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THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN 1925. THE THEATRE IN NEW YORK.
MANY INTERESTING CHANGES.
The changes in the House of Lords
to receive an established winner. Thus, just now the Guild has at its own theatro TBY HAROLD BRIGHOUSE IN THE
a bad play by Molnar-New York's high MANCHESTER QUARDIAN.")
estimate of Molnar is a curiosity of critic Qualified by the splendid raid of theism, while three separate successes have,
-EASY WALKING. CURIOUS INVENTION: NO MORE PERSPIRATION.
The novel sight of a stout business man-
during the past year have been excep Theatre Guild, the theatre in New York so to speak, slapped over into other hobbled by an elastic catapult, and walk-
tionally interesting, remarks a London
dominated. by two combines controlled theatres: "Arms and the Man." They ms smartly in London streeta bewildered paper. There have been only five now creations compared with eight in the pectively by the Shubert brothers and Know What They Wanted, à Californian spectators one day last month.
by Mr. A. L. Erlanger. In course of comedy illustrating the Now York then-
The explanation, the Daily Mail says,
appointment
14
Dames
theatre.
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ARACK TEST If it were used in the London-Brighton walking race (47 miles), it would, sare. half-an-bour
The inventor hopes to arrange for
either perspires, or becomes breathless. An indifferent university athlete, using the elastic, entered in race in which there were 21 competitors and ran second. Ho reached the post with such impetus that he required 15 yards aware o pull up.
TELEVISION.
preceding year, but all have had so time the first consideration of these firms tre's passion fer. Tout language on the is that the wearer was using a young special distinction. The new peorage has come to be with theatres as property, stage, but otherwise a good play verv naval officer's invention for the purposo were conferred on Mr. Asquith, as far as real estate, and though the Shuberts happily casting Miss. Pauline Lord, whom
of facilitating pedestrian locomotion.” of Oxford and Asquith; Sir John Brad and Erlanger do, either in their own London nw in "Anna Christic," and, hobbles accelerates walking and runcing The inventor claims that the use of the bury, Lord Bradbury: Sir Henry names or more frequratly in the Duke, President of the Probate, Divores, of other managers, produce plays, their thirdly, a very jolly revue played by the by 25 per cent, for the expenditure of the and Admiralty Division, as Lord Merchief concern is to maintain their real
Theatre Guild Junior Players-by. that same amount of energy. It would simi larly increase the range of the soldier' rivalo, Sir John Baird, M.P., on his estate in first-rate order. Now n theatre is to say, under students. And there, in, day's march would enable aged people the operations of the Guild, is a breach and invalids to take a useful constitu Governor-General of in frst-rate onder is a theatre which
tional, and would assist postmen, sand- no means high.wichmen and messengers, but if used by Australia, as Lord Stonehaven; and on houses successful plays, and it results made, sensibly, by Sir George Lloyd, as Lord Lloyd of from the approximately monopolistic con.browithly, in the walls of the commercial malefactors, the police would be forced
to adopt it. Dolobran, on his becoming, High Com-trol of New York theatrical real estate
In the theatre of the centre the drama missioner for Egypt.
by two dominating interests that the Viscount Jellicoe has been raised to the owners demand of their tenants that the of this season divides itself into three dignity of an earl on retiring from the plays produced shall be successful. Im-kinde: English plays, with which may be office of Governor-General of New Zen-possible, of course, continuously to have coupled the light operas of to-day made test to be made in the next race. land, and Lord Bearsted to that of a success, but possible to say by contract out of two romantic dramas of the nine-Various people, including women, are satisfactorily using the invention. A viscount. Lord Dorchester has succeeded to a tenant, Your attraction shall draw ties, "If I Were King" and "The Fri- middle-aged 16-stone man, who usually his mother, who was a peeress in her to the box office a minimum of $10,000, oner of Zanda European plays (in lagged perspiringly, astonished his neigh- bours by overtaking them when walking own right.
$12,000, or even $15,000 a week, or out its theatre and perhaps in its daily life, to the station. He says that he saves Seven peerages have become extinct, you go." Whether, the producing mat New York is nearer than London to the four minutes in 13 miles uphill, and and some well-known titles, therefore, ager is paying a rent or whether he is Continent of Europe); and American pass from the list of peers. They are on sharing terms with the theatre owner, plass. The point about these last is that those held by the Marquess Curzon (who the obligation to draw a certain very the New York audience contrasts, in however, is succeeded sa Viscount Sears- high, minimum of dollars to the box office hens democratically-minded, with the dale by his nephew, Mr. R. N. Curzon), is imposed upon bim; and always, it unconscious" snobbery of the London Viscount Milner, Lord Rawlinson, Lord seems, there are plays on trial cireling stalis. Mr. George Kelly's play "The McDonnell, Lord Barrymore, Lord Rib Greater New York waiting for their op: Show-of," is a good example of the portunity to come in-always, that is, genre of domestic drama which America blesdale, and Lord Laith of Fyvie.
