Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Mar 1921, p. 13

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We are so used to working to- gether that Harvey didn't want to let | anybody else do it but me. So naturally I am a keen friend and student of the drama; and I hate i | Y | to think of it going all to pleces, The trouble with it is that it is | becoming a mere mass of conversa- | tion and reflection: nothing happens {In it: the action is al] going out of [it and there js nothing left but thought. When actors begin to | think it is time for a change. They | are not fitted for it. Now in' my day, I mean when I Was at the apogee of my reputation (I think that is the word, it may be | apologee: I forget) things were very | different. What we wanted was ac- | tlon--striking climatic, catastrophic j action, in which things not only hap- pened but happened suddenly and all tin a lump. And we always took care that the { action happened in Some place that | Was worth while, not simply in an | ordinary room with ordinary furni- ture, the way it is in the new drama. (top story), or in a Mad House (at Midnight) or in a Power House or in- | The scene was laid in a Lighthouse | THE DAILY BRITISH WH [ot the reflectors flooding the little | room, and the roar -of the storm | heard like muffled thunder outside | The lighthouse keeper trims his { lamps. How firm and quiet and rug- {82d he looks: The snows of sixty | Winters are on his head, but his eye | |1s clear and his grip strong. Hear the howl of the wind as he opens the door, and steps forth upon the iron balcony, eighty feet above the water and peers out upon the storm. "God {pity all the poor souls at sea!" he says. (They all say that: if you get used to it, and get to like it, you | want to hear it said no matter how often they say it.) The waves rage | beneath him: the foaming crest of a wave splashes up angrily at him. (I threw it at him, really, but the effect was wonderful.) | And then as he comes in from the {storm to the still room, the climax | breaks. A man staggers into the | room, in oilskins, drenched, wet, | breathless! (They all staggered in [ these plays: and in the new drama | they walk and the effect is feebleness | itself.) He points to the sea. a | boat! woman in jt." {that it is his only daughter--the {only one that he has--who is heing cast to death upgn the reef comes the dilemma. They want nim for the life-boat; no ome can take [1t through the surf but him. know that because the other man says so himself. But if he goes in {the boat then the great light will go out. | storm. lit goes out And if it goes out--al' if !--ask of the anzry jwaves and the resounding' rocks of | death {what to-night's long toll of jmust be without the Light ! I wish you could have seen ft-- {you who only see the drawing-room {plays of to-day--the scene when the { Lighthouse man draws himself up, {calm and resolute, and says, "My {place is here : God's will be done." [And you know that as he says it and [turns quietly to his lamp egain, the. {boat is drifting, at that very mo- |ment, to the rocks. "How did they save her ?" My dear sir, if you can ask that questicn you little understand the drama os it was. Save her ? No, of course [they didn't save her. What we want- | led in the Old Drama was reality and |force, no matter how wild and tragic it might be. They did not save her [They found her the next day, in tha {concluding scene---all that was left {of her when she was dashed upon {the rocks. Her ribs were broken, {Her bottom boards had been smash- ied in, her gunwale was gone--in A boat upon the reef! with a | | | And the Lighthouse Keeper knows Then | You! Untended it cannot live in the | 1G. f _~ i po | ww yo - } | | i .¢ aflractive? HERE can you find a more pleasing picture than a group of young, healthy, vigorous girls play- ing tennis? Alert, quick to think, and quick to act, their faces aglow with enthusiasm and radiant with health. How man be said. in a listless, careless manner, and, a multitude of cases, They give sound, restful sleep, tone lar and strong, create new red blood used three boxes and is feeling fine, two months ago." Milburn's Heart all dealers, Sa a Odie A et Arima pe short, she was a wreck. | The girl ? Oh, yes, certainly they (saved the girl. That kind of thing | {was always taken care of. You se ol Just as the Lighthouse man said | 'God's will be done," his eyes fall on a long coil of rope hanging there, SC Wy oo in the Old Drama. night. a Dog House or a Bath House, in | i short, in some place with a distinet | local color and atmosphere, I remember in the case of the | first play I ever wrote (I write plays, | too) the manager of whom I sub. mitted it asked me at once, the | moment he glanced at it, "Where is | the action of this laid?" *'It is laid," | I answered, "in the main sewer of a | Great City." "Good, good," he said, "keep it ther¥™ In the case of another play the | { manager said to me, "What are you | doing for atmosphere?" "The open. | ing act," I said, "is in the steam | i laundry." | ed as he turned over the pages, "and have you brought in a Condemned "Very good," he answer- | "That's rather unfortunate," he said, | "because we are especially anxious | [ Cour I told him that I had not. | to bring in a Condemned Cell. Three E theatres have got thew | this season, and I think we ought to | have it in: can you do it?" 'yes | I sald, "I can, If it's wanted: I'l] look | through the cast and no doubt I ean | find at least one of them that ought | to be put to death." "Yes, ves," sald the manager enthusiastically, "I am sure you can." But I think of all the settings that the best. There is something about a Lighthouse that you don't get in a Modern Drawing Roorn. ence. myself into acting so deeply, as in the play of that sort. earlier scenes--with the fulness to a trust, men and their wives cn thé foreshore pointing out to the sea (the back ot the stage) "See," one cried with his arm extended, 'there is lightning in | yon sky" (I was the lightning and i that my cue for it): "God help all the Then a up the reef!" And as she said it I had to rush round and work the boat | to make it go up and down properly. | Then there was more lightning, and | some one screamed out, "Look ! See! i there's a woman in the boat!" There | wasn't really; it was me: but in the i darkness it was all the same, and of | | course the heroine herself couldn't be there yet because she had to be downstairs getting dressed to be drowned. Then they all cried out | "Poor soul! she's doomed," and all | the fishermen ran up and down mak- | ing a noise. Fishermen in those | plays used to get fearfully excifed: ! and what with the excitement and the darkness and the bright beams of the Lighthouse falling on the wet ollskins, and the thundering of the S€a upon the reef--ah! me, those were plays! That was acting! And to think that there isn't a single streak of lightning in any play on! the boards this year! And then the kind of climax that 2 play like this used to hava! The | | Scene shifted right at the moment of | | the excitement and Io! we are in the | tower, the tap story of the light- | Rouse, inferior scene. All is still and | quiet within, with the bright light | There is something about a Light- | house--the Way you see it in the | lantern | shining out over the ilack waters | that suggest security. fidelity, faith- | The stage used | generally to be dim in the first part | of a Lighthouse play, and you could | see the huddled figures of the fisher- | we used, the Lighthouse plays were | What it fs, | I don't know; but there's a differ- | I always have liked a Light- | house play, and never have enjoyed | acting so. much, have never thrown i Possible! | Edison's Amberola Many purchasers of machines and ordinary y Do, n 1S have discove too rte that the machines didn't sound the same in their homes ~as in the store when they bought them--possibly be- had more time to note the shrillness and metallic sound of these ma-- chines in the quiet of their late t 'cause they homes. | phonograph that can success- fully pass the critical test of {8 Free Trial tn your home. 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