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4.9. Anatol - Zyklus
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News of the Theatres
The Affairs of Anatol Gives the Little Theatre an Aus¬
ing New Bill Miss Doris Reane Carries Off First Honors
Among the Five Leading Women and John Barrymore
Makes the Hero Anatol Quite a Young Devil of
a Fellow Some Delightful Entr'acte Music.
The Fair of Anatol, the famous was simply scandalous and then ha¬
series of amatory episodes with which threw him down to live with a man in
the orchestre with such delightful avidity
Artur Schnitzler has supplied his her¬
with success that the play has raked and stole a whole handful of Anatole
for the past ten years as a German classic, cigarettes to carry home to her new
was presented at the little Theatre last sweether as a souvenir.
Miss Kenne played this role with so
night by Manager Winthrop Ames before
a very carefully selected audience. From much decay and with such a fine re¬
tonight on the bars will be down and the gard for the German atmosphere of the
public a large an go to the Litte Theatre role that he performance became easily
the feature of the evening. Miss Kathe¬
as much as they like.
Last night performance completed rine Emmet was very charming as Ana¬
the quartet of private views with which to one respectable, or rather society
Mr. Ames elects to begin his season, love, and Miss labelle Lee as the virgo
since the little theatre, characteristi on, who broke up all the furniture
cally, is not enough to hold all brauch in Anatole studio when she discovered
of the publie at once. The Affaire of that he was to be married that morning.
Anatole is assured a novelty and one acted with so much enthusiasm that
which may make its appeal. It is a while trying to throw a book at Auto¬
study of mistresses, of which five are head she accidently tore out four of the
selected from Anatole extensive col¬vory notes of the grand piano.
Miss Lee's role was an arduous one,
lection for he really was quite a devi¬
but her muscular development was quite
of a fellow
Each of these ladies of pleasure was equal to it. Max Anatole confidentia
given an act all to herself, and whereas friend, in the Lands of Oswald Yorke, was
night at Wallacks, in "The New Sin a dreadful old bore. It should have
we are not to have any leading woman at been played by a fat man, or at least by
all. last night at the little Theatre Mr. some one who presented a more marked
An es presented no less that five. So contrast to Mr. Barrymore.
Anatol is a role which would as the
femme average is more than pre¬
capacity of even the most accomplished
the weeks theatral output,
Die Marguerite Clark was Anatole of light comedians. As Mr. Barry more
first little light of love. She was Hilda, presented him he was always a charming,
hypnotized to find out ikable cap, but without a widerange
whether she really was true to him or not, of moods as the role demanded. By the
Miss Clark made Hilda very sweet and end of the evening Anat had grown
charming, but scarcely what one might rather tirese, Mr. Barrymores best
call communicative. She made Anatol scene and he was capital in it was
the Christmas Eve episode, when he
passon to his next grand passion with the
mystery of her own for him quite un meets his old love, the respectable mar¬
ried woman, and tells her all about his
solved.
Then came mi, a beautiful cirous new little girl,
The pay is pretty mounted and the
lady, played with a good deal of hauteur
by Miss Gail Kane She was a brave string orchestre which plays between the
young woman, this same Mimi, and not acts is something to be hertil gratu¬
at all superstitious, for she did not scruple for in these days of harmoniums and other
to wear a beautifully embroidered peacock awful muscial contrations of the orches¬
tail on the front of her dress he couldn't tra pit.
The Affairs of Anatole in spite of
remember Anatol at all, though, on her
return from Russia, so she passed out its immoralities, is always kept essentially
of his life when they met again without polite though of course when she tears
up all the furniture in the last act Mimi
giving his heart the least abrasien.
Then came Mimi, the best of all of does forget her manners. It certainly
Anatole little flames and, as Miss Doris will live the little Theatres clientele
Kans presented her, by far the best something to talk about, and as it is all
played in a spirit of broad farce, with the
acted. Mimi was in the chorus, and
though, of course, she was devoted to exception of one scene, no one would
her art, the way that girl could eat oysters wish to take it seriously, of course.
ACTON DAVIES.
when she went to apper with Anton
et
OST. NEW YORK,
TU
The Affairs of Anatol."
