1g
10
.—
Ernest „Milton as Deronde. and
Barbayá Everest as Gwendolen in
the säge version of George Eliot’s
fambus novel, which is to he pro¬
duced at the 0 Theatre to-night.
RESCUND BY FIRE
BRIGADE.
TOUTK HELDPY HAWSER
UP AN FLM.
The timdy arrival ofla fire escape
saved a pö#e sergeant Aid two young
workmen fra perilousGosition in a
lofty elm irc 3 South Morwood on
Saturday aftgnod
Charles Edwerd S##gs, aged 18, and
his brother, Thomag of Thornion
Heath, were eigagey ielling eim
trees at Whitwoßth-Jad, Cffrles work¬
ing at a heighi oy 60 feet and bis
brother at 50 fech #from the ground.
By some means Isteel hawser which
was supporting 40ó feet branch just
8
sawn off slippeg der Charles’s hand
and jammed it.
With the heiApplice sergean
who climbed dhe trech T##gs Skeats 1j.
*
cut the hawser withh hacksaw, biit
the injured Man Wg a. dangerons
T
situation, as his rescueß Töuld not gel
near enough to bring Mn down, dor11
conkehagextricate themkelves.
nse, and all ihree
The corg Wsshli
a detach
Isuffered gonsiderabl
M1
ment ol/the Croydon Fin Brigale
SC
arrived /with an escape.
SC
The Injured youth was Iwered ##
the grbund, and the other Po wereig.
Trescugd by the flremen.
Chärles Skeats, who had several
5
fingers badly lacerated, was taken in
an ambulance to Croydon Hospital.
—
C
PLAT READING
CLEVER WORK BYJEWISHI
DRAMA LEAGUE.
There was some first-rate acting at
the Character Reading of Schnitzler's
intensely interesting play,“ Professor
Bernhardi,“ given by the Jewish
Drama Leagne at the Little Theatre last
night. The experiment succeeded so
well that after a short time 1 hardly
realised that the parts were being read.
The play deals with the anti-Semitic
feeling in Austria. All the characters
(except one unimportant part) are men
and most of them the doctors at a clini¬
cal institute in Vienna, which every¬
one admits is doing mägnificent ser¬
vice to the community. The founder
and the backbone of the institute is a
Jew, a man of staunch purpose and
high ideals. But in the performance of
his duties he brings the Clerical Party
down upon him.
A young girl has onlv a short time
to live, althoug' she does not know
that she is going to die, The presence
of a priest would rob her last hour of
happiness, and the docfor, very gently!
and reasonably, refuses to allow the
last rites to be administered. Owing
to political intrigues for this act he is
sentenced-o two montlis' imprison¬
inent.
Perhaps the finest feature ofthe play
was the talk between the priest and the
doctor at the end, whien two such
diverse minds came to some sort of
Professor
common understanding.
Beruardi,“ which was translated by
Hetty Landstone, was performed forthe
first time in English. It is certainly
worth seeing again.
Allthe readings were good, and prac¬
tically every member of the company
put real characters into the parts.
G. W. B.
TIIE EVENING STANDARD.
FAMOUS PLAY READ INI SEAME=
A THEATRE.
Professor Bernhardi'’—by the
Jewish Drama League.
SUBTLETY AND POWER.
The Jewish Drama League did an almizaliy
intelligent thing when thev garo a dramatie
reading of Schnitzler’s“ Professor Bernhardi
at the Little Theatre last night.
The play is a magnificent one, and very well“
worth being made known. Morcover
Fresponded perfectly
to the treatment
“ dramatic reading.“
It is mainly an argu¬
ment, cast in acutely dramatie form, between
practising doctors (Christians and Jews), one
of whiom is supposed to have committed sacrilege
in keeping a priest away from the bedside of a
dring giri.
The actors simply play the play through,
entering, crossing, leaving the stage, etc., but
reading their parts from script instead of hav¬
ing learnt them by heart. There is no room for
what many people would consider the cream of
acting, worked-up situations, elaborate dramatie
effects, declamation ans grands éclats de volr.
There is instend plenty of room for character;
to be suggested bythe readers, and, on the part!
of the whole company, a clear concentration;
on giving unvarnished utterance to whatever
the dramatist has set down.
First English Production.
For a highly emotional play the effect would
probably be poor. In a play of intellect and
intelligenee, such as last night’s, it is surpris¬
ing hon litle is lost to an andience with aß
spark of imagination. The black-coated figu#s
moving in front of a curtain again and again
gave the completed illusion, 1 am not saying
that the method of dramatie readling is superior
to the method of performance, 1 am only say¬
ing that, intelligently handled, great things can
be done with the method—which has the rather
important advantage of taking abont an eighth
of the time of a regular representation to pre¬
pare.
The play was being seen for the first time in
England. It is a famous work of Schmitzler’s,
far removed from the airy radiance of his
* Anatol* dialogucs. The situation in which,
in the best of faith, the Jewish Bernhardi com¬
mits the act of sacrilege is perfectly convinc¬
ingly devised. The dramatie subtlety is that it
would also have been committed by almost any
Christian practitioner, Its reaction on bis
colleagues and the incentive it gives to persecu¬
tion-mongering in pre-war Vienna is the main
dramatie theme. The last-act dialogue between
Bernhardi and the Catholic priest provides a
magnificent coda.
If the play has not yet been published, Miss
Landstone’s translation (with a few ronghinesses
removed) deserves to be immediately.
Mr. Frederie de Lara gave a really notable
reading of the chief part.
HUBERT GRTFFTTH.
