20, 1910. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SrNPAY,' FEBRVARY (> THI&ATnRI& SCENE FROM "THE* WITCH." AT THE NEW THEATRE. LONDON DRAMA Johnson, *•""•*\u25a0 THE PLAYGOER Reading from left to right—Ben Guy Bates Po.t and Mm*. 'The Hitch" Its Gloom, and Walter Sin N 'lar(h.. • Kalieh. London. : •\u25a0- \u25a0;.'«-\u25a0 0. Mine. Bertha The Shakespeare memorial theatre is Of course. "The Witch" is an unpleasant j still a lons way in the dreamy distance. play; nobody denies that. But it is not Yet youngsters among playgoers need which j half so unpleasant as another play expect t<» wait until they hoary lovers j not are has hit the town to the d-litrht of unsophisticated veterans before they can have the priv- of the morbid, and of the j theatre; wish theatrical nicks, j ileges of the repertory fur out «b& \u0084-. charmed hustling •The Witch*' is gloomy, bat what would j of the realm of Western has you expect of a play «>n the subject of come Mr. Charles Frohman to try the witchcraft hi,.: seventeenth oen'.ury Pun: experiment at «»nc» and to find out lanism? One trouble with "The Witch." .•:-...the metropolis a con- from th*» pa it«f virw of the Great Ameri- j Hiderable class who are dissatisfied wUh that it i.- short on s.ntiment. .an Publk'. is | common run of stage entertain- The G. A. P. loves .sentimentality— wants the ptrgti \u25a0 hiring ments and anxioi«3 to have something, •i scooped up In isreat. | intellectual, umps. 'The Witch" is but poorly fitted j more artiatic and stimula- out with the stane tricks which the G. A. P. j tive. Mr. Ilfrbert Trench, with Lord has Hm taught to consider essential to a i Howard u> V.'alden behind him. has no siusary coat- dnunatk tale: and It has J shown at the Haymarket that there ia \u25a0jiff sham morality. of public for a higher clas* will tell you that The a remunerative Some persons is ordinarily seen, for is an plaj because its of drama than UH.-h" immoral drawing ;:inci;wl fipuie is* a younp wife who is Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird" is iT.faitii'ui. and whoso lover is her etepson. crowd) houses morning and night, an'l r>-.;t. \u25a0?• from beini; immoral, it is one of those ho witness this work of poetic because :ne most moral of modern plays, j beauty and hisii imagination themselves exa;i? the relation, but il bowfcexe illicit return more than once and send all their every step the inevitable punish- J sho*s at acquaintances galleries. Sir. ment culminating in tragic Fas- to stalls horror. thy rinfiting stepmothers and amorous siep- Trench does not alternate plays on sons contemplating excursions on the prim-'J repertory system, but transfers a pop- -The •->«\u25a0<\u25a0 path will be warned off by ular comedy like "Don" to other stages Witch." and other eonnivers «t treachery allows It to have as long a run as do and w.ii! sit up end-thir.k. But audiences LUCILE WATSON. merits command. Mr. Frohman ha-» consequently -The GILLETTE. its T>ot like to think: VIOLA "The City." Lyric Theatre. plan of operations for tha unlikely to make a wide appeal End In a different "Witch" is Sn "The Beauty Spot." West Programmes as the play Is, it does not Theatre. Duke of York's Theatre. Vr.r>as&nt : ' J*re are pretend to m \u25a0••-\u25a0• it is \u25a0•* It does not -» Billy." Frnnkif arpenter and the r,. to be constantly changed; there tak*> s drab and slobber over her : Grarty Company in "The Toll Bridß^." to be notable revivals, and there will i.« frutter Theatre company. If they are not «ith mauolin staff about maternal love New the ---unc- a strong company of trained artists in CaTl it melodrama if "starred" in the bills there Is PLAZA—Henry Lee will portray "Great snd filial devotion. Welch, readiness for the production of plaja ,-, like, you when tion without much difference. Men, Present." Joe the . \u25a0; but what have settled Marlowe, Mr. Guy Past and v<-,.; said There is melodrama Mr. Bothers. Miss comedian; Came and Odom, "The with ideas. have that? L*ng.Miss Grace j Hebrew acrobat?, work, stased on melodrama: and The Witch" is not BRtes Post. Mr.Uaihesen Song Tailors'; Miller Brothers, The opening: to be and and Itme Ber- . "Justice," new by cheap melodrama, not ?hoddy. not tricky QeorgC Miss Annie Russell and Mamie Fenton, a Scotch singer, will February 21, Is a play been attracted from their •nd paltry. Unpleasant as its theme Is. | tha Kalich have j also entertain. Mr. John Galsworthy, whose "Strife" many plays, from the stellar orbits to the scene of The New The- j th»re are