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III
LES MONDA
LITTLE THEATRE.
ANATOL."
sequence of Dialogues by Art Sr.
Paraphrased by GRANVILLE BANEE.
Anatol
GRANVILLE BARKER
Max
NIGEL PLAYFAIR
Hilda
.. GERTRUDE ROBINS
Gabrielle
KATHARINE POLE
Bianca
DORO MO
Mimi
LILLA MARTY
Lona
ALICE CRAWORD
Recommended by his unce to study the law,
the lay Templar in "The von Box
replied that he had already looked into it, but
found it didn't repay inspection. Perhaps
some of us found the same thing with Anatol
at the Palace Theatre, where we could only
look into it piecemeal. But now that we can
see it steadily and see it whole we find inspec¬
tion quite worth while.
Anatol is a young, very young, Viennese Don
Juan, idle, wealthy, well-bred. His youth must
be insisted on, for a more mature Don Juan
would be a sensualist, a jaded and hypercritical
connoisseur, whereas Anatol is an idealist, fresh,
eager, full of illusions. He is still in the stage
wherein woman seems a fascinating riddle,
to which there must, surely, be a complete
answer and a delightful, it you could only
find it out. He is always trying to find it out,
poor dear, and naturally his attempts have
to be made with ladies of the more facile sort.
As naturally, there is no riddle whatever
in ladies of this sort (to say nothing of the
others), but Anatol does not know it, and
that is part of the fun. If they are not as
plain as a pikestaff to him it is because he
does not really see them. He sees in each
case a woman of his own imagination. That
is the way of your idealist when he happens to
be an homme à femmes. Anatolis matter of¬
fact friend, Max, often tries to open his eyes,
but in vain. Is Hilda really true ? Anatol
is a clever amateur hypnotist and, suggests
Max, could easily find out what he wants to
know by putting
to sleep and asking
straight questions. Dut when she is asleep
Anatol cannot ask the question of questions.
For one thing, he is a gentleman. For another,
he dare not risk the loss of his illusions. Cupid,
with the bandage off his eyes, would be
an ugly little monster. Hilda, reawakened,
is obviously afraid that she may have been made
to say too much obviously to all but Anatol,
who has saved his ideals. Max remarks cheer¬
fully that momento lies just as well when
they're asleep.
Anatol, as methodical as his great prototype,
who kept an accurate list of the thousand and
three," has all his old love-letters tied up in
assorted bundles, and goes through them all
with Max. The impudent little liar, the one
who married a milkman, the one who always
carried her curling tongs, and the rest. Phantoms
now, all of them save Bianca. Bianca really
did love him and, he is sure, will never forget
him. The lady-killer cannot help being sorry
for that poor little victim, Bianca. At that
moment Bianca arrives on a visit to Max.
She has clean forgotten Anatol ! This does
your idealist inhabit a world of illusion, and
see in others what is only the ex¬
na
to
Zykl
box 8/7
on 12.891.
4
A
A. konz. Unternehmen für
tungsausschnitte
Konkordiaplatz 4.
Vertretungen
in, Basel, Budapest, Chicago, Cleveland, Christiania,
Genf, Kopenhagen, London, Madrid, Mailand, Minneapolis,
New-York, Paris, Rom, San Francisco, Stockholm, St. Peters¬
burg, Toronto.
(Quellenangabe ohne Gewähr).
Ausschnitt aus:
on
vom
III
LES MONDA
LITTLE THEATRE.
ANATOL."
sequence of Dialogues by Art Sr.
Paraphrased by GRANVILLE BANEE.
Anatol
GRANVILLE BARKER
Max
NIGEL PLAYFAIR
Hilda
.. GERTRUDE ROBINS
Gabrielle
KATHARINE POLE
Bianca
DORO MO
Mimi
LILLA MARTY
Lona
ALICE CRAWORD
Recommended by his unce to study the law,
the lay Templar in "The von Box
replied that he had already looked into it, but
found it didn't repay inspection. Perhaps
some of us found the same thing with Anatol
at the Palace Theatre, where we could only
look into it piecemeal. But now that we can
see it steadily and see it whole we find inspec¬
tion quite worth while.
Anatol is a young, very young, Viennese Don
Juan, idle, wealthy, well-bred. His youth must
be insisted on, for a more mature Don Juan
would be a sensualist, a jaded and hypercritical
connoisseur, whereas Anatol is an idealist, fresh,
eager, full of illusions. He is still in the stage
wherein woman seems a fascinating riddle,
to which there must, surely, be a complete
answer and a delightful, it you could only
find it out. He is always trying to find it out,
poor dear, and naturally his attempts have
to be made with ladies of the more facile sort.
As naturally, there is no riddle whatever
in ladies of this sort (to say nothing of the
others), but Anatol does not know it, and
that is part of the fun. If they are not as
plain as a pikestaff to him it is because he
does not really see them. He sees in each
case a woman of his own imagination. That
is the way of your idealist when he happens to
be an homme à femmes. Anatolis matter of¬
fact friend, Max, often tries to open his eyes,
but in vain. Is Hilda really true ? Anatol
is a clever amateur hypnotist and, suggests
Max, could easily find out what he wants to
know by putting
to sleep and asking
straight questions. Dut when she is asleep
Anatol cannot ask the question of questions.
For one thing, he is a gentleman. For another,
he dare not risk the loss of his illusions. Cupid,
with the bandage off his eyes, would be
an ugly little monster. Hilda, reawakened,
is obviously afraid that she may have been made
to say too much obviously to all but Anatol,
who has saved his ideals. Max remarks cheer¬
fully that momento lies just as well when
they're asleep.
Anatol, as methodical as his great prototype,
who kept an accurate list of the thousand and
three," has all his old love-letters tied up in
assorted bundles, and goes through them all
with Max. The impudent little liar, the one
who married a milkman, the one who always
carried her curling tongs, and the rest. Phantoms
now, all of them save Bianca. Bianca really
did love him and, he is sure, will never forget
him. The lady-killer cannot help being sorry
for that poor little victim, Bianca. At that
moment Bianca arrives on a visit to Max.
She has clean forgotten Anatol ! This does
your idealist inhabit a world of illusion, and
see in others what is only the ex¬
na