The study of mankind by man is doubt-
less eminently proper, but it is not always
and in all its phases either amusing or
edifying. Beyond question the mirror is.
after a certain fashion, held up to nature
in The Affairs of Anatol," which was pre¬
sented in The Little Theatre last night, but
the reflection contained nothing new or in
the least degree valuable in the artiste
or any other sense. The affairs are
episodes, all more or less discreditable, in
the various amorous adventures of a guided
youth, and the scene is laid in Vienna, al¬
though it might just as well have been
placed in St. Petersburg, Paris, or New
York. Such incidents are common all the
world over in the downward course of dis¬
solute young fools whether they pose in
the guise of poets, philosophers, or plain
profligates. But the author of the original
piece is Arthur Schnitzler, à Viennese phy¬
sician and dramatist, who, of course, in¬
vested his scenes with local atmosphere and
color, and so Granville Barker, the Eng¬
lish adapter, ville modifying the incidents
and paraphrasing the dialogue, in deference
to the intelligence and prejudices of his
New York audienge, keeps his action in
the gay Austrian capital, not always with
the best artistic results. Schnitzler, a rep¬
resentative of the advanced and realistic
theatre, has won popularity at home by the
audacity, humor, and essential veracity of
his satirical social comedies, and as the ex¬
ponent of a cynical philosophy, He enjoys
the reputation of being a keen and re¬
morseless wit, whose fluent dialogue, rich
in worldly wisdom, has not only the ef¬
fervescence and the sparkle, but the ex¬
hilarating essence of change. The
value of his plays consists rather in the
quality of the characterization and the
speech, than in the illustrative incident. As
for The Affairs of Anatol," it is not dif¬
ficult to understand how in its original
shape, and with Viennese actors, experts in
the delicate art of skating over thin foe¬
it may have appealed to the more fas¬
tidious class of playgoers by its cynical
humors and to the crowd by its grosser
suggestions. Here it is revealed in muti¬
lated shape, but there is not the slightest
reason for complaint on that score. It was
thought best to omit two of the seven epi¬
sodes, and to paraphrase instead of trans¬
late. Doubtless, discretion in both respects
was amply justified, but the fact remains
that whatever brillaney may have existed
in the original German, is very badly
faded in the Englishalthough there are
vivid flashes of its occasionally while tu¬
surviving episodes contain very little in
their details that is either musing or
shocking, but a great deal that is foolish,
stale, and futile.
The idea that a production of this sort,
which, in spite of its pretentions affecta¬
tion of literary, philosophie, or artistic pur¬
port, is stale in incident and vulgar in
spirit, is a sort of intellectual manifesta¬
tion a step forward in the march of the¬
atrical progressis melancholy in its ab¬
surdity. The only advance of any kind
which it marks is in the excellence of
modern stage setting, upon which Mr. Ames
may be heartily congratulated. His four
sets are admirable in every way. Nothing
better of this kind has been done even by
David Belasco. But he has not been ac
happy in the selection of his players. Ana¬
tol is a character requiring the finesse,
the varied resource, and the authority of
an accomplished comedian. His successes
11
4.9. Anatol - Zyklus
ben
News of the Theatres
The Affairs of Anatol Gives the Little Theatre an Aus¬
ing New Bill Miss Doris Reane Carries Off First Honors
Among the Five Leading Women and John Barrymore
Makes the Hero Anatol Quite a Young Devil of
a Fellow Some Delightful Entr'acte Music.
The Fair of Anatol, the famous was simply scandalous and then ha¬
series of amatory episodes with which threw him down to live with a man in
the orchestre with such delightful avidity
Artur Schnitzler has supplied his her¬
with success that the play has raked and stole a whole handful of Anatole
for the past ten years as a German classic, cigarettes to carry home to her new
was presented at the little Theatre last sweether as a souvenir.
Miss Kenne played this role with so
night by Manager Winthrop Ames before
a very carefully selected audience. From much decay and with such a fine re¬
tonight on the bars will be down and the gard for the German atmosphere of the
public a large an go to the Litte Theatre role that he performance became easily
the feature of the evening. Miss Kathe¬
as much as they like.
Last night performance completed rine Emmet was very charming as Ana¬
the quartet of private views with which to one respectable, or rather society
Mr. Ames elects to begin his season, love, and Miss labelle Lee as the virgo
since the little theatre, characteristi on, who broke up all the furniture
cally, is not enough to hold all brauch in Anatole studio when she discovered
of the publie at once. The Affaire of that he was to be married that morning.
Anatole is assured a novelty and one acted with so much enthusiasm that
which may make its appeal. It is a while trying to throw a book at Auto¬
study of mistresses, of which five are head she accidently tore out four of the
selected from Anatole extensive col¬vory notes of the grand piano.
Miss Lee's role was an arduous one,
lection for he really was quite a devi¬
but her muscular development was quite
of a fellow
Each of these ladies of pleasure was equal to it. Max Anatole confidentia
given an act all to herself, and whereas friend, in the Lands of Oswald Yorke, was
night at Wallacks, in "The New Sin a dreadful old bore. It should have
we are not to have any leading woman at been played by a fat man, or at least by
all. last night at the little Theatre Mr. some one who presented a more marked
An es presented no less that five. So contrast to Mr. Barrymore.
