OPEN-AIR THEATRES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 19

OPEN-AIR THEATRES.

_ — , —^^ — , "In a recent article by Professor Betnhardt we note that he advocates 'Opeuair Theatres for the- Whole Gountty, 1 thereby proving himself a stranger—-al-beib a welcome stranger — in our la,nd. The theatre of his dreams, built 'on v gigantic scale with a seating capacity of about ten thousand, in circus form,' will never com© to 'realisation in England, the Laud of the Umbrella," says the Academy ; "and we write this in full memory of the late- glorious ' summer. "Imagine the distress of the performers — and of the audience — when in the midst of, let us say, 'A Wood Near Athene,' the rain descended, and the winds blew, aud the dust turned to mud, and ten thousand umbrellas mutely protested against the raging heavena ! IV live and work and play in the openair is a fine thing—- when the weather is fine; it might have been very charming in Greece; but in England . . . no 1 ; we would rather be in a comfortable Btall or a box." . E.- Philiipe. Oppimheim. ha«- .written thirty novel*, in twenty-t'oui yeait, '-ud ift ,it ill goiug strong,