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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24,' 1924.
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PLAYS AND STAGE
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for it merely reemphasises what all
who think have grasped before, that
a saint alive is a menace, while safe
ly dead is twice blessed. ,f
The staging is so simple and ade-
quate that it does not infringe upon
the Shavian brilliance of the play or
its exquisite impersonations. Joan
(Winifred Lenihan) has the nearly
impossible position of woman and
savior, which she occupied convinc-
ingly, enlivening the imagination by
the freshness and directness of her
performance. Not a moment when the
illusion was lost. The grand Inquis-
itor' is fearful in the clarity of his
cold intellect and the polish of his
sophistical argument. The weak, ug-
ly Dauphin and the coarse monk ar
truly human, and so down the list.
The acting and its coordination is
worthy of this chronicle, which is to
be listed among' the great plays.
MAGAZINES
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tional logic are in conflict because the
analyiet on which the present log!-
cal system is founded are not exhaus-
tive and need revision.
Aaron Schaffer in "Ernst Toller-.
A Product of the New Age," considers
the virtues and defects of two dramas
written by this German dramatist,
both of which attsack twentieth cen-
tury capitalism.
A number of book reviews rounds
out the quota of criticism.
The poetry of the issue varies from
imagist to orthodox, with greater fa-
vor going to the latter. Such well
known poets as Maxwell Bodenheim,
Marjorie Seiffert, and Elizabeth J.
Coatsworth are represented.
The only fiction is a translation of
two fables by Chekhov, "Death of a'
Government Clerk," and "An Enig-
matic Woman,"-delightful bits of
comedy. Jean Cutner Stephens, who
translated them, believes that the
semi-frivolous element in Russian lit-;
erature has been neglected, and offers
these as an attempt to call attention
to this side of the Russians.j
LEVES ALMORES
Your kisses and the way you curl,
Delicious and distracting girl,
Into one's arms, and round about,
Inextricably in and out,
Twining luxuriously as twine
The clasping tangles of the vine;I
So loving to be loved, so gay
And greedy for our holiday;
Strong to embrace and long to kiss
And strenuous for the sharper bliss:
A little tossing sea of sighs,
Till the slow calm seal up your eyes.
And then how prettily yu sleep!
You nestle close and let me keep !
My straying fingers in the best
Of your warm, comfortable breast;
And as I dream lying awake
Of sleep well wasted for your sake,
I- feel the very pulse and heat
Of your young life-blood beat and
beat
With mine; and you are mine, my
sweet!
-Arthur Symons, "Poems."
SounRCE
If you are interested in sources,
you may be interested to read the
story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin in
an old volume (1685) entitled "Satan's
gnv'isible World Discover'ed" by a
Mr. George Sinclair, professor of phil-
osophy and mathematics in the Uni..
versity of Glasgow. The story (Rela-
tion XXVI) is quoted in support of a
philosophical argument favoring
witchcraft which the author is trying
to advane against unbelievers. In
conniectioft with the same book, lack-
wood's Magazine for September, 1817,
prints a copy of one of the first privi-
leges of copyright granted in rngland
The "Author's Privilege" granted by
the Lords of Council follows:
, APUD EDINBURG, VIGISSIMO
SEXT DIE FEBRUARY, 1685
The Lords of his Majestie's privy
dress made to them by Master George
Sinclair, late professor of philosophie
at the College of Glasgow, And Author
of the book Intitulled Satan's Invis-
ible Works Discovered, &. Doe heirby
prohibite and discharge, all persons
whatsomever, from printing, reprint-
ing, or importing into this kingdome,
any copy or copies of the said book,
dureing the date heirof, without lh-
cense of the Author or his Order, Un-
der the pain of confiscation thereof to
the said author, Besydes what furder
punishment we shall think fit to in-
flict upon the contraveeners. (Regist.-
Sec. Sig.)
MORGAN ROBERTSON
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solved a problem in mathematics and
physics that had 'ktroubled experts
since the invention of the submarine finishing the tale that I had started.
!-He died in poverty. reading Morgan Robertson without
Before Morgan- Robertson died he And added to these gifts is the fact
thought he had discovered the reason that he knows the sea of which he
-for his lack--of success. Broken in writeknows it better than any author
spirit, with his once powerful frame that ever lived, with the exception of
weakened by diesease, he bowed his Joseph Conrad. Conrad himself
head in defeat and thinking long and claims that he is Morgan Robertson's
earnestly sought the solution to his inferior in the art of spinning sea
problems. In his own words he said, yarns.
"-out of the jumble of thoughts We Americans, it would seem, have
came the answer in four clear cut a penchant for mistreating our men of
words-it is-I am a sailor." genius. But we find it out sooner or
But he was only partly right. He later and always do our best to recti-
was a sailor right enough but he was fy our earlier errors. So Poe and
also a writer. He had subtle, charm- Whitman are today honored and sung,
ing humor, that keeps his reader con- they who died without being recog-
stantly chuckling. And he had a nized. And so, perhaps, the day will
gripping power-that once mad an come when Americans will be proud
editor refuse a story because "--its of the sailor who was a writer-Mor-
too powerful-." I never could stop gan Robertson.
SUNDAY MAGAZINE
ANN ARDOR, MICHIG AN, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924
The Forging Ojf A
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TEMPER by' la rte eH. Conrad.AISLE ROSE character; an insight which could be I shall never
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Temper is a well-rounded novel. It might seem, too, to those unac- ideals thatway.
