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Sparkling Farce on Thursday.
The Players’ Club will also produce
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*The Affairs of Anatol“ and Elga’ at
the Sorosis club house, 536 Sutter
street, on next Thursday evening.
The Affairs of Anatol“ is a spark¬
ANCTSCO EXAMINER-
ling playlet, written by Arthur Schnitz¬
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ler. It has been running at the Little
Theatre in New Fork City, with Jack
Barrymore in the title role.
The
zast will include Sidney Schlessinger,
Morsels
Served
Francis P. Buckley, Pauline Hillen¬
rand and Ellie Ewing.
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Two Sketches by Players' Club
Works of. Arthur Schnitzlerand MRS. A. W. SCorr
Gertant singen in
Presented.
By J. Lawrenge Toole.
That earnest and audacious Players'
Club of our's prepared skillfully and
served gracefully two piquant dra¬
matic morsels ite a gathering of their
friends and admirers at the Sorosis
Club last night. What they did was
really the most exciting and interest¬
ing thing tnat has been dong on the
stage here in some time. A homeo¬
pathie dose of Arthur Schnitaler and
a full portion of Gerhardt Hauptman
comprised the menu—surely a banquet
for the highbrows.
Of Schnitzler the Players gave two
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 cyele. The Players’ Club has thei
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 thef
Little Theatre in New York and the
Chicago Theatre Society followed suit.
Both in New Fork and Chicago, how¬
ever, five episodes were played. Wheth¬
er pruderg or a poverty of actresses
restricted the Players' Club to two, de¬
penent knoweth not.
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Schnitaler is a Viennese, but he does
nbt write musical comedy. Therefore
Uhe is not qutte as familiarto the
casual theatre-goer as Lehar or
Fall. Although now he ranks at thel
very top of Austrian playwrights, bis
work is very little known in this coun¬
try. Only Mrs. Fiske, Katherine Grey
land 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 dramatie sections
of women's clubs, however, rush in
Iwhere managers fear to tread. Ittakes
courage to do Schnitzler, and most es¬
pecially the Ahätol Cycle.“
Anatel
is what the slang of the hour would
deseribe as a
Schaser.“ Each of the
scven episodes of his life plotured 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 old
love and taking on the new, Anatol
past master. It is Anatol’s
methods of pursuit and capture and
his repeazed disillusionment with the
prize that Schnitzler deseribes in the

eyele.
The adventures of the gay and vola¬
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tile Anatol with two of the ladles he
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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 bejingly orchidaceous. Po Elga she
te break off relations with one of hisbrought a full blown beauty, a great
prizes. Mimi, the girl in this case.
grace and dignity, and what we loye 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 *
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