10
.—
Ernest „Milton as Deronde. and
Barbayá Everest as Gwendolen in
the säge version of George Eliot’s
fambus novel, which is to he pro¬
duced at the 0 Theatre to-night.
RESCUND BY FIRE
BRIGADE.
TOUTK HELDPY HAWSER
UP AN FLM.
The timdy arrival ofla fire escape
saved a pö#e sergeant Aid two young
workmen fra perilousGosition in a
lofty elm irc 3 South Morwood on
Saturday aftgnod
Charles Edwerd S##gs, aged 18, and
his brother, Thomag of Thornion
Heath, were eigagey ielling eim
trees at Whitwoßth-Jad, Cffrles work¬
ing at a heighi oy 60 feet and bis
brother at 50 fech #from the ground.
By some means Isteel hawser which
was supporting 40ó feet branch just
8
sawn off slippeg der Charles’s hand
and jammed it.
With the heiApplice sergean
who climbed dhe trech T##gs Skeats 1j.
*
cut the hawser withh hacksaw, biit
the injured Man Wg a. dangerons
T
situation, as his rescueß Töuld not gel
near enough to bring Mn down, dor11
conkehagextricate themkelves.
nse, and all ihree
The corg Wsshli
a detach
Isuffered gonsiderabl
M1
ment ol/the Croydon Fin Brigale
SC
arrived /with an escape.
SC
The Injured youth was Iwered ##
the grbund, and the other Po wereig.
Trescugd by the flremen.
Chärles Skeats, who had several
5
fingers badly lacerated, was taken in
an ambulance to Croydon Hospital.
—
C
PLAT READING
CLEVER WORK BYJEWISHI
DRAMA LEAGUE.
There was some first-rate acting at
the Character Reading of Schnitzler's
intensely interesting play,“ Professor
Bernhardi,“ given by the Jewish
Drama Leagne at the Little Theatre last
night. The experiment succeeded so
well that after a short time 1 hardly
realised that the parts were being read.
The play deals with the anti-Semitic
feeling in Austria. All the characters
(except one unimportant part) are men
and most of them the doctors at a clini¬
cal institute in Vienna, which every¬
one admits is doing mägnificent ser¬
vice to the community. The founder
and the backbone of the institute is a
Jew, a man of staunch purpose and
high ideals. But in the performance of
his duties he brings the Clerical Party
down upon him.
A young girl has onlv a short time
to live, althoug' she does not know
that she is going to die, The presence
of a priest would rob her last hour of
happiness, and the docfor, very gently!
and reasonably, refuses to allow the
last rites to be administered. Owing
to political intrigues for this act he is
sentenced-o two montlis' imprison¬
inent.
Perhaps the finest feature ofthe play
was the talk between the priest and the
doctor at the end, whien two such
diverse minds came to some sort of
Professor
common understanding.
Beruardi,“ which was translated by
Hetty Landstone, was performed forthe
first time in English. It is certainly
worth seeing again.
Allthe readings were good, and prac¬
tically every member of the company
put real characters into the parts.
G. W. B.
TIIE EVENING STANDARD.
FAMOUS PLAY READ INI SEAME=
A THEATRE.
Professor Bernhardi'’—by the
Jewish Drama League.
SUBTLETY AND POWER.
The Jewish Drama League did an almizaliy
intelligent thing when thev garo a dramatie
reading of Schnitzler’s“ Professor Bernhardi
at the Little Theatre last night.
The play is a magnificent one, and very well“
worth being made known. Morcover
Fresponded perfectly
to the treatment
“ dramatic reading.“
It is mainly an argu¬
ment, cast in acutely dramatie form, between
practising doctors (Christians and Jews), one
of whiom is supposed to have committed sacrilege
in keeping a priest away from the bedside of a
dring giri.
The actors simply play the play through,
entering, crossing, leaving the stage, etc., but
reading their parts from script instead of hav¬
ing learnt them by heart. There is no room for
what many people would consider the cream of
acting, worked-up situations, elaborate dramatie
effects, declamation ans grands éclats de volr.
There is instend plenty of room for character;
to be suggested bythe readers, and, on the part!
of the whole company, a clear concentration;
on giving unvarnished utterance to whatever
the dramatist has set down.
First English Production.
For a highly emotional play the effect would
probably be poor. In a play of intellect and
intelligenee, such as last night’s, it is surpris¬
ing hon litle is lost to an andience with aß
spark of imagination. The black-coated figu#s
moving in front of a curtain again and again
gave the completed illusion, 1 am not saying
that the method of dramatie readling is superior
to the method of performance, 1 am only say¬
ing that, intelligently handled, great things can
be done with the method—which has the rather
important advantage of taking abont an eighth
of the time of a regular representation to pre¬
pare.
The play was being seen for the first time in
England. It is a famous work of Schmitzler’s,
far removed from the airy radiance of his
* Anatol* dialogucs. The situation in which,
in the best of faith, the Jewish Bernhardi com¬
mits the act of sacrilege is perfectly convinc¬
ingly devised. The dramatie subtlety is that it
would also have been committed by almost any
Christian practitioner, Its reaction on bis
colleagues and the incentive it gives to persecu¬
tion-mongering in pre-war Vienna is the main
dramatie theme. The last-act dialogue between
Bernhardi and the Catholic priest provides a
magnificent coda.
If the play has not yet been published, Miss
Landstone’s translation (with a few ronghinesses
removed) deserves to be immediately.
Mr. Frederie de Lara gave a really notable
reading of the chief part.
HUBERT GRTFFTTH.