r tTHE MICHIGAN DAILY suNDAY, FERUlARl;Y 17, 1924
rost c orft Shaw's "Saint Joan," ask a dozen intelligentsia, every one
W r te s the most maddening. but "'The Mir- of them will tell you the same tale
tS earl" i the niost sturendous and of "Sons and Lovers' and then add
gorgeous. a string about sex, sensuality, and de-
ADVERTISEMENT- cadence about literature. That's Law-
It seems that the Players are going rence's penalty for being Lawrence.
novel the book ir pretty autobiograph- to produce A. A. Mitne's "The Dover As a matter of fact, the author of
A READABLE cal. ''hlerras C:ldecott Chubb, a Yale Road," next Wednesday (the 17th), "The Captain's Doll" by no means
FIRST NOVEL poet, figures in the latter part as an .o...conext Wednesdays(-he 1vth),
and that Henderson is indisnosed to:confiner himself to sex-for evidence
intimate friend of the hero; Stephen wisee his peans to the solar plexus, and
13ent i broghtin fr amomet . write an account of it for his column.j p"
WIFE OF THE (.ENIUR. HB Cyril Beset is birought in for a meoment in his hell-fire and brimstone hunt for
1ume. Ileorge H. Poran Company a thin disguise, and there is another He dsn l t r a t gthe IT that is undermining American
1923. whrom I should probably recognize e nays. literature. I don't know whether Law-
were I familiar with New Haven an- So he told me that it was charming, e
A first novel is nil well enroughr for wlsN" ae rence ever reached the consciousness
its rir-yl as batry r'rlcntighfrt gelology. But the book is not simply witty, an evening of wholesome fun of the plexus, and I'm nigh certain he
pubi hrtort thre'syot a enriui itgo transliterated autobiography; what for young and old, und so weiter, and never met up with IT, but the fact
published and there's time enough to ase s fw wu'bes
.rso is i bioraphry there is undergoes the al- asked us if we would he so good as to remains that re tried. And in Kan-
worry when the second one is in the ,ean htletid n nKn
tering magie of art and becomes genu- write an advance notice for him. garoo he has still further deserted
process of making. Put for the re-16
.iweafist e is iine literature. The cast wilt, he says, be brilliant. the mysteries of sale and female,
viewer a first novel is hitter beer. A temseiso nl n eae
. B relieve that, admitting all its many The settings will be executed by the, choosing instead the political and so-
fault-, it is the richest handsomest, Players themselves in their little cal welter of Australia. The change
almosi certai to te bart ait yet. It
most substantial "young" first novel Playshop that used to be < Fire House is a good one . . . not perfect,
it's not utter rot, there mnust be somne-
t'sno d Ottrrut irt.Th-e ie of its kind we have yet had. when the Tanpan School was still a perhaps, but vastly more satisfying
ii irodsnt t. he lro t'e -.1s: Panurge. school. than poetic excursions into anatomy
of Arinnosving the sheetp frims thetha
goats is what grays a critic's hair. - - -Oh yes. A. A. Min' is a clever young .
Cyril Hume is (or was) a Yale PLAYS AND THE STAGE Englishman. And we won't tell you; "Kangaroo" sounds like a symbol;
young mai, and is still trembling be- (Continued from Page Two) any more about It because we might instead it is the nickname of one of
tween poet and novelist. That is the well considering her complete lack of spoil your fun. Ant that would'the book's leading characters. He is
cause for the irritating, aggravating, previous experience, b t it is Lady never, never do. . . . a high-minded fellow, leader among
worthless, and valuable part of his Manners who presents the most per- J. C. 1 the social intelligentsia of Australia-
book. His poetry is at once the best feet characterization of the produc- - or at least, the part of Australia with
part of his stuff and the cause of the tion. She is at once wistful and which Mr. Lawrence is concerned--
worst. Anybody at all might know tragic and compassionate-a beautiful MR LAWRENCE and along with two or three other peo-
that in order to be a good novelist, serton iignity It is quite IN NEW FIELDS ple, each representing a different
a writer must have something of a sibe to imagine a tor' fitting and branch of social thought, forms the
poet in his make-tip. Hume has, but r en t nKANGAROO background for the mental gropings
reverent interpretation.oftehraidlsicEgsmn
often as not his centaur goes thun- By D. H. Lawrence of the hero, an idealistic Englishmrn
dering off into poetry instead of t-ep- The (eriman actor, Werner Kra'a, ''h ma5 Seltzer, $2.00 dumped into the antipodes. The Eng-
ping sedately through the steadier portrays the puzzling and much dia- If you ask any odd dozen people lishman, being an idealist, is deter-
paces of prose. cussed part of the Piper. It is he who who D. H. Lawrence is, the chances mined to find something at least akin
The story is a case of the eternal contrives the many tribulations thrust are that not one of them will know; to justice in the civilization of the
toss-up between the ideal and the ae- upon the distracted Nun, yet it is also that's his penalty for being a good new land . . . and there rests
tual (and hence lie practicable) moti- Ite who saves her in every crisis. To writer. If you ask a dozen school- the story.
