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10. Der Ruf es Lebens
6 Zetere Theatre presents Arlhur #
Schaltelers drama. The Call o
Life: Englich versien bu Doroiy
Demeln, at de Comehy Theake¬
4ie St., near Gih Aos. Pen. 3838.
richt va finely appeinied compang.
elich van audiene theroughlg altred
vemeined to eall ageln and agai be¬
fare de eurichn. — E. W. Osborn.
—By Percy Hammond
Ere. Werld. Maline Tomorrow and
Sat.
Eva Le Gallienne
a Cat tnelndes Poa Le Callenne.
Kalherine Alezonder. Egen Brecher.
Reselne Faller. Thenas Chlmer¬
Derck Elynn and oliers.
6 dierander Woleo in Tie
Wortd saldt —4 fne, rich. nourthn
Grentag in die Gheare . . 4 Sere“
ing konte, profeunig iaterentng vien.
Fr Dümbriile
#tgeninfiler Thomas Chalmers
Krs. Toni Richter Allee John
Catherine Katherine Alexander
Mak Derek Glynn
Sebastlan Leete Stone
The. Colonel Hermann Lleb
Albert Stanlsy Kalkhurst
irene Rosalind Fuller
Synopsis—Act I, the Mosers’ apartment,
evening; Act II, at the offleers’ quartere,
the säme night; Act III, Mrs. Richter’s
home in the country, a month later,
The action of the play ie lald in and
gear Vienna in 1850.
TR. SCHNITZLER was suffering
IV from damp spirits when, twenty
years ago, he wrote“ The Call of Life,“
a depressing threnody revived last
night in Thirty-ninth Street by the
Actors' Theater. He was evidently of
tbe impression that“who breathes
must suffer; who acts must mourn,“
920
and that life, as Mr. Cohan also once
d
figured it out, is a. funny proposition
Who appeured last night in The
after all. The remedies, if any, for
Call of Life,' as the Comedy
this state of affairs were not pre¬
—
6
scribed, so far as I could tell; but
Fex¬
Alexander) had similarly answered
there was much in the play’s clouded
ma¬
life's summons as uttered by Albert,
philosophy that was incomprehensible
fher.
another good-looking herald. That lady
to any but the most astute drama¬
aill¬
in the last act also died, after a long
lovers.
display of symptoms reminiscent of
to
those which marked Ophelia’s last
If the fable of“ The Call of Life' be
Zins
reported as follows in simple terms
loony hours.
#ich
you may understand and interpret it.
The performance was obviously
ging.
Marie Moser (Miss Eva Le Gallienne),
ver¬
make-believe, a thing of entrances and
living near Vienna in 1850, the slave of
exits, postures and written speeches
her selfish old father, poisoned him to
dthe
learned by heart and pronounced by
death. As he crumbled upon the floor
t go
persons of the theater. The soldiers'
she rushed away to the quarters of
Frue
uniforms were as stiff and toy-like as
Max, a handsome lieutenant. But the
gec¬
those of the Chauve-Souris, and the
young wife of the Colonel, had likewise
tand
mountain background of the last act
hearkened to passion’s reveille and was
was a thin and wabbly outline, reeking
tthe
beseeching the tall soldier to flee with
of the Bergman studios. Miss Le Gal¬
Fen¬
her. It was the eve of battle, and the
lienne, as Marie Moser, the principal
Blue Cuirassiers, of which the lieu¬
frek
character, seemed more spectral than
tenant was a member, had sworn to
üdle
usual, being pale and wraith-like in
befface by their valor the regimental
5 be
appearance and unearthly in deport¬
odium. Thirty years before, the Blue
lea-
ment.
Cuirassiers, led by Marie’s father, had
9 In.
tal¬
Fretreated ingloriously from a field of
Miss Alexander played her mysteri¬
ited
honor.
ous ceusln mysteriously, and did the
#ar¬
best she could with a hard job.
As Marie, hidden behind a curtain,
liked the spectacular soldier boys, Mr.
act
witnessed the encounter between her
at
Derek Glynne and Mr. Stanley Kalk¬
lieutenant and the colonel’s wife, the
zler
hurst, but the performances I thought
olonel (Mr. Herman Lieb) broke
hve
best were those of Mr. Lieb, as the
Schrough a window and shot his erring
isly
sinister and romantic colonel, and of
1 41
spouse through the heart. During the
Mr. Egon Brecher, as old Moser, the
intermission, it seems, Marie gave her¬
mean ex-curaissier. Miss Dorothy Don¬
mst
self to the warrior, who committed sui¬
4
eide immediately thereafter. Mean-(nelly translated the play and made of
chet
#time, Marie’s cousin (Miss Katherine it at least a translation.
IThe Call of Life“ to be clasped to
—ructrons seenung more real and more
the public bosom, but the hat of your
multitudinous than ever before in my
correspondent is hereby doffed re¬
experience as a playgoer. Indeed, the
spectfully in honor of a fine ambition
whole world scemned to be in the
wings last night and I was driven toand an honorablé achlevement.
