II, Theaterstücke 11, (Reigen, 0), Reigen. Zehn Dialoge, Seite 1072

edge of it.
began to
such situ¬
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bie, on the
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Ralph Stewart, who were to have
foreword ac
staged the production. About fift)
Child of
1
And dre
members and their guests were pres¬
This leads
ent. Mr. Kahn left at the close of
Garden of I
the dinner and did not hear the rend
äfter she 1
ing. No police action was taken dur
glass count
ing the reading of the manuscript and
ed by tall
lilies, roses
explanation of stage business, or at
tiger-Iily
the close of the reading.
lulte capab
The publie would denounce Rei¬
nybody we
gen' if it occurred in Vienna and
had learnee
plained, bei
Berlin,“ reads a statement issuec
Hciently ha
Jater by members of the club.“We
make the
had hoped for a theatreful of intelli¬
Hlowers are
gent adults. The reaction of the gen¬
The next
leral public to tho play is no concern
rative oft
of ours. Dur only concern was the
the Jabber
absence of the general public; per
“vorpal bl:
Haps not so much to protect the pub
which the
lic as to protect Arthur Schnitzler’s
antly galun
play.“
ster’s heat
in the course of the dinner the po¬
and the sli
liceman entered the dining room three
ble in the
times. A detective of Inspector Bo¬
Then cor
lan’s staff was also stationed at ibe
the compo.
Belasco Theatre.
insects seei
When one of the young actresses
Glass conn
who were to have played in the thea¬
with its b.
tre presentation arrived at the club
wings of
in a taxicab a detective walting out¬
raisin burn
side demanded she hand sver the
the Rockin
manuscript. He was arguing with
that lived
her when Lloyd Buckley, a membei
swung itse.
of the club, came out and tock over
branch; th
the manuscript.
miniature
Tou can't täke that into the club,“
ers; the S
said the detective.
and-butterf
Uh- devil I can't,“ said the mem¬
tered bread
ber, and darted into the club witl
lived, on we
if-bafore the deteetive could take #1
Therins
krom him.
ture of the
The detective explained he thought
Don Quixot
the young womanwas going to take
blous, and
part in a presentation of the play on
composer d
the stage of the club.“
gram-note.
called, a n
John S. Sumner of the Society for
bew (altho
the Suppression of Vice, wrote 10 In¬
spector Bolan several days ago, de¬
that it wasi
nouneing the play as "vile.
be any mi
Mr
and there v
Sumner said he had read the work
borse’s feet
and policemen should be on hand,
of sharks.
prepared to take 'drastic action,
when it was presented.
armor, and
He alleged it violates section 1140-A
rider, for w.
of the Penal Laws, under which the
he fell off 1)
producers and cast of"The God of
went on ag:
Vengeance, playing at the Apollo
he was“a
Theatre, were indicted last Tucsday
entions:
and beld in 4300 hail each the next
the end of
day, by Judge Crain in Special Ses¬
Alice is w
sions.
after the
This apparently resulted in last
knight, beci
night’s pollce vigilance, Mr. Sumner
would encor
wrote. You will note that While
did.
women appear in the cast, they will
Mr. Tayle
not be permitted in the audience. The
task when
affair has all the carmarks of a sala
chronicle of
cious stag performance.
ject for mu
The play ds a series of intimate epi¬
casy to pat.
sodes, in each of which a'man and a
woman figure. In each succeeding
episode a man or a wolnan who ap¬
GERMAN
peared in the preceding scenc is seen
again, but with another admirer.
ON !
An oflicer of. the club said a uni¬
förmed policeman was on duty there
because it was feared the postpone
Salaries of
ment of the presentation at the Be¬
tor Not
lasco Theatre might result in the
ticket holders appearing at the read¬
mann
ing and overtax the capacity of the
auditorium.
Investigatlo
He also denied that a detective Had
attempted to prevent the manuseript
German Oper
being brought in and that any detec¬
rival jhere Je
tive was on duty outside the club
house.
the princlpals
rector George
serving virtu
DTAGE AND
the Amerlear
There is sald
proximately s
SCREEN
George Bli
Five new productions will see light
the Wagneria
of. Broadway to-day When“ Pasteur
clared the co
opens at the Empire,“ Barnum Was
night at the
Riel
Major
of his
dency.
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bill, a
1 eco¬
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ago,
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When Reigen'
Mae Murr
Finally Is Rea :
Dance an
All 18 N
Dines With Green Room
Is
Club, but Has Another
Jazzmania“
Engagement'' by Time
much with th
though Miss
Sultry Drama Is Reached
her symphoniz
certain attitud
heroics, as if
Police More Courageous
making faces
glass. Miss M
charmingly th
They Remain Through Ten
and kids the s
Love Climaxes in Which
of somewhat
Romeo in the
Brief Nods Do for Kisses
And the au
Theater enjoy
high-born mel
Arthur Schnitzler's play“Reigen
The story.
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was read at the Green Room Club last
ding, sets Mi
night, but Otto H. Kahn was not among
possession of
those who heard it. After the dinner
little coupntp
at which he was the guest of honor
heard of unti
he slipped away, saying that he had
was organized
ahother engagement.
220
ach other.“
It was originallv intended to present
is charactered
the play at the Belasco Theater, but
remarkably pr.
John S. Sumner, secretary of the New
remains the w
Fork Society for the Suppression of
and we find
ne
Vice, threatened to prosecute onsthe
—4
translation¬
ground that the play was “obscene.'
Ninon’s thro
Mr. Kahn wrote a letter to the club
apartments lik
directors saying that he would not at¬
tion, very grat
tend the production. The directors
the conspirator
then decided to have the play read
Prince Otto, t
n order to get the opinion of the bub¬
family.“
lic on it before. producing it.
non, "and I wil
With their na
Sultry Play of Ten Climaxes
match the vill:
As it was read last night “Reigen'
storming the
was divided into ten episodes, each of
Miss Murray
which depicted a rather sultry love
garnishings¬
nffair. In fact, the warmth became
of the sort th¬
rather oppressive after the first two.
wore as Colo,
It is difficult to imagine any one but
Backs.
Mr. Sumner sitting through the entire
porfermance.
There are never more than two char¬
the Suppress
acters on the stage at one time, a man
find fault.
and a woman. The dialogue between
To a sop
them does not differ in intent from
could sca.
###gih che cemlages of ang of a num¬
same thir
ber of Broadway successes. The play
It might
is really a string of ten elimaxes.
phisticat,
Perhaps the effectiveness of the
manner
ines was a little hampered by the cos¬
er’s th,
tume of the various heroines, an
is somt
im¬
maculate dinner coat, although Mr.
He wris
Ha
Crane read their parts faultlessly.
ikely to
Mr.
Ralph Stewart, the other reader, evi¬
presented
Gently found it rather difficult to be¬
slightly di.
come ardent when Lthe lady' wore a
Before th
boiled shirt, and a high, wing-tipped
vice-preside,
collar. All of the kisses, with which
thatit was
the play is liberally sprinkled, were in¬
club to prese
dicated by perfunctory nods given at
ublic, "not
n distance with which the Society for
publie from A
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