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The Affairs
of Anatol
Delightful.


y CHARLES DANTON.
you have read Schalent dialogues you know how good they
are, but until you go to the Litte Theatre you cannot know how much
better they act than read.
These sketches, five of which have been grouped under the title of The
Affairs of Anatol," may be accepted as the last word in philandering. Their
easy morat is hat variety is the spice of life. In Schnitzten Vienna
nothing could be more simple, and even here in stad New York it may be
understood. The fact is that it's the intimate quality of these ging episodes
that gives them their special charm. Both men and women are kely to chuckle
over innocent little adventures of their own in following Affairs of
Anatol." Indeed, it may now be counted as a certainty that daughter will
nightly gladden the walls of the house where some very sa affals have taken
place. While this form of entertainment five separate episodes must be re¬
garded as an experiment, there is no reason to fear that it will not prove
popular, for these "Affaire are de¬
cidedly lively and witty. To theatre¬
gers who have reached the age of dis¬
cretion they are sure to prove delight¬
ful.
Excellent tasta has been shown by
Winthrop Ames in staging the sketches,
and the acting is sometimes very good
and never very bad. A fresh face, and
usually a pretty one, in each Affaire
serves to keep the interest alive and to
add novelty to the performance. There's
always a new girl to drive away dul
care and defy monotony. She's there
one moment, and gone the next. This
pleasing arrangement brings about
sort of acting tournament in which five
leading women participate. It's for
you to say which is the best of the
number. You can say it and live, be¬
cause you don't have to say it in print.
After "The Daughter of Heaven."
however, I will say that it is pleasure to
see these daughters of earth who drop
into bachelors rooms at any hour that
suits their fancy. The first arrive is
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Das Marguerite Clarke, as Hilda
charming! To find out whether she is
John Barrymore as Anatol.
true to him. Anatol hypnotizes her, but
he can't bring himself to ask the awkward question. So Huda is saved from
telling anything more than her ago. Miss Clarke is just the girl for the part.
She pure softly and does off like a kitten. This little autres deserves the
warm corner in which you leave her¬
Anato next brings his "past" to his patient friend Max. It's a boxed
with trophies of his conquest. One recalls Bianca, who came into his life with
a circus. Once they had sat under the dam in his room for two, and his
fatal charm ad von her poor child. He knows she will never forget those
wonderful two short hours, though three years have passed. Then Blanca
als in one acquaintance with and he doesn't know
Adam. In bitterness of spirit, his pride sorely wounded, Anatol goes out in
the night. Miss Gail Kane turns this trick very rely. She is capital as the
cious gin whose blank look takes at the rose out of Anatol for that
evening.
The cynical Schnitzler again displays is cleverness in making a fool of
Anatol in The Farewell Supper." When Mimi comes from the theatre to join
him and Max in a private room at a restaurant he is ready to tell her, accord¬
ing to their agreement, that he has learned to love another. But before he can
do so, Mimi lets him know that she has
transferred her affections to follow¬
artist." But she doesn't let anything
interfere with her appetite. Miss Doris
Keane eats oysters and drinks cham¬
pagne like an artist, but she misses
some of the good things that marked
the performance of Mme. Wiehe when
that clever artist appeared here in "The
Farewell Supper nine years ago. At
the Saturday night dress rehears Mi¬
Kene added a touch that was peculiari
her own by rubbing her knee under the
table.
Miss Katherine Emmet arrives with
A Christmas Present." She is ad¬
mirable though bitter as a married
lady who talks with Anatol of his