... The Stage When Mr. P. R. Purkisa. War-' wick-road. Norbury. came out of the Forces in April, he had a hankering to go on the professional stage. However, he has a wife and two sets of twins (two years and four years), and he had to accept an available ...

... need of the spoken word, of the emphasis of the actor s art. to (hive home the obvious l««oo of THE PATRIOTIC DRAMA. military preparedness, and of vigilance the national defence However that may be, the patriotic drama has come with sound of drum and ...

... view of possible reprisals or from that of art. Dramatic art cannot be a question of geography. All good artists are international, and I am against the limitation of their appeal. Henry Ainley Mr. .owen Hares: Art must be free of national boundaries. The ...

... they vote. The strong party line which controls local government may have created this attitude. The citizen feels that, once he has put the right party in power in the town hall, he may rest assured that the party line, of which he approves , will be ...

... THE STAGE DOOR (Continued from page 12.) insignificant, .unsuccessful man. Be forgot the tragedy that stood menacingly between them ; he could think of nothing but the woman. He feasted his eyes on her as she moved up and down, to and fro ; the whisper ...

... WHAT THE STAGE NEEDS To-DAY MORE actor ma n a gers, I venture to say, is what the stage needs to-day. Read over the long list of distirguished people whose work and art were the delight of playgoers during the period 1 spent at the Lyceum under Irving ...

... ry stage, have at any .rate purged It rant, nnd grotesque violence, and loud vulgarity. Mr- Crummies is not ?on? now, nor.the Onr players the younger school are ladies and gentlemen, reined, reserved, and cultivated, somewhat wanting force, it may be ...

... -- If you • have already reached this stage you may as well abandon hope. The chanced' us that your hair roots are dead: and what is dead stays dead. But if tiny hairs still show, your hair roots may still be alive; and while there's life there's hope ...

... Higginbotham. Stage history. The Stage Year Book for 1916 has now made its appearanci% It is not of the bulky proportions of the 1914 volume, but is a shade larger than that of last year. In it, of course, there is no reference to the stage in Germany ...

... THE STAGE IN PARIS. 'Die Parisian public has not taken as kindly to The Great Divide (which has appeared French dross at the Theatre des Arts) as the public of America; Yet it is interesting play. There is an ingenious development, of the theory that ...

... later find magistrate who decides against him ”on principle.” The damage done may enormous. The ** show is disorganised, aud the performance, under difficulties, of Monday may keep the public out the rest the week. Thus tho very livelihood of large number ...

... DIED AT THE STAGE DOOR. On Wednesday Mr. G. P. Wyatt held an inquiry at the Newington Coroner's Court into the circumstances attending the death of David Preston, aged 98 years, a sewer flusher, lately living at 6n, Block, Beabody Buildings, Westminefer ...