THE GERMAN THEATRE
DOMINATED BY FOREIGN
PLAYS
WEAKNESSES OF NATIVE
DRAMATISTS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIOHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 3rd November. The . "Daily Chronicle" correspondent in Berlin says that foreign playwrights have taken the German theatres by storm.
George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" ana "Jiack to Methuselah" are being played to crowded houses, and other Shavian plays have been on for short runs, and are very successful. John Galsworthy's "Loyalties" is a triumph. Jerome' K. Jerome has two plays runnng; Oscar Wilde, Eugene' O'Neill, Pirandello, and other dramatists are also represented. The managers attribute the eclipse of the German dramatists to the fact that the older, dramatists, though masters of technique, are strangers to the problems of post-war life, whereas the younger men have yet to learn their business, and are full of wild and impracticable ideas.
Ferdinand Meysel, a well-known theatrical manager, is of opinion that dramatists must dismiss their stenographers and stop dictating. When they return to pen and ink the wearisome flood of unnecessary dialogue will vanish. The typewriter is, fatal to the dramatic art.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 110, 5 November 1925, Page 7
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THE GERMAN THEATRE
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 110, 5 November 1925, Page 7
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