no mas no le
his friend Max, who serves as philos¬
opher and analyst, when he is in
the midst of an affaire with Hilda.
Hild is a sweet little, violet-like child
and loves Anatol devotedly but he
does not altogether trust her.
Why not hypnotize Hilda and make
her tell him the truth, suggests the
practical Max He (Anatol) is gift¬
ed as an amateur hypnotist. If she
is not true, he will learn it and
can act accordingly. So Hilda is put
to sleep and quizze.
That is, she is quizzed up to a
certain point and then the heart of
Anatol faille him. After all, her an¬
swer might be a shock or a handi¬
cap; and the doubt were better than
either. So Hilda is awakened, kissed
prettily and that is the last of her.
Affair No. 2 is with Bianca dash¬
ing Bianca of the circus. Not so
much of an affair this, seeing that
Bianca had merely once sat at the
feet of Anatol and held his hand for
two hours. But he is sure that she
loved him deeply, beautifully, unfor¬
gettably.
No young woman could hold the
hand of Anatol for two hours, he
argues, without giving much of her¬
self to him! And then Bianca comes
to visit Max-and doesn't even re¬
member Anatol. Like the college
widow, she meets so many traveling
gentlemen she can't be expected to
remember them all, So passes Blanca.
She Was the Third.
Mimi is third Mit was of the
opera and Anatol had wearied of her
So he asked her to a supper that was
to be their farewell, though she
didn't know it, and included Max,
that there might be some one to
shield him when Mimi should have
hysteries and make a scene at the
suggested parting.
Mimi comes, but before they have
finished the hors-d'oeuvre it is she
who confesses a new love affair, and
gives the surprised Anatol his walk¬
4.9. Anato
Zyklus
men, qui, vaan, vaan, New-York.
Paris, Rom, San Francisco, Stockholm, &c. Petersburg.
Ausschnitt aus:
.
HERE must have
been something
in the European ver¬
sion of "The Affairs
of Anatol for it is
said to have been vast¬
ly popular over there
which never got by
our custom house.
Something must have
evanesced in transit.
No claim has been made for its dramatic
qualities, as it is frankly billed not as
des.
a play, but as a sequence
These episodes are sucesive love af¬
fairs of a young man with a wandering
affection, and the five of them each has
what in an ordinary play would be an
act. They are entirely disconnected,
except by the personality of the hero,
and that of his man friend who supplies
the place of an explanatory chorus.
The original brilliancy of the work
of Arthur Schnitzler may have been les¬
sened in this version by deference to the
Puritanism which puts a limit on the
possibilities of the English-speaking
stage. That deference is not complete,
as is shown by the fact that the af¬
fairs are conducted in bachelor apart¬
ments and a private room in a restau¬
rant. The main idea is certainly original
and lands itself to permitting each of
five young and active actresses to be
a leading lady fo, ne episode. The list
includes Marguerite Ciark, Gail Kane,
Doris Keane, Katherine Emmett and
Isabelle Lee, each portraying a different
type of fascinating influence in the senti¬
mental career of Anatol.
So much has been expected of the
Little Theatre that perhaps it is unfair¬
ly handicapped. In the present instance
there is a feeling of disappointment in
the absence not only of it and sparkle
box 9/1
in the material offered, but also of great
distinction in its presentation. Bar the
amusement created by Doris Keane's
impersonation of the greedy girl and
Marguerite Clarks ingenue sweetness,
there was little outside of personal at¬
tractiveness that was effective on the
distaff side. Mr. John Barrymore's Ana¬
toi was a smooth and easy performance,
but it was all external, nothing that quite
explained the character. There must have
been something more subtle than any idea
conveyed by Mr. Barrymore to account
for Anatol as anything but a healthy
young man with an indiscriminate fond¬
ness for the other sex. The actor
could not go further than the lines
allotted to him, but in his performance,
as in the piece itself, there seemed to be
something lacking; an intangible and in¬
definable impression that suggested cham¬
pagne without the bubbles and with the
stimulating effect also gone
The Affairs of Anatol" is unique,
it is pleasantly done, but it is disappoint¬
ing.
