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"'THE FLOWER IN DRAMA." .A took ranged, it seems, in order of their
of Papers on the Theatre By Stark met.
Young. Charles Scribner's Sons, It is rather interesting to note A.
Reviewed by Robert Bartron tunin's quotation which heads the
When you look at a tree you do not title stor: "Woe to thee, Babylon,
see three thousand leaves. When you that mighty city!" for it seems reason-
read a novel you are not told every able to think of this story as inspired
action, every speech of the character iy outr recent post-war invasion of
When yost see a portrait you are uo
Europe, the invasion of those pro-
shown every vein and pore of thte face' mine"t in file late silk-shirt era, o
tow is it, then, that in the theatre we ns
still have Belascos who take pride in evet those happy citizens who have
a setting with seven hundred proper- stsidizet the EigtteenthiAtentmet
ties, costumers that delight in iinute and have caused the menials of three
historical accuracy, or actors that continents to cry: "By their tips we
flaunt their petty realism? shall know them."
Now this is the question Stark It is as finely etched a satire as will
Young raises and fortunately does not appear for a long time; an acid-cut
have to answer in his new book, "The cameo of life and death. The lord of
Flower In Drama." In other words, industry with a thousand Chinamen
the premise of the critique lies in the under him begins to play late in a
idea that art is elimination rather than life of accumulation ansd starts with
imitation, which when carried to its his family to Italy. The brass band
logical end is expressionism. on the steamer, Havana cigars and
But despite the terrifying symboiisr the uniformed negroes hastening with
of the word, true expressionism is liquors for the red faced gentlemen
really quite logical. All of the other with enlarged stomachs, the glisten
arts have long ago accepted it it one:
form or another, and if the theatre still of patent leathers in the all room
produces some atrocities in its namie aind the loving couple who seemo toi
that should not hide the possibilities live only for each other, hired by the
of this art form. steatisbip company to create "atmos-
Of course, all this is merely Gordon phere," are there in force for the
Craig in cruder language, which ougnt Gentleman from gan Francisco-and
to tell you a great deal about the au- all the Gentlemen from Elewhere
thor, Stark Young Is one of the edi-
tors of the Theatre Arts Magazine as -
scell as the New Republic, most of
the book being compiled from these
two publications. His style is quite
formal, perhaps a trifle uninteresting,
but nevertheless tinged with the idea-
ism and whimsy of a minor poet; traits
which, by the way, are much more ap-
parent In his several plays.
Probably his works will never be
particularly popular, for he very ob-
viously has only a limited appeal.
However, if yoU are a connoisseur, a
maniacb hout the theatre you will be
greatly pleased by these soft essays.
We will assume that you aryady know
yoir Craig thoroughly, you have wor-
shipped Copeau and Stanislalsky, youk
have tasted o George Jean Nathan,
and you have en oyed that greatest
dramatic critic is America Kennet:
acGowan. Then you Swill be ready
to read "The Flower In Drama."
You wilt hurry through the first
Piece, "Acting," fur it smaelcs of the
professor, but you will like the rest
of the book, especially the chapters on
Ben Ami and Chaplin and- the movies
and possibly eveat the one on Andre-
Finally, at the end of the work you
will discover the meaning of the title.
The Fower in Drama is an adaptation
of a Japanese myth that the imagery
of the Flower stands for the true art
of the theatre, an art that is dignilied
and symbolical, even touched with
enigma; indeed, an art with "n all Easter h
round quality that is in itself like a
lutenote full of "a strange, high, severe are be;
meagre d elicay of the he'rt""
A NEW RUSSIAN
THE G ENT LEMAN F R S A N Nothing coul
FANCISCO, by L A. Buatin. Thomas
Seltzer, New York. costume, yet s
Reviewed by F. L. Tilden
Right here and now, irrelevantly beauty.
and parenthetically, I _hould like to
sound a hosannah to several New
York publishers who have tried to do
their share toward the outside of a
book and have not left everything
creative up to the author. Instead o
imprisoning their boos behind pro-
saic rowns and neutral greens, they
are appearing so that the owner can
thl by glancing at his bookshelves; E m a B. Foger
from across the room whether "Peter
Whiffle" is in his accustomed place
or whether this book, for example, has
gone A.W.O.L. Specalty fat s
The author, the translators, of
which D. 1t. Lawrence was one, and
Thomas Seltzer have come together 117
with four rather unusual short sto- I17 y
ries and placed them under the title
of the first offering. The other three,
are called "Gentle Breathing", "Kas9
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