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4.9. Anatol
HEMSTREET
96 WARREN STREET
NEW YORK CITY
Anatol Revived
Bela Blau Offers Schnitzler Comedy Hand¬
somely at the Lyceum Theater.
By RICHARD LOCKRIDGE.
Arthur Schnitzler's "Anatol," that gentle merger of the
irony and sentimentality of old Vienna, was revived at the
Lyceum Theater last evening by Bela Blau, Inc., amid a pro¬
fusion of handsome sets designed for the occasion by Jo Miel¬
ziner. It was revived with Joseph Schildkraut in the title
role and with a hushed solemnity which, during four of the
six episodes, managed always to suggest that the next scene
would be from something with camels, produced by Morris
Gest, assisted by a large choir.
"Anatol happens, however, to be
ANATOL
a play which it is very easy to lose
Granville Barkers version of
Schnitzer comes call
under a plus sofa. It has charm
fairs of Anatolin to acts and si¬
scenes, Sotting by Jo Mielziner. Direc¬
rather than substance; it comes to us
tion by Gabriel Beer-Hofmann and Wal¬
the Lyceum
ter Connolly. Presented a
from a day when the epigram was
The cast:
Theater by Bela Blau, In¬
more highly prized than it now is
Max Walter Connol-
Anatole-
and grace was at a greater premium;
Hilda
when love was a game played pret¬
Emily
Miramos
Bianca
tily along the Danube, with just the
Gabriellen
Walter. York
right admixture of sighs, and re¬
Mirain
signed smile and wistful memories.
Franz gerade
Lonathema Stevens
Then, when there was so much time
for everything, young men who had
the time devoted it to the collecting I have seldom seen an offering free
of souvenirs and to the turning of from skimpines nevertheless proves
them over with far-away glances and a handicap. Somehow in all this
occasional little comments, attuned carefulness and in spite of all this
just to the proper pitch of cynicism, effort to give full measure, the play
The enactment of such a play, is slowed down and impeded through¬
when really found necessary, must out the first long act. It is always
attain a light hardessa hard light to light for its setting
The last two scenes have, by con¬
ness will do quite as well. It is in¬
stantly fatal if any one, from pro¬ trast, a singular sprightliness. For
ducer to the least member of the this quality we-and Bela Blau have
cast, permits himself to believe that to thank Miss Miriam Hopkins and
any emotion is of the least conse¬ Miss Ruthelma Stevens, two of the
quence. The game is played on cer¬ half dozen charming young women
tain well understood terms each in the cast. Miss Hopkins takes her
path of eternal fidelity is worn with scene up and throws it into the air,
an abiding sense of the relativity of precisely as though it were a hand¬
eternity which is shared by every one ful of confetti-not, on the whole,
and needs no Einstein for its expla¬ such a bad description of it. She
turns it into farce and into a per¬
nation.
One of the difficulties with the sonal performance but she turns it
present chronicling of Anatols vari¬ into fun, which it hadn't been earlier.
ous participations in the Viennese Miss Stevens, using somewhat simi¬
game is that Mr. Schildkraut, al¬ lar technic, performs a similar ser¬
though to all appearances ideally ice for the final scene, in which she
suited for the part, does not ever pursus Mr. Schildkraut and the ad¬
quite attain the degree of superfi¬ mirable Walter Connolly who has
ciality which the part requires. He not much of importance to do and
is too tender an Anatol, too disturbed does it excellently to the top of a
an one. He has feelings not the piano.
The others, with fewer opportuni¬
pretty little feelings proper to the
moment, but real feelings; emotions ties, perform with grace. Yet the
by the faintest shade too ingenuous difficulties inherent in the scheme of
the play the half dozen episodes
for a character so brittle.
each telling of a different love, are
The producers contribution, al¬
so many short plays grouped have
though it is in every respect ad¬
mirable the sets are beautifully thor not been fully conquered by any one
ough in their fidelity to detail, and save Miss Hopkins and Miss Stevens,
MIRIAM HORKINS
re¬
Acts in "Anatol, Schnitzler play,
at Lyceum Theater.
