8.
box 14/3
il
Arthur Schnitzler is known to the audiences
of the Irving Place Theatre through a cham¬
ing play of Viennes life. "Flirtation," acted
here two years ago by Agnes Sorma. That told
the story of a young girl who loved an officer,
led him into a duel through her affection for
him, and finally killed herself on his grave.
This episode was revealed with so much na¬
uralness, with such truth in its pathos and
such freshness in its humor that its author
seemed a figure to be reckoned with among the
contemporary German dramatista. His sty
seemed wholly his own. He treated in that
play one of the glory themes that at at the
younger German writers for the stage. But
his touch seemed lighter than that of his con¬
temporares, his imagination had a poetic char¬
acter which most of the lack, and his humor
had a delicacy that for them have shown.
So another play from him was to be awaited
with interest.
When it can there were few traces of the
author who introduced here in this de¬
lightful come onnes manner. Herr
Schnitzler appear interested the peo¬
ple of the stage as well as in the duel. Both of
these were suggest in Flitation." They
were the dominant factors in Freiwild,
which the company at the Irving Place Thea¬
tre acted last night. The heroine of this
was an acres insulted by an officer
in the army and defended by her lover, who
struck him in the face for his words about her.
here the action of play began, and for
that matter ondet. During the rest of it the
right and wrong of delling its necessity as a
means of preserving honor and its importance
when the man who made the assault was
satisfied, these were the questions which the
characters in the play discussed until the au¬
dience was bore tinction and sick ofte
subject.
It was at the piece took this tur, fo¬
it had begun with quant scene of theorical
life which promised be delightful. The mili¬
tary element was also attractively introduced
With the end of the first act all this came to an
end, however, and the was nothing
than the discussion of the possible duel,
It came in the last act and murdered
the hero. But it had killed the play
long before that. Its interest in a country
where duelling is a social institution might
be comprehensible. Herr Schnitzler's first
play seen here was rather local in interest
But its thesis, that a man should not trife with
a girl who is his social inferior, had a more uni¬
versal interest. There was too little of the
skilled dramatist about “Freiweld. The au¬
to showed to plainly his contempt for the
customary technique. This defect was aggra¬
vated by the fault of clumsy stage manage¬
ment rare, indeed, at the Irving Place That¬
THE OPERA.
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en, IX/1 Türkenstrasse 17.
in Budapest: „Figyelö, VIII. Josefsring 31 a. —
nen ja
Ve¬
New Yorker Spaziergänge.
Es war wirklich durchaus kein
Jagdwetter gestern; unten die schmel¬
zende Schneebrühe und von oben der
nasse Segen — da giebt kein Waid¬
mannsheil, und in der 14. Straße
sah es denn auch am Abende so de
aus, daß selbst die kühnsten Jäger
schleunigst bei Lüch w oder bei Kerler,
dem Columbusbier=Nachfolger Ernst
Wiehls, wo es warm und gemüthlich
war, untertauchten. Das Freiwild
hatte sich zwischen beiden getheilt, zu
dem biederen Bajuvaren Kerler waren
Leona Bergère mit ihrem Gatten
Horsky, der Paul Weigel, welcher sich
von den Ledigen Leuten erholt zu ha¬
ben scheint, und andere Stützen des
Germania. Ensembles gewandert,
und bei dem schönen August saßen Ju¬
lius Strobl und Willy Faber so ver¬
gnügt beisammen, daß man dem letz¬.50
teren wirklich nicht mehr ansah, wie¬
ihn eine halbe Stunde vorher der er¬
stere mitten durch's Herzchen geschof¬
sen hatte. Und die Kameraden vom
ment, der Jaques Howitz und dersel¬
auch
Rudolf Senius, der als Husarenlieu¬
tenant ganz besonden verführerisch
ausgesehen hatte, sowie Othello Han¬
no, der Baron von Seiffertitz, nicht
weit davon die niedliche Ora d'Estree
und die Gussie Fränkel — aber ohne
den Spitzenvorhang, den sie an dem
Stücke trug lieferten zusammen
mit jenen den Beweis, daß ihr Direk¬
sie nicht auf halbe Sage gesetzt
hatte.
Ueberhaupt — wem's gestern im
Irving Place Theater nicht klar ge¬
worden ist, daß wir Wilde doch bessere
Menschen sind, dem kann ich nicht hel¬
fen. Es sollte sich nur mal Jemand
erlauben, zum Beispiel unsere Eugenie
Schmitz für Freiwild zu halten und
sie zu einem mitternächtlichen Cham¬
pagner=Supper einladen — na, zum
zweiten Male würde er es nicht thun.
Oder die Pauline Hall, welche jetzt
grade bei Hyde und Behman die schön¬
sten Jugenderinnerungen wachruft.
Nein, so etwas thun sie nicht, unsere
Bühnengrößen, und selbst die kleinsten
Chormädel, deren schöne Beine nicht
im Hintergrunde zu verkümmern
brauchen, ziehen einen soliden älteren
Herrn aus Wallstreet jeglichem jungen
Hero aus Manila vor.
