THE GERMAN THEATRE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 November 1925, Page 7

THE GERMAN THEATRE.

DOMINATED BY FOREIGN PLAYS BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRHIGT. LONDON, Nov. 3. The Daily Chronicle correspondent in Berlin says that foreign playwrights have taken the German theatres by storm. ■ ■ . George Bernard Shaw’s bamt Joan” and “Back 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 running; 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 bf 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 Meyscl, a well-known theatrical, manager, is of opinion tnax 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.