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4.9. Anatol
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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY.
S IN THE THEATE
Why Get Married? Is Question Raised in the
Affairs of Anatol, Staged at Little theatre
.
Son los portio R E F E R
ISABELLE LEE IN THE WEDDING MORNING SCENE FROME AFFAIRS OF ANATO
Mr. John Barrymore is at His Best point of vantage (or disadvantage) he pleased the audience most. In the former
Miss Keane, as a young woman from the
ewed the scene, and remarked
opera, who had come to break her af¬
"Why get married?
in Play Imported from
That was the clima of the fifth and fair, played the light comedy exceedingly
last episode in Mr. Arthur Schnitzlers well. The fourth scene, which takes place
London.
comedy, "The Affairs of Anatol," which outside a florist's shop, and in which Miss
was presented in America for the first Emmet and Mr. Barrymore only appear,
LITTLE THEATRETAS AFFAIRE
ANATOI," a sequence of episodes by Mr. line last night at Mr. Winthrop Ames was delightfully cynical.
Each of the four sets was perfect in its
Little Theatre. It proved to be all that its
advance notices had termed ita distinct appointments and regard for detail. There
Arthur Schnitzler, adapted to the Eng
lish by Mr. Granville Barker.
Anatol. Mr. John Barrymore novelty. Furthermore, there appears to is a charming atmosphere about the Little
Max............................... Oswald York be no question that it is exactly suited Theatre. It makes one feel as if he be¬
Hilda Marguerite,
Bianca
SOCIETY SEES THE PLAY.
Mimoseen.
Gabrillemme
The version used last night was prepared
Lon¬
by Mr. Granville Barker, the, London
Society was well represented in the audi¬
Poor Anatol! The evening preceding actor-manager, who produced it in the
his wedding day he was a guest at the English capital. In its original form it is ence that filled the Little Theatre for the
in seven episodes. Each portrays a love
opening of its season last night. Among
home of his fiancée. Everybody was there, fair in the life of a young man, who con¬
and everybody drank a great deal of fesses that as he grows older he grows those who gathered in the coffee room dur
champagne. So did Anatol, and on leaving wiser. Reprimanded by his friend, Anatol ing the intermission were Mr. and Mrs.
remarks that while others swallow life as Ernest Iselin, Mr. Egerton L. Winthrop,
Jr.; Mrs. August Belmont, Mr. and Mrs.
the house he became very lonesome. There¬
a whole ne sins it.
A different young woman appears in Thomas Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert
fore he went to the opera ball, met an erst¬
while sweetheart, took her to his lodgings each of the five episodes, and herein rests H. Gary, Professor and Mr. Brander Mat
much of the charm of the work as it was thews, Mr. Robert B. Van Cortlandt, Mr
and there she was found on the wedding presented last night. The young woman Bertram de N. Cruger, Mr. and Mrs. Sam¬
who took part in the successive scenes uel Untermyer, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
morn.
Erskine Ely. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney S.
The poor boy tried his best to sit away were Misses Marguerite Clark, Gall Kan¬
that he might be married, but his secret Doris Keane, Katherine Emmet and Isa-Bresse, Mr. and Mrs. Percy R. Turnure
belle Lee. Mr. John Barrymore appeared Mr. Thomas F. Clark, Mr. Nathan Straus,
would out, and Lont, of the theatre, flew at his very best as Anatol and Mr. Oswald Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. William W. Caswell
into a rage, smashed bric-a-bras and Yorke was a sympathetic and resourceful Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, Professor
and Mrs. Edward Robinson and Mr.
drove the bridegroom to the piano where Max, his friend.
Probably the third and fourth scenes Francis Burrall Hoffman, Jr.
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