t ..-~ TYAQE SIX THE MICHLIGANA.~ITALY SUNDIAY, ~FEBRUARY 18, 1923 L--: DA, :R VARY 518, 193 HE MICHIGAN DAILY - i ~- ,~, P - "I BO 1 11 i r. rr.++ y..rrrg~sNI W-- THE WORLD IN FALSEFAVE, by l-he clarity, the simonlici , of his atye Oteorge Jean Nathian.. Alfred t otb win our ur.ier tandiag: and eom-n Kniopf. pel our admiratin. In technical abil- Reviewed by Robert Bartron iity. assuiredly, Housman is beyond (:citiciSm1. I admit it. I was the only person "or is his technique a thing opait, about the place 'who had not read ,ftc; e. divorced from the subject. at least one of George Jean Nathan's !matter. As in all poety ,vorthy o books. It all came about because Cote name, formi and thougi~t ecan was once told that he did not ike loe to the advantage of both. lous- Walter Hampden,- which immediately! mal is no mere acrobat in verse, per-. made ine certain that the fellow wasE forming marvelous yet meaningless crazy. But. you never can tell how! verbal feats for his own amusement. far you will eventually fal: I haveieo is an artist, comprehending and read "The World in Falseface" and deosrtnthtuiyfmasad despite all my livid prejudices I havefedemonstratinghtuisteofgmeastan to admit that I liked it immensely.i poetry The book is divided into four parts.! Whether the end be of value is an- Parts 1, 111, and IV are a composite 1other question. I for one believe that hash of epigrams and statistics. Thei it is. That delicate, sophisticated pes- general effect suggests the product sflnism expressed by Housman is a of a precocious high school senior needed contrast to the bluff, bold ges- who has just discovered 'Wilde' and tues characteristic of our poets. the naughty- nineties. When Mr.a There are certain things which we Nathan talks of the theatre I listen English do excellently, there are cer-; with respect, but when he babbles of 'tamn desirable qualities which our meb, women, and philosophy, I 'throw'verse- always displays; -but subtlety the trash out of the window. I of mood, nicety of taste-tact-in a But do not let this frighten you, ord if you will- is not among them2.I for Part II, concerning the Theatre1 Tane-pointed out that our writers are and the Dramna, more than compen-)barbarians: without believing that this sates for the stuff on its either side. fact damns them, we must neverth- In the first place, these tabloid less admit that a little civilization, a essays, parodies. and1 what-not give little polish, a little restraint would a most extraordinary picture of the o beneficial. plan. For example, in one place hie This restraint, this cultured taste. refers to Shaw as a critic who states 1-lousman offers. In his manner- of the obvious in terms of the scandal-facing the world he differs noticeably ous; now I defy you to find a more from, most of his predecessors; even perfect description of' the authorl from moost of his contemporaries, in himself. And there you have it: The Whom yearning for sophistication has man is an Americanized G. B. S. ecently begun to spring 'forth, To Irrdeed, the analogy becomes more ! the traditional Saxon mood his verse striking whcn we realize that the.) c 111 alien; it sees een to have game thing that is ruining Shaw 1,s1 been written in a different time. Most destroying both Nathani and hisj Englis i poetry is of either arch or djuble, Mleneken. Now that the smoke May; Husman's belongs to the cool issi beginning to clear away, we see, faint April twilight, whose pathos, thin that Shaw is only a Presbyterian mn- 'Yet compelling, always attracts those+ xer, for all. his explitives, and that to whom beauty is all the fairer- for the two Americans are merely dilet- its frailty and elusiveness The spell mnte Puritans laboring under- the-of Apri1,.Housman is tooSensitive 40- delusion that they are decadents. -The resist, too witty .toaccept entire-lHe middle class mob is beginning to take , iscla5ssis in his appreciation of