successful duration; and "Silver Box" have offered e\"idenc» "tragedies the popular lucubra- atre for terras of various and j •classic" to go th^re, and , of marked originality and dramatic of the passing hour, equally unpleas- now Mr John Mason Is to , tions Edith Wynne Matthison. Per- LUCIEN GUITRY power. Two nishts afterward there will gga. many that are more unpleasant. later Miss 1 and appear ere the Bernard Shaw ? Tnf iheme has mm novelty, but what haps other luminaries will . be a fullmuster of Mr. another season presentation of "Mesal- theme lias novelty? Treatment is the most season ends And perhaps j admirers for the , a lead- eight that can be expected in the way of "nov- a>. bring what this theatre lacks— . liance." The two plays will divide leading capable of The Great French Actor Who elty" in any new play nowadays. And bag man and a woman j performances between them and make imparted brilliantlysome, at least of the such novelty as is to the treat- performing way a bill—two sin- stars are now required. Plays Chant ecler. for Barrie-Meredith ment of the Jenssen-Hapedorn play com parts for Which living appear?. gle act plays by the dramatist an.J from introduction of the witchcraft Meanwhile. fcfrae. Bertha Kalich Paris. February ft th» "The work. "The Sentimental- business. And the witchcraft business, it Her name on the first night of Witch" L.ucien Germain Guitry, who "created" an unfinished the list the "com- M. dead master, whose "Es^ay must be said. If unconvincing. How can it ; was not Included in of • part of Chantecler in M. Edmond Ros- ists," by his century players." 1< shone only in the JOHNSON, jjr EVA FRANCIS. the classic, b*> made convincing to a twentieth pany of ORRIN ' tand's exquisite barnyard idyl, has made on Comedy" is a literary even with This may not be "star- Destiny. 1 Savoy In -The Yankee Girl." Herald "aud!»nce? An old hap is 'in league cast of characters. In "Children of a unique position on the French if he did not succeed in making a repu- ' to is thing Theatre, Square Theatre. for himself "he drew the lightning ring on th. bills." but it the next j r stage. M. Guitry's art a startling as a playwright. "The Madras Satin" because by offers tation- the meeting house." Another -cured to It. I big contrast to that of the late Constant Coque- by Granville Barker, who and summon a parts for Mrae, ; menl of the type. Everything on a House," Mr. layinp on of lands could There aiv better Kalieh or Venice.'.' On \ whose grandiloquence of voice and rh-j of but j noon in "The Merchant scale, mi hiding the audience. !in. divides wit* Mr. Dion Boucicault person to bar presence by the exercise than Joan Hathorne In "The Witch." will give a special matinee was in mind when he something play better Thursday they gesture M. Rostand's producing plays In quick suc- her %ill It would require no other actress could Joan the popular "Romeo his idea of "Chantecler." M. burden of does, j performance of ever Chocolate Soldier." Most conceived novelty, more than this to interest present day Mme. Kalich no other that one I for next week. CASINO—"The profound impression by his cession, will bo the next and than and Juliet." Their repertory delightful comic opera..-. Guitry made a in 'witchcraft' and to mak« to mind could play it so well. Monday of by Henry Jam> 3, ilr. Somer- audiences can .-all will be their last, is: and I admirable impersonation, but his success f3f3 \u25a0works Mr. why New En eland Puri- b has that rare Rift called j which matinee, E. H. SOTHERN. I em understand Bertha Kali Tuesday nights and Wednesday j Montgomery* and Stone, in the seventeenth century dean -, word worn, a posses- "The Merchant of GLOBE— tan* in I"personality." \u25a0 well j ••Hamlet"; Thursday matinee and Thurs- j in Venice." Sth old in our time seen on the stage. She is | Academy of Music. •The Old Town." harshly crones who JIsion too seldom day, Friday and Saturday Bights, "Twelfth j in the Sunday newspapers » the run of ; wou'id advertise en actress quite out of usual Saturday matinee. •'Romeo and i — Ring, mediums, palmist* gad clairvoyant has the Night*;; HERALD SQUARE Miss Blanche as attractive stape women. She power and Miss Marlowe I morrow night his series of 'plays worth series of vaude- communities do not you. make you Juliet.** Mr. Sothern in "The Yankee Girl." A princesses. Modem not merely to impress but to Academy soon for an- while." His rim production will he Oliver Ring as a shabby peer?. One* is will return to the | \ille performances with Miss.