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THE MICHIGAN DAiL i
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924
SUNDAYS JANUARY 27, 1924
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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sommes si nuls quand nous ne vivons,
ORLANDO BEEDE pas!" (My friend! I shall linger yet;
a few hours in the world. We are
The Comedy Club recently present- poor, foolish creatures when we live;
ed two one-act plays " "The Key" by but we are such ciphers if we do not
Fereuc Molnar and "At the Hawk's live! "-LXXVIII).
Well" by William Butler Yeats. Mol-{
nar, the Viennese dramatist of widest HOMER
Homer, noble, noble man, lived on
recognition in this country, is best ome, nbe le an ed o
know for"TheSwa" an Lilom"top of life, dwelled transcendent to
the world, existed in a sky of poetry
which are both characterized by much clear, without a cloud. Homer en-
fantasy. "The Key," though original compassed words, and imbued them
and very typical of modern writers, with Homer. His art is a codification
is entirely void of fantastic imag- of beauty. Of the jungle lion he said:E
ination, being merely a dialogue be- "With tails he lashes both his
tween a friend and her hostess, the flanks and sides.
entire interest of which is vested in And suurs himself to battle."
the friend. The conversation is typi- -111. xx. 170.)
cal of society women, and yet enough and he describes dramatically Posei-
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names wanders through every high- describes such minc
class melodrama, go back to the desert as Jean Huguenot
to die, with many remarks anent the delicacy and sympat
lure of dust o' Mexico. ' self is not intellectu
The cover of the volume forms a makes rather a fizzle
pleasing contrast to the sober, de- when he sees ;vain tl
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situation: and Wallace Smith has re- inure editions of The American Poets
DUST AND ASHES duced the trady to comic opera, or, whereof -my library has hitherto been
worse yet, to musical comedy. We composed.The Wallace Smith whol
can see the senorita chorus in the drew the illustrations is not the Wal-
TTHELITTLE TIGRESS: TALES OUT wings, ready to prance on as soon as lace Smith who helped Ben Hecht
OF THE DUST OF MEXICO. By the moustached, bemedalled comedy jfjack the price of Fantasius Mallare
'Wallace Smith. (. P. Putna 's Sons. lead shall slip ignominiously on a up to twenty-five dollars. Oh, yes,
Mr.Smith's volume of short stories banana peel to the accompaniment of the little tigress herself is a high-born
our national anthem. I am not ex- lady, kidnapped 'for unmentionable I
affords plenteous opportunity for anaggerating: that is precisely the im- purposes by one of Pancho's lieuten-
owlish article in the best Johnsonian pression one gets from "The Little ants, much to her disgust. Her;
manner on The Scope and Function' Tigress." The pity of it, Iago, when brother goes forth to avenge her. At-
of the Short Story, with Particular the theme is truly tragic. taching himself to the rebel army, he!
Refeenceto is Meaphyicaland There is of course the possibility learns of Captain Santiago's new w,-
he cannot feel it;
the same fix. In
that threatens to wr
candle 'temporarily
paralyzed-and whe
she continues to exi
people may be stu
while, but when the
have some reaction.
of death and its hoi
child's mother, not 1
to write a cry like .
lam Mr. Benet drops
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out of the ordinary to make it inter-'den thus:
esting through-out, providing that the "ountain and wood and. solitary
part of the friend is correctly execut- p
ed, which it unmistakably was in the peak,
case of the Comedy Player, Martha 1 tessofA a n, dh
Proudfoot. She possessed the per- towers of Troy,
scnality and alertness requisite to 1Trembled beneath the god's un-
I mortal feet.
play this brief and entangling role. Ovrtaes
"At the Hawk's Well," unfortunate- e round him played,
ly, was not an entire success. The rudhmpae,
play is indeed difficult to perform for ( Lured from the deeps, the ocean's
it is unreal; and in striving to effect monstrous brood,
the exotic, the idea is frequently over- With uncouth gambols welcoming
done, as was the case with Elwood ( their Lord:
Fayfield's interpretation of the Old The charmed billows parted: on
Man. But herein lay not the greatest they flew!"
