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 suit.
Both in New York and Chicago, how¬
ever, five episodes were played. Wheth¬
er prudery or a poverty of actresses
restricted the Players’ Club to two, de¬
ponent knoweth not.
* *
Schnitzler Is a Viennese, but he does
not write musical comedy. Therefore
he is not qulte as famillar-to the
casual theatre-goer as Lehar or!
Fall. Although now he ranks at the
very top of Austrian playwrights, his
work is very little known in this coun¬
try. Only Mrs. Fiske, Katherine Grey
and Alla Nazimova have had the te¬
merity to produce any of his work in
this country, and the vogue which they
sought to start never flourished.
Amateurs and the dramatic sections
of women's clubs, however, rush in
Iwhere managers fear to tread. Ittakes
courage to do Schnitzler, and most es¬
peclally the Anatol Cyele.“ Anatel
is what the slang of the hour would
deseribe as a schaser.“ Each of the
seven episodes of his life pietured in
the cyele has to do with a new love.
Where the average youtn is an ama¬
teur in the art of putting off the uld
love and taking on the new, Anatol
past master.
Anatol's
Tmethods of pursuit and capture and
his repeared disillusionment with the
prize that Schnitzlen describes in the
eyele.
—
The adventures of the gay and vola¬
tile Anatol with two of the ladies he

successfully pursued were what the
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Players' Club divulged last night. The
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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¬
deavering as gracefully as might be ingly orchidaceous. Po Elga shel
te break off relations with one of his braught a full blown beauty, a great
prizes. Mimi, the girl in this case, grace and dignity, and what we love to!
forestalls him by declaring she is
call personality, witheut knowing in!
tired of him and has decided to trans¬
the least what it means, If she had!
fer her affections to another. That
taken to the stage when more pliant
is the burden of che dialogue.
there’s no saying to what heights she
In the other, The Wedding Morn-might have climbed.
ling.“ Anatol has finally dscided
* * *
marry. But on the way from the
Hauptmann’s Elga' is net a pleasant
home of his flancee the night before
play. It is typically Hauptmann, cyn¬
tho wedding he meets an old flame,
ical, eruel and faithless. Hauptmann
Lona, at a ball. The morning of the
recently succeeded in roaring himself
wedding finds Anatol and Lona to¬
through literature until, possiblz to
gether in his apartments.
Anatol,
placate him, they gave him the Nobel
whe has forgotten his wedding, gud¬
prize. In Elga“ he raises like Strind¬
denly remembers it. It alse finally
berg and many others of that grim
dawns on Lona what is on his mind.
school the fearsome ghost of thought
There is quite a row until Max,
that maternity is a fact, paternity a
Triend of Anatol’s, suggests that Lona
theory. His Elga“ is the Common al¬
can revenge herself on Anatol by win¬
loy of decelt and beauty, her husband
ning him away from his bride.
the commoner alloy of trust and
* * *
blindness. Mrs. Scott made Elga quite
And the Sorosis Club, with all the
as sirenio and dual-hearted as neces¬
friends, relatives and admirers of the
sary. She was quite Nethersolish in
Players, applauded these two sketches
grasping the feline nature of the
to the echo. If anyone there thought
woman.
of foolish things like moral points of
view, they didn't mention them. 1t
Swathed in Seventeenth centurg Rus¬
was very refreshing.
It took Schnitzler a long time to
sian costume, the nine players in this,
reach this edge of the continent, We
of whom Dion Holm was the handsom¬
would like to congratulate thé Plavers“
est and Mrs. Scott the most beautiful,
Glub for introducing us. Let’s have
made a succession of attractive stage
more of him. He ls peculiarly interest¬
pictures against the purple zurtains
ing Just now, and out here, sharpened
that framed the scenes. The earnest¬
by our own Inimitable saline air, we're
ness and sincerity with which all went
quite abreast of his cynicism. Schnits¬
about the business of acting Haupt¬
ler is a composite of physician, deca¬
mann and the letter perfeetion with
dent Wilde, Ibsen, Maupassant and
which they came to the tagk made this
Verlaine. His wit is Viennese and his
unpleasant little play intensely inter¬
esting.
manners Parisian, and his Anatol,
whiel is typical of him, has been well
The cast was:
deseribed as theHamlet of Libertin¬
VElga.
ism.“ Of course, he calls for much
Elga Mrs. A. W. Scott Jr.
Starchenski Dion Holm
subtelty and finesse of acting when put
Marins Lucile Alsanson Smitl
on the stage. Subtelty and finesse are
The Nurse Rowena Danhauer
rischa John Medlanier
not qualities given to the average ama¬
imitri William
teur, still what they did of Schnitzler
imasks Leo Hilgibrand
last night the members of the Players'
Dortkg Dagmar Poreman
Oginski George Paterson Jr.
Club did very agreeably, Those who
As many people as cauld crowd into
took part in the two episodes were:
the artistic rooms of the Sorosis Club
"A Farewell Supper.?
say the plays, and the quantity of
Anatol Sydney Schlessinger
flowers showered on Mrs. Scott at the
*. Francis P Buckier
Waiter Edwin Oneen
end represented more money than
Mimi Ellie Ewing
ever Hauptmann saw until he got the
The Wedding Morn.“
Nobel prize.
Anatol Sydner Schlessinger
Max Francis P. Buckter
Fräncois Clarence Healel
Lona
2. N „enbrand
The Anatol episodes were followed
by Hauptmann’s Elga,“ in which Mrs.
A. W. Scott, as the faithless Elga,
found herself hathed in an hour’s ad¬
miration and drenched at the end in
flowers and applause. It was a night
of vivid memory for Mrs. Scott. Among
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