Foux THE MICHIGAN DAiL i SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924 SUNDAYS JANUARY 27, 1924 THE MICHIGAN DAILY BIERNE VOIFFULS E ChO (Continued from Page One) 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- iii Buy a Brick of Books and Writers 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 ANN ARBOR DAIRY [CE CREAM Note its delicious flavor. est products, in the most sc it's be'ter. It's made from the pur- lentific way. Of course 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 THAT TREAT THAT'S HARD TO BEAT! TELEPHONE 423 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 he was fully conscimis of hic nat ad!"n raA itap On tn( d artout Ann Arbor airy. Company business world is i ' yours to work with -not just one corner of it, but the whole length and breadth is within your range of influence when you choose Insurance as a calling. For insurance-Fire, Marine and Casual. ty-touches upon every phase of business, is an essential part of the most vital activ. ities of commerce and industry. As the Oldest American Fire and Ma- rine Insurance Company, so greatly respon- sible for the present dignity and prestige of the insurance profession, the Insurance. Company of North America urges college men to give to this worthy calling the consideration that is its due. 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- (Continued on Page Six) I ',, A f 1 i Insurance Company of North America PHILADELPHIA and the Indemnity Insurance Company of"North America 'write practically every form of insurance except life I- N6 r \ U 4 How to Care for Your Watch How long a watch can give service and perform properly providing it is given the proper care and is not injured. Men's watches should be cleaned and oiled at Teast every 12 to 18 months. We do not recommend cleaning wrist watches intil they run irregularly or stop. A small watch will give its own warning and stop as soon as the oil thickens, because of the little power required to run it-while a large watch, on account of its greater power, will keep on running after all- lubrication has- disappeared, frequently doing considerable damage. 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But when trust? Words - doz Meaningless as a w sleep. I "Here lies J H. -lik penny She kept her trus wasn't any." It was Hugues who elusion for her. They were happy. more than Shaw had he also gave much mc terested. She was fri sister, wife, mother,, changed his ideas of I in her, wanted to mar husband got his divor strongest human fac Here her power glowE was stronger. It ent Jean. Hugues it me Jean was alone. This ever, this was worst, f older and and had no spirit was no longer I done was for Hugues 1 her Self, and nothing any more. She had I the pageant of dust v With- this I end - m continues his. But i 7 i 1 1 TrOur6 PlaLe rwcial frlilk 4 -15C ,. t ,. .-: . " AY IYYAwAMIYIAIIHYYiW YYIwwwIYIPw I w AYYw Yi