weakness, for it was the manner of Marguerite asked me yesterday:
the three chroniclers which people "Was Homer a man?"-she had heard
most seriously criticized. Professor that he was a god. I answered her:
Nelson's productions are, as a rule, "Yes, Homer was a Man. But he was
perfect. There rarely appear any different from me; because he was
flaws, at least none which might be human. Homer was a real man-a
blamed upon the director; but in this man-enfolding man-not a skeleton,
case, there was something seriously or a fleshy shape."
amiss with the chroniclers. They 1
spoke in an uninteresting monotone, SUPPLENESS
their manners were unbearably bland, I
their motions seemed unnecessary "Le xix siecle fut le siecle de la
rather than quaint, and all was such vitesse. Tour ses progres sont des
as to detract one's attention from what progres de vitesse. On voyage plusj
they had to say. The part of the vite, on correspond plus vite, on por-
Young Man, Cuchulain, was admirably I traitise plus vite. Locomotion, tele-
fulfilled by Robert Henderson. Though graphie, photographie, ce sont des
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that the author thought he was height- man, the little tigress. After the se- ciously and hopes i
Ethical Presuppositions. Therein it ening the tragedy by presenting it ducer has paid with his life for his enough experience t
might be asserted, with some show of as a melodrama with farcical implica- foul insult to brother's sister, out sufficiency. And yet
reason, that the cause of Mr. Smith's tions. If so, he fell down, as an ex- springs a female fiend-incarnate who ment by moment, c
manifest failure to write Real Litera- animation of even the best sketches sends brother to a better land;-and by suffering. This n
turelies in his inability to 'take a Coin- proves. La Cucaracha, which leads who do you suppose it is? events around a centi
prehensive World-view-and much off the volume and is printed in ital- } give plot, but it den
other nonsense of the same sort. ics, is a pathetic and memorable piece all sense of reality
I shall not write that article. In of work-because Mr. Smith evidently JEAN'S MARITAL i d i spite of th
the first place, I don't know enough; labored so hard at it and produced ADVENTURES part, rM. Benet had
in the second place, Mr. Smith's little so little. It is supposed to set the I have reconstructed
adventure into art doesn't deserve so tone of the entire work, and is full JEAN HUGUENOT, by Stephen Yin- she was meant to be
much consideration. "The Little Ti- of slinky adjectives and splatchy verbs. cent eet. Henry l, 1923, $2.00 her to you, a fine, b
gross is an excellent book to read of We see the rebels of Pancho Villa rid- To begin with a truism, a great au- has grown up in an
a Sunday morning; it fits in admirably ing melodramatically from L. C. E.
with an old dressing gwbme oR .Egitn iliosyfo thor combines a piercing mind with sion, with a maidena
wiha l rsig gown, bummed to R. C. E., glinting villainously from ;nudrtnighat rqety To her she shows bet]
Camels, and Doris Blake: but to me under the brims of wide sombreros an understanding heart. Frequently, e
at least it sems to have no more re-, and very consciously singing La Cu- too, he envelops his writings with; loyalty, qualities fi
and no more ultimate value than caracha, apparently a Mexican "My beauty and strength of language; their owner unless
an omr liaevlu hncrca paenl eia M'(however, Ifroecno oplain date reason and sel
the Sunday-morning cosmos. The book Lulu was Arrested," though I may be aostyle whr tee is pognan dut gesor he
is melodrama clear through; and mistaken about that. Above in the
while life may be melodrama in Mex- velvet sky twinkle the 60-watt Maz- This last Mr. Benet lacks. He is not overflows with pity
ico, it is nqt all melodrama. To speak das. "They are disappearing like a great author: he is too limited emo- does not wait till h
seriously, what visits the author's wine evaporating slowly on a velvet tionally. That he totally forgets this appears, but marries
work is his failure to see the irony carpet." After a few more adjectives, boundary of his in choosing to write Shaw Ashley, well k
behind the melodrama. If he had seen "the stain of the wine fades from the of a woman's development is the se- is wanting. After t
that, he might have made us under- black velvet." Yes. And in the last verest criticism that can be made. of' set for tragedy. SI
stand the tragedy of life in contem- story, which with great rhetorical ef- his novel. There is variety of expres- failure, but her daug
porary Mexico, torn with revolutions, fectiveness (see Brander Matthews sion, dramatic technique, and at times happiness. Of cour
betrayed by her leaders and by other for the principle involved) is called charming poetical passages, but the dies. The security tha
