Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Oct 1905, p. 7

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Hi Satutell ont wil be given ie first orm, n ington, Noveni- er Dod, Tn this drama Pollock has: ; : embodied many of the ideas of play- A Chat With the Busy | an Si ve Young Playwright-- : Would Found a pe ER ...p), New School. ordinary things oF 18. There js noth- ing that the old dramatists would call 'dramatic' in it, yet it is vibrant dramatie situations, tingling with real essence of drama as we find it in life. Do you know," he asked me, with a laugh, "that I chotish_ the hope of founding a new school of playwriting? Yes, that is what I said--founding a nes hott: and i do." tinued ¥ i I elbowed my way through the "My school," he contin » Wan goup of smartly dressed SO clus- be based on the principle that the tered around the big frame full of truest, most vital drama must reflect Photographs of the cast of "Fan the actions of everyday people in the tana" that stood in the lobby of the (Continued: on Page 8.) Lyric theatre, New York. 1 ducked under a brass bar that guards the Way to the executive offices above, climbed a flight of marble stairs, ran 8 gauntlet of stagelolk--mostly young Yomen--waijting to be admitted to the presence of that dread one whose nl or shake means "job" or 'mo 9" to anxious aspirants; climbed another flight of stairs, and there, on CHARCOAL, THE VALUE OF : the top floor, under the skylight, in Few People' Know How Useful it is in Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that cliar- coal is the safest and most efficient « disinfectant and puritief in nature, Hut o Slitthe bby-hole of a roo. scarcely latger than himself and doubly guard- WW stenographers and typewriters, 1 found Channing Pollock, plgywright, novelist, lvrist, press representative aml dramatic eritie. few realize its value wi taken into | the human system for the same cleans. On the stool beside him perched a f Young goubrette, dainty and ing purpose. Pretty, bearing that. nnmistakeable | the many interruptions as it was be-| aged. I was humiliated and so angry A ? 3 SALTER Ae RR hi CoarCaeNER av Me IrLOCK d JLAT Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the "setter; it is not a drug atoll, but Bb abforbs the gases umpuri ay® present | in the stomach os le and car- hon ere a oth after | K sweelens 4 i X 3 : : ' conld scarcely speak. It was : : x 8ir of complaisance *with. ch the | fore the first. that T could scarcely . smoking, drinking ov after eati on. DH an EN Tt anhic hi At last the office was clear of visi years and vears hefore | ever forgave | | fon and other lorons oobi: : fands that form tho cohorts of its | tors, and Pollock arose and extended | him. 2 : : Charcoal effectually clears and jm- ser lights, Sho was pouring into | his hand in cordial greeting Although the dream of becoming a proves the comp) it whitens the is sympathetic ear some story to be "We can't talk here," he said, | great Srausatist was with this an 7, w]e 4 Sor f is ea whood, it was not to out as 'a "press agent's yarn come down to the Astor and.-get al f{ m his early bovhood, i ¢ 1 to the dramatic Liven of the counh- | bite of lunch." And to the Astor we | he followed with inputs: Neveruals - In the doorway a newspaper re- | went. of the family fortune found Pollock a : a - Porter lounged, waiting to verify was to ask some questions about | the #ge of fifteen in Salvador, doing -- ~, Te Sr oo w ry rr TOF 3 (CAPPED IAG Rue bit oh aw ah the Bm | cre a ae at. ritinge that ot» shanee ve | THE CUDA ICENE I "dt 7 HE Et 22 2 ARIE IAL ante-room I recognized a well-known this busy young man, whose rise to | porter and photograj hor Haring " PTAA SA, Weiter on. dramatic topics, doubtless | prominence as a playwright has been | South American war. return " bod w EE ---- en et mt oto re grant op Piemiah his stock of photo- | so rapid and xo brilliant. He told world of drama was hanning Pollock ) | "Ne you don't. WHite it now," per] cons. * Hundreds of people: who say |provions sditentes. "The outhide: deta of stage favorites (for it is | me that he had written many plays. | years a whet d hanning wi i tod. ie. br wh : | the play, and some of the erties, too, | tist has no stich qualms, and he futh- : : vo hi as o « raw A in | ss . Brady, Vy ' the url press ropresemtatives that | hut that not until oo. Years age had - of an where fe And =o, sitting on his tropk in the ! spoke of the great fidelity with which lessly cuts away from the story any- Wulitudinous , stage photographs | he produced anything that he really | the cf rik > i "parlor," Pollock' wrote ' I had stuck to. Mr. Norris' novel, | thing that tends = to retard action, ) andl to be tipped off in ad: | thought worth considering. wrote successively for the Post and little hotel "parlor, ollock wre ha } ot stuck faithfully to | looking tor effects from 'a few strong off in i , o his field | the act. It went well, and the play. Whereas, | had not stuck fa y ig as to % " ' a " » Fitter lave ever | the Times. With a retum to t act, ! : : . Wer s | 12 ' ; Various Nhat hr Joy , the hy ; Jag a A said; | hud come a revival of his cherished Fhweame a popnine success, That was |it at all. 1 1 had th Blay w tld have lines, and ily Somytruted. ya) ee Prosonte panies