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IRVING'S "CRIMES AGAINST
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NOVEMBER 22.
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MR. SHAW REPLIES the great days of the actor-mans- of an actor, who cares for nothing fora should read Mr. Craig'a book but the exploitation of his own and learn from it what actor- poraonality, I let him and the pub- management was at its worst. Ile know what I thought of it all, "Read that revolting descrip- and foretold what the end of it
would be. ton of how Irving, with so great task as the production of King Lear on hund, when every mo "Mr. Craig thinks that 1, n vory ment of rehearsal was precious, prominent theatre critic in thosu spunt half an hour torturing the days, offered plays to managers: actor whom he had engaged to that is invited bribes. I did no |MR. CRAIG AND STAGE. play the part of Kont-one of the thing of the sort: I published my
finest parts
in the Shakespearean plays and offered them to nobody. tho trumpory They wero there on the table In the index to Mr. Gordon repertory-over
the prendre ou a laisser. Irving
made tripping up | Craig's widely-discussed book: [business of
the actor's me the usual offer to announce "Henry Irving" (Dent, 158. not)
brenklug steward, there is a special lino Shaw, norve purpurembling on the floor place it on his alrendy well-stock- and keeping poor my play as accepted by him, and Enemy of the Theatre, 198," be- Bir. Craig
hour. If a producer ed shelf for future production," sides many other references un-for half an der "George Bernard
Show." Many in my employment spent more with, of course, any advance of the reviewers of the book have than half a minute on such a de account of author's fees criticised Mr. Craig's references tail, I should conduct him politely might be convenient to me. When to Mr. Shaw, and in the following to the door and advise him interview with Mr. G. W. Bishop, change his mistaken professionisms did not take place my play was withdrawn from the list of Mr. Show himself replies le some for that of a boxing referce. of the charges that have
futura productions. It was a pity brought against him.
"As to the actor, if he wore so he did not venture: 1 could have as to endure such got a fine performance out of him. Among other things, Mr. Craig insignificant
and incidentally taught him what states that "Mr. Shaw has always treatment he should never have
team been a sincere enemy to the Thea-speaking part from
But reni production and reni tre, and one who innocently wears Irving's object was not to teach work mean in the theatre.
"Mr. Craig, in his quaint Inno- false witness Against most his unfortunate employee how to
trip up Mr. Craig. It was to un-cenes, thinks that Irving was in- Rtists." Elsewhere he anys,
tny stage directions, and have read things, by dramatle eri-nerve and discourage and degrade sulted by ties, by Mr. Grurge Bernard Shaw, the man antil he was incapable of that the stage business these in- for example, which prove that Mr. playing his part with the authori-dicated was borrowed from Irving Shaw Baw nothing at all-maybe ty and vigour which it demands, himself. That because he was no actor, certainly and thus standing up to Irving in no artist, and quite ancencerned that stirring passage in the Brat Lenr so by the many little things so much art where Kent defles loved by the wine." There is a splendidly..
"And the result, which I remem chapter to prove that "The Bells"
was the hopeless and is "so much better than a
Foodbe
A well. Play by Mr. Hernard Shaw," who disgraceful filure of the produc- it admitted, writes a play on, and the beginning of irving's moderately well Mr. Shaw is downfall. He mutilated the play also criticised for "showing off" su igagrantly and abominably that in the stage directions, which was the critics, except the two or three ne of the reasons that Irving re- who had never read Shakespeare, jecled "The Man of Destiny: went about between the acts ask Irving rejected the play it ing what the play was about, Kent
in any of the parts which after all. only a curtain played like a crushed super, as WAN, raiser and he rejected it he Irving intended him to play; and chuse. by putting in all the the rest were just what Mr. Craig stage directions (most of then describes table legs, he calls taken from things that he had them, with Mr. Craig's moiber Heen Irving doy, Shaw positively like a beautiful Hower bered irving was to be ex-, table, desperately but vainly try the air is a question which I leave pected.
ing to keep up some semblance of him to answer," acting. whilst Henry tattered
On
would
have Hattered Irving
but the truth is that the elaborate strokes with which Irving built up his parts-which, by the way, were always his own inventions and never those of the author would have been of no use to any I of course annexed other actor. everything I could from every ac- tor and actress who could tench me anything-for instance, from Ellen Terry; but Irving's
and, as a pesa was useless to me matter of fact, I never saw him
bust-
Mr.
Craig specifies as having added to my bag of stage tricks. Why in any case, Mr. Craig should dis- approve of my learning my bast- the Dess in the theatre instead of in
rare
"Do you agree with Mr. Craig that Irving was a very great se- tor?" I asked,
sorts. If you ask me whether think Cagliostro a great man.
I
"Well, Mr. Shaw, what have you round the stage like some to say to Mr. Gordon Craig's book 7 sort of very old cockatoo, pausing Do you plead guilty to being the fat the end of every six words to enemy of the theatre? Did you get some wretched changling of "Of a sort, yes," Mr. Shaw ro- hate Irving because he refused his own in between Shakespeare's | plied. "But there are sorts and you when you wanted him to pro-lines. duce The Man of Destiny"? Did
by far the worst of must admit that he was an extra- you steal his stage business for your stuge directions? What didIrving's meny crimes against ordinary person, and undeniably and you do to Mr. Craig to make him Shakespeare
his fellow-grent in his line, which was im- Mo angry with How did you artists; and it gave him a push
(Continued on Page 10.) down hill from which he never Ret on his
he These are some of the questions fully recovered, and which I fired at Mr. Shaw in a long talk richly
at his flat on Friday.
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deserved. The amazing
thing is that Mr. Craig, who den.
That is rather " large order. eribes this o wonderfully, bo-
isn't it? However, I
er. I will try
to trays no sense of its disgrace, and
answer some of your conundrums, even leaves us to infer that
it and considers the
GOOD DIGESTION
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as he conceives it, is nothing but ducing attention to detalls and digestion, heartburp of flatulence, it due chiefly to excess acid in the the old Lyceum Theatre under so forth-instead of the piece of
tonich. Bisucated Magnesia, neu Irving's actor-management; and professional blackguardism it ab
implacable Viously was, As a critic i had no tralises the harmful acid and banishes WAN certainly the.
Doctors throughout the enemy of that, though I did my merey for that sort of thing. When stomach pain.
Bisurated!
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