swift, all three seriously, they have becomeI clear- perfection; 'cassic, too, in his heroes rather than (devils in their feeling that this perfection pases. He eyes, antd thus their doom is sealed. i ya lle gest comparison with the Greek The thing that Ta0-this",o apllr -~wt~atluwith orown parent, particularly in the case ofGrecan, Lando r MAr. Nathan, is the desparate way 1n Such praise is high, perhaps . too which hie drags in all his petty vices-,!high. In relief at escape from- the1. iHe wvill tell you just how many cig-j swelling bombast -that disfigures too arettes he smokes a day wvith all much of -our verse, readers are likely the braggadocio of the college fool to exaggerate the merits of lous- who wears a checked wool shirt and man's delicacy and restraint. n truth, toadies to six bootleggers in his at-! delicacy and restraint can easily be1 tempt. to be masculine. carried too far, until they end in ar- But when the author -retires and fiiciaity.r From this danger H-ous- his ideas occupy the stage instead, mean is not free. The constant plaint- you have truly delightful reading. You ivonSs of his lyrics begins to weary learn, for instance, that. he hates us; we desire a violent outburst, aI Charles Rann Kennedy, -adores Hlaupt- greater robustness of -feeling and ex-{ Mann, laughs apt Barrie and condones pression. The mlan seems frustrate, George M. Cohan, despises laeterlinck futile; and we turn in relief to affirm- and applauds O'Neil. You are also ations and positve assertions, ~o- told that those bad French trffles'ever grandiose. are in truth very good, while those! moral German dramas are as filthy' BATOUAJA, by Ree lar-n. Thomas as an Avery Hopwood bedroom farce.; Seter- When you have finished the book you Rvee yBrnSadi will know that he sickens at the Rvee yBrnSadi thought of the movies, the Chauve My faith in Thomas Seltzer is grow- Souris, the Y. M. C. A., and the ing with each new book that comies American actor, but is fascinated by from his publishing house His adver- comedians, Rostand, and American itisements have carried such names actresses. as D. . Lawrence, Sigmund Freud, It is all very amazing, very bewilder-I Arthur Schntzler and Rene Maran for ing, this whirligig of opinions. Of !the last half year-. Freud's place is course, his works will not live, in indispensable. There are many who, twenty years his books will be. like being able to appreciate him, place D. old newspapers, -but that does not4x1. Lawrence in the first rank. Henry alter their present fascination. "The ! Sedel Canby says, " . IAn :I World' in Falseface" is one of those must go back as far as Hawthorne for publications that are talked about, a satisfying parallel to D IH. Law- Buy, :beg, or borrow it quickly, for', euce." :I,_ myself have had 'my say it will hound you to distraction if J onerning Arthur Scnitzler, in these France. It created much,:comment -in -- . "The manl, speaking in Ohio, said that the Knight-i of the Ku Klux Klan". Klan was not anti-Catholic anti-Jew f Excepting the name, it is is no Way- or anti-Negro; but stood for onel T H I T R related to tho old Klan. It has a dif-+hundred percent Americanism. Then ferent purpc-~e; kt is geographically the Ku Klux Klan must be principa--BE OTHE PO different; and it was aroused by more; ly composed of Protestants, born in BELON Than one stimulus. At first it seenmed 'America, who measure up to the Mals to be confined to the South ; but. as conception of a "hundred percent Am-, time I assed Klan groups were dis-' erican." and if they can prevent it,!'whether you received all A's or all D's. covered in all distric~s of the country, none other. Men holding high office, both state; What reasons have the Klan for,{ Come down1 and get a and federal, were n-embers. Crimes classing the Catholic, the Jew, the; were bwing committed by black ori Negro and the foreign-born un-An-- white masked mobls; law a-nd justice