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Desaet 11
ARTS THEATRE.
Seut a
ONE-ACT PLAYS.
On Sunday, February 26, 192
the International Theatre pr.
sented four one-act plays (in liel
AU 27. (er.
* Professor Bernhardi,
•1
Arthur Schnitzler, as origmall;
arranged). Three of these piece
were by Dr. Schnitzler.
Gallant Cassian.?
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE.
Martin Mr. Antony Eustré
Cassian Mr. Douglas Burbidg
Sophy.Miss Sylvia Willoughb
Valet... Mr. Archibald Campbe
Supposedly a picture of Germnt
QUADRUPLE BILL.
life in the seventecnth century, th
laylet is not without a certai
interest, but it cannot be said t
Ossess any grett excitement o
ANATOL‘ PLAYLETS.
p. Some of the dialogue i
and has a frankness that 1
less true to a period which
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s" Doctor Bern¬
somewhat coarse. Martin,
musician, is packing for
bardi“ had originally been announced to be
to the great grief of hit
staged at the Arts Theatre last night, but
sueetheart Sophy. She ha
the object of his trip
owing to difficulties in casting, its production
hese doubts have gooc
Ahad to be deferred to a later time. In its
Martin is infatuated
place were acted two of the same authior’s
ncer. At the eleventh
famous Anatol’’ playlets, in Mr. Granville
revisited by a soldier
artin'’s cousin Cas¬
Burker’s excellent translation.
youth soon finds him¬
In the first of these,“ Ask No Questions,
cold. In the end Sephy
Anatol hypnotises Hilda, ohe lady in whose
omise to jump out of.
and is promptly fol¬
temporary charge are his affections, and of
assian, while Martin
whose fidelity he suffers the most torturing!
onthe ground in
doubts. Hedloes this, at the suggestion of bis
little piece was
friend Max, in order that he may learn from
acted by Mr.
e, a fine d’Artag¬
her in her trance,the truth that he can never
e as Cassian. Mr.
be zure of getting from her waking mind. But
Martin, and
when he comes torthe point he cannot ask tbe
illoughbv as Sophy.
(produced
stions
question. He wakes her, preferring to go on
on February 6,
in his uncertainty. This amusing trife was
mewhat weak
very well acted. Mr. Walter Hudd brought
10 of a series of
u delicate comic sense to the part of Anatol,
dapted by H
t has little
Mr. Harold Meade endowed Max with a
witty, and we
superbly roving eye, and Miss Ellen Hare took
inking that the
ull the chances that Hilda’s long period of
issed or deli¬
immobility left her.
in deference to
In the second play,“ Anatol’s Wedding
Harold Meade
Morning,' Schnitzler’s gay young béro has
as Max; indeed. bis
celebratedl his last night of bachelorhood
the part pro¬
le comedy there
to such purpose that he finds himself saddied
Hudd was nood
with an old flame called Lona, who has come
Miss Ellen Hare
to his flat with the firm idea that she is to be
ossible as Hilda
a vermanency. Anatol and Max try to sneak
dding Morning??
off to tiie wedding under the pretext that they
e Palace on
ure abeut to see a mutual friend married;
911) is a capital
but eventually Lona has to be told the truth,
ntinental type.
and makes a scene which can only be de¬
once more Mr.
has been less
scribed as a sbindy. In this play the Anatol
the dialogue
was Mr. Martin Lewis, who gave a smooth
vn the business
and pleasant performanco; and Mr. Meade
n. The whole
again appeared as Max. Miss Hilda Bavley,
funny. Miss
avery attractive actress of whom we hare
capital as Lona,
scen far too little in London lately, was Lonn,
good in her
und fairig revelled in that temperamental
Harold Meade
young woman's tantrums.
und bumorous
These two plays were preceded by“ Gallant
uddling Max,
Lewis played
Cassian,' a piece of seventeenth centurg ox¬
true sense of
travagance by Schnitzler, in which Mr.
