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LITTLE THEATRE.
ANATOL
A.
To spond a whole evening with him is much like
dining on the hors d'œuvres. Even as a dish of
hors d’ouvres, "Anatole lacks variety and delicacy
and subtlety of flavour. He is titillating, he does
keep you amused; but at the end of him you wonder
whether you have much enjoyed him. That with
plays as with dinnere, is a symptom of indigestion.
His appearance on Saturday at the Litte There was
not, of course, his début in London. For some weeks
Mr. Granville Barker, his English sponsor, has been
playing portions of him at the Palace. The migra¬
tion to the pretty little hore in the Adelphi is at
lonce an advantage and a disadvantage. The small
stage and the small auditorium are exactly what
Anatol needs; but five acts of him in succession
are not five times as amusing as one.
It is not now necessary to describe Anatole
scheme of existence in detail. We have already
assisted at his affairs with Hilda and Mimi and Lona.
Nothing new was revealed to us by Gabrielle and
Bianca, who made their curties on Saturday, though
the episode with Bianca in a good as the best.
Anatol, in fact, is one of those very numerous people
who are most amusing when you do not see much
of them. He is certainly real enough. The senti¬
mentalist cynie man about town, who mingles the
temperament of l'homme moyen sensuel with some¬
thing of Blanche Amory's il me faut des émotions
is cleverly caught by Herr Schnitzler. There is plenty
of wit in the study, though Mr. Granville Barkers
paraphrase makes the wit a matter of substance
rather than style. Yet five acts of it leave us with
that faint feeling of indigestion. The cynicism of
the dialogues is altogether harmless. Of course
Anatol belongs to a world which disdains morals.
But only an insane desire for edification will quarrel
with that. It is not the cynicism that makes you
uneasy, but the dilution of the cyniciam. Where the
cynical flavour is strongest,“ Anatole is very good
stuff, When Herr Schnitzler sentimentalises, how
ever cynically, uncomfortable sensations obtrude.
Unfortunately, the sentimentality of the cynicism
is emphasised by Mr. Granville Barke's handling
of the part. The result is much like the French
novels of the later eighteenth century, or a blend
of Ovid and Rousseau. Ovid is much more ausing
by himself.
The first of the two new dialogues given on Saturday
night," A Christmas Present," had a large dose of
sentimentality. Gabrielle, respectable and married,
meets Anatol out in the rain, and learns that his
affair of the moment is with a poor girl in a humble
room, who is happy to have her Anatol so. What
Gabrielle sende the poor girl a bouquet with the
message that it is from one who might have been
happy too if she had not been such a coward. The
sicklicet sentiment of the most sentimental goody-
goody story could, as you observe, be no nastier. The
second new dialogue was as delightful as this first
was disagréable. Anatol bringe to his friend, the
plump and admirable Max, a parcel containing his
pastetters, momentos, and so forth and the two
sort them out, with comment, in an excellently
witty scene. There was an envelope containing the
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Genf, Kopenhagen, London, Madrid, Mailand, Minneapolis,
New-York, Paris, Rom, San Francisco, Stockholm, St. Peters¬
burg, Toronto.
(Quellenangabe ohne Gewähr).
stantly Telegraph, London
vom
le
LITTLE THEATRE.
ANATOL
A.
To spond a whole evening with him is much like
dining on the hors d'œuvres. Even as a dish of
hors d’ouvres, "Anatole lacks variety and delicacy
and subtlety of flavour. He is titillating, he does
keep you amused; but at the end of him you wonder
whether you have much enjoyed him. That with
plays as with dinnere, is a symptom of indigestion.
His appearance on Saturday at the Litte There was
not, of course, his début in London. For some weeks
Mr. Granville Barker, his English sponsor, has been
playing portions of him at the Palace. The migra¬
tion to the pretty little hore in the Adelphi is at
lonce an advantage and a disadvantage. The small
stage and the small auditorium are exactly what
Anatol needs; but five acts of him in succession
are not five times as amusing as one.
It is not now necessary to describe Anatole
scheme of existence in detail. We have already
assisted at his affairs with Hilda and Mimi and Lona.
Nothing new was revealed to us by Gabrielle and
Bianca, who made their curties on Saturday, though
the episode with Bianca in a good as the best.
Anatol, in fact, is one of those very numerous people
who are most amusing when you do not see much
of them. He is certainly real enough. The senti¬
mentalist cynie man about town, who mingles the
temperament of l'homme moyen sensuel with some¬
thing of Blanche Amory's il me faut des émotions
is cleverly caught by Herr Schnitzler. There is plenty
of wit in the study, though Mr. Granville Barkers
paraphrase makes the wit a matter of substance
rather than style. Yet five acts of it leave us with
that faint feeling of indigestion. The cynicism of
the dialogues is altogether harmless. Of course
Anatol belongs to a world which disdains morals.
But only an insane desire for edification will quarrel
with that. It is not the cynicism that makes you
uneasy, but the dilution of the cyniciam. Where the
cynical flavour is strongest,“ Anatole is very good
stuff, When Herr Schnitzler sentimentalises, how
ever cynically, uncomfortable sensations obtrude.
Unfortunately, the sentimentality of the cynicism
is emphasised by Mr. Granville Barke's handling
of the part. The result is much like the French
novels of the later eighteenth century, or a blend
of Ovid and Rousseau. Ovid is much more ausing
by himself.
The first of the two new dialogues given on Saturday
night," A Christmas Present," had a large dose of
sentimentality. Gabrielle, respectable and married,
meets Anatol out in the rain, and learns that his
affair of the moment is with a poor girl in a humble
room, who is happy to have her Anatol so. What
Gabrielle sende the poor girl a bouquet with the
message that it is from one who might have been
happy too if she had not been such a coward. The
sicklicet sentiment of the most sentimental goody-
goody story could, as you observe, be no nastier. The
second new dialogue was as delightful as this first
was disagréable. Anatol bringe to his friend, the
plump and admirable Max, a parcel containing his
pastetters, momentos, and so forth and the two
sort them out, with comment, in an excellently
witty scene. There was an envelope containing the