4.9. Anatol - Zykle
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Y DECEMBER 18, 1912.
Drama of the Day
"THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL."
quence of episodes five of them by
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler, given in an English
paraphrase by Granville Barker. Presented
Dec. 17. 1912, at Fine Arts Theater. The
cost:
JOHN BARRIMORE
Arato
Max. his friend. SALD YORKE
ASK NE NO QUESTIONS.
Scene: Anatole rooms.
Hilda KATHERINE ARRIS
AN EPISODE.
Scene: Maxis rooms.
Blanca..................GALKANE
THE FARENELL SUPPER.
Scene: A private ream in a restaurant.
Mimi EANE
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
Scene Before a shop.
Gabrielle KATHERIE EMME
THE WEDDING MORNING.
Scene Anatole rooms.
Lona BELLE LER
The scenes are laid in Vienna and the time is
twenty years ago.
. . . .
if some one could only invent a way to make
these dear, damnable little creatures tell the
truth.
The principal task of friendel is to forter
one's friends tilusions.
Being burt is only half as bad as being pitted
for it.
Women are like in one thing they turn
impudent if you catch them in alle.
What a way to go through life eyes open,
imagination shut.
What a Philistina von are. When will von
understand that there are spiritual crises com¬
pared with which so commonplace a thing as
marriage is
ANATOLI I bring her a bunch of let¬
teurs come to ber eyes.
MAX-Try her with diamonds.
He's the sort of a fell that's very
ANATOL."
first love and nobody s last.
A FE GRINS AND A CIGALE.
RICKED out with songs and some
show girls the trife by Dr. Schnitzler
called The Affairs of Anatol with
spicy single quotes around Affairs would
make quite a conventionally disreputable
musical comedy; but tedium is a great
chastener and without those allurements
the Affairs is pretty thin stuff, deft enough
in an die way in parts, but tedious as a
whole, and containing a vast deal of cackle
to a very little diversion.
The skit is about a gull and his girls.
The gull is a lethargie young sensualist
who has had for mistresses half a dozen
Viennese shop girls, chorus girls and what¬
not. He has likewise a man friend named
Max, to whom he confides his triumphs
with the fair and frail.
As these triumphs are merely the carry¬
ing on of a green youth who flops about
like a belated Byronic derelict. No interest
attaches to them as experiences in life.
They are only pranks with loose, mercenary
women. Anatol chatters endlessly and Max
throws out eager questions indicative of
his solicitude for details. Their colloquy,
which in the present adaptation by Gran¬
ville Barker of the German original runs
on for two hours and a half, creates the
effect of a couple of gossiping old women
who have never been any better than they
should be. The various girl with whom
Anatol has been involved pop on to the
stage and off. Some of them lie, some of
them sentimentalize, some of them was
bald, and one of them, storming because
Anatol has left her in bed while he was
making up his mind to step out and be
married at 12:30 o'clock, smashes the dishes
in his flat while he dances on the plano in
terror, wildly waying a bridal bouquet and
begging his friend Max to leash the tigress.
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box 9/1
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Y DECEMBER 18, 1912.
Drama of the Day
"THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL."
quence of episodes five of them by
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler, given in an English
paraphrase by Granville Barker. Presented
Dec. 17. 1912, at Fine Arts Theater. The
cost:
JOHN BARRIMORE
Arato
Max. his friend. SALD YORKE
ASK NE NO QUESTIONS.
Scene: Anatole rooms.
Hilda KATHERINE ARRIS
AN EPISODE.
Scene: Maxis rooms.
Blanca..................GALKANE
THE FARENELL SUPPER.
Scene: A private ream in a restaurant.
Mimi EANE
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
Scene Before a shop.
Gabrielle KATHERIE EMME
THE WEDDING MORNING.
Scene Anatole rooms.
Lona BELLE LER
The scenes are laid in Vienna and the time is
twenty years ago.
. . . .
if some one could only invent a way to make
these dear, damnable little creatures tell the
truth.
The principal task of friendel is to forter
one's friends tilusions.
Being burt is only half as bad as being pitted
for it.
Women are like in one thing they turn
impudent if you catch them in alle.
What a way to go through life eyes open,
imagination shut.
What a Philistina von are. When will von
understand that there are spiritual crises com¬
pared with which so commonplace a thing as
marriage is
ANATOLI I bring her a bunch of let¬
teurs come to ber eyes.
MAX-Try her with diamonds.
He's the sort of a fell that's very
ANATOL."
first love and nobody s last.
A FE GRINS AND A CIGALE.
RICKED out with songs and some
show girls the trife by Dr. Schnitzler
called The Affairs of Anatol with
spicy single quotes around Affairs would
make quite a conventionally disreputable
musical comedy; but tedium is a great
chastener and without those allurements
the Affairs is pretty thin stuff, deft enough
in an die way in parts, but tedious as a
whole, and containing a vast deal of cackle
to a very little diversion.
The skit is about a gull and his girls.
The gull is a lethargie young sensualist
who has had for mistresses half a dozen
Viennese shop girls, chorus girls and what¬
not. He has likewise a man friend named
Max, to whom he confides his triumphs
with the fair and frail.
As these triumphs are merely the carry¬
ing on of a green youth who flops about
like a belated Byronic derelict. No interest
attaches to them as experiences in life.
They are only pranks with loose, mercenary
women. Anatol chatters endlessly and Max
throws out eager questions indicative of
his solicitude for details. Their colloquy,
which in the present adaptation by Gran¬
ville Barker of the German original runs
on for two hours and a half, creates the
effect of a couple of gossiping old women
who have never been any better than they
should be. The various girl with whom
Anatol has been involved pop on to the
stage and off. Some of them lie, some of
them sentimentalize, some of them was
bald, and one of them, storming because
Anatol has left her in bed while he was
making up his mind to step out and be
married at 12:30 o'clock, smashes the dishes
in his flat while he dances on the plano in
terror, wildly waying a bridal bouquet and
begging his friend Max to leash the tigress.
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