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THE MICHIGAN DAiLa

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924

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I BIERNE VOIFFULS
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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
Ferenc Molnar and "At the Hawk's live!"-L.XXVIII).
Well" by William Butler Yeats. Mol-H
IIOMERI
nar, the Viennese dramatist of widest
. . . . Homer, noble, noble man, lived on
recognition in this country, is best tooenoblentraseliedto
top of tle, dwelled transcendent to
kose for "Thse Ssan" and Liliom" the world, existed it a sky of poetry
which are both characterized by much clear, without a cloud. Homer en-
fantasy. "The Key," though original compassed words, and im ued them
and very typical of modern writers, with Homer. His actis a cdification
is entirely void of fantastie ima,1 of beauty Of the jungle lion he said:
ination, being merely a dialogue be- "With tails he lashes both his
teen a friend and her hostess, the flanks and sides.
entire interest of which is vested in And sours himself to hattle."
the friend. The conversation is typi- '-ill. xx. 170.
cal of 'oiety women, and yet enough and hi tdescribes dramatically Posei-
out of the ordinary to make it inter- dnithus
siting through-out, providing that the 'tiuntain and wood and solitary
part of the friend is correctly execut- peak,
ed, which it uimistakably was in the The stiiis - a n an t
case of the Comnedy Player, Martha towers of Tros,
Prodioot. She possessed the' pe' ' Titiole 'd im-
scnality and alertness rettisit to uorta feet.
playt is britf and entangling role i' re t as erand
"A ItheH I wk'sN ell," unfortunate-
ly, was not an entire success. The
play is indeed difficult to perform for lIttflhiic
it is unirel :ant in strivi'ing to ffet ttilnnsoat gtbrood. seltttt
it s ur 1he e sstiviegnto ff with uncouth gambols weloming
tlii'eeotitl, the iea Is freitently oer-
done. as was the case with Elwoodi telord:
Fayfield's interpretation of the Old The charie billows parted: on
Man. lut herein lay not the greatest they fl.!"
weakness, for it sas the ianner of Marguerie asked te yesteray:
the three chroniclers which people "Was Homer a ma' '- she had heard
most soriusly 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 te human. Homer was a real nian--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
spoke in an uninteresting monotone,
their iianner.so wre ubhartibly blksnt
their motions seemed unnecessary "Ie xix siecle fut le siecle de la
rather than quaint, and all was uch vitesse. Tour ses progres sont des.
as to detract one's attention from what progres de vitesse. On voyage plus
they hadto say. The part of the vite, on correspond plus vite, on por-
Young Man, Cuchutain, was admirably traitise plus vite. Locomotion, tele-
fulfilled by Robert Henderson. Though graphie, photographie, ce sont des
he was fully conscious of his part and progres de vitesse. On tend partout
showed inevitable signs of having giv- vers l'instane. Je croise quapres
en it plenty of thought, his success avoir progressen en vitesse, on pro-
was largely due to his virtues: lie is gressera en souplesse. Jentends par
effeminate, chaste and pure; he en- la que la vie, asres 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 changeients-la proehaine ametiora-
he has heard of and would like to oh- lion umaine. Usi symttone-qii est
tain, something which is called im on neime temps un symbols: de cette
mortality. He finally chose sensualt tendance a l'ssoupilissement de la
beauty instead of that for which he vie: le train etait oblige de suivre sa
seas on a quest; and when he sue- ,voe; pis lauto s'affranchit du rail
cumbed (o his carnal desires, it was oh pent a ha iem? vitesse, suivre sun
like a moon-struck maiden rather
than like a young man of the "Heroic capriceani slong des routes; efi
Age," as the author specified. Mr. .a,,s da terre me
Henderson's settings were perfect in it a tout lespace pour sa fantasie"-
their simplicity, and as for the cos- In the same way, man freed him-
tuie 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 i
slow in impressing the ind. Many for himself alone. But more supple
authors rather delight in having Oldt yet was the theological diety of this
Age stoop before Youth. It is only Hebrews. It was free from thi mate
natural for them to choose to have it rial world entirely: limited only h
such, for so it is in reality. But if material ideas. And then came th
things were such as Yeats portrayed ",spiritual" God, who is merely a "Di-
them in this phay, the world would vine Principle," an "Infinite Force,'
be at a tstandstill. No, not quite as an "Abstract Determiner of Destiny
serious as all that, but simply there Marguerite tells me that soon wsc
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 ?gain- that w-
Yeats arranged it so that when the shall identify it with ether, or elec
opportunity for immortality presentei tricity, and find it to pervade all phys
itself, Old Age was blind to it, and abe
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Youth turned his interests upon physt- at root alt matter can be reduced t
cal and sensual beauties. If Yeats .ectricity. Hut I have asked Mar-
believes what he wrote, he is undoubt-
edly a pessimist, or else, he may have guerie Have we progressed,no'
gotten nearer to the truth of things hsnewhateas the etihrtheh
than the rest of the world. ism? What was the fetish or the ho3
Nile but an object of nature suffuses
with an unsen spirit, a thing pervade<
by an inexplicable essence. Is ou
new religion really pagan? Uranlun
Is largely characterized by radio
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