Mr. Archibald
Burbidge played the name part very cleverlv;
well as a man-ser¬
and they were followed by Chekov’s“ The
Proposal.
This last piece has beon done
ourth item in the pro¬
i4
vergotten of late; but it was acted with such
jest in onc.
ramme was the
spirit hv Aliss Barbars Listova and Mr. Boris
Anton Tchekov, en¬
aet,?
Ranersky, assisted by Mr. James Carrall,
titled“ The Proposal,“ which was
that it soomed to us a much better play than
scen at a matinée at the St.
we have been accustomed to think it. Mr.
James’s on December 3. 1918.
Slight in plot though the playlet
Ranevsky produced this and“ Gallant
is and without pretensions to ex¬
Cassian!; while the Anatol pieces were!
ceptionally brilliant dialogue, it 13
staged by the lady whose penename 18
full of humorous incident and the
Michael Orme.
construction is capital. The acting
exceedingly
was
throughout
natural. Mr. James Carrall and
Mr. Boris Ranevsky were very
good as the two men, and a really
fine and original performanco of
Nataiya çame from Miss Barbara
Listava. The plays were well pro¬
duced by Mr. Boris Ranevsky and
* Michael Orme.?
(kaaa Pese
-tr. 27. (72#.
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
Quadruple Bill of One-Act
Plays
The International Theatre presented at
the Arts Theatre Club last night a bill of
four delightful morsels. Three were by
Schnitzler, two of them from the Anatol
series. The fourth was“ The Proposal,
by Chekov, who in it at least leaves no
doubt about his intention being comic.
Before the neighbour who comes woo¬
ing Natalya is able to reach a declaration,
he, she, and her father have twice fallen
into a wordy battle over the ownership of
some meadows and the points of a dog.
Mr. James Carrall, Mr. Boris Ranevsky,
and Miss Barbara Listova played this jest
with great spirit.
The Anatol pieces (in Mr. Granville
Barker’s translation) were ihe best of
Schnitzler. In Ask No Questions“ the
young man (in this case Mr. Walter Hudd)
hypnotises his love, Hilda, meaning to
extract from her a confession that she has
not been true to him. But he shirks the
question, the answer to which may shatter
his illusion.
Mr. Martin Lewis was in the chief röle
in Anatol’s Wedding Morning,“ which
has been already seen here, and Miss Hilda
Bayley gave a capital performance as
Lona, whiile Mr. Harold Meade was again
the friend Max who cynically points the
moral that all illusions (and even disillu¬
sions) are as grass and wither.
There is a substance underlying these
two plays, so light and neat and exquisite,
Sthat was wanting in“ Gallant Cassian.“
1
iu R
Sai
—D. 27. (722.
TWO ANATOL
PLAYS.
DELICATE WIT AND
AIRY DIALOGUE.
By THE DRAMATIC CRITIC.
Three one-act plays by Dr. Arthur
Schnitzler, the Austrian dramatist, were
presented in London at the Arts Theatre
Club last night.
Two of them concerned that delight¬
ful, fickle, rich, and idle young man,
Anatol, whose character was made fami¬
liar to English audiences by Mr. Gran¬
ville Barker 17 Foars ago.
Anatol is fated to love in spasms, to
meet with various amorous adventures,
and to accept with whimsical philo¬
sophy his disillusionments.
The little playhouse in Great Port¬
land-street is well suited to bring out
the best of Dr. Schnitzler’s delicate wit
and the acting struck the right note.
Mr. Walter Hudd in his bovish way—
Anatol in one plav—and Mr. Martin
Lewis in his matured way—who took the
röle in the other—played with that light--
ness which alone couid extract the full
flavour from the airy dialogue.
M. Harold Meade was a joy as
Anatol’s outspoken friend, Max.
The third of Dr. Schnitzler’s plays—
also light and airy—was Gallant Cas¬
sian.“
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A#e)-
Desaet 11
ARTS THEATRE.
