PAUE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 9 192t SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1924 THE MICHIGAN DAILY .. ... 7r ® Oer>! - .e .plOrllil .Mlr l ll . r . " 1Gn._ { a e+..oo . - - IL.Ii1r..nr. . .. . rrwrl IMi41r. .r. 1 .........,.r... .... _ r . PLAY5 Our Customers w ' ! q come back ROBERT BARTRON HENDERSON The Happy Ending the.Stian vessel miraculously save themselves and retun to earth. In One of the peculiar and in a way print the conclusion may sound satis- startling features of New York dra- fying, but on the stage such a usual matic reviews is their almost abso- happy ending seems out of place after lute uniformity of opinion. This the wierdy unnatural incidents pre- similarity between brother critics is ceding it. so markcd that only two conclusions The cast of this production has also are possible: either that the fraternity been praised with every kind of com- gathers nightly about a round table iment, yet with the exception of like an editorial board and settles on Ueryl Mercer and Alfred Lunt the a common idea, or that the entire actors never seemed to mount to such crowd is bought up before-hand; both extraordinary heights. They were all of which you will admit, are highly very good, you understand, but hardly impossible. the geniuses one .was led to expect On the other hand, the indisputable from their reviews. Margolo Gillmore fact remains that nine times out of in particular-you have all heard oi ten the dramatic editors of the New the. famous Margolo, for whom the York dailies present reviews as alike greatest things have been predicted of as peas in a peascod. I have yet to late-seemed quite ordinary. Peculi- find, for example, a single critic who arly enough--and this will sound as cared for anything in "The Miracle" I the sheerest nonsense-through the beyond the first scene. In like man- entire performance I was conjuring ner, all agreed that Winifred Lenihan up a dozen students on our own cam- as Saint Joan in Shaw's play of that I pus who could play her par as well. name grievously underplayed her part if not better. and generally lost the splendid op- "hell-Bent For heaven is only an- portunities offered her. By way of other example, in my very humble contrast their enthusiasm for "Out- opinion of misplaced over-praise. ward Bound" and "Hell-Bent Fr 'i'nere is no question that this melo- Heaven" was quite limitless. With drama of the southern mountaineers, harly a single exception they mutual- which rose from some special mati- ly confirmed each other in the belief nees to a full-fledged success in a few that both productions represented weeks, is very striking and, in its way, nearly the pinacle of the season. And quite original-the idea of a praying as a still further contract, their hypocrite who does the nost dastard- critical wrath was set upon Piran- dello's "The Living Mask" ("Henry ay things in the name of God is un- de")os"the LivrgthatM'itas(eryquestionably novel. The production Iv") on the charge that it was wordy also had the good fortune to find an and generally pointless, actor as physically suited to the part The really interesting part of the of religious vilian as Louis Woheim story, however, is that as a rule the was for "Hank" in "The Hairy Ape." audiences themselves consistently be- Nevertheless, one left the theater with lied the judges' opinions. In the case a distinct feeling that there was some- of "Outward Bound" we have an in- thing missing about therfome, teresting but in no way an arresting, a sort of undefined emotional crudIty, truly great drama, despite the fits of or possibly a lack of technical ability rapture the critics are pouring on it. -the lack of well-grounded sophisti- The most that can be said in its favor cation, I suppose, that blots so many is that its theme is original, and until the last few minutes its plot is skil- Acnta dama. fully told. The scene of the play oc- cars on a mysterious, pilotless boat "The Swan" illustrates this latter which later turns out to be a modern point, main, by viedofthe fc ship of death with its passengers un-'htito sadcddNwYr sitingly tradell ing oth eirpasdgest-success. It has made its hit, of course, wittingly travelling to their judgment. 1chiefly because it sponsors a wonder- The greatest disappointment occurs in the final act when the two lovers of ful cast including Basil Rathbone, Hilda Spong, and Allison Skipworth,' as well as the very popular and F. L. Tilden.............Editor beautiful Eva Le Gallienne. Yet gen- Donald E. L. Snyder......Books erally its audiences are thoroughly' Maxwell Nowels ..