comprises the testing of Hildas fidelity by
tremes thereof the love that is the pursuit
her answers in hypnotic sleep; Anatolis re¬
and the attainment of sensuous gratifica¬
traversing of his old loves and of one epi¬
tion for example; the love that flowers in
sode in particular: the parting with the
happy and affectionate domesticity and
sprightly and the tipsy Mimi at the fare¬
comradeship; and the love that is the
well supper; the wistful encounter of Ana¬
poets say a great, deep, high and holy pas
tol and Gabrielle under the marquise of the
sion. No doubt Anatol sought the rewards
shop on Christmas eve; and the perio¬
of the senses in his affairs, but we, pre¬
come perturbations of Anatols wedding
tending to be of finer mettle and seeking
morning and the intrusive Lona. Mr.
finer sensations, puff this grossness away.
Brown and the players from Chicago dis¬
Clearly Anatol was not in his youth in¬
carded the farcical embarrassments of the
tended for domesticity, amable as he was,
nuptial morning and put in its stead
though doubtless he succumbed to it in the
Keepsakes the dialogue between Anato
old, old human and German way, when
and Emily in which he reproaches her bit¬
middle age stole into him. And Anatol
terly, angrily, as a man jealous of phan¬
clearly was too lightly built for high and
toms, with the cherishing of trinkets that
holy passions. He can afford us, rather,
recall moments he would have forgotten,
little afternoon excursions, as it were, into
since other men than he figured in
the illusions and disillusions, the ironies
them. It ends with a dart of taunt that
and the pleasures and what the learned
breaks all affection between them and lays
doctors call "the states generally of but¬
bare the woman's seamed spirit. It is
terfly love at play more with itself than
sidi
sterner, darker, sharper than the other
with the beloved object. Schnitzler per¬
dialogues. Throughout it things sordid
sonally conducts these excursions and he
and things deal angle after the manner
is expert in such guidance; but he will
of life. After the manner of life, also, it
Insist upon picking his party. It must con¬
leaves a bitter taste behind. From these
sist largely of those who are interested in
ing
qualities it has been generally omitted in
this amorous psychology and in the humors
the representations of the series. The Chi¬
and the ironies of it against the general
cagons acted it, placing it between the
background of life. Then shall we enjoy the
hypnotic episode with which they began
excursion and receive much profit from it
sells
and the farewell supper with which they
All of us did at the Toy and such excur¬
The
continued. Thus they reserved for the end
sions are rare in America.
sing
the encounter of Christmas eve and the epi¬
past
First of all there was the pleasure of
sode of old and forgotten loves and so
view
the observation of amusing episodes. We
kept for the last the wistful, ironie, half¬
saw Anatol putting the butterfly love of actio
melancholy, half-fanciful ven that is the
the instant into a hypnotic sleep and then
underlying and the lingering note of the
of
fearing to ask the question that would
piece. Keepsakes," in such a choice and
test her fidelity. We saw Mimi, scoringst¬
order, seemed only a bitter intermezzo or
off Anatol in the quick transfer of affec¬ Mr.
a contrasting passage that was strident.
show
tions and scoring off the food and the
acte
wine too at the farewell supper. And we
The Chicagons, moreover, set the suc¬
every
saw Anatol remembering so fondly, even
cessive scenes in their own way and in
of the
rapturously the amorous episode with
a way that it is good for little theatres
mo.