Anatol is a role which would as the
femme average is more than pre¬
capacity of even the most accomplished
the weeks theatral output,
Die Marguerite Clark was Anatole of light comedians. As Mr. Barry more
first little light of love. She was Hilda, presented him he was always a charming,
hypnotized to find out ikable cap, but without a widerange
whether she really was true to him or not, of moods as the role demanded. By the
Miss Clark made Hilda very sweet and end of the evening Anat had grown
charming, but scarcely what one might rather tirese, Mr. Barrymores best
call communicative. She made Anatol scene and he was capital in it was
the Christmas Eve episode, when he
passon to his next grand passion with the
mystery of her own for him quite un meets his old love, the respectable mar¬
ried woman, and tells her all about his
solved.
Then came mi, a beautiful cirous new little girl,
The pay is pretty mounted and the
lady, played with a good deal of hauteur
by Miss Gail Kane She was a brave string orchestre which plays between the
young woman, this same Mimi, and not acts is something to be hertil gratu¬
at all superstitious, for she did not scruple for in these days of harmoniums and other
to wear a beautifully embroidered peacock awful muscial contrations of the orches¬
tail on the front of her dress he couldn't tra pit.
The Affairs of Anatole in spite of
remember Anatol at all, though, on her
return from Russia, so she passed out its immoralities, is always kept essentially
of his life when they met again without polite though of course when she tears
up all the furniture in the last act Mimi
giving his heart the least abrasien.
Then came Mimi, the best of all of does forget her manners. It certainly
Anatole little flames and, as Miss Doris will live the little Theatres clientele
Kans presented her, by far the best something to talk about, and as it is all
played in a spirit of broad farce, with the
acted. Mimi was in the chorus, and
though, of course, she was devoted to exception of one scene, no one would
her art, the way that girl could eat oysters wish to take it seriously, of course.
ACTON DAVIES.
when she went to apper with Anton
et
OST. NEW YORK,
TU
The Affairs of Anatol."
The study of mankind by man is doubt-
less eminently proper, but it is not always
and in all its phases either amusing or
edifying. Beyond question the mirror is.
after a certain fashion, held up to nature
in The Affairs of Anatol," which was pre¬
sented in The Little Theatre last night, but
the reflection contained nothing new or in
the least degree valuable in the artiste
or any other sense. The affairs are
episodes, all more or less discreditable, in
the various amorous adventures of a guided
youth, and the scene is laid in Vienna, al¬
though it might just as well have been
placed in St. Petersburg, Paris, or New
York. Such incidents are common all the
world over in the downward course of dis¬
solute young fools whether they pose in
the guise of poets, philosophers, or plain
profligates. But the author of the original
piece is Arthur Schnitzler, à Viennese phy¬
sician and dramatist, who, of course, in¬
vested his scenes with local atmosphere and
color, and so Granville Barker, the Eng¬
lish adapter, ville modifying the incidents
and paraphrasing the dialogue, in deference
to the intelligence and prejudices of his
New York audienge, keeps his action in
the gay Austrian capital, not always with
the best artistic results. Schnitzler, a rep¬
resentative of the advanced and realistic
theatre, has won popularity at home by the
audacity, humor, and essential veracity of
his satirical social comedies, and as the ex¬
ponent of a cynical philosophy, He enjoys
the reputation of being a keen and re¬
morseless wit, whose fluent dialogue, rich
in worldly wisdom, has not only the ef¬
fervescence and the sparkle, but the ex¬
hilarating essence of change. The
value of his plays consists rather in the
quality of the characterization and the
speech, than in the illustrative incident. As
for The Affairs of Anatol," it is not dif¬
ficult to understand how in its original
shape, and with Viennese actors, experts in
the delicate art of skating over thin foe¬
it may have appealed to the more fas¬
tidious class of playgoers by its cynical
humors and to the crowd by its grosser
suggestions. Here it is revealed in muti¬
lated shape, but there is not the slightest
reason for complaint on that score. It was
thought best to omit two of the seven epi¬
sodes, and to paraphrase instead of trans¬
late. Doubtless, discretion in both respects
was amply justified, but the fact remains
that whatever brillaney may have existed
in the original German, is very badly
faded in the Englishalthough there are
vivid flashes of its occasionally while tu¬
surviving episodes contain very little in
their details that is either musing or
shocking, but a great deal that is foolish,
stale, and futile.
The idea that a production of this sort,
which, in spite of its pretentions affecta¬
tion of literary, philosophie, or artistic pur¬
port, is stale in incident and vulgar in
spirit, is a sort of intellectual manifesta¬
tion a step forward in the march of the¬
atrical progressis melancholy in its ab¬
surdity. The only advance of any kind
which it marks is in the excellence of
modern stage setting, upon which Mr. Ames
may be heartily congratulated. His four
sets are admirable in every way. Nothing
better of this kind has been done even by
David Belasco. But he has not been ac
happy in the selection of his players. Ana¬
tol is a character requiring the finesse,
the varied resource, and the authority of
an accomplished comedian. His successes
11