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THE EVERYMAN.

AND APPEAL FOR SUPPORT,

IS IT TO CLOSE?

B-Audiences are not only In The experience of this manage vited to attend but to securement in the matter of new plays other regular vinitorn. is worth considering. It has res ceived something like 500 plays In The response to this appeal has

the course of twelve months. already been remarkable. The directorate, have collected, so I am and considered, but the real diff- Every one of these have been readi informed, over 2400 in subscripculty has been that audiences can- tions during the last three weeks.not be induced to patronise new [By Sydney W. Carroll.] -

As the present average running plays by unknown authors, or even cost amounts to about £250 per by authors of some reputation, in 'London, July 22, Last Tuesday morning a middle-week, and the money capacity of sufficient numbers at the start. By aged gentleman in a sports suit the theatre is approximately £500 the time a play has made itself entered the office of the Everyman per week, It will bo sean that, with known it has already coat so much! Theatre at Hampstead, greeted Mr. reasonable further support, the that it has to be withdrawn. Malcolm Morley, one of the joint theatre can be made self-maintain- managing directors, in an unmis-

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PRODUCTION FEES.

There are other little theatres

takable Yorkshire accent, and de- Of the several outlying theatres in London which maintain their clared himself then and there a in London doing productive work existence by drawing a production public-spirited lover of the theatre. the Everyman Theatre is one of tee from the author or authors of He had heard that there was grave the oldest and most distinguished. roughly $150 a week, but this! danger of the Everyman Theatre About 150 plays have been pro-policy of being subsidised by the closing down for want of a finan-duced there since it opened in ambitious has never made a strong cial backing, and had come to 1920. Amongst the British an appeal to either Mr. Reamer or his offer his advice and help. Mr.thors whose works have been given | partner. They both emphatically Morley, conjuring up recollections there are included Shakespeare, declare that they have never made of an historic and venerable York- Bernard Shaw, Galeworthy, Drink any money out of an author, and shireman, with a long white beard, water, Masefield, Lord Dunsany, they are all out against taking who had ones, for Mr. Albert De Zangwill, Arnold Bennett, Noel money from authors for the pro- Courville, saved a revue called Coward, Jerome K. Jerome, Stanley duction of their plays.

Of course this is a very debat- "Pins and Needles" at the Gaiety Houghton, J. R. Gregson and Theatre, drew himself eagerly for- Reginald Berkeley, Foreign playable question, as some very dla ward and beamed on the intruder wrights have always been well re- tinguished authors have in their and time been known to subsidise their with every, sail of friendliness in presented at the Everyman,

works have been given from Ibsen, own productions with benefit to full spread.

"I am a sport," said the man Strindberg, Eugene O'Neill, Benc- the public and to themselves.

It is an Interesting point to nots from Yorkshire," and I believe in vento, Mollere, Bjornson, Bern- helping sports. Now prove that stein, Pirandello, Susan Glaspell, you also are a sportsman by togs- and Schmitzler. ing me for a fiver.", Mr. Morley's hopes seemed trembling On 4 thread-or, shall I say, on the spin

that during the life of the Every- man Theatre the policy has been the same, no matter what the management. The first produc- Mr. Milton Rosmer is so well tions, under the direction of Mr.

THE MANAGERS.

willingly toss you for two fivers." of those Whereupon our friend the sports- man from Yorkshire whispered a racing tip into Mr. Morley's ear and departed as he came, leaving the manager philosophising on the relations between Turf and Stage. Which brings me to the point of this article.

The

of a coin. "Come!" said the York- known as a first-class actor, pro-Norman Macdermot, were marked [shireman, "toss!" Our

ducer, and manager that it is by intellectual direction.. poor Everyman director groped in his hardly necessary for me to rafer plays produced by Messrs. Carr, pocket with inadequate results. to his qualifications for the con- Massey, and Wade, with Everyman "All my fivers," he replied, "have trol of such an enterprise. Mr. Productions, Ltd., were similarly a very fine long since been expended in keep- Malcolm Morley, "whilat very well creditable and of Ing this thestre alive. Come along known in the theatrical world, order, and the standard set has jand see me, however, when we merits a little more publicity than been thoroughly maintained.

If sufficient support is forthcom- Sole Agents: W. R, LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong, atrike our next success, and I will he has so far received. He is one

rare birds an English-ing, the following plays will be man educated at Harvard. He has amongst the early prodactions: "The Master Builder," Ibsen. had considerable experience with

"There Are Crimes and Crimes," the little theatres of America, and

Strindberg. was for a period director of the Cincinnati Art Theatre, a film ac- tor in California, and a student of the Art Theatre movement in the United States. His first impetus towards the direction of an art theatre began with his experience of the Pasadena Community Play- house, where that excellent actor, Gilmore, Brown, arranged most in- teresting theatrical programmes, would surely approve of heartily. organised all kinds of committees to run his theatre, until at last he has been able to erect, at the cost of £1,000,000, à magnificent build. ing modelled on the fashion of a Spanish Mission, and to do for Pasadena what Morley and Rosmer hope one day to do for Hampstead.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)

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A THREEFOLD APPEAL Messrs. Milton Rosmer and Malcolm Morley have together is sued an appeal for subscribers to the work of the Everyman Theatre, and they point out that during the past year time, money, and enthu- alastic service have been contribut- ed. They are willing to give any desired undertaking of their finan- cial distinterestedness if they can get the support for which they ap peal. This support is asked for in three ways:

If some theatrical altruist would only come along and endow the 1-Subscribers to the £1 fully-enterprise with $10,000 it would be possible to provide for at least 2. Patrons are invited to make twenty-two new productions every small annual donations to year, and to establish the theatre wards a guarantee fund. upon a sound economic basis,

paid shares are asked for.

"Ginevra degli Almieri,” a new

Italian play, Forzano. "The Cracked - Vase," A new

Japanese play. "Genesius," Henri Gheon. "A Hundred Years Old," a new Spanish play, Alveres Quintero. "Strife," John Galsworthy. A list that our Yorkshire sport

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