PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCToBER 22, 1922
wBjH EiU u uflU auIUH nut !$S +3iil iER g3hJM@ I & 5 Eu JI B i EEtEEEUEEiu l ,y since the Century is gradually win-
STHROUGH THE OPERA GLASSES LAtrrvNotes ning its way back to its former lit-
Ah last the anonymous gentlemaa erary standing. . A new book by
i who s kins suisEEEE HE aEE Y pplied t Lord Dunsany is always a pleasure.
PNR sS kny surks oh s.andho- We trust, nay, we know we are not
PINERO PASSES the marks of the ebbing of his power loving American public with food -in to be disappointed in his "Don Rod-
Somone or other, in writing of dra- In the first place, take the heroines. the form of clever essays, entitled riguez" which Putnam issues. .
matic tchnique, has said that a suc- Paula in "The Second Mrs. Tan- the for o
cessful play must always contain at queray is a woman who is real. In "The Mtrrora of Washington" and e- We are advised that David N. Gre-
least one character with whom the her the human passions are mixed as hind the Mirrors," has disclosed his kowsky is to publish a new magazine
audience can sympathize. To a great we find them in life-some good and ! identity. He is Clinton Gilbert, the of poetry, with headquarters in Los
many playwrights an ability to create some evil. She has the wisdom to see Washington correspondent of the Phil- Angeles. . . . Our bank roll always
a character over whom the matinee her way, and the strength to follow adelphia Evening Ledger. We trust diminishes when Charles S. Brooks
audience will weep copiously, and who it. And when she realizes that life he is enjoying his royalties. . issues a book. His pew vntur is
will be able to squeeze at least a little has. beaten her, she has the courage to -William . Locke has made his yearly quite unexpected, but will undoubtedly
t furtive handkerchief camouflage from accept defeat and to get out of the cuntribution to satiate the omniverous be as intere sting as his others.
even the most hard-boiled of those- world rather than, stay on and drag taste of the novel reading public. 'Frightful Plays" is the title this time
who-paid-for-the-tickets has been al- others with her. Hers is a courage "The Tale of Triona" sounds inter- torevives igtu mee o
most their only claim to success. But of self-sacrifice--a courage which esting. . p .A new mystery has been his Come" Thereand's Pipny ad Che
this success cannot be real, for a sym- makes her ive up the thing she haa foistet upon u This time our Bos- C e nd "Byrney o p s."
pathetic character, no matter how fought for hen abe sels t at t n 'friends, Houghton-Mifflin have' "T Dond Bynets r ot h
filntfhrdem spel'd tr brouaght out a book whose title-page 'The Wind Blosseth" from Cenhusr'
to another. Is supposed to contain the author's th f I. It reminds a that we m at
name in an acrostic, namely "The read Is "ssr Marco Polo'
And insid of he hat He .Cri Fable." Furthermore, nsoe en- E. Beresford Chance lor .concern
shows to se ee aw -yhe thrprin. n til' a ere whose status weimsust coness our l
very ernost recesses of her soul he e o the tte-page rhymenor ane, is on Birentano's 'fall 1 i
6.:, y The present mania for jvenalia His "Memorials of St. James 'Str co
feels that way" We kn-w her thoughts has touched even Jane Austen: -A col- is said to be a series of charming
and every one rings true: He omitworks, Including emi scences of that corner of Lon
nothing. The courage: of the play- a novel written before she attained don, which has so long been the haunt
wright is the courage of his heroine. hr eighteenth birthday, has recently of pets, litterateurs, and plain book
How easily he could have taken the been published in England. The pro- lovers. . . . Our little friend, Hilda
same character, and with a little clever face alone should be worth the price Conkliug, who will be remembered as
Juggling-and he could juggle clever- of the volue, for it is from the pen the daughter of the poetess, Grace
ly, too-made a play all smiles and of Gilbert K. Chesterton, an abl critic azard Conkling of Northampton and
l'ppy endings. But le and a delightful humorist. By the smith College, is also on the fall lists,
to toll the truth; and the truth was way, to.settle once for all the question with her "Shoes of the Find." Child
tears and tragedy. regarding Chesterton's religious sta- peitry has long interested us, and
But 'The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" tus, we understand that he has re- little Hilda in particular has been a
was written twenty years ago. And y"mirce of delight and wonderment.
now e ba twntyconly ",on to ome' t quoe or B. A. C.
now he ~has written "The Enchanted Anglican friecids, and now partakes
C'ottaoge." And, oh, what a difference of the Roman communion. . . . We -__ ___
between the Paula he gave us yes- congratulate The Century Magaine Gertrude Atberton's novel 'Sleep-
terday and the Laura he gives us to- upon their associate editor. Carl van iing Fres" has recently been published
day' Paula's was a tragedy of the Doren is uusually ol fitted to as- in England under the title "Dormant
soul, a soul made ugly by the pit- sume the duties of tls post, especial- Fires."
marks and the scars of evil. All the
I. } .,cragedy that Laura has, is that her
face is not pretty. e cannot endure
We . even this. She must take refuge in
dreams.
Just what does the playwrighit do?
SIR ARTIUR PINERO In the beginning, he gives us Laura,
a not pretty young woman in a small
greatits powers of inducing lachry- English town, He shows us to her,
mation, has never made a great play. happy and contented in a life of chari- R eU 5
If this were all that is necessary, table activity. And then, one night,
then the newest product of the pen she dreams that she is beautiful. And
of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero would have it wrecks her life. Gone are her hap-
quadruple claim to greatness, for it' piness and content. Gone-gone-is
contains not one, but four individuals, everything, but dreams. She realizes,
any one of whom is perfectly capable just as Paula realized, that happiness
of bringing a lump into the throat of is not for her. But Paula's fine cour-
a crocodile. age is lacking. Instead of facing the
I am not a crocodile, but the lump inevitable, she prefers to go back to
mleep and dream again. And thus the --
came into my throat just the same.
It was not the play that brought it playwright leaves her, sleeping. And "The Niagara Falls Ro'te"
tlgere; it was a contemplation of the the curtain falls slowlsy and silently,
sad fact that the Pinero who gaveprecisely Tickets on sale daily with return
us "'Ihe Second Mrs. Tanqueray' and the same state. limit of three days from date of sae.
"The Gay.Lord Qoex," and even "The IA long time ago, before, he had .....
Mind-the-Paint Girl" is no more; and learned to write great plays, Pinero For complete travel information, tickets to
that the Pinero who has taken his used to write plays like this. Perhaps all points, and Pullman reservations apply to-
place with such a play as "The i~ you can understand what sort of plays AJWSLC LTce gn
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ten years-down the road to childish- And in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
ness. it.is too bad, but it is true. he makes Paula say this:
Of course, the man is getting old., "I believe that the future is only the
He lacks but three years of seventy, past, entered through another door!"
and his first play was produced when She was right. Sir Arthur has gone
he was twenty-two. And in the inter- Ithrough that "other door." -
val between then and now, lie has con- WILLIAM RANDALL.
tributed some of the. high marks in
contemporary English drama. Anidreyev's poathu ous play, "The
Probably the.one of his works which Waltz of the Dogs," is ann unced for
is the best known-certainly the one publication by Macmillan. It is as
which has. claimed the attention of characteristic of -is style as the ear- l
the greatest actresses, is the study Iler play, "le Who Gets Slapped," and O S-
of the woman who tries to come back. is a dramatic epic of a great love,
And if we compare this play, "The and a great disenchantment. It is the
Second Mrs. Tanquery," with his new' waltz of the dogs of life-of the noblest
endeavor, we may see just where are and the basest passions.
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