II, Theaterstücke 19, Der Ruf des Lebens. Schauspiel in drei Akten (Vatermörderin), Seite 546

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Schnitzler Returns to Broadway
By Robert Sparks
Once more Arthur Schnitzler has be- ican theatre, Anatol and others of his one¬
act plays have becn a factor in the suceess
come a figure of news interest in this coun¬
of the Little Theatre Movement winning re¬
try. This season he is to have two of his
spect and admiration for the author. His
plays produced on Broadway—one by the
novels, poems and short stories, too, have
attracted attention on this side of the Atlan¬
Actors' Theatre and the other by the The¬
tic. Since Schnitzler’s prominence in
atre Guild.
Europe has come about principally through
Schnitzler has been a figure in the Con¬
his ability as a dramatist, he is in the unique
tinental drama since 1802 at which time
position of having become famous in Amer¬
his cyele of dialogues written around the
ica without much professional assistance
Caffairs' of Anatol was produced in Vienna.
from our theatre. That, seemingly, would
Success came immediately, for Anatol’s ad¬
have been the logical place for so distin¬
ventures took Vienna by storm. Since then
guished a playwright to get his honors.
Schnitzler has forged- steadily ahead until
Schnitzler is a very prolisic writer. De¬
he is now the leading Austrian dramatist
spite the fact that he has written many
and a power long felt in the European
plays and sketches only a few have been
theatre.
performed in New York. The first per¬
His fame abroad, however, has had little
formance of a Schnitzler play here was
to do with the tide of affairs in the Amer¬