---3. disappointed in the artistic ending j Normand Lockwood......Music Molnar has given the play. A prin- 1 Robert Bartron Henderson... cess in brief is to marry a titled ...,,..Drama Gordon Wier...........Art prince, but in the meantime an ordin- Lisle Rose, Halsey Davidson, ary tutor has fallen quite madly in Newell Bebout, Samuel Moore, love with her-and quite madly tells Jr., Philip Wagner, Dorothy her so. Our American audiences' Sanders, Evelyn Summerfield. steeped in the infallable tradition that The Sunday Magazine solicits all "men are supposed to be created manuscripts from all persons af- equal by God and the Declaration of fiiated with the University. Man- Independence, naturally expect the uscripts must be typewritten, princess to rush to her tutor's arms in triple spaced and written on one the last act and vow eternally that she Tide ondy M * * * would rather scrub floors any day hedes Thn aMagin eclrn- than wear diamond tiarras. Molnar, ion review service for "The Un- however fully realizing that tiarras official Observer" department. * mean more in a princess's life than any man living, makes her haughtily decline- the teacher's offer and walk stately into her proper position, as ubis the policy of tison yn bo hermotiher-in-law only too wisely re-' students and faculty meabers if, i i ,minds .her that "a swan should never the judgment of the editor, these arti- cles are of intrinsic * l andirater .waddle upon the ground lest it become This does not mean. that manuscrpts .much too like its distant relation-a solicited or voluntarily .of"red i4 necessarily in accord iit .eiriajgO.",. opinion either in prncipleorforCg ton (Cotinued on Page ight) tIC uttle's Lunch Ro i 338 Maynard St. South ,f Ma es1 ._.j The Observer does not like dairies texts the Observer has read too many -that is, printed dairies, which hisl for pIasure, if not for learning. In literary friends insist that he read. the second place, he cannot get away Now without doubt there is great vir- rom 'the uncomfortable feeling thaty tue in the keeping of a journal; the he's sticking his. nose into other; practice enables one to examine his folks' business when he reads their sayings and doings, so that there is journals. Now doubtless that isn't: EFIRST NATIONAL BANK ORGANIZED 1863 You Will finid- Our service courteous and pleasing in every way LLDEST BANK IN ANN ARBOR MAIN STREET AT HURON a chance for him to see their ab- surdity and so say and do otherwise. Doubtless,. too, there is a merit in: :printing daries, for without them 'many a Master of Arts in English. would have to put some real -thought as well as quotations into their the-; sis. She might even have to use de- cent grammar, which would be dread- ful, and quite beyond the capacity of the average M.A. Yet in spite of these obvious things in their favor, the Observer does not' lIke dairies. In the first place, they are so disconnected in structure as to remind him of textbooks, and of so, for most people who keep dairies do so in the hope that they will be printed and read, either before or after their death. But the feling sticks, just the same . . >(Ail this explains why the Ob- server got little pleasure out of THE JOURNAL OF MARIE LENERU (Mac- millan Company, $2.50), even though he has a hearty admiration for Marie Leneru herself. Without doubt this woman wrote excllent drama; that was' amply proved when she won the Vie Heureuse prize. It is equally cer- tain that from childhood she was an exceptionally clear-headed person, with an unusual capacity for sane in-I am enthusia trospection. All these things make says Profes her journal an important piece of work-what it is -now the fashion toisthe(ab call ta "noteworthy human document." Frank Ilarri The Observer recognizes the note- versy becau worthiness, and what is even more whither." I important, the humanity, but just the though it ra same he has the uncomfortable feel- controversy ing of having pried into something diWtilg it. le should have left alone. Marie1 opened by Leneru is too human . dore Dreise to have gon several pla William Lyon Phelps is as kind- hearted in criticism as a critic can majority of well be and still persuade people to t r remarks read his criticisms. At the, same time is have no he manages to inject into his writ- bsh by att ings enough individuality, coupled solve, truly - with that eternal boosting which ist . the voice of America, to make the eing by writ: total number of those readers quite might no immense. Indeed, tshe Observer doubts merely to a I if even Brander Mathews and. Henry y Van Dyke can boast as many follow-_ The Obse ers-and he hasn't the slightest doubt of criticism that they write vastly worse criticisms. Sunday-go-te In AS I LIKE IT (Scribner's, $2.00), club preside Professor Phelps brings together a fessor Phel; > batch-of the monthly pronouncements talk with tl on books, plays, and things in gen- and those t eral with which he graces each is- how or othe sue of Scribner's Magazine. Accom-1praise that panying them is a frank declaration generally le ,of the author's code and guide. "I benediction tommyrot. Professor Pr wvise, as is tions from book jacket months roll soul and a books are to of libraries et al, are fo a doubt he to god, tho literature. the near-be ters-but th it. our bank had not the Ature but erature, but asked to make ques- ciology insi tive enterprises? The.Nels Anders ,r The Cou(* e , After the Show--u For a nice quiet place-where you can can get a delicious bite to eat-why not try us? Afternoon Teas 2:30 to 5 Our place is delightful for dinner parties. Ring 951-W and let us tell you about it. 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