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ANATOL." AT THE LITTLE THEATRE.
DIANGERS who can be content with light are in
with a menu made up of hors d'œuvres
and soufflés and so and savouries will find Arthur
Schnitzlers sequence of ques named after their
ning hero, Anatol, a very palatable enter¬
tainment. It is not for all tastes, and English folk who
relish only the roast beef and solid virtue of their own
country are likely to disapprove most bezily of Anatol
For his morals, to say the least of it, are casy-going;
his attitude towards life curiously combines conicism
and disillusionment with hectic sentimentality; he is a
shameless bedonist and libertine, and his sole preoccu¬
pation is the cult of love, which he samples freely with
a total lack of fidelity or continence. Withal, he is
so introspective and self-distrustful that, as his friend
Max tells him," all you think of today is your yester
day's remorse for the sins that you mean to commit
tomorrow." The Little Theatre is the right place in
which to watch the love experiences of this type of
Vienna's jeunesse dorée; Herr Schnitzlers wit and
subtle delicacy of analysis need that rapport between
audience and actors only to be secured in a théâtre
intime. We have been given three of these dialogues
one by one in the halls; they come out better in Miss
Kingston's dainty playhouse, and though we may think
listening to five of them is like dining off a number of
unsubstantial courses, yet they have a peculiar flavour
and piquancy of their own. Of the new dialogues, "A
Christmas Present varies the series with a pretty
touch of sentiment, but far the better is the Episode,
which shows Anatol paid out in his own coin, and
discovering himself to be not even a memory for one of
his former flames. Five separate sweethearts of his
figure in this sequence, and they are nicely differentiated
by Miss Gertrude Robins, Miss Katherine Pole, Miss
Dorothy Minto. Miss Alice Crawford, and the new
actress manageress, Miss Lillah McCarthy. The Anatol
is Mr. Granville Barker, who is responsible for the
idiomatic, but perhaps rather too lange adaptatien.
The intellectual and self-questioning side of the man
Mr. Barker hits off admirably, but he fails to suggest
the light-hearted amorist. Mr. Nigel Playfair as the
stolid Max gets much nearer the authoris intention
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day night in the interesting series of dialogues which
Mr. Granville Barker is presenting at this theatre.
Judged by itself, Keepsakes is a melodrama in one
scene, with Anatol as the jalous loyer, Emily as the
once trusted woman of his heart. As part of the
revelation of Anatol himself it shows him in passing
love for another phase of womanhood, the devotion
of one who looks to him to save her from mer, ruin.
This spel, like all the others, is broken because Emily
has kept back to keepsakes from the treasures of
her past life, with all of which she has to part before
the wedding. The first of these, aby, is rendered
when Anto discover it, after a flere outburst and
a tearful explanation; but of the second, a black
diamond, the story is not told, and with a shrieking
taunt Anato fung it into the fire and rushes from the
room. We do not hear what Max, the candid friend,
has to say about Emily; but she is different from
Anatolis other sharp-edged play things, and clearly the
one which he least understands.
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