Show World (September 28, 1907)
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WRITE TO-DAY FOR TERMS FILMS FOR RENT Temple Film Company Tenth Floor, Masonic Temple, CHICAGO The Show IiTorljD THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMUSEMENT WEEKLY Published at 87 South Clark Street, Chicago, by The iShohjHIorld Publishing, Co. Entered as Second-Class Matter WA RREN A. PA TR/CK , GENERAL DIRECTOR, at the Post -Office at Chica^.llHnbis June 25,190r under the Act of Congress of March3,1879. Volume I—No. 14. CHICAGO September 28, 1907 AMERICAN ACTORS FAIL IN FRANCE F^jRANCE wants nothing American, ('except the ' money. America rel- None Succeed Financially in Paris, While Scores of French ^lishes a Parisian flavor to its en¬ Artists Have Enriched Themselves in This Country. their native 1 tertainment. It is not a fair exchange. Mendes and Howells. Not $ven courtesy. This is best account¬ Compare Catulle Mendes, author of ed for by the notorious fact that Paris Ariane, a current success at the Opera BY ARCHIE BELL and The Virgin of Attila, recently played ^^Kiifficient unto itself. America is con¬ by Madam Sarah, to William Dean How¬ stantly grasping further and further for days. A few years ago Madam Sarah the tangled mess of their literary out¬ ells. Mendes is also a dean of letters. what is best in the musical and dramatic laid a trap for the Italian Duse. She re- bursts has served its purpose as a topic He is a Parisian after their own heart, a world, irrespective of geographical pre¬ peated the trick last June with Olga for Max Nordau’s massive critical work, leader of the decadent Parnassians, and Nethersole. “Degenera tipn.” Dozens of the most a man of talent. Howells is keenly in judices. Paris winks at Italian drama touch with the current literary move¬ and dramatic artists, loathes the Ger¬ ments of Russia, Spain, France, Ger¬ man, smiles at the English and laughs many, Italy and England. Mendes knows at the American. It is almost Paris. His mental horizon lies not be¬ j^Rnprehensible to the typical Parisian yond the rainbow of Parisian boulevards. that such a thing exists as American Last spring I experienced a keen de¬ drama. If brought so forcibly to his light in learning that Maurice Rostand, Blind that his negative argument cannot the young son of the author of Cyrano de hold, he lifts his shoulders, sneers, and Bergerac, has his eyes turned towards says: “Very well, then, if there is an America. It is not for profit, for the American drama and if there are Amer¬ Rostands are rich, immensely rich. ican actors, bring them to us if you in¬ Young Maurice loves the language of sist. We don‘t care to see them and Shakespeare and speaks it almost per¬ Will not promise to be courteous or even fectly. He has a desire to follow in his All i; smoke until it c father’s footsteps as an author. The al¬ luring example of Alexander Dumas, fils, No American actor or actress has ever inspires him. At the parental castle in made money in Paris, excepting possibly the Pyrenees he is diligently working SCfw vaudeville 6r variety sensations. out English translations of his father’s of French artists have made dramas and arranging the scenes of a Eids of dollars in America. Sarah drama which he hopes soon to write. _ rdt comes over here whenever she Rostand, pere, wlil probably do no more es, to replenish her coffers, and writing under his own name. His health _r back with a bulging purse. We rec¬ is not so bad as cable rumors would in¬ ognize the art of Rejane, Hading, Co- dicate, but he is not strong and is un¬ queiin, give them respectful hearing and willing to tax his strength, preferring send them home with a profitable bank to rest on the laurels that he has al¬ account. No American actor hopes to ready won. He shares the prejudices of get jeven a fair hearing in the French his brother craftsmen about American capital, and knows that anticipation of art and letters; but shows lively inter¬ financial profit would be absurd. est in his son’s ambition to write for Bftmerica Welcomes Foreign Plays. the American stage. America always has been eager to con¬ Not Writing for Miss Robson. tribute to the box-office popularity of Rostand said last June that he had French authors from Dumas, fils, down¬ never even seen the American producer ward. We swelled old Sardou’s royal¬ who announced that after a conference ties fey thousands of dollars and are giv¬ with the author at his home in the south ing Paul Herrieu, perhaps the greatest of France he had secured the latter’s living French dramatist, more produc- promise to write a drama expressly for the American creator of Merely Mary SBes Frohman expects congratulations Ann. It is to be assumed that Rostand’s laving “cornered” the output c" ~~ future literary labors will be merely as famous author for the next a tutor of his ambitious son, and Amer¬ years and selects “I.es Bouffons,” a p< ica is likely to see the next product of etical drama by a Paris newspaper ma the Rostand pen, before Paris passes as file leading feature of Maude Adam what is believed there to be the ver¬ fimhcoming season. Rostand n t with dict from the art court of last resort. atjesponse not less enthusiastic i_ Just as the American returning from lea than in France. We pay loyal trib- China or Siam endeavors to lift the yoke ffi'to Maeterlinck for his printed plays. of prejudice and ignorance from his We ihave afforded a sympathetic try-out countrymen who have never visited those to Alfred Capus, Catulle Mendes and lands and have never had an opportunity practically all of the playwrights of con- of seeing the people for a judgment at fifcporary activity in Paris. first hand, so an occasional French act¬ What have we received from Paris is or, author, or artist endeavors to tell return? Rejane has promised to use an his countrymen of America. But his adaptation of Clyde Fitch’s “The Truth.” preachment usually fails on deaf ears. ^Woduction of the same author’s “Beau One of these is De Max, the leading Brummel” is projected. There have man in the company of Sarah Bernhardt. been translations of a few American mel¬ He has seen the American theater at odramas. Scarcely a representative bal¬ close range. He has studied American ance or fair offset for our patronage of drama, American actors and American audiences. He told me recently that the K t Operatic Offerings. sorrow of his life was when he began We snap at the operatic successes of his career he did not come to America Paris, one impresario announcing with instead of going to Paris. particular and peculiar pride that he has Lured by Parisian Glamour. arranged to present several new French nigrelties in New York this season. Does ARCHIE BELL. Max is a Roumanian. The magnet of snap at the product of Victor Her¬ One of the most widely known dramatic critics in the country is Archie Bell, berts or Reginald De Koven’s pens? The dramatic editor of the Cleveland News. He is thirty years old and a globe trotter, He became a French celebrity and Paris country pricked up its ears and said: he having toured Great Britain, Holland, Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, claimed him as her own. His acting, ■B dare you” when Oscar Hammerstein Italy and the West Indies on foot. He is author of four successful novels, and his notably as Anthony in Julius Caesar, has announced the production of a grand op¬ acquaintance among professional people in this country and abroad is most exten¬ been the sensation of recent dramatic era :by America’s leading composer, in sive. His views upon the drama in France, published herewith, are those of an seasons. The limelight is beating fierce¬ Bown country. expert and their consideration will be of value. ly upon him. He is one of the favored few. Yet he runs the risk of incurring We import French singers and instru- displeasure—for the Parisians are child¬ fflptalists. Calve, for instance, has The dramatic world of widely heralded authors of France have like in their wrath against those who grown rich in American dollars. When “Stay away; but if you must drawn direct inspiration from Edgar utter “profane” remarks against Paris— American singers are permitted to sing teach you a lesson that you t Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, but they by declaring that America is the best ^■11 in Paris, which is unusual, unless would be loath to admit it.