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- THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ORGANIZED 1863 You will find Our service courteous and pleasing in every way OLDEST BANK IN ANN ARBOR MAIN STREET AT HURON 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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