Seut a
ONE-ACT PLAYS.
On Sunday, February 26, 192
the International Theatre pr.
sented four one-act plays (in liel
AU 27. (er.
* Professor Bernhardi,
•1
Arthur Schnitzler, as origmall;
arranged). Three of these piece
were by Dr. Schnitzler.
Gallant Cassian.?
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE.
Martin Mr. Antony Eustré
Cassian Mr. Douglas Burbidg
Sophy.Miss Sylvia Willoughb
Valet... Mr. Archibald Campbe
Supposedly a picture of Germnt
QUADRUPLE BILL.
life in the seventecnth century, th
laylet is not without a certai
interest, but it cannot be said t
Ossess any grett excitement o
ANATOL‘ PLAYLETS.
p. Some of the dialogue i
and has a frankness that 1
less true to a period which
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler’s" Doctor Bern¬
somewhat coarse. Martin,
musician, is packing for
bardi“ had originally been announced to be
to the great grief of hit
staged at the Arts Theatre last night, but
sueetheart Sophy. She ha
the object of his trip
owing to difficulties in casting, its production
hese doubts have gooc
Ahad to be deferred to a later time. In its
Martin is infatuated
place were acted two of the same authior’s
ncer. At the eleventh
famous Anatol’’ playlets, in Mr. Granville
revisited by a soldier
artin'’s cousin Cas¬
Burker’s excellent translation.
youth soon finds him¬
In the first of these,“ Ask No Questions,
cold. In the end Sephy
Anatol hypnotises Hilda, ohe lady in whose
omise to jump out of.
and is promptly fol¬
temporary charge are his affections, and of
assian, while Martin
whose fidelity he suffers the most torturing!
onthe ground in
doubts. Hedloes this, at the suggestion of bis
little piece was
friend Max, in order that he may learn from
acted by Mr.
e, a fine d’Artag¬
her in her trance,the truth that he can never
e as Cassian. Mr.
be zure of getting from her waking mind. But
Martin, and
when he comes torthe point he cannot ask tbe
illoughbv as Sophy.
(produced
stions
question. He wakes her, preferring to go on
on February 6,
in his uncertainty. This amusing trife was
mewhat weak
very well acted. Mr. Walter Hudd brought
10 of a series of
u delicate comic sense to the part of Anatol,
dapted by H
t has little
Mr. Harold Meade endowed Max with a
witty, and we
superbly roving eye, and Miss Ellen Hare took
inking that the
ull the chances that Hilda’s long period of
issed or deli¬
immobility left her.
in deference to
In the second play,“ Anatol’s Wedding
Harold Meade
Morning,' Schnitzler’s gay young béro has
as Max; indeed. bis
celebratedl his last night of bachelorhood
the part pro¬
le comedy there
to such purpose that he finds himself saddied
Hudd was nood
with an old flame called Lona, who has come
Miss Ellen Hare
to his flat with the firm idea that she is to be
ossible as Hilda
a vermanency. Anatol and Max try to sneak
dding Morning??
off to tiie wedding under the pretext that they
e Palace on
ure abeut to see a mutual friend married;
911) is a capital
but eventually Lona has to be told the truth,
ntinental type.
and makes a scene which can only be de¬
once more Mr.
has been less
scribed as a sbindy. In this play the Anatol
the dialogue
was Mr. Martin Lewis, who gave a smooth
vn the business
and pleasant performanco; and Mr. Meade
n. The whole
again appeared as Max. Miss Hilda Bavley,
funny. Miss
avery attractive actress of whom we hare
capital as Lona,
scen far too little in London lately, was Lonn,
good in her
und fairig revelled in that temperamental
Harold Meade
young woman's tantrums.
und bumorous
These two plays were preceded by“ Gallant
uddling Max,
Lewis played
Cassian,' a piece of seventeenth centurg ox¬
true sense of
travagance by Schnitzler, in which Mr.