That may seem a trivial comment to r r a rs quainted with the book, that the use love life, hate
at tri from a worship.of force and gus as of the subective style is liable to "But you go fa
make; but there is- satisfaction in the idealthru mysticism, to a strengthak
finding an artistic combination f on of the acetneogi o n makes the story actionless, dead. Such I say (with my
two apparently antagonistic attitudes born of the acceptance of his lot and is not the case. Temper is crammed cisely the reas
whi aae domiatedgfictio forithdes a confidence that from himself his with movement, with physical occur- dulge." Their
last generation. One school of author s must be ecured The fac- ; rences, all portrayed exactly and viv- it is what keep
hastgenderton. lay sress o enhon- happiness sidly. Mr. Conrad brings his reader one another a
has tended to lay stress on environ- tory has seemingly broken him to its into actual contact with the roaring, that they 'all
ment alone, the other on the self will; it has left its mark ou both his rushing life of the factory; he makes it is, or apprec:
alone. Mr. Conrad effects a suitable body and his beliefs: but. he has con-him feel the constant clash between can take wisdo:
reconciliation, giving to both niilieu quered by gaining in the process maen and achines; he shows the standing from
and the individual's own innate de- clear understanding of his environ- struggle of bosses with employees, -And money-
sires and volitions proper due. ient, his fellows, and his own ideals. a struggle issuing now and again in compoop would
The story consists of Paul Rinelli's At the last he stands strong and sur, deadly fights that break and"ruin one i for the sake o
struggle fradfnt esnltfrinab beauRide daawayigin .
for a definite ersonality, fo b ecause lie perceives and con- of the antagonists. As far as inci- Ride away in y
an adjustment of himself to external preiends the machinery of life to run dent goes, the book is as minutely walk "beside t
forces. Much of the value of the it as he will. . He has learned that realistic as could be wished. The trees."
book lies in Mr. Conrad's recognition thru intelligent obedience comes mas- events are sublimated into symbols of Leo Tolstoy o
of. what in exact though perhaps over- tery. : character; but whoever desires only drieff tries to
techncal language may be termed Mr. Conrad has employed, and well, an interesting tale of action will find not afraid."
the necessary co-operation ot sub- what is obviously the logical method Temper far from deficient in that know Andrieff.
ject. and object. Where Sheila Kaye- of treatment; that is, the subjective duality. crite in his art
Smith, for example, gives us the tri- style. We see everything through Temper is, then, on all counis an when at heart
umph of the individual soul, and Har- Paul Rinelli's eyes. True it is that adequate novel; and adequate is by was le a suffe
dy the devastating victory won by the such a method has its dangers: for no means the tepid adjective we are his pangs by d
universe, Mr. Conrad has shown how one thing, all the other characters accustomed to think it. It .implies sary-society.
his character's ambitions both yield are diinied and partly, it may be, de- that a book shows by convincingly- welmed with
to and yet at last help to dominate, vitalized. Yet since we believe that ta a nbok ehos by concg- ersed h
toe icmtne o i ie n portrayed incidents the reaction be- tears; and liet
the circunstances of his life. I am the Paul Rinelli who emerges at the tween character and environment- pression by ass
not of course, as the author would end of the story sees clear and true, and that is a pretty large order. To ions anarchy.
not wish me to, placing Temper in we feel his final evaluation of the rest fulfilll it the novelist must have im- Maxim Gork
complete comparison with Sussex to be correct. Colonel Lynd, Dudley, partiality, firmness, and sophistica- most favored
Gorse or The Return of the Native; and Smith are, we know, as pitifully I tion-for it is surely false to hold He often menti
I am, however, suggesting that Mr.- weak and unstable as Paul at the last that sophistication and fineness are appreciated Am
Conrad has presented what we are perceives them to be. A second ap- incompatible. Temper, it seems to uently remar
coming to .see is the comprehensive parent source of peril is the uncer- me, is lacking in neither comprehen- man who suffe
and truthful view of human life, a: tainty, at least early in the book, as siveness of conception nor firmness of Vigny, and Bau
view which takes account of both the to what events truly occur, and what execution. It manifests a cool and I think that A
great factors of existence. It is be- reside merely in Rinelli's imagina- reasoned view of human nature, an be included wi
cause we are made to apprehend tion. Nevertheless, the reader's brief insight into contemporary American And what abou
clearly not only the immense, at first doubt is fully compensated for by the ideals and tendencies, and the com- imagine Emily
overwhelming, influence on Rinelli of increased insight afforded into Paul's mand of an appropriate style. optimism, is ak
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the factory where he works, but also
the persistence and final triumph of
the man's own self, that the philoso-
phy of Temper rings true.
Its author is to be all the more
commended because he might easily
have fallen into the danger of sub-
merging his hero in the welter of
circumstance. Indeed, the first part.
of the book portrays just this. Rinel.
li, an unsophisticated young Italiar
whose American mother has fed hi
imagination at the expense of hi:
mind, comes to America and is fiun
into an existence for which he i
doubly unprepared. Not only is
a foreigner, but when he goes to work
in the automobile factory he is sti:
living in a dream world, aware that h(
is on the wrong track, but prone t
all sorts of mistakes because hit
sense of reality is blunted. At firs
he gives himself up to all the super
ficialities of American life; he imi
tates the words and habits of his fel-
low-workers, next of his foreman,
then, expanding, of the big bosses. He
evencomes under the sway of the Ro-
tary Ideal symbolized by one Smith,
a devotee of Orison Swett Marden
and Personality Plus. Paul displays
quite a bit of ability to put his "per-
sonality' across, and to all appear-
ances advances far on the road to
fame, thru the organizingskill- he
manifests in a social betterment
scheme. Later he discovers that he
has been used as a catspaw by Dud-t
ley and Colonel Lynd, the big men'
behind the project.
Then comes his return to the fac- i
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