In addition to the above seven, nine-during the eight months theatrical sea is developing naturally, the London teen other peers have died during the son. The theatre owner can pick and stalls being what they snobbishly are, the play failed in London. In Amèrica audi-
The Paris correspondent of the Weekly year making a total of twenty-six deaths choose, and when a play in New York coces accept and welcome plays about the of peers compared with only four deaths cars its notice to quit, emissaries of the little people of the Harlem apartment Dispatch recently stated that M. Edouard houses, and a distinctively native, drama Belin has demonstrated an invention for among members of the House of ComControlling owners go-to Boston, Washing is encouraged to mature. It ranges Irom television, in which be. uses a photo- mons. The House and country have to, to any of a score of smaller towns a hobo comedy, a loosely made play of telegraphic "tuning mirror 3
"in the long grass" of New York State, character etchings of a gang of tramps Professor A. M. Low, who patented a' thus "lost the Earl of Ypres, Field ta view plays and to judge their suit-Looking la, to a lower suburban drama plains that the principle of television con- with a sentimental last act Outside television apparatus during the war, ex Marshal Lord Grenfell, the Duke of ability for New York on a perely box like "A Man's Man," a higher suburban sists of dividing the picture into small Rutland, the Duke of Montrose, the
amusing light comedy called "Apple squares, which are transmitted indepen- Sauce, and to Mr. Kelly's austere stoly dently at a speed enabling the second Earl of Cork, the Earl of Portsmouth,
That, summarily, is the economic situa- of the complete egotist." Craig's Wife" impression of the whole picture to begin Viscount Leverhulme, and Lards Doretion in the New York theatre; and how, and together with some earlier plays like before the first has faded from the eye. dale, Pentland, Allerton, Blyth, Sheffield, it may well be asked, can say art flourish Sap (perhaps the silly ass), one seems because wireless is not sufficiently selec "The Fall Guy (the dupe) and "The This is at present impossible, he says, de Ramery, Waleran, Roundway, Chey-j
in circumstance so harsh? But in New justified in concluding that in drama tive to enable the use of different wave- Jesmore, Marchamley, Healey, and Gor-York the art of the theatre does flourish, America is finding her soul and perhaps lengths, which is essential to success.
she will learn to refrain from so rabid a [When, selective, wireless permits of cven where most it is walloped by nationalism in the matter of idiomatic simultaneous transmission of the whole Lord Curzon's death caused another economics, and also because the control titles. They have at present too-close a picture, eliminating the tuning mirror, the vacancy among the Irish representative by the trusts is not complete. I the family likeness one with the other; a problem will be solved," the professor peers, who are elected for life. This, ring was ever joined the Theatre Guild realistic cooking stove and real cooking added, "but that is unlikely for at least following upon the death of Lord Banbroke it, and to-day the Guild stands don in 1924, reduces the number of these exemplar to quite a number of, at pre. give & thrill which loses novelty at the
M. Belin is a well-known figure in the peers from the usual twenty-eight to rent, smaller organisations such as the are plays of the theatre of the centre wireless world. Like C. Francis Jenkins, twenty-six. The Prime Minister stated Actors: Theatre, the Old Stagers, under the other day that the question of the Mr. Edward Goodman, and the Greenwich they stand up against the economic situa R. H. Ranger, J. L. Baird and other in tion, and they are, if varyingly plausible ventors on both sides of the Atlantic, be position of those peers will stand over Village Theatre, now most encouragingly and veracious, by intention plays about has invented a system of transmitting till the larger issue of House of Lords controlled by a triumvirate consisting of the real American people. A comedy and receiving pictures by wireless From
Mr. Kenneth Macgowan, ex-critic and reform is considered.
apostle of Eastern European expression school of American playwrights, is in the wireless pictures to actual television-the
m, Mr. Robert Edmond Jones, the stage
Bat, for correction of any too sanguine decorator, and Mr. Eugene O'Neill while conclusiona, it must be added that." Is the Neighbourhood Theatre, established Zat So?" has run for a year and that by the money and aided by the devoted "Abie's Irish Rose" is in the fourth daily work of the Misses Lewisohn, has year of its run. Let it be gently hinted an eleven years' record of productions of that these are not critics, plays."
kind, to be criticised the "repertory
manstos..
Among the Lords Spiritual Dr. Strong, Bishop of Ripon, who already had a seat in the Lords, was translated to the See of Oxford on the death of. Dr. Burge, whose seat in the Upper House was, by seniority, taken by Dr. Temple, Bishop of Manchester. The recent death of Dr. Sir Edwyn licskyne, Bishop of South well, caused another vacancy in the Lords, which will be filled by Dr. David, Bishop of Liverpool.
The successors to Lords Peatland, Waleran, Grenfell, and Germanston are minors, raising the number of peers who are minors' to twenty-two. Three, how,
office basis -
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Caly because as a settlement institution 4 poor quarter it ought to have an Okl Vie audience and has, instead, an audi ence which travels from up town.
Nowadays the Guild has a list of sub- scribers suficiently large to ensure its productions against failure. It has built its theatre large and beautiful, and in that theatro, by promise to its sub- come of age this year-Lord icribers, it límits the run of a play to six Waleran on March 30th, Lord Grenfell weeks. But suppose the play to mani on December 19th, and Viscount Harfest long-run potentialities, does the Guild
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HAMBURG AMERÍKA LINIE dinge (who succeeded to the title in susterely strangle it ? Not at all; i
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