Mr. Archibald
Burbidge played the name part very cleverlv;
well as a man-ser¬
and they were followed by Chekov’s“ The
Proposal.
This last piece has beon done
ourth item in the pro¬
i4
vergotten of late; but it was acted with such
jest in onc.
ramme was the
spirit hv Aliss Barbars Listova and Mr. Boris
Anton Tchekov, en¬
aet,?
Ranersky, assisted by Mr. James Carrall,
titled“ The Proposal,“ which was
that it soomed to us a much better play than
scen at a matinée at the St.
we have been accustomed to think it. Mr.
James’s on December 3. 1918.
Slight in plot though the playlet
Ranevsky produced this and“ Gallant
is and without pretensions to ex¬
Cassian!; while the Anatol pieces were!
ceptionally brilliant dialogue, it 13
staged by the lady whose penename 18
full of humorous incident and the
Michael Orme.
construction is capital. The acting
exceedingly
was
throughout
natural. Mr. James Carrall and
Mr. Boris Ranevsky were very
good as the two men, and a really
fine and original performanco of
Nataiya çame from Miss Barbara
Listava. The plays were well pro¬
duced by Mr. Boris Ranevsky and
* Michael Orme.?
(kaaa Pese
-tr. 27. (72#.
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
Quadruple Bill of One-Act
Plays
The International Theatre presented at
the Arts Theatre Club last night a bill of
four delightful morsels. Three were by
Schnitzler, two of them from the Anatol
series. The fourth was“ The Proposal,
by Chekov, who in it at least leaves no
doubt about his intention being comic.
Before the neighbour who comes woo¬
ing Natalya is able to reach a declaration,
he, she, and her father have twice fallen
into a wordy battle over the ownership of
some meadows and the points of a dog.
Mr. James Carrall, Mr. Boris Ranevsky,
and Miss Barbara Listova played this jest
with great spirit.
The Anatol pieces (in Mr. Granville
Barker’s translation) were ihe best of
Schnitzler. In Ask No Questions“ the
young man (in this case Mr. Walter Hudd)
hypnotises his love, Hilda, meaning to
extract from her a confession that she has
not been true to him. But he shirks the
question, the answer to which may shatter
his illusion.
Mr. Martin Lewis was in the chief röle
in Anatol’s Wedding Morning,“ which
has been already seen here, and Miss Hilda
Bayley gave a capital performance as
Lona, whiile Mr. Harold Meade was again
the friend Max who cynically points the
moral that all illusions (and even disillu¬
sions) are as grass and wither.
There is a substance underlying these
two plays, so light and neat and exquisite,
Sthat was wanting in“ Gallant Cassian.“
1
iu R
Sai
—D. 27. (722.
TWO ANATOL
PLAYS.
DELICATE WIT AND
AIRY DIALOGUE.
By THE DRAMATIC CRITIC.
Three one-act plays by Dr. Arthur
Schnitzler, the Austrian dramatist, were
presented in London at the Arts Theatre
Club last night.
Two of them concerned that delight¬
ful, fickle, rich, and idle young man,
Anatol, whose character was made fami¬
liar to English audiences by Mr. Gran¬
ville Barker 17 Foars ago.
Anatol is fated to love in spasms, to
meet with various amorous adventures,
and to accept with whimsical philo¬
sophy his disillusionments.
The little playhouse in Great Port¬
land-street is well suited to bring out
the best of Dr. Schnitzler’s delicate wit
and the acting struck the right note.
Mr. Walter Hudd in his bovish way—
Anatol in one plav—and Mr. Martin
Lewis in his matured way—who took the
röle in the other—played with that light--
ness which alone couid extract the full
flavour from the airy dialogue.
M. Harold Meade was a joy as
Anatol’s outspoken friend, Max.
The third of Dr. Schnitzler’s plays—
also light and airy—was Gallant Cas¬
sian.“
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