vated by that equally eternal human a certain degree, he seems to be a marms, probably at least one of the You will notice that in the fore-
fraility called love and all done in kind of sainted Satin. His crimes both crowd will hazard a guess that he going paragraph, I've used the wcr'l
terms of the golden youth that more torment and delight hint. He is a wrote a book called "Sons and Lov- 'social' twice and hinted at it an-
or less inhabits our colleges. masculine Kundrv, whose terrible ers." that was not published serially other time. This indicates the tei-
Shall Jeffry Dwyer. the campus ost, puinishment is that he cannot resist in the Atlantic Monthly. That's his per of the book. In it Mr. Lawrence
the )ale H2OC. the budding novelist, "the terrible life slipping through his penalty for doing good work. If you is after ideas, social ideas, and has
riarry Inez the ideally lovely, the veins." He is. in short. Man the in-
cruel coquette: or shall Ie chose carnate human, who wants to do right
Joan, the steet, charming. sympithet- and always does wrong.
Sc tr Ith 'irts harttein-ceatu; tFina"ly, there is the remarkable in-
ntings.herirarrires JoanIneezritursfluence of Reinhardt himself. He has
Joan almost loses: but, in the cen-
brought to the theatre in his past pro-
taur, man triumphs over beast and
ductions realism, color, movement, and
o t.. vivid life. and now in "The Miracle"
etry. "I've never written anything
like it in my life before' It's poetry.lie is giving us the mystery and super-?
. . . . it's great ietryif .." tPoer stition and exageration of the Middle
dlear." she thought. "There are blue Ages. His production is highly dis-1
rings under his eyes." So peace caie torted and frankly grotesque, yet these
again to Eden. is a verve and profound truth about it
Because Mr. Hume is a poet Ie thatpsueredes any production, I be-
writes well and easily. But for the lieve. presented in this country before.
same reason and because lie is yet It is a revelation in stage technique. a
young he sometimes sloshes around veritable miracle in mass action. . . !
in words. Most people, when they So to repeat, "The Swan," by Ferenc
catch a symbol in a title, are satisfied McInar, is the most perfect play in
to let it remain there. Not so ylr. New York, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the il-
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Hume. He expounds his symbol in
pages of thesbeautiful italic type Mr. *'IIill11111111l3IIIIIIllIIl
Doran has been so kind as to allow
him at the ends of chapters. The
various books are set off with quoted
poems and an occasional rook is sep- O ur IotLm e
arately dedicated. A lot of decora- 2E
tion. Chocolate Butter
All these are the stigmata of youth.
The real business of the book itself is
satisfying in spite of the disconnected. otch undaes
episodic ramble of the narrative. Hie
can't fo rget th e cam pu s b ecau se th atai s l s o i .
sif and st~~il s huts are delicious!
But -accepting this limitation-_and is
it not the limitation of all the very
young writers?-accepting this. one
must admit that he does catch th stMuff
o life and ake it lie again in his
tuwn Way
Falling i a. cass with the tirst
nvels of Stephen Benet and Sc t
Fitzgerald, it seems a more satistfac-
tory' production than either of these.
It is better than the first by beinless
collegy and less amorphous; it is not
so intellectual is, Fitzgerald's, there
is not that keen and acrid umor that=t
tiakes Fitzgerald's youngness less ob-
jectionable than it might b . Instead
o humor, Mr. hume substitutes a sort
of high sentimentality which values
and recounts certain scenes which
give the appearance of having been
htumorous when they happened.
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