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THE "MEISTERTONE" DEVICE.

darlings do. That, indeed, is the more flexible fashion of the play- capital defect of this piece. It wright.

appears to have been improvised. The play's obscurity here, was' The players seem to have taken a increased by the curious casting, peep at the novel a moment or and the infirm production. There Another "talking" and "sound" two before coming on to the stage were at least four styles of and then, rather breathlessly, speech among the eight, charac- device, the "Meistertone," named ava dashed on, and sald as much ters: Irish, Cockney, superior after Its Inventor, Herr Kuchen of it as they can remember before Surbiton, and semi-Somerset. meister, was shown privately edashing off again for another Mr. Potley scarcely convinced us Tussaud's Cinema. In every one of Feep.

of the Devonian tongue of his Mr. the alma, the synchrony between The satisfying aspect of the Honeywell by saying "Be lee" im- sound and action was satisfactory play is that it provides Miss Edithmediately after he had described as that given by several other analo Evans with a magnificent oppor-Jacko Blaker as a "bed led," nor | goua dovices recently presented. tunity to manifest her great gifts.did Mr. Gordon Harker make us In "Meistertone" the sound waves I observe with dismay that some feel that he had ever been nearer are photographed in the form of of my colleagues have expressed to a Devonshire combe than minute dos directly on to the ex-dissatisfaction with her perform Clapham Common; nor did Mr. treme outaide edge of the film, beance. I, therefore, announce to Lawrence Anderson, despite his yond the sprocket holes. By means the world that it was a splendid gallant attempte, make us believe of electrical connections the mark piece of acting, a rich exhibition that his David had grown any- Ings on the edge of the film strip are of rich comedy that would do where but in some well-brushed retransformed into sound. The honour to our theatre if it were village where everything is done operator in the projection box is put in comparison with comedy in the nicest way, nor did Miss able by means of a thumbscrew. to acting anywhere.Miss Evans is Clare Harris make us forget control its volume, so as to meet an original genius. That means Merrion Square, Dublin, and re- that traditionalists are disturbed member only a grocer's shop in the acoustic requirements of any by her, and being disturbed, na Devon. Mr. Reginald Bach, him- particular theatre.

turally feel inclined to decry herself a good producer, presented us Presiding at a luncheon in the abilities, even to deny that they with the amazing spectacle of a Carlton Hool after the presentation are abilities. Let her not bother man offering himself up as of the film, Sir Walter de Frece, her head about them; There burnt-offering to another pro- M.P., declared his belief that the never was an original actor or ducer; for he reproduced the "talking" Alm, in one form or an actress who was not decried by mannerisms and speech of Mr. other, had come to stay. He did traditionalists. These people will Cedric Hardwicke, who had at- not share the fears of those who be licking her boots before she tended to this piece, as if he were thought that these new devices were has finished with them. Mr. determined to make us believe a serious menace to the older Frank Allenby gave a good per-that Mr. Hardwicke had desert- drama, which, in his opinion, could formance, So did Miss Mared "The Show Boat" for. "My never die.

garet Carter. So did Miss Una Lady's Mill." Mr. Robert Newton O'Connor. So did Mr. Reginald and Miss Helens Pickard both Gardiner, The others might did well what little they had to have given good performances if do, and Miss Drusilla Wills gave Mr. Griffith had remembered to a magnificent performance in the write their parts. St. J. E. in part of a Phillpotts spinster. "Observer."

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"MY LADY'S MILL"

[By Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts.]

"THE TRAGIC-MUSE.”

[Adapted from Henry James's Novel by Hubert Griffith.]

The story of the piece is sim- Henry James does not drama-

plé, and it is unnecessary to say tise well or even ill; he does not

that the old misogynist is defeat- dramatise at all. He was tde

ed in the end by the clover young author of still-life pieces, and he

woman engineer, who induces him imagined that his sentences were!

to modernise his mill and allow Mr. and Miss Phillpotts have the young and the old lovers lengthening. Mr. Griffith has done this plece with rather less to marry. The story is not mater done better with him than he was than the skill the usually display ial in these country pieces; the ever able to do with himself on in dramatising rustic humour, humours are; and the humours the stage, but he has not done writes Mr. St. J. E. Ervine in the are here, even although they are enough; for he has turned the "Observer." "My Lady's Mill" is overlaid with intellectualities novel into a bravura play in heavy with explanations that are that scarcely belong to the char- which a single character, Miriam stiff, after the manner of written acters and with sentimentalities Rooth, is given a mompoly of the explanations, and not easy, after that are not out of character, but interest. The other characters the manner of spoken explana- are out of key. Several lines that are scarcely background to her. tions. The result is obscurity at were right enough in themselves They appear; they stand about; the beginning of the play...I had were sopken so absurdly by the they depart. But who they, are difficulty in understanding the players that they were almost or what they are or why they are relationship of the various char- derided by a reative gallery main- we neither know nor care.. Mr. acters to each other, nor could I ly composed, judging by the Griffith adapts the Jacobean for some time discover what was squeals and giggles one heard, of speech very skilfully to the stage, Alexander Parable's grievance or young women, whose notions of but he does not manipulate the why he so disliked women and the country are bounded on the people with equal skill. They opposed himself to marriage. north, south,, east, and west by seem to wander on and off the Very unjustly, I accused my own Hyde Park, Lightened of some scene for no reason. Miriam is mind of fault for this, but was of its rigid passages in the first always running away or entering relieved to learn, after the first act, quickened in its progress in in a manner that suggests that act, that my inability to follow the second and third, and relieved she has forgotten to bring an im- this part of the play was shared of some dull and repetitive portant property with her. We with other members of the audi-scenes, "My Lady's Mil" might imagine that she is muttering to ence. The dramatists at this easily be made as successful as the other actors, "I've left my point have been too faithful to the "The Farmer's Wife" and "Yel- muff in my dressing-room. Im novelist, and have not, as they low Sanda" The good parts are provise, darlings, while I go and ought to have done, re-rendered so good that the poor parts seem fetch it!" And improvise the his-account-of his people in the to be unaccountably poor.

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