Metalle.
his friend Max, who serves as philos¬
opher and analyst, when he is in
the midst of an affaire with Hilda.
Hild is a sweet little, violet-like child
and loves Anatol devotedly but he
does not altogether trust her.
Why not hypnotize Hilda and make
her tell him the truth, suggests the
practical Max He (Anatol) is gift¬
ed as an amateur hypnotist. If she
is not true, he will learn it and
can act accordingly. So Hilda is put
to sleep and quizze.
That is, she is quizzed up to a
certain point and then the heart of
Anatol faille him. After all, her an¬
swer might be a shock or a handi¬
cap; and the doubt were better than
either. So Hilda is awakened, kissed
prettily and that is the last of her.
Affair No. 2 is with Bianca dash¬
ing Bianca of the circus. Not so
much of an affair this, seeing that
Bianca had merely once sat at the
feet of Anatol and held his hand for
two hours. But he is sure that she
loved him deeply, beautifully, unfor¬
gettably.
No young woman could hold the
hand of Anatol for two hours, he
argues, without giving much of her¬
self to him! And then Bianca comes
to visit Max-and doesn't even re¬
member Anatol. Like the college
widow, she meets so many traveling
gentlemen she can't be expected to
remember them all, So passes Blanca.
She Was the Third.
Mimi is third Mit was of the
opera and Anatol had wearied of her
So he asked her to a supper that was
to be their farewell, though she
didn't know it, and included Max,
that there might be some one to
shield him when Mimi should have
hysteries and make a scene at the
suggested parting.
Mimi comes, but before they have
finished the hors-d'oeuvre it is she
who confesses a new love affair, and
gives the surprised Anatol his walk¬
4.9. Anato
Zyklus
men, qui, vaan, vaan, New-York.
Paris, Rom, San Francisco, Stockholm, &c. Petersburg.
Ausschnitt aus:
.
HERE must have
been something
in the European ver¬
sion of "The Affairs
of Anatol for it is
said to have been vast¬
ly popular over there
which never got by
our custom house.
Something must have
evanesced in transit.
No claim has been made for its dramatic
qualities, as it is frankly billed not as
des.
a play, but as a sequence
These episodes are sucesive love af¬
fairs of a young man with a wandering
affection, and the five of them each has
what in an ordinary play would be an
act. They are entirely disconnected,
except by the personality of the hero,
and that of his man friend who supplies
the place of an explanatory chorus.
The original brilliancy of the work
of Arthur Schnitzler may have been les¬
sened in this version by deference to the
Puritanism which puts a limit on the
possibilities of the English-speaking
stage. That deference is not complete,
as is shown by the fact that the af¬
fairs are conducted in bachelor apart¬
ments and a private room in a restau¬
rant. The main idea is certainly original
and lands itself to permitting each of
five young and active actresses to be
a leading lady fo, ne episode. The list
includes Marguerite Ciark, Gail Kane,
Doris Keane, Katherine Emmett and
Isabelle Lee, each portraying a different
type of fascinating influence in the senti¬
mental career of Anatol.
So much has been expected of the
Little Theatre that perhaps it is unfair¬
ly handicapped. In the present instance
there is a feeling of disappointment in
the absence not only of it and sparkle
box 9/1
in the material offered, but also of great
distinction in its presentation. Bar the
amusement created by Doris Keane's
impersonation of the greedy girl and
Marguerite Clarks ingenue sweetness,
there was little outside of personal at¬
tractiveness that was effective on the
distaff side. Mr. John Barrymore's Ana¬
toi was a smooth and easy performance,
but it was all external, nothing that quite
explained the character. There must have
been something more subtle than any idea
conveyed by Mr. Barrymore to account
for Anatol as anything but a healthy
young man with an indiscriminate fond¬
ness for the other sex. The actor
could not go further than the lines
allotted to him, but in his performance,
as in the piece itself, there seemed to be
something lacking; an intangible and in¬
definable impression that suggested cham¬
pagne without the bubbles and with the
stimulating effect also gone
The Affairs of Anatol" is unique,
it is pleasantly done, but it is disappoint¬
ing.
Metalle.