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7ea-pit# Padra'le Colum,
(By Lois Elisabeth Whitcomb) head is unwrinkled, the deep gray
Padraicf'Colum rose quickly as we blue eyes, bright and eager unde
their straight dark brows. He hold
entered, and stood, a slight eager flg- his head high and there is something
ure, silhouetted against the window in the chin lift that reveals not th
in Mr. Frost's living room. His greet- arrogance of youth but its desire.
ing came in the rich easy voice which' "You are going to stay in thi
had charmed the audience that had country permanently, Mr. Colum?"
*listened to his lecture in the after- "No, no," he answered quickly
noon. His conversational tones had, "I'm leaving for Ireland in July
if anything, a sweeter note than his I"1l stay there, I think, though I'll al
voice from the platform. It was soft- ways be connected with this country
ened now, but kept its depth and its It's my market, you know, and I hav
singing quality, kept, too, the delight- some plays going the rounds now
ful feathery edge of brogue, so fresh Besides that, my wife and I like it-
and pleasing to the American list- very much. We'll want to come bac
ener. and visit again."
We were scarcely seated when Mr. It was then that the tea tray ap
Frost excused himself. peared and we gathered about a lii
"To make tea," he explained, "Pad- tle round table. Mr. Colum woul
raic doesn't think I can, but just pour his own cream from the smal
wait. Will you have plain tea or -?" silver pitcher,
"Yes. Let's have none of the calla "Cream first," he said with,
liy4 stuff," Mr. Comum cut in. , twinkle of reproach for the barbar
But it was agreed that he should ous American custom, "It's the onl
try the Oriental tea, after all., While way"
the tea was in the' making there was He sipped the beverage discrimin
talk-"Shoes and ships and sealing atingly, and looked up. "You're
wax" and revolutions,' Had Mr. grand tea-maker, Robert," he approv
Colum been associated with the Sinn ed.
Fein movement when he was in Ire! "I'm writing a novel," he confide
land? He explained that he had been, "My first. You know, there's a har
.but that'at that time it was a differ- thing about writing a novel-it's th
ent thing from what it has since be- middle bit. The first of it goes we:
come. Then, acdording to Mr. Colum, enough, and by the last you've gath
it had no gospel save that the Irish ered force enough to carry you or
should turn their eyes from London but there's a middle bit that mu
town and turn them on their own comehard."
country and 'their own lives. A lit- He went to say that he had com
tle later he spokd, again of revolu- pleted fifteen thousand words of hi
tionists. own novel, and that it must be don
"It's a very strange thing," he com- before he sailed in July because h
mented, "how moderate your true had signed a contract to that effec
revolutionist always is. There was He smiled with a sort of sunny, car
Cromwell-a much more moderate lessness as he spoke. Evidently h
man than you can ever get any had faith that luck would be wit
one to believe. It's an odd thing, him on that difficult "middle bit."
isn't it now, 'that they should be so He explained that his novel was n
moderate? I suppose it's because the a study of contemporary life but.aim
revolution is to them just a means, an ed to depict the essentials of Irish lif
instrument," of the eighteenth and nineteenth cer
He looked out of the window medit- turies, that he hoped the reader wou
atively. The light falling full upon not be forced to connect it with an
his face illumined an oddly boyish specific era but would find in it tt
countenance. He confesses to "forty basic .qualities of Irish life of-a
years-alas!" but the clear high fore- time. He feels that the author wh
- deals with the life of his own genera- because, as he explained, there was
r tion is too likely to write of things nothing of the heroic about it.
s of merely superficial interest, politic- k He laughed as he spoke, a slow rich
g al and social movements that depend laugh that matched his voice.,
e too much on their immediate value to "Please!" he requested, carefully
be of any lasting worth . pouring the proper measure of cream
s Although the work that is absorb- into his emptied cup and passing it
ing him at. present is the new novel, for more tea. The tea, with its sweet
he says that most of his future ef- strange fragrance of jasmine' buds,
forts will be in the field of the drama. was evidently meeting with the
He spoke of his connection with the poet's approval. He cast -an inter-
- Irish National Theatre, and described ested glance at the curious Chinese
y the peculiarly democratic organiza- canister that was brought in for
tion that was a distinctive feature of inspection. Tea is of more import-
its early life. At that time the play- ane than one might have supposed,
k ers voted as to what plays should be in the life of the Irish.
given, and a single dissenting vote But there was to be no more gos-
was sufficient to condemn a play. It sip over the tea-cups. Our genial
- was soon found necessary to change host, smiling but'firm, reminded Mr.
t- this arrangement to a more practical Colum of their dinner engagement.
d and aristocrati; regime. Mr. Colum "Why, we've only just begun," .he
LI expects to renew, his connlection with protested,
the Irish players upon his return, He insisted that the dinner engage-
a and it is probable that some of his went could wait while he talked yet
- new plays *111 be produced by them. a little while. And indeed "cabbages
y He mentioned that one of his ,dramas, and kings" were still to be touched
"Thomas Muskerry," had been heart- upon. But Mr. Frost was not to be
- ily condemned by the Sinn Feiners, persuaded.
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