nations, her aristocracy and her civil- "Dust of Mexico Again," the author core of living, be it joy or sorrow, represented to Jean
ization murdered by peons and the makes El Humoristo-a sardonic and is never reached. Mr. Benet's joys she has lost everythi
city rabble. There is tragedy in that cynical individual who under various and sorrows are academic, and he While she was rec
y- aaLll auu uins part ana progres ae vitesse. vn enu paxu
showed inevitable signs of having giv- vers l'instane. Je croise qu'apresj
en it plenty of thought, his success avoir progresser en vitesse, on pro-,
was largely due to his virtues: he is gressera en souplesse. J'entends par
effeminate, chaste and pure; he en- la que la vie, apres etre devenue plus
tered the scene like a poet, roaming rapide, deviendra plus plastique. Ce
about the woods and seeking beauty, sera-pour qui a foi dans le progres
rather than like an ordinary young et pour qui en voit els signes dans ces
man in search for something which changements-la prochaine ameliora-
he has heard of and would like to ob- tion humaine. Un symptome-qui est
tain, something which is called in- meme temps un symbols: de cette
mortality. He finally chose sensual tendance a 'assouplissement de la
beauty instead of that for which he vie: le train etait oblige de suivre sa
was on a quest; and when he sue- voic; puis I'auto s'affranchit du rail
cumbed to his carnal desires, it was? e pe tal e vit e esuivre so
like a moon-struck maiden rather et peut, a .a meme vitesse, suivre son
than like a young man of the "Heroic caprice au long des routes; enfinI
Age," as the author specified. Mr. l'aeroplane s'evade de la terre meme
Henderson's settings were perfect in il a tout l'espace pour sa fantasie"--
their simplicity, and as for the cos- In the same way, man freed him-
tume of the Hawk, he deserves the self from earth by means of the fetish.
many praises which have been given Instead of having to go back always
him. to his stationary tribal idol, he car-
The novelty of the play was not ried his fetish with him and used it
slow in impressing the mind. Many for himself alone. But more supple
authors rather delight in having Old yet was the theological diety of theI
Age stoop before Youth. It is only Hebrews. It was free from th mate- I
natural for them to choose to have it rial world entirely; limited only by
such, for so it is in reality. But if material ideas. And then came the
things were such as Yeats portrayed "spiritual" God, who is merely a "Di-
them in this play, the world would vine Principle," an "Infinite Force,"
be atsa standstill. No, not quite as an "AbstracttDeterminer of Destiny."
serious as all' that, but simply there Marguerite tells me that soon we~
would be no more immortals to join shall commence to hunt that "Force"
those who have been in the past : for in life and in nature again-that we
Yeats arranged it so that when the shall identify it with ether, or elec-
opportunity for immortality presented . tricity, and find it to pervade all phys-
itself, Old Age was blind to it, and trinan in asterdsder phy-
Youth turned his interests upon physi- ical being again as we discover that
cal and sensual beauties. If Yeats at root all matter can be reduced to
believes what he wrote, he is undoubt- electricity. But I have asked Mar
edly a pessimist, or else, he may have guerite. Have we progressed, or
gotten nearer to the truth of things have we reverted to the old heathen-
than the rest of the world. ism? What was the fetish or the holy
Nile but an object of nature suffused
with an unsen spirit, a thing pervaded
by an inexplicable essence. Is our
new religion really pagan? Uranium
is largely characterized by radio-
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-illness following Ev
went abroad to study
and she went along.
companionship. Sha
preoccupation let her
therefore less careful
He was hardly a man
was an automaton
brilliance, with his w
sensual child.
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had few scruples ab
husband--sinceher
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enemies. Unfaithful
of trust. But when
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sleep.
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penny
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wasn't any."
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elusion for her.
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more than Shaw had
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sister, wife, mother,,
changed his ideas of I
in her, wanted to mar
husband got his divor
strongest human fac
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was stronger. It ent
Jean. Hugues it me
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older and and had no
spirit was no longer I
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