A Playwright's Disillusionment with New York
Franklin Fyles, dramatic critic and playwright, reveals why he prefers the West to the pressures of Broadway.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Fyles are guests at the Rainier. Mr. Fyles is the well-known dramatic critic of the New York Sun, but has lately become a successful playwright and, as he says, he had to get away from New York to do his work. 'I don't like to stick pins into people anyway, as one has to do occasionally in critical work,' he said. Fyles collaborated with David Belasco to produce 'The Girl I Left Behind Me,' a success at the Empire Theater. However, he admitted that collaboration is not pleasant, citing the 'great waste of time in settling conflicting ideas.' He intends to resign from newspaper work to focus solely on his plays, finding the peace of his travels essential to his creative process.
“I don't like to stick pins into people anyway, as one has to do occasionally in critical work.”
Fyles’s frustration with the 'rat race' of New York’s theater district in 1893 mirrors the modern trend of artists moving to the Pacific Northwest to escape the high-pressure, high-cost environments of global media hubs.
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