The Ypsilanti He has a peculiar sympathy for the HAVE YOU EE RE 0 - - ings, and Claude F. Bragdon, "Outlines
ouild's. int of view, and an unusual "Penguin Islan,' by Anatole If hineseArt," by John C. Ferguson,
Theatr a he interest in the treation of estory--telling France. W. L. George sas in his and "Engravers and Etchers," by Fitz-
L et te tr thelato tyo -ling critical book on -the famous French roy Carrington.
aCniudfo ae1 vr nd the sstellert othyounkst-fauthor, "Anatole France 'alone up-; ______
Continued irom Page eer. In a discusoon o books of holds the ancient tradition of Voltaire, The new edition of Wilfred Scawen
plot of the play centers about a moun- Celtic romance for children, which ap- of Defob and Swift. His satire is al- Blunt's "My Diaries" (Knopf) will be
tai feud, and the committee in charge peared in the January issue of the ways effective because it is always ready March 28th. The first Aeri-
of the cast was looking for someone Bookman in 1919, he says: light, always pointed and always can edition, it will be remembered, was
to 1111 the part of a young mountain- smiling." Mr. George says of "Pen- exhausted on publication.
eer. It l;appened that at the time a "All round the child in the Irish guin Island," "It is probably the big-
young vagabond, originally from the country place there are witnesses to gest thing Anatole France has done " Speaking of the feminine cigarette,
mountain district, was in the employ tales or fragments of tales. The great -__ __ _-Joseph Hergeshemer has some-
of Mr. Quirk. The young man had lake that the boy passes by on his thing to say in his delightful, casual
no training, but he knew the charac- way to school-under Iis the water- The University of Chicago Press has article, "Note Books on Charm," ap-
ter of the people in the play. He was horse. Some day the creature will let recently published five books on vari- pearing in "Vanity Fair" for April.
asked to take the part and played it himself be seen, and one does not ous phases of art, "The Graphic
with a great deal of success. know whether he will destroy the Arts," by Joseph Pennell, "Modern A third member of the Benet family
people or be helpful to them. Even Tendencies in Sculpture," by Lorado has broken into print. Laura Benet
Mr. Quirk is. particularly in- about the house there are witnesses Taft, "Six Lectures on Architecture," has recently had published a slender
terested in new playwrights and has to strange romance. The hens when by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hast- volume of verse called, "Fairy Bread."
produced several original plays. they. gater together at night and
Among them was a one-act play "Fata murmur to each other on the roost
Deorum," by Carl Guske, '22. The are telling of the treasures that the
play had been rejected both in Ann Danes hid before they fled out of Ire-
Arbor and in Detroit when the mann- 1'n Theens know he where-
script the playhabouts of the hidden treasures because
they were intimate with the Danes
sending the manuscriptito Frank who brought them to Ireland. And Car. Plain and Washington
Shay, who has included it in his col- if one knew the words the hens said
lection of the best short plays of 1920- to each other one could discover-O,
1921.0so much of red-golden treasure."
Other original plays produced by Here is the air of eager and tender
the Ypsilanti Players include two by credulity that stamps Padraic Colum
Marion Lamont, a Michigan graduate, as a poet of the peat-smoke. Like asa
who is at present in New York study- not he keeps in the corner of his heart iapital $300,000 Surplus $300,000
ing drama. Two of her plays were first a real faith in "the Irish pookas, gi-
produced in Ypsilanti, "Get Under- agachs, leprachauns, and clouricauns"
standing" and "A Bit O' Heather." and it may be this that makes him the Resources $4 000 (bA
Disco sing the teaching of dramatics enchanter that he is. ,0
at the University, Mr. Quirk said, "I
believe there is good material both in .
the faculty and the student body that
should be cordinated. There should
be a chair in dramatic art established
that would direct allt dramatic pro-
duction on the campus, including tbe
plays given by the foreign language
departments. Under such a plan, we
could be insured artistic productions
in place of the half finished ones that
are now being offered."
This year's. program at Ypsilanti
has included "The Green Scarf" (Ken- *
neth Goodman) "A Night of the Trojan ®
War" (John Drinkwater), "Fourteen" o s
(Alice Gertsenberg), "Her Only Son"'o
(Marjorie Sinclair), and "Where Shall @ wa ;
Adelaide Go" (Francis Livingston).
The last mentioned play was awarded @@ 1
the first prize in the contest held by Ii'0®
the Drama League of California in_ @:
1921, and was produced the first week I
of March by the Ypsilanti Players be-
League in the Ball room of the Stat-
ler. During the existence of the or-
ganization more than ninety one-act
plays have been produced, including_ .
work by Pinero, Sutro, Wilde, O'Neill, 14n Announemnent
and Houghton.
Although the club was started as of a complete and comprehensive show
a means of enjoyment for the mem- ing of the newest Models in Fine Foot:
hers it has gained a national reputa-w r
tion as a factor in disseminating the wear or prig.
highest ideals of artistic dramatica
production. Included are the new features inSports
wear that fashion -decrees will be fav-
The Poets Who Come to ored by women of refinement-as well
Ann Arbor as distinctive models in patent leather
(Continued from Page 1) for dress and semi-dress wear.
His is the poetry of the Irish
peasant. It is simple, often homely,
unpretentious, always full of an
earthy flavor, yet breathed upon by
the Little People, so that it has a
curious elfin charm. He has written -
some free verse, but for the most part
his poetry is metrical. He prefers the
simple metres such as the old ballad
form of the four line stanza with but
two rime words. This simplicity, this
lack of striving for elaborate effect is
typical of the man. He is direct, genu-
ine, candid, possessing, too, a gift of dlaeuo n-- -w
delicate humor and bright whimsy
often apparent in hta verse.