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THE COLLEGE NEWS.





THEATRE REVIEW
aving’noth-
img of-importance to do, we decided
at eight o’clock,; to drive down-town
to a little theatre on Fourteenth street
and see yet another actress play Ca-
mille. Now there are very few New
‘Work theatre-goers -who have not
seen Camille, and probably greater
Camilles than: the world has to offer
now, despitecthe fact that there is an
unusual number of aspirants in the}
‘role at the moment. : Besides that,
these “art theatres” are popularly
‘supposed to be up-against it. And
again, no theatre is so well attended.
‘this season that one really need wor-.
ry about reservations, even around
Forty-second street, so we didn’t.
‘We arrived at the theatre and dis-
embarked in .the midst of such a
throng that it looked for all the world
‘tgs if a murder fiad been committed on
the premises. The crowd was hard-
ty a typical ‘New York . audience:
there were nien in the next thing to
‘blue jeans; grandes dames in full bat-
tle regalia; half-starved young crea-
‘tures with intense faces; even an old
man in a wheel-chair. When we had
“fought our way through this to the
box-office we were greeted with a sign
which said, “Standing Room Only.”
The next half-hour witnessed some
‘frantic activity which finally landed
-us-in the aisle seats of the first row
orchestra, hardly a choice position.
Miracle of all miracles, the house was
‘filled. Not only were all the seats

‘and all the standing room sold, but|‘

the. audience was seated and quiet,
‘almost hushed as the curtain rose.
Eva LeGalliene is not a young wom-
an, nor does she look to be dying of
consumption. We were sitting in. the
_ very front row, where every detail of
a make-up designed for the last gal-
lery was visible. The play is so anti-
quated that it might almost be a bur-
fesque; it should never have been
translated into the cold gray light of
English anyway. Joseph Schildkraut,
who played Armand, may have been
the son of a great actor, but in this
case the talents of the father have
ot been visited on the children. He is
as much in the general picture of

the group as Fred Allen would be. In}

short, the play was anything but a
perfect performance.
seen Miss Gish’s production, but from

the reviews we imagine it to be con-/

siderably smoother technically. There

was much to criticize and nothing su- |,
ner-human to praise, but it was in the}
most restricted and the finest sense, | .

a. play.

it was a unity as much as a living
body is a unity. Although flaws could
be detected as easily as we can detect

flaw’s in a friend’s face, one could}

mo more imagine the play. without

them, than the friend’s face without |
an imperfect, but none the less en-|-
deartng nose. Ft was like a painting |
of the early Italian school, in which |
for all its technical flaws no single |

line can be eliminated without serious
detriment to the whole. The problem
ofthe worker in the dramatic arts is,

after all, to force the audience to ac- |

cept those standards, situations, con-
ventions, and characters that he por-

trays upon his stage, and there is no}
doubt that the audience in the Civic}

Repertory Theatre did accept unques-
tioning by what. was played before
them.

Of the individual performances

* there is a very little to say. With the



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-xception of Armand, they were per-

but the play was not a set of individ-
p.1Lorinances,

Although Miss LeGalliene was a
ine Camille, playing with a gracious
sv-aint and at the same time a tre-
. udously real emotion to be restrain-

during moments when she was alone,
without lines, on an empty stage was
1 breath- taking; still we feel that her
sreat achievement: was not as the star
verformer, but as the strong sensitive
personality that caught up the threads
of the whole and made it the com-
manding unity that it was. Dumas
vrote the play; some one else direct-
-d; many other people played in it
besides Miss LeGalliene, but the group
(with the exception of M. Dumas) is
so completely imbued with her per-
sonality that it appears to be the work
of a single artist.

When an actress-director-producer
can take Camille, play the lead her-
self and make it the lead without blot-
ting out her, fellow. actors; when she
ean take an old, unacclimated play that
has been done too often, and. make
t live, not as a quaint relic, but as a
moving, tragic, present thing; when
she can do all this, with the dreadful
handicap of an avowedly noble “pur-
pose,” and pack the house in the pov-
erty-conscious city of New York, then
the drama means something, and there
is a white hope —J. M.

rectly satisfying, and” often “inspired; |

ed, and although her amazing acting:



News of the New York Theatres



(Continued. from Page ‘Two)

I'rench takes a short rest at the the-
atre, but we ‘still know exactly what’s
what. Over here we never miss a
word, and we’re still trying to figure
out how eight of the last ten plays
we saw ended. Subtle race, the
Frenchmen!
- We found a play in New. York this
week entitled Incubator. It raised
many questions in our mind: are ‘the
actors eggs or babies, and how could
one make the stage look like the’ in-
side of an incubator? I doubt if Nor-
man Bel Geddes and his spot system
could make an incubator mysterious.
In this month’s copy ‘of Stage the
editor gave a series of illustrations as
to the value of gesture in acting. He
stated that “even the angle at which
a bottle is held may indicate charac-
ter,” and gave a picture of Alfred
Lunt. All we can say in reply to the
quoted passage is that after all the
stage is only a reproduction of life
and. life’s problems, and: if the stage
van figure out a method of controlling
such angles, it will make life lots
vasier for such brains as the average
lassie possesses. The same article
stated that when Lynn Fontanne slap-
ped Alfred Lunt in Reunion in Vi-
enna she kept.her fingers open so as
not to hurt him. Since she almost
knocked him out into the orchestra
pit when we saw it, we hope she







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We object seriously to the current:

Willie Howard atrocity, Ballyhoo.
Chiefly we were annoyed by Jeanne
Aubert, whom we have previously
lauded energetically.
possession of our childish desire to
be deceived—that’s why we like peo-
ple who come out in ostrich feathers,
and loath those who-come out of them.
[t sounds like a quibble, but it cer-
tainly doesn’t look like one when one
comes -face to face with it.

We are still in



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when she was Dean of Bryn Mawr.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, Miss Candace
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Thursday, Nov. 17, Miss Frances
Perkins, Industrial Commissioner of —
the State of New York, for Mount
Holyoke. .

Thursday, Dec. 1, Miss C. Mildred
Thompson, Dean of Vassar.

Thursday, Dec. 8, Mrs. George B.
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