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Spotlight Turned On London Stage

MAIL.

Shaw's "Historical" Drama Full Of Humour

CLUMBERG'S

SATIRE

(By George Morgan,)*

JUNGLE IS VILLAIN | OLD GREEK THEME

IN NEW PLAY,

Company Back Into Malayan Wilds.

VISITS HONG KONG.

The other day a party of film people passed through Hong

ON PARIS STAGE.

Unpleasant Subject In Modern Plot.

“YOUKI" MORE PLEASING.

(BY PHILIP CARR)

The theatrical season in Paris la.

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Three new plays, whose production When Clyde. E. Elliott return had been announced for late October, ed from the Malaysian wilder-start in mid-November. However, wa have had two comedies, one by neas where he filmed "Bring 'Em Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, at Back Alive" for Frank Buck, the Varietes, and the other by Felix Selection at he found that the jungle had Gandera, at the Athenee. These

The three performances of summarized in Britannus'a open-made an interesting impression comedies are of much the same ISANG FOOK PIANO which I have to write this week ing remark. He is being intro- on him,

duced to the court of Ptolemy.

That old devil jungle class; the two actor-authors who might well be considered as an Suddenly he bows a little, cold, seemed to have the makings of have once more collaborated to make a first-class villain, with its the first are adroit craftsmen of the epitome of the London theatre stiff, English bow-and says:green malarial swamps, leeches, same kind as the experienced thea-

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It trical journeyman-though he is not little comedy called "Will You it seems nothing. In the text, it giant spiders and snakes.

would seem nothing.

was an antagonist that constant- But only fought man. Love Me Always" in which the stage its unexpectedness, it is left for as long as a year un- If a plantation

Now let it not be supposed that Yvonne Arnaud appears, has no brevity, its completeness, send tended, the Malay native, returns I mean to suggest that a playwright value at all except as an fll the house into a roar of laugh- to find that the jungle has swal-should not be an actor, or that he

ter. It is probably the best lowed, gobbled, devoured stration of what befalls com-joke that Mr. Shaw ever made.

It should not have a thorough famil mercial managements when, in

arity, with all the tricks of his trade

quest of smart triviality foreign

So Mr. Elliott mentioned the and be ready to adopt them. Aris- There is a third characteristic subject to Sidney Kent and tophanes was perhaps, Shakespearo to the English genius and taste, of our theatre illustrated this Winfield Sheehan of Fox, and was probably, and Moliere was cer they go to Vienna or Budapest week-our habit of banishing the result was an assignment to tainly, an actor. So is Sacha Gultry

plays of genuine experimental for their material. This kind interest to remote corners of 80 back into Malaysia and make to-day; and in the work of none of

a cynical London.

picture in which the jungle them is there any hesitation to usa Chlumberg's "Miracle would be the villain.

The title any of the tricks in the bag. How- writer who enters into a two- at Verdun" has been performed is "Man Eater" and the producever, they have all brought some year experimental marriage and at the Embassy Theatre, which tion will be filmed in the Malay-thing else a vitality and a sympa diamonds. Proof against fire, le, is tricked into making It per- heights. I believe that it arous menta. This is about sixty miles which the authors of the two play and can be used for more than 100 on the Hampsteadsian jungle in the Straits Settle thetle outlook and sincerity, to seld, water, off, etc. These diamonds manent by his wife's elaborate ed little interest in New York north of the Equator, and a produced this week

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That Chlumberg should be possible in London. During the bitter because there is no place matter of six months, the film in by what is apparently, the central performance of the present play, for the risen dead in the economic travellers will tote all the usual situation of the plot. This situation necessarily any harm in that, for as scene after scene fell flat, life of the living is unreasonable entourage, plus the addition of Greek tragedy, but it had not yet deliberately

once a tremendous theme of some of the finest plays have baggage carried by an exploring (was

been written to it wondered whether they could and weakens his indictment. motion picture equipment. occurred to any one to make it the actors. No doubt they were some have been saved by the brittle Time passes; the world goes on;

Before starting from New theme of modern light comedy. It thing else as well, and this is not; widows remarry. A man might liveliness of such an actor as as well complain if, having York, the picture company was is incest; and the April fool part of but it is something to have achieved Sacha Guitry-a barren and pro-bought a theatre ticket for Mor inoculated with a serum against the story is that morality and the this limited object.

typhold, malaria and dysentery. conventions are saved before the fall The title part is obviously design- fitless speculation. We have no day, he presents it on Tuesday The voyagers upon entering of the curtain by the discovery that ed to show off the various facets of Sacha Guitry. In any case, the and finds his place filled.

