Life and Death Duel.
continue to have it with à growing suc¬
cession and smart selection of young
The chaplain reads alond the letter, a
men, not to mention the lieutenant, who
missive which by chance he had come
was, after all, not killed in the duel—
across and read a day before it should
nor was his opponent. The sculptor re¬
have been opened: heart-reniding, re¬
turns all the better for his Vienna esca¬
morseful words hinting at ine death he
pade; Frau Josefa will go with him on a
to find in a duel. Hor to prevent the
trip to Italy; and #ne young student who
life-and-death duel which is to take place
has had his first“ nip“' of life will now
in Vienna the following morning? His
bury himself in the studies of Greck; the
0
brother, such a smart officer, to d
voung hospital doctor, in whom it is said
Impossible! He prays. Is he justilied
Schnitzler depicted an ineident from his
in praying for sne life of his brother?
The strong-minded wife of the sculptor
own life, will have to console himself;
and the chaplain will continue to do his
eeeins to unnerve the chaplain, Ifthe
duty-ignoring and forgetting the suitry
oflicer’s life is to be saved, the life of his
opponent must be lost, she argues. 1
theughts of a sultry summer evening
which might so ensily have led him to a
the guilty orthe unguilty onc to abandon
tragie infatuation and à more tragie dis¬
life, the officer who no doubt had seduced
a married woman or the husband wilo
belief in his faith and in the elementary
had called for the duel as a chivalroue
terms of life.
The play is well filled with humour.
solution of the situntion? Can a priest
pray to the Almighty for such a thing
Even theught-drending onlockers mag ob¬
to happen
tain plenty of fun out of it without renl-
While the chaplain hesitates the storm
ising what the author is driving at in bis
which had driven him into the house in- new “ Comedy of Words.“