tha 0 Finca aT kind of plavs | hopes of playwriting, and several only a beginni June of the same | been a failure, t is always tha Ay | ations, rather than omg I 3 "The - You egn imagine what kind of ple Iv } + turned out in the time | year saw produced af Proctor's Fifty- | in dramatizing' a novel. The dramatist | tions: or moralizations, This idea, © Chesterfield of the Press = Re: | they were. 1 used to N rife ny ir 3 plays gare Wy apr uti. x pf strong. theatre, New-York. *'A + has ta cit loose from the: Book and Pollock, he had always kept in mipd, ves" they eall Channing | efforts in the copy books with, which] spared from his newspaper . oa . i ? | ollock, and as . i a Come o rk © o sem of the play af "In dramatizing Miriam Michelson's ng OFA Hy | 0 school vou re: Yof thus viays oven" gota production Gam» of Heart a omedy by Pol | work ont th : pro} fem he play 1 | ining iriam M ! ol it Sinvattieel him. tints hr plies books, don't] by a wl k company thatavas filling | lack in four acts, This was RusCamiul } ver his own fashion, Ju The pe novi]. In the Jishops Dartiage, fos send how he had ned the title ? Well, 1 wrote them, one plav }the "supplementary season™ in ad and ii has paid well in royalties, al-{ not only oii others: thal Wore | er if th fi ' T dis be d The invariable A mire which he tid book. that was the invariable | Washinzton playhouse. It wax a fall: | though it brought its author but hit | book, but nventiy oO a bi I the ors altogether, ju lac Nek eh. Wet evory demand, the patiguen with [length, And I took. them very seri: | ure and was taken off after a trial} tle motive. It. is still being played in not n hi oo onl Fhiosbeinie dor Ming ve the plot "2 enti at ky ah . he gave: his time the tiie of | ously, too. Oh, I thought they were | yun of a week, stock company repertoire, Ls dia gus ne a Cosh i ale hr 0 v me. ag the Hier An sxtraondinarily busy v to his | fine, great plays, and 1 was ambitions Shortly after this Pollock went to But it was in the fall of 1563 that } sentone To tuations well. Yet had, complaitied Dittely of i afl, the cordiality of the smil 0 berome 4 gront. playwright. 1 stil) | New York, and was five youre with the | Pelloék first. tasted. the favor of real | the important situations as well. Yet | jie: 1 nad<taken'with: her'story. * Bod wigh whith hit of Ae Smile sid OE ar: ki, re iously. theatrical manages, W. 'A, Brady. Tn! success. His: drantigntion of Frank | the crities and the public 'persist in replied that if they would get some complimenting (or intending to com ir all bespoke a courtesy, a| "Once my father showed some of | 1003 Grace George was playing | Norris' novel. "The Pit,' produced by Braciousnoss » at a Chicago theatre J ' one to write a play, closely following W. A. Brady, plinrent} the author with the ery of | (10 fines of the book, they would be tre, in Hartford, Was a great suc: | "How faithfully he has kept to the ['4hle to convince the author how im- | ! that are deep-rooted. a | these bayish efforts to a great friend | "Prette Peg | cose, Evervawhere the play was praised | hook." | } of the 'man himself. A dozen of his, Dr. Felix Adler, the telebrated | The last act seamed to mar the play times he was interrupted by telephone | Vienna physician, and asked him if he and one night, after the performan first 'at Parson's thea . possible it was to make a play out of bus ol o: . oEDie . Brady came Po" Pollock's room | ak most remarkable to be the "first A good dramatization cannot fol. | the story as she had written it. In ters, ta yr gn porate) Sch hat ho 4 any --, i hoof ras him of'a stheme he had | work" of a young dramatist, With | low the novel closely, becavse the lat- | fact, it may interest you to know ough; that Aly man would lose his veiomed I'r. Adler read the awkward | for bettering the efioct of the act, Wilton Lackaye in the leading role, | tir is too verbose, and "the result that I never read the book but ones fomper. By not: so with Pollock; his | cerawls while ¥ stood hy, flushed and "Rule 1" cried Volloek. "Bully 1 | it came to New York and nightly thee j would be a tulky play, the hane of | before completing my play, noe did 1 Voice BEVEr rome from the'low, well- | excited. a¥ sager and prowl. He re- | But who's to write it?" great crowds to the theatre where it] hoth actors and public. That is why | refer to it again. By a comparison of Aeiated tone that made it impos- | turned the book to my father with | "You are," said Mr. Brady. was presented. or . authors usually fail as their own dra- | the play with the book you will see Boar op PeoDle three. yards away to { the comment that he saw no indifa "Me? cried Pollock. delighted, "But the wav of a playwright who | matists. In putting their novels into | that 1 have changed the end altogeth- what he. was saving, and his { tions of even commonplace ability, | "Oh, Foe: T'd like ta! I'N da. it the | deamntizes a novel is rough. Winile was as , s , ; ton | plavs they would rather ent off their { or, invented five characters: that do ready after the last of | and thought I bad best be discour- | first thing tomorrow." | cluded Pollock, in telling of his suc j right hand than cut out one of their | not appear in the novel (if movel it 3 t g i

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