Malaya must bid beefsteak good the elderly gentleman and the the not very extensive talent of English language and tempera-jon the world's failure to change the tropical inhabitants,

the satire is effective as a light bye. Englishmen alone, among charming young girl are not really Mile. Parleys, whose blond and con- father and daughter. However, vivacious face la more often seen in ment are inimical to entertain-itself and to learn from the ex-tinue to eat beef, and they can until nearly the end of the play he the audience at repetitions generales ment of this kind. But man-perience of war. Ordinarily

procure it only when an oc-thought they were, though she never than on the stage! The character is my taste is for playa that argue casional shipment arrives from suspected it for a moment.. agers persist in it.

that of a music-hall artist, who~~ from the particular to the gen- Australia. Curry, rice and na- Shaw's Historical. Play.

Good Opportunity.

like all the music-hall of those In eral. I am distrustful of mass- tive., fruits will make up the Another aspect of our theatre ed symbols.

Fellz Gandera's play, which is Parisian life-has a rich and elder- But this piece,

So called "Youki," is also an effectively protector and a young but penni- appears in the production at the though it has an enormous cast staple diet of the film folk.

vehicle for acting. There is not less gigolo. Old Vic. of Shaw's "Caesar and and is mass drama in the fullest they say! Hollywoodians. Cleopatra." The Old Vic's sensé, has impact and continuing tradition is Shakespearean; it strength.

has built up in the south of Lon- don a loyal and eager Shake- spearean audience; Shakespeare is ita raison d'etre. But some- times it turns aside from him, and I am beginning to hope that it may in time become an un- official Comedie Anglaise

theatre, that is to say, where the best of English plays of what-

But

MUSIC FOR FAMOUS FRENCH PLAY,

The Rape Of Lucrece"

To Be Presented.

ever date are regularly perform- MR. TAYLOR'S INTERVIEW. ed and where. actors and

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actresses are steadily employ- Deems Taylor is writing ed in honourable parts. Already music for "The "Rape of It is a theatre to which actors Lucrece," Thornton Wilder's of established reputation attach translation of Andre Obey's "Le themselves, for geason at Viol de Lucrece," which Katha- salaries considerably lower than rine Cornell will present, in New those they might earn elsewhere. York, in December Mr. Tay- They have a guarantee of re-lor, in addition to his operas, bas gular and various work; they composed considerable music for know that they will not have to the theatre.

give their time to imported "When I read M. Obey's play trivialities; and they are willing I was deeply moved by the rare to make some financial sacrifice beauty of this drama, which con in return for the opportunities tinually suggested music to me," that the Old Vic. gives.said Mr. Taylor. "I told Miss For these reason we find Mal-Cornell that it not only mast colm Keen and Peggy Ashcroft have music but that I must be in the Shaw play. What a good the one to compose it! We dis- play it is! How any admirer of cussed it again this Summer Shaw can go to Too True to Be when we met in Salzburg. Good," with ita quips and pup "Miss Cornell is very sym pets, when the solid character-pathetic to my ideas about the drawing and swift narrative of musicial treatment of a drama. "Caesar and Cleopatra" are I long have felt that available, I do not know. Britan- the traditional idea of inciden- nus in this play is inclined to be tal music in the speaking theatre tedious. He is one of Mr. is wrong. If music is to be used Shaw's standing jokes at the ex-it should be given its proper pense of the English. But there place and not treated as a poor Inow appears in his part a de relations I hope to be able to licious piece of theatre craft treat the score for The Rape of which does not enter into the Laicrece so that it will be an original editions of the play and integral part of the stage repre wag, I believe, invented, during sentation.

the rehearsal of an earlier re "The music will be scored for vival, by Scott Sunderland, who a string ensemble. There will be was then playing Britannus. a prelude to each scene to create De His Best Joke, the mood for the emotional con Britannus, you will remember, tent of the episode which follows is a British barbarian brought in Sometimes the music will conti Caesar's train to Egypt. The tinue into the scene, sometimes point of him is that he is subservient to the dialogue on

remely stiff, conservative, the stage, sometimes dominat

onal and Insulara kind ing the stage action. It is a

ure of Albert the Good

blem this theatre, that in M. Obey's almost unique ity to do

at Prince Albert a zspecial of mit nism and with an

spice of mire English didact

haw has always, found, bima

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