Zykle
4.9. Anatol
HEMSTREET
96 WARREN STREET
NEW YORK CITY
Anatol Revived
Bela Blau Offers Schnitzler Comedy Hand¬
somely at the Lyceum Theater.
By RICHARD LOCKRIDGE.
Arthur Schnitzler's "Anatol," that gentle merger of the
irony and sentimentality of old Vienna, was revived at the
Lyceum Theater last evening by Bela Blau, Inc., amid a pro¬
fusion of handsome sets designed for the occasion by Jo Miel¬
ziner. It was revived with Joseph Schildkraut in the title
role and with a hushed solemnity which, during four of the
six episodes, managed always to suggest that the next scene
would be from something with camels, produced by Morris
Gest, assisted by a large choir.
"Anatol happens, however, to be
ANATOL
a play which it is very easy to lose
Granville Barkers version of
Schnitzer comes call
under a plus sofa. It has charm
fairs of Anatolin to acts and si¬
scenes, Sotting by Jo Mielziner. Direc¬
rather than substance; it comes to us
tion by Gabriel Beer-Hofmann and Wal¬
the Lyceum
ter Connolly. Presented a
from a day when the epigram was
The cast:
Theater by Bela Blau, In¬
more highly prized than it now is
Max Walter Connol-
Anatole-
and grace was at a greater premium;
Hilda
when love was a game played pret¬
Emily
Miramos
Bianca
tily along the Danube, with just the
Gabriellen
Walter. York
right admixture of sighs, and re¬
Mirain
signed smile and wistful memories.
Franz gerade
Lonathema Stevens
Then, when there was so much time
for everything, young men who had
the time devoted it to the collecting I have seldom seen an offering free
of souvenirs and to the turning of from skimpines nevertheless proves
them over with far-away glances and a handicap. Somehow in all this
occasional little comments, attuned carefulness and in spite of all this
just to the proper pitch of cynicism, effort to give full measure, the play
The enactment of such a play, is slowed down and impeded through¬
when really found necessary, must out the first long act. It is always
attain a light hardessa hard light to light for its setting
The last two scenes have, by con¬
ness will do quite as well. It is in¬
stantly fatal if any one, from pro¬ trast, a singular sprightliness. For
ducer to the least member of the this quality we-and Bela Blau have
cast, permits himself to believe that to thank Miss Miriam Hopkins and
any emotion is of the least conse¬ Miss Ruthelma Stevens, two of the
quence. The game is played on cer¬ half dozen charming young women
tain well understood terms each in the cast. Miss Hopkins takes her
path of eternal fidelity is worn with scene up and throws it into the air,
an abiding sense of the relativity of precisely as though it were a hand¬
eternity which is shared by every one ful of confetti-not, on the whole,
and needs no Einstein for its expla¬ such a bad description of it. She
turns it into farce and into a per¬
nation.
One of the difficulties with the sonal performance but she turns it
present chronicling of Anatols vari¬ into fun, which it hadn't been earlier.
ous participations in the Viennese Miss Stevens, using somewhat simi¬
game is that Mr. Schildkraut, al¬ lar technic, performs a similar ser¬
though to all appearances ideally ice for the final scene, in which she
suited for the part, does not ever pursus Mr. Schildkraut and the ad¬
quite attain the degree of superfi¬ mirable Walter Connolly who has
ciality which the part requires. He not much of importance to do and
is too tender an Anatol, too disturbed does it excellently to the top of a
an one. He has feelings not the piano.
The others, with fewer opportuni¬
pretty little feelings proper to the
moment, but real feelings; emotions ties, perform with grace. Yet the
by the faintest shade too ingenuous difficulties inherent in the scheme of
the play the half dozen episodes
for a character so brittle.
each telling of a different love, are
The producers contribution, al¬
so many short plays grouped have
though it is in every respect ad¬
mirable the sets are beautifully thor not been fully conquered by any one
ough in their fidelity to detail, and save Miss Hopkins and Miss Stevens,
MIRIAM HORKINS
re¬
Acts in "Anatol, Schnitzler play,
at Lyceum Theater.