SUINDIAY, JANUARY ,t'2

THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE

"he Hand of the Potr-adCriticism
"WHIATI, 1DI1 T[lE Till HIiND OF THlE CRIITIC SHAKE11"
(lty (;. I). E.) hut, that thiey' arc- in ibis ca-se, s0 surne, tiot only fail to see antytihing ;rot support:.
it is only a few weelks since tie brta'zen about it. smiackitng at immtorality, but applaud !hBt aside tromi this, gentle friends,
What is a rallier arnusing side at the butsiness as is line hit at artistry. can you imagine anytinig debasing
P'rovinretawn layers piresentedt Thsio- the affair is that the chiet characters I have always respected the Jews tar the Amuerican stage? Had Nietzsche
daore Dreiser's "'Tse Htand at thte Pot- in 'The tiand at ttie Potter" at's Jews,' above te avrage Attericatt tratnke-i livid intt tis ratuntry, lie would have,
ter," a la~y i tout' arts. tllaitg antha Ist thte Jecwisht papers were ahostt lynis. Nosw I got turthier; I say that ill all litelihoosd, tilt asidi' Itis "Anti-
over tlhe Newv Yorkc claitit's, tI' ri thei otily alits in Newe York tot lud it this coun~try is eer to has's iany Christ'' and trued lisa wards, "It has
soewattaenbak 3sth puctythe play. It you dioublt whlat they stirt at ictltutre, the Jews will he lift noting unctontaitntated Ity its
sotewiatlaleutbatIs t te ttu i thints of it. trap ai nte to Abtrahsami souldering halt itt the load. 'Trey, itsprsuvity," to out' theater.
ott c'ritic'ismt, whlirli t rea regardling talln eitor ofThtlle Jewish Daily iiiiy it--tbtiing opprtesseid wiithi sitl' ''As vsis (li hlet tie,''I am nto
it. What little I fmouid wras tuasily Forai rdan. It stoie Jew trill tirocore rarisutl prejadic'e, beset byx titeitaveuiii.' siosalis I. I liats' an titter conutetmpt
iterogatory. It tather suirtirised teot ('allii's thiree-rtoluiimn retviewv it the turdeni, antI euivironed atout a tpeottle tiir miorals, tar religions, tar lofty
that one or two met wvhto wvrote slight 1)1<<y, andi translate it ito Eniglish tar far inore itintiy-grubbitig tiati they, ideals, lie' are all borit at tsar, at
mie Ill lbe ini his itebt torevertuore. thiemiselves-tiertte very creative,1 etuvy, sait interiority. But I stop this
ansd piffitting notites had, a couptle at In biet, the tilayers who are so "its' huh our sitncere artists will lave tci sile of sinishinitss, stil the Ameritan
years hack, tiraised it rallier lsavishily hasing" the stage ire taking the rates "depend largely upon the initate ar- thesiter does, not. I sit not condemn-
when it was lirst puttlished. ! t Jecws, wvhiile the Jewes itt the audi- tistry at the Jes's tar apptre'ciatisn (Countinued otn Page 7)

At first, as t nat a tiid individual
with scarcely an opinion that I twill
light tar, I was extremtety worriedt.
I too had praised the tilay ini lavish
faishion. Indeed, I hail held, some-
-what biashitully and uncertsainly itt
cauise, that, wills the exce'ptiiin at lte
last scene, "'The Hland at the P'otter"
was the best play 'since this social!
dramas' at Ibsen.
Naturally, whten. I saw what scant
and derisory mnentioti the thinig wasI
getting, I was ready to creep, tHers
I had gonte atnd co'ittletd a btlitnuter
Aid I had tried so hard, as I always
ito, not to lie overweening about it,I
onlty to lie marksed as a coxcomtb tarl
miy pains.
You cani well infoagu slihat hal-
iened. I went to ticeos, I Cliesred (
iiiy lintgernails tar thiree clays; I iist
have taketi a tioutni, as'iiiiui. (4t
sadiunt bromide; I tadiltiystert swui
becamne vioitently tieurtrcic. .Tint as
I was shout tio tpass awviy, a syvinpa-
tielic triendt brought Ine' .1 it il'
vitilets anid a catty, oit"T'hi' Nsttitn.''I
Aiid to! As I sniffeil lie s'iotev anii!
glancedt with glizedI eyes ov(,r the'
pages at the tieriodical, I clvancril up-'
ont Lewisohin's article reviowing the
play. In forty secondts I wcas idresseid.
I took na hookler at gilt, a tite tit
mince pie, block coffee. sait a t'tian
cigarette.
Lewisohin, wvhton I has's sotrely tie-
glected In my hymns soil tatntails
of critics, sail tiraised the pla(y ii)
forthright fashion. Rtespecting I,(i'iF-E
ohn anid readitig hint vsiduery, I re-1
gained a little at muy tiild mentsl!
gaudery and agaiti tironunced the
titay as the test thing at its kinid isi
this land anid cetury, bitt at course,
wvith alt mty afosre-metioneid pristittel
modesty.t
But tthere the niatter idrotipeid furt
a week or two. Next I saw piraise iii'
"Town Tapirs." G~raduallty tfor alt myi7
restraint, I nearly dlevelotied arroc-
gance. A's tine wrent ott, I siaw itore!
and more tavorable notices, antd I tie-1
cante downright haughty. Bitt the
New York tpapers 'acre strangily si-t
lenit. Then, tike sit avalanchs Irtiti
the root at tile Law tiliding, the'
troth camne haote to mie. I tfiiid a ,
tietated copy ot the Noe York Wiorld.
in which the dtramtatic critic, De Pits
admtitted that various critirs of Newt
York had agreed to ignore this tilay,
out MORAL grountds! No doubit thtey,
were htandsomety, if somewhat mntn-
danely rewvartded, tttr thtis altittude titl
spirit. The tProvincetocwn plitouuitse
tmy triends, is not oit Broaidway. ThieseI
tracked crities tiad, tuorsover, rolledt!
their eyes in piouts fashion intl said
that the Provinetownt players had no
right ho IDEBASE the stage!
And tiers, it t ant niltutislakei.
you have one at the best exampttles ot
skultduggery troim the stage amid ptress
that has occurred in many a tling day.E
It recalls to me tthe justified, thoaughtt
sonmewhat overheated, inudignation at
Uipton Sinclair's "This Brass Check."
Not that many worse things have not
been dlons by these rammutcky knaves,

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