Abgesehen davon, lassen sich aber
auch die sämmtlichen österreichischen
box 14/3
il
Arthur Schnitzler is known to the audiences
of the Irving Place Theatre through a cham¬
ing play of Viennes life. "Flirtation," acted
here two years ago by Agnes Sorma. That told
the story of a young girl who loved an officer,
led him into a duel through her affection for
him, and finally killed herself on his grave.
This episode was revealed with so much na¬
uralness, with such truth in its pathos and
such freshness in its humor that its author
seemed a figure to be reckoned with among the
contemporary German dramatista. His sty
seemed wholly his own. He treated in that
play one of the glory themes that at at the
younger German writers for the stage. But
his touch seemed lighter than that of his con¬
temporares, his imagination had a poetic char¬
acter which most of the lack, and his humor
had a delicacy that for them have shown.
So another play from him was to be awaited
with interest.
When it can there were few traces of the
author who introduced here in this de¬
lightful come onnes manner. Herr
Schnitzler appear interested the peo¬
ple of the stage as well as in the duel. Both of
these were suggest in Flitation." They
were the dominant factors in Freiwild,
which the company at the Irving Place Thea¬
tre acted last night. The heroine of this
was an acres insulted by an officer
in the army and defended by her lover, who
struck him in the face for his words about her.
here the action of play began, and for
that matter ondet. During the rest of it the
right and wrong of delling its necessity as a
means of preserving honor and its importance
when the man who made the assault was
satisfied, these were the questions which the
characters in the play discussed until the au¬
dience was bore tinction and sick ofte
subject.
It was at the piece took this tur, fo¬
it had begun with quant scene of theorical
life which promised be delightful. The mili¬
tary element was also attractively introduced
With the end of the first act all this came to an
end, however, and the was nothing
than the discussion of the possible duel,
It came in the last act and murdered
the hero. But it had killed the play
long before that. Its interest in a country
where duelling is a social institution might
be comprehensible. Herr Schnitzler's first
play seen here was rather local in interest
But its thesis, that a man should not trife with
a girl who is his social inferior, had a more uni¬
versal interest. There was too little of the
skilled dramatist about “Freiweld. The au¬
to showed to plainly his contempt for the
customary technique. This defect was aggra¬
vated by the fault of clumsy stage manage¬
ment rare, indeed, at the Irving Place That¬
THE OPERA.
Telefon 12801.
men für Zeitungs-Ausschnitte.
„OBSERVER
incess. Bureau für Zeitungsberichte und Personaln
en, IX/1 Türkenstrasse 17.
in Budapest: „Figyelö, VIII. Josefsring 31 a. —
nen ja
Ve¬
New Yorker Spaziergänge.
Es war wirklich durchaus kein
Jagdwetter gestern; unten die schmel¬
zende Schneebrühe und von oben der
nasse Segen — da giebt kein Waid¬
mannsheil, und in der 14. Straße
sah es denn auch am Abende so de
aus, daß selbst die kühnsten Jäger
schleunigst bei Lüch w oder bei Kerler,
dem Columbusbier=Nachfolger Ernst
Wiehls, wo es warm und gemüthlich
war, untertauchten. Das Freiwild
hatte sich zwischen beiden getheilt, zu
dem biederen Bajuvaren Kerler waren
Leona Bergère mit ihrem Gatten
Horsky, der Paul Weigel, welcher sich
von den Ledigen Leuten erholt zu ha¬
ben scheint, und andere Stützen des
Germania. Ensembles gewandert,
und bei dem schönen August saßen Ju¬
lius Strobl und Willy Faber so ver¬
gnügt beisammen, daß man dem letz¬.50
teren wirklich nicht mehr ansah, wie¬
ihn eine halbe Stunde vorher der er¬
stere mitten durch's Herzchen geschof¬
sen hatte. Und die Kameraden vom
ment, der Jaques Howitz und dersel¬
auch
Rudolf Senius, der als Husarenlieu¬
tenant ganz besonden verführerisch
ausgesehen hatte, sowie Othello Han¬
no, der Baron von Seiffertitz, nicht
weit davon die niedliche Ora d'Estree
und die Gussie Fränkel — aber ohne
den Spitzenvorhang, den sie an dem
Stücke trug lieferten zusammen
mit jenen den Beweis, daß ihr Direk¬
sie nicht auf halbe Sage gesetzt
hatte.
Ueberhaupt — wem's gestern im
Irving Place Theater nicht klar ge¬
worden ist, daß wir Wilde doch bessere
Menschen sind, dem kann ich nicht hel¬
fen. Es sollte sich nur mal Jemand
erlauben, zum Beispiel unsere Eugenie
Schmitz für Freiwild zu halten und
sie zu einem mitternächtlichen Cham¬
pagner=Supper einladen — na, zum
zweiten Male würde er es nicht thun.
Oder die Pauline Hall, welche jetzt
grade bei Hyde und Behman die schön¬
sten Jugenderinnerungen wachruft.
Nein, so etwas thun sie nicht, unsere
Bühnengrößen, und selbst die kleinsten
Chormädel, deren schöne Beine nicht
im Hintergrunde zu verkümmern
brauchen, ziehen einen soliden älteren
Herrn aus Wallstreet jeglichem jungen
Hero aus Manila vor.
Abgesehen davon, lassen sich aber
auch die sämmtlichen österreichischen