erican? First, "un-American" is a D lco sSe k D n e disregarded until Congress deemed i term, that we stamp_ on any ma-n or -wise to investigate.the organization, group of mnen who do things incon- Wb ha: was revaled .' sistent with our awn viewpoint. in In tile Congressional .Recordsi, first Islr u atcla iwon sol and once having satisfied your longing f, cession, sixty-'seventh Congress, one' model American one. Now, just why .may find printed in -ull,- the Ku Klux is the Klan opposed to the Catholics?reltat-srtutginothsewere Klan constitution. The following i tzs During the war, as you know, the' an. excerp-t from ;the Klan Oath 'a,,Young Mlen's Christian Association i riven ton Congress,. by the Imperial -and, the Knights of Columbus, along Wizard Simmons. '"With oth~er welfare organizations, did Section I. Jbe fl('j( I, ----- everything possile to comfort the' In the pr:sence of God and man.,rmost American. soldiers while they were. ~c.emnly pledge, "prom ice and swear, !fghting in France. Unfortunately theI B esj-m er' cc n it ai l y , axd w l wi l n l i o n M c s C r si n Ass c a i niconform . to ~all regulations, usages em ployed som e w orkers, w ho w ere not I" L~L ~ ' and reqwirerients'-of the which i possessed of as high characters as "Thie Origna Home of the Steak ,Din do now exist or which miay be here- they should have had.,. Somewhere, ,afte'r enacted, and will render at all !sonetna early after our arrival in W UO T times loya-l respect and steadfs,~t sup- 4 Prance, somneone told a soldier that port to the Imperial authority of same, the Y mhen wer'e "crooked". If you ____________________________ and wll -eartily, heed all offitcial :understand how news of tis kina r -____:___ mandates, decrees, edicts, rulings. and permeates a group of human beings, }- instructions of the I-W- thereof. i- you- can visualize what happened. will yield promptly to summons, I Wh Ien the Second Division of the Having knowledge of samte, providence inerican Army left the Rhine, pra-- alone preventing. i tically every enlisted man was calling Section IV. I swear' that I will the Young Men's Christian Association1q keep secure to myself a srecret of af workers all the spiteful and antagon-j - srnV11 when, same is comxnitted to izi ng names he could sumnmon. Anyj me.In tlie-sacred oath, treasonf against time any one could not think of Somme! the United States of America. rape,l ether sulbject onl which to converse,? [SN and malicious murder alone except- the Y. 11. C. A. workers were schedul-I ed.ed for a combing and a condemning.- What are some of the ehar'acteris- This has mnuch to do with the Klan tics pe culiar to a Klansa'mn? The and thte Catholics. It is just like this, ndividual who attaches himself to the: the Y. M. C. A. men said that the T o se A. e s Toaste s~ove Klan, avers an axtiele? in the New Re-- K. o£ C. men started the propagandaus f .nubilic, January 17. is "a man of ac- among the soldiers. The Klan main- Zion, not of thought he is inclined to tams that the act was damnably "un- to students NOW - - - - - - - - - --- yr o .r" .. -TEA THiIS AFTERNOOt'_NI Nt> EVENI DEICIOUS PFU1XGE :CAKE SUN.D AYDINNERS BY APPOJNTPME ,.- . SPECIAL SERVICE- FOR -PARTIES- - PHON E 95t-W. ON THA E.R JUST BA.CK OF H-ILL AUDITORIUM- r~~~~ - ----- --A - LYNDON,,&- COMPANY, For Flashlights and. Outside Groups Debeloping and Printing- for the Amaeur-- 719 N. 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(For tho'se who. did :not read' it.--Irecommend the book, "Cacanor- i yr's Z omecominig" to every onle, . . those. who want exciting .plots a well: as those i'terati -whose eye'sand noses are always alert for real,'art-. istry,") Azad now my song for, the lastr of the abov~e list, Rene Maran. His boa-k, "Batouala," was written inl Freuc~uand first published ini TROJAN LAUNDRY Detro~t Edison Co. PHONE Mt;1R- WILLIAM STREEy --I---- mLalnt at Wiliam uteepho.i ..: . e s_.