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THE SAN FRANCTSCO EXAMINER-
— S
Piquant Stage Morsels
Served
849
919
9s0
Two Sketches by Plavers' Club
Works of.Arthur Schnitzler and !
MRS. A, W. SCOTT
Geshanet selsten ie
Presented.
By J. Lawrence Toele.
That earnest and audacious Players'
Elub of our's prepared skillfully and
served gracefully two piquant dra¬
matie morsels ste a gathering of their
friends and imirers at the Sorosis
Club last night. What they did was
really the most exciting and interest¬
ing thing that has been done on the
stage here in some time. A homeo¬
pathie dose of Arthur Schnitgler and
a full portion of Gerhardt Hauptman
comprised the menu—surely a banquet
for the highbrows.
Of Schnitzler the Players gave twe
episodes from the Anatol Cyele.“
enough to whet the appetie of those
who listened for a better acquaint¬
ance with the’ other five episodes in
the cycle. The Players’ Club has the
distinction of being the third ergan¬
Ization in this country to put the cyn¬
ical and frivolous Anatol on the stage.
Winthrop Ames set the example at the
Little Theatre in New York and the
Chicago Theatre Society followed uit.
Both in New York and Chioago, how¬
eyer, five episodes were played. Wheth¬
er prudery or s poverty of actresses
restricted the Players' Club to two, de¬
ponent knoweth not.
* *
Schniteler Is a Viennese, but he does
nbt write musical comedy. Therefore
he is not qutte as familia#to the
casual theatre-goer as Lehar o
Fall. Although now he ranks at the
very top of Austrian playwrights, bis
work is very little known in this coun¬
try. Only Mrs. Fiske, Katherine Grey
and Alla Nazimova have had the te¬
merity to produge any of his work in
this country, and the vogue which they
sought to start never flourished.
Amateurs and the dramatie sections
sof women's clubs, however, rush In
where managers fear to tread. Ittakes
courage to do Schnitzler, and most es¬
pecialip the Anatol Cyele.“
Anatol
Is what the slang of the hour would
deseribe as a lchaser.“ Each of the
seven episodes of his life plotured in
the cycle has to do with a new love.
Where the averauz youtn is an ama¬
teur in the art of putting off the old
love and taking on the new, Anatol
is g
past master. It
Anatol’s
18
methods of pursult and capture and
his repeazed disillusionment with the
prize that Schnitzler deseribes in the
eyele.
1
The adventures of the gay and vola¬
tile Anatol with two of the ladles he
successfully pursued were what the
MNOn
Players' Club divulged last night. The
P 4
8
Su
most amusing and the most cynical of
his adventures were chosen.
In the first Anatol is shown en-our local amateurs Mrs. Scott is shin¬
deavoring as gracefully as might be
ingly orchidaceous.
Po Elga she
te break off relations with one of his prought a full blown beauty, a great
prizes. Mimi, the giri in this case,grace and dignity and whst we lonc to
e
box 26/4
Mizz
21. Kooder der Fani ientag
2
5
„
*
4
S
8
THE SAN FRANCTSCO EXAMINER-
— S
Piquant Stage Morsels
Served
849
919
9s0
Two Sketches by Plavers' Club
Works of.Arthur Schnitzler and !
MRS. A, W. SCOTT
Geshanet selsten ie
Presented.
By J. Lawrence Toele.
That earnest and audacious Players'
Elub of our's prepared skillfully and
served gracefully two piquant dra¬
matie morsels ste a gathering of their
friends and imirers at the Sorosis
Club last night. What they did was
really the most exciting and interest¬
ing thing that has been done on the
stage here in some time. A homeo¬
pathie dose of Arthur Schnitgler and
a full portion of Gerhardt Hauptman
comprised the menu—surely a banquet
for the highbrows.
Of Schnitzler the Players gave twe
episodes from the Anatol Cyele.“
enough to whet the appetie of those
who listened for a better acquaint¬
ance with the’ other five episodes in
the cycle. The Players’ Club has the
distinction of being the third ergan¬
Ization in this country to put the cyn¬
ical and frivolous Anatol on the stage.
Winthrop Ames set the example at the
Little Theatre in New York and the
Chicago Theatre Society followed uit.
Both in New York and Chioago, how¬
eyer, five episodes were played. Wheth¬
er prudery or s poverty of actresses
restricted the Players' Club to two, de¬
ponent knoweth not.
* *
Schniteler Is a Viennese, but he does
nbt write musical comedy. Therefore
he is not qutte as familia#to the
casual theatre-goer as Lehar o
Fall. Although now he ranks at the
very top of Austrian playwrights, bis
work is very little known in this coun¬
try. Only Mrs. Fiske, Katherine Grey
and Alla Nazimova have had the te¬
merity to produge any of his work in
this country, and the vogue which they
sought to start never flourished.
Amateurs and the dramatie sections
sof women's clubs, however, rush In
where managers fear to tread. Ittakes
courage to do Schnitzler, and most es¬
pecialip the Anatol Cyele.“
Anatol
Is what the slang of the hour would
deseribe as a lchaser.“ Each of the
seven episodes of his life plotured in
the cycle has to do with a new love.
Where the averauz youtn is an ama¬
teur in the art of putting off the old
love and taking on the new, Anatol
is g
past master. It
Anatol’s
18
methods of pursult and capture and
his repeazed disillusionment with the
prize that Schnitzler deseribes in the
eyele.
1
The adventures of the gay and vola¬
tile Anatol with two of the ladles he
successfully pursued were what the
MNOn
Players' Club divulged last night. The
P 4
8
Su
most amusing and the most cynical of
his adventures were chosen.
In the first Anatol is shown en-our local amateurs Mrs. Scott is shin¬
deavoring as gracefully as might be
ingly orchidaceous.
Po Elga she
te break off relations with one of his prought a full blown beauty, a great
prizes. Mimi, the giri in this case,grace and dignity and whst we lonc to
e
box 26/4