THE STAGE IN GERMANY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 186, 6 November 1925, Page 7

THE STAGE IN GERMANY.

ENGLISH PLAYS PREFERRED. PROBLEMS OF POST-WAR LIFE. London, Nov. 3. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle” says that foreign playwrights have taken the German theatres by storm. Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan” and “Back to Methuselah” had crowded bouses. Other Shavain plays put on had short runs. The most successful was Galsworthy’s ‘ ‘ Loyalties, ’' which has had a tiiumph. Jerome K. Jerome has had two plays running, while Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Pirandello, and other dramatists have had plays shown. Managers attribute the eclipse of German dramatists to the fact that the oider dramatists, though masters of technique, arc strange’rs to the problems post-war life, whereas the younger men have yet to learn their business, and are full of wild, impracticable ideas. Fcrdcnand Mcysel, the well-known theatrical manager ,says the 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 dramatic art.--(A. and N.Z. Cable).