asking her, and she answers him, as she
put it herself, better awake than asleep.
Marguerite Clark played the girl in this
scene. She was simple and unawake as
Hilda was intended a delicate flower that
life would some day break.
The second episode takes place in the
friends (Maxis) rooms. Max is expect¬
ing a visit from Blanca, a little lady from
a travelling circus. Anatol and Max read
over Anatols past, for the perpetual lover
has brought a box of his love letters to
bury with Max. One of the souvenirs was
from a charming girl whom he found in a
circus show. Blanca comes in. It is Max
Blanca, formerly Anatols. Anatol greets
her with revived pleasure. She has for¬
gotten him. Gail Kane plays Bianca.
Miss Kane was wonderfully arrayed. She
might have represented a Chopin no¬
turne, but it would take more than imagi¬
nation, it would take brute force, to make
one realize that she belonged to the cir¬
cus. And Miss Kane has no force, not
even civilized force.
In the Fall Supper,
where Anatol is seen parting from Mimi,
his love from the opera, Doris Keine
gives a splendidly colorful representa¬
tion of a won who has no back¬
ground but plenty of foreground in the
way of her own bounding personality.
Reckless and extravagant in her likes
and dislikes, she is about to leave Anatol,
who represents the luxury of life, to
marry a poor violinist. Hungrily and
wistfully she cats her last expensive
dinner. Love is making a mockery of
her, but she submits to the joke. Miss
Kane's acting is an artistic treat.
In the fourth love affair, which takes
place in a street before a flower shop on
Christmas Eve, Gabrielle, who is intended
to be the finest woman of them all, shows
that Anatol really woke something in her
one everything in fact but trust. He
was ander, not only with life, but with
love. Yet the regretted her sensible mar¬
riage with another man. Anatol is on his
way to one of his vagrant loves. Ga¬
brielle sends her an armful of roses.
Katherine Emmet was the Gabrielle. She
played with grace and sincerity.
The last scene ends in a riot. Anatol
is about to be married. But the night be¬
fore his last free night he went to the
opera ball and brought home one of the
dancers. When she learns that her lover
hurrying to des for his wedding she
makes have of the furniture. Before the
final curtain falls she gathers her nerves
and vos vengeance on Anatole happy
married life. Thus things are left. Isa¬
belle Lee, as the fury lady, banded the
furniture about with considerable petu¬
lance. Her grief was not wholly con¬
vincing.
John Barrymore and Oswald Yorke
played Anatol and his best friend. Mr.
Barrymore looked the part agréably. In
fact, he was agréable in the part. But
he was not the part as it seems to have
been intended. Anatol is a mellow,
though young, man of the world, who
regards love as a serious pastime. He
lives in an atmosphere of extremely light
come. Life and love for him are a
sort of humoresque, Mr. Barrymore does
not catch the pose of the part. He plays
it more like a boy who takes himself
seriously. And then his mannerisma¬
they might almost be called mechanism,
so precise and inevitable they are. The
walk, the carriage, the shaking of the
head after every sentence.
Mr. York was none too satisfactory
as Max. He hardly made himself felt.
Granville Barker made the adaptation
of Schnitzlers play for the English
speaking stage. His version was used
last night at the Little Theatre. It was
unusually free from the flavor of a trans¬
lation, and preserved the Continental
spirit very well, in spite of some dis¬
creet omissions.
The mounting of the play was in the
usual quiet, good taste of the Little.
Theatre.
4.9. Anatol
Zyklu-
ne
2

VERY SMARTRE
ANATOLS AFFAIRS
And Very Charmingly Done Are
These Schnitzler Episodes
at the Litte Theatre.
MR. BARRYMORE PLAYS WELL
Good Taste in the setting and Acting
of Miss Emmert, Miss Clark,
Mies Keane, and Miss Lee.
THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL, a sequence
of five episodes
Arthur Schnitzler,
paraphrased in English by Granville Bark¬
er The Little Theatre.
Anatol. Barmore
Max
Hilda
Bianca Gail an
Minor.
Gabrielle
Frans........................ Albert die
A very smart entertainment la The Af¬
fairs of Anatol at the Little Theatre.
Which is as it should be, of course,
since the title itself involves a sugges¬
tion of something at once particular and
polite. Note at the outset that these af¬
fairs are not of the common order busi¬
ness, finance, polities. Not by any means.
They are the affairs of the heart, or
what passes for it in the peculiary sensi¬
tive organism of this highly be, die, ich
young man. For to have had such af¬
fairs und such surroundings Anatol must
have been one of the aristocracy of
walt," if not of brains. A bit of a
blackguard, too, this same Anatol-the
sort of chap who will kiss and tell and
run away.
All of which is far from making Anatol
dull.
They eliminate two of the affairs at the
theatre, and it is just as well. Indeed,
five of them seem more than enough on
the stage, though, happily, as they are
presented the last is the livelles, and
sends ons from the theatre in a pleasant
state of mind. Therein one sees the
biter bit," so to speak, which is an added
satisfaction to the moralist. And one
may smile at the sight of Anatolafter
a succession of affairs in which one lady
has usually been sent on her way to make
room for the next himself caught on the
hook. This time it is matrimony from
which wiggle as he will he cannot es¬
cape.
It would be difficult indeed imagine
any much better fun than the exhibition
of Anatol on this wedding morn of his
struggling to keep back the secret of his
impending marriage from the blondined
person who has accompanied him home
the night before from the opera ball.
Even in the face of this disregard of the
proprieties, Anatol can justify himself¬
or thinks he can. For he is a sentimental
egoist with all the rest.
It was my opera ball, he says, given
on purpose to say good by to por
cher ende
from fatherin laws, where they all drank
and would
him, and made stupid jokes about the im¬
pending nuptas. After all, one might
find some reason in this for sympathy
with Anatol.
But for those who have neither seen nor¬
read the plays dialogues rather one must
mention that the lady who accompa¬
him home was a long lost (or purposely
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