1
EThe
jened
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10. Der Ruf es Lebens
6 Zetere Theatre presents Arlhur #
Schaltelers drama. The Call o
Life: Englich versien bu Doroiy
Demeln, at de Comehy Theake¬
4ie St., near Gih Aos. Pen. 3838.
richt va finely appeinied compang.
elich van audiene theroughlg altred
vemeined to eall ageln and agai be¬
fare de eurichn. — E. W. Osborn.
—By Percy Hammond
Ere. Werld. Maline Tomorrow and
Sat.
Eva Le Gallienne
a Cat tnelndes Poa Le Callenne.
Kalherine Alezonder. Egen Brecher.
Reselne Faller. Thenas Chlmer¬
Derck Elynn and oliers.
6 dierander Woleo in Tie
Wortd saldt —4 fne, rich. nourthn
Grentag in die Gheare . . 4 Sere“
ing konte, profeunig iaterentng vien.
Fr Dümbriile
#tgeninfiler Thomas Chalmers
Krs. Toni Richter Allee John
Catherine Katherine Alexander
Mak Derek Glynn
Sebastlan Leete Stone
The. Colonel Hermann Lleb
Albert Stanlsy Kalkhurst
irene Rosalind Fuller
Synopsis—Act I, the Mosers’ apartment,
evening; Act II, at the offleers’ quartere,
the säme night; Act III, Mrs. Richter’s
home in the country, a month later,
The action of the play ie lald in and
gear Vienna in 1850.
TR. SCHNITZLER was suffering
IV from damp spirits when, twenty
years ago, he wrote“ The Call of Life,“
a depressing threnody revived last
night in Thirty-ninth Street by the
Actors' Theater. He was evidently of
tbe impression that“who breathes
must suffer; who acts must mourn,“
920
and that life, as Mr. Cohan also once
d
figured it out, is a. funny proposition
Who appeured last night in The
after all. The remedies, if any, for
Call of Life,' as the Comedy
this state of affairs were not pre¬
—
6
scribed, so far as I could tell; but
Fex¬
Alexander) had similarly answered
there was much in the play’s clouded
ma¬
life's summons as uttered by Albert,
philosophy that was incomprehensible
fher.
another good-looking herald. That lady
to any but the most astute drama¬
aill¬
in the last act also died, after a long
lovers.
display of symptoms reminiscent of
to
those which marked Ophelia’s last
If the fable of“ The Call of Life' be
Zins
reported as follows in simple terms
loony hours.
#ich
you may understand and interpret it.
The performance was obviously
ging.
Marie Moser (Miss Eva Le Gallienne),
ver¬
make-believe, a thing of entrances and
living near Vienna in 1850, the slave of
exits, postures and written speeches
her selfish old father, poisoned him to
dthe
learned by heart and pronounced by
death. As he crumbled upon the floor
t go
persons of the theater. The soldiers'
she rushed away to the quarters of
Frue
uniforms were as stiff and toy-like as
Max, a handsome lieutenant. But the
gec¬
those of the Chauve-Souris, and the
young wife of the Colonel, had likewise
tand
mountain background of the last act
hearkened to passion’s reveille and was
was a thin and wabbly outline, reeking
tthe
beseeching the tall soldier to flee with
of the Bergman studios. Miss Le Gal¬
Fen¬
her. It was the eve of battle, and the
lienne, as Marie Moser, the principal
Blue Cuirassiers, of which the lieu¬
frek
character, seemed more spectral than
tenant was a member, had sworn to
üdle
usual, being pale and wraith-like in
befface by their valor the regimental
5 be
appearance and unearthly in deport¬
odium. Thirty years before, the Blue
lea-
ment.
Cuirassiers, led by Marie’s father, had
9 In.
tal¬
Fretreated ingloriously from a field of
Miss Alexander played her mysteri¬
ited
honor.
ous ceusln mysteriously, and did the
#ar¬
best she could with a hard job.
As Marie, hidden behind a curtain,
liked the spectacular soldier boys, Mr.
act
witnessed the encounter between her
at
Derek Glynne and Mr. Stanley Kalk¬
lieutenant and the colonel’s wife, the
zler
hurst, but the performances I thought
olonel (Mr. Herman Lieb) broke
hve
best were those of Mr. Lieb, as the
Schrough a window and shot his erring
isly
sinister and romantic colonel, and of
1 41
spouse through the heart. During the
Mr. Egon Brecher, as old Moser, the
intermission, it seems, Marie gave her¬
mean ex-curaissier. Miss Dorothy Don¬
mst
self to the warrior, who committed sui¬
4
eide immediately thereafter. Mean-(nelly translated the play and made of
chet
#time, Marie’s cousin (Miss Katherine it at least a translation.
IThe Call of Life“ to be clasped to
—ructrons seenung more real and more
the public bosom, but the hat of your
multitudinous than ever before in my
correspondent is hereby doffed re¬
experience as a playgoer. Indeed, the
spectfully in honor of a fine ambition
whole world scemned to be in the
wings last night and I was driven toand an honorablé achlevement.
1
EThe
jened