I was awfully glad you made arrangements for the play, the one I don't like, and I hope the other fellow is right. These three-cornered French plays are going to have a hard time over here in the future unless they contain something that is pretty big, novel, or human. The guilty wife is a joke here now, and they have lots of fun when they play these scenes in these plays. The American and English play is different. They get there quicker in a different manner instead of the old-fashioned scheme. Of course, French plays, as you say, may be laid in England and in America. I understand that. But even then it seems to be about the same as if they were in France. _His brief, epigrammatic style of criticism is evident in a letter to Charles B. Dillingham, wherein he speaks of a certain play under consideration:_ I think the end of the play is not good. It is that old-time stand-around-with-a-glass-of-wine-in-your-hand and wish success to the happy people. _Extracts from an interview with Frohman which he wrote for the London papers, March, 1913:_ There will be no change in my work of producing for the London stage. I shall continue to do so at my own theaters or with other London managers just as long as I am producing on any stage, and I fear that will be for a long time yet, as I am younger now than I was twenty years ago. _Prior to his departure for England he wrote the following to John Drew in March, 1913:_ Thanks for your fine letter. It is like this, John: I hope to get off next week, but I don't seem to be able to get the accommodations I want on either one of the steamers that I should like to travel on, and that sail next week. I need a little special accommodation on account of my leg, which still refuses to answer my call and requires the big stick. _To Alfred Sutro, in January, 1913, on the current taste in plays:_ These American plays with thieves, burglars, detectives, and pistols seem to be the real things over here just now. None of them has failed. _Memorandum for his office-boy, Peter, for a week's supply of his favorite drinks:_ Get me plenty of orange-juice, lemon soda, ginger ale, sarsaparilla, buttermilk. _To Alfred Sutro, 1913:_ Haddon Chambers sails to-day. You may see him before you see this. He leaves behind him what I think will give him many happy returns (box-office) of the season, as Miss Barrymore is doing so well with his "Tante." _To W. Lestocq, concerning one of his leading London actresses:_ Miss Titheridge is all right, as I wrote Morton, if her emotions can be kept down, and if she can try to make the audience act more, and act less herself. _To Michael Morton regarding an actress:_ She needs to be told that real acting is not to act, but to make the audience feel, and not feel so much herself.