Bianca and she not so much as remember¬
to practise a way indeed that makes
tians
ing his face. As we saw, we heard witty
them possible. Four of the dialogues
to us
and wise comment on these and other
pass in rooms. These rooms, with no
Sel¬
situations off the tongues of Max and
suggestion of actual walls, were hung
true
Anatol and the particular loves concerned
with soft greenish or brownish hang¬
man
and also off the tongue of Schnitzler him¬
ing through which the players made
selves
self, speaking as upon theirs. As we both
their entrances and exits. Once these
for el
heard and saw we were at light play with
hangings seemed to enclose a window,
Ghos
pretty little facies, with amiable little
or there was a hint in andirons and the
bitter¬
liste of a fireplace against them. Once, illusions and with disillusions, too, that
clean
pricked for an instant or bit with a light,
again, in Emily's sitting-room, a tap-
finer
quick bite from the toen of irony. And
estry and an actual fireplace diversified
nos an¬
then Schnitzler bade us listen and watch
them. In each setting, sparse furniture
in the
more gravely and maybe wistfully. For he
gave the room the hangings were pre¬
voice
showed us Gabrielle melancholy at heart
sumed to enclose a touch of the char¬
sea,
for the happiness that timid and con¬
acter of the occupant or suited the ne¬
sicken
ventional goodness often misses and that
cessities of the action. In the one epi¬
poison
fate gives as reward to affectionate and
sode out-of-doors, there was no attempt
the hand
ready spirits that do not stop to count
whatever at scenic suggestion. Anatol
nervous
consequences. And he showed us also
and Gabrielle stood before no simulated
could fig
Emily, who would gain happiess by
only
shop, but against a big brown screenacting out of her life a past that was buts mo¬
while brown hangings closed in the
the mockery of it, but who found that past
stage. Inevitably there was no illusion
zation of
Holding her tight in its bonds. Once and
of place, except as the spoken words,
again, too, even Anatol showed his teeth
Anatols outspread umbrella and the
and not playfully as when he snapped at
calling of a taxi suggested it. Such il¬

the hypocrisies of that same timid goodness
lusion is by no means necessary since
depa
or was wrathful and bitter with Emily be¬
the action really passes in the mind and
only
cause she was not what she could not be.
the hearts of Anatol and Gabrielle as
in the air
These were the things we saw and heard
Schnitzler's dialogue opens them. In
pressed u
on Schnitzlers excursion to the pleasuring
the scenes within doors the illusion was
tion in
of our mind and spirits and to the quick¬
satisfying to those that like simplicity
a trick
ening of our wits. Maybe that quicken¬
in the theatre because it leaves leewa,
a few 111
ing was one of the profits of the little
for the imagination. Besides, all that
themselve
journey, for we all had need to be spright¬
settings can do for "Anatol is to sug¬
And the
ly in it. Perhaps Max in one of his witty-
gest backgrounds consonant with the
hope that
wise speeches hinted at the other profits
traits and tastes of the two men con¬
Led by
The principal task of friendship," he tells
cerned. If ever the action of a playor
reminisce
Anatol in one of his sayings, that stiffens a
rather a succession of little plays
sing, to
little in Mr. Barker's English, the princi¬
passed in the revealing words of the
at Alice
pa task of friendship is to foster one's
speakers and in the playwrights subtly
poor Don
friends illusions." Schnitzler in Anatole
interwoven comment upon them and
est, gent
is such a fostering friend to his audience.
upon life, it so passes in "Anatol.
of the for
He shows us the illusion of these butterfly
for them
love and the illusions of many another
Much, then, depends upon the acting, and
Banks
thing in life into which they ramify, and
the outcome of it was highly creditable to
Lady."
yet these illusions are pleasant to the touch
the little Chicago company. Seemingly it
half a de
of mind and senses. They caress even the
is neither exactly professional nor ex¬
Althoug
deceived. He shows us the complementary
actly amateur. Professional aptitude and
the faces
disillusions, and they have a pleasant bite
paistaking were plainly evident in it, but
and Alice
to the mind and the senses again, like the
It was graefully free from professional
Lalor, Mr
tang of a very dry champagne. They are
conventions and formulas. For the first
sist in spit
almost worth their while as sensations.
times on our stage originally in Chicago
has been
There is wistfulness in the illusions,
and now here in Boston Anato himself
as the det
has been understandingly and persuasively
and wistfulness is the longing that keeps
placed Mr.
acted. Mr. Barrymore in New York played us discontented with butterfly loves and
life is larg
many more important things. There is
him heavily, broodingly, a little morbidly,
to the girl
a little commonly. He so obviously fre¬
irony in the disillusions, and what is irony
Saskatche
but the salt and spice that is the preserva¬
quented Forty-second street, and not the
tomobile di¬
tive of interest in life to those that live it
fork.
and look upon it? Before he has brought
This latte
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early arri¬

Schnitzler has taught us almost a whole
at the shop
philosophy of comfortable and amused ex¬
has directed
istence, and with no more than five mina¬
Hotel Bellevue
lunch with
ture comedies for his lesson book.
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