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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1924


ROBERTF
BARTRON
HENDERSON
Oca Re an its rmarriae of
To Mrs. Grundy: noth and on itt.,widh and he
. . nbt''bli r-t cr resere with the
I is to be expected as it has Ieco teribl
and always will be, that in a perion of''v'' cc slal'"(, It 'itt'
remarkable dramatic vigo tthe r t te r ofhi fahe'
.A1 ci fth, ra.fr fm the fir': t:1 the last,
should he certato critic. :eneral o
are hea;cidw vi h e7ev r fr of bea
the professorial type. who consissnt-
ly lament what they term "the n t e-y'r nquaed
moral tendencies" of the contentmpe
ary' diama, It is perfectly obvic T "st
, s1)(: c s : .., F ' 0thcn o. "Kin
curse, to almost everyone tha: the . XA '"tt 'T "
American theater is entering or is
and "Romo and Julkt," to nie only a
about to enter into a period of distinct .
112 'ouly ti's pourt' ittttorat
rennaissance, probably the greatest fey dvno tit the i
elements do not constitute theirI
in its history and possibly among the
measure of greatness but they repre-t
hr atest in all theatric history. 'at"'peIesto hyrpe
greaestin ll s ad chisory ]tsert the freedom of an age that could
is equally obvious and rather proudly
admitted-for it is one of the majoroeuce trndotsy vital and nat-
ural w'erks of art. This cannot mean,
earmarks of any rejuvenation-that
on the other hand, that such a period
this movement is thoroughly unha- of retnt a the ninetent cntur'
peredl and immoral. etata h iecnhcnuy
rdm not also produce great master-
All this, naturally, is quite as it tin -cr eniu a1ways surviv
should be. America, through her ntem perary restrictions-but think
strategic financial status gained from how uch greater its Tennysens and
the past war, is now in a position tr 'Thac erys and even its Brownings
command not only the monetary butt would have been if they were as un-
art world as well. In New York today' eednsathe t"'aubrte anti tiatiero
we have the theater's greatest artists' aroe the channel.
from Due and Reinhardt to Stanis An nl frlly there is our modern
lavsky and Copeau., assembled to gain dr aas vich has created such vile
cur disdained but necessary dollars. and beautitl emple as " 'he
These personalities are teaching ts Power of Darkness. "Night Lodging,"
the best of the classical and modern and "The Creditor '"Ibsen used to be
technique, so that subconsciotily, shocking in "Ghosts" and "The Doll's
whether we will it or not, we are tHouse" and the super-sensual "Peter
building a foundation on which the Gynt," only to be overruled by the cli-
future American dramatist may create matic vulgarity of Wedekind and
a superb structure. The finished re- Andreyev
suit may be a greater Moscow Art So the list goes: it is next to the
Theater or another Theater du Vieux impossible to find a single dramatist
Comblier, but at least it is certain that of note who had not built his fame
it will produce a truly American dra around this note. Even Shaw-who
matic literature-American, you un- always chooses to play a trick only
derstand, in the national sense that once-repeats this factor constantly,
the Abbey Theater is Irish. in "The Philander," "Mrs. Warren's
To expect such a result, however. Profession," "Heartbreak House," and
from Victorian restraint and happy with an admirable satiric twist in
nicety is both impossible and ridicul- "Man and Superman."
ous, as the annals of all great litera- This is quite natural, evidently be-
fure prove only too easily. From the cause it seems so basic and funda-
beginning, sublimity of thought has mental, so elemental through the fact
always arisen from the primitive and that the earthly supports all else.
the carnal, front the immoral if you Whether this carnal and unmoral
can think of the word aside from il- style masks itself in the primitive
legitimacy. treatment of Synge and Masefield or in
To begin at the beginning, of course, the hyper-sophistication of Schnitzler
means to start with the greatest of all and Molnar, it carries the same uni-
dramas, the Greek tragedies, with versat appeal-it is the single com-
mn chord of every art.
To return to the American theater.
F. L. Tilden............Editor which at present is the New York sea-
Donald E. L. Snyder......Books son, we have the point admirably il-
Normand Lockwood.....Music lustrated. At the head of the list, of I
Robert Bartron Henderson., cours, there is the pereia "Rain,"
Drama a vigorus meledrna concerning the
Gordon Wier...........Art edoetten of a missionary by tie com-
Lisle Rose, Halsey Davidson, mon of prositear ay that
Newell Bebout, Samuel Moore, monest of prostitutes a pay that
Jr., Maxwell Nowles, Philip Wag- promises to enjoy a run of some three
ner, Dorothy Sanders. years in New York alone, nearly equal-
The Sunday Magazine solicits I(ling the popular "Lightin'," another
manuscripts from all persons af- tremendously successful tale of a
fSliated with the University. Man- hopeless drunkard. In like vein such
uscripts must be typewritten, folk dramas as "White Cargo" and
triple spaced and written on one Percy Mackaye's "This F Pretty
side only. * «** * '"
The Sunday Magazine acknowl World" have created consistent inter-
edges The American Secular Un- est. Then. there is Max Reinhardt's I
ion review service for "The Un- magnificent production of "The Mir-
aficial Observer" department. * acle," a story centering around the
seven sinful years of a Nun after her

desertion from the convent, and at;
another theater Pirandello's fascinat-
It i the policy of thisemagazine to .
publish articles of opinion by both tng cycle of neurotic plays are being
otudonto aed family members if, i presented. And to complete the list
the judgment of the editor, hest artn -
cles are of intrinsic value and interest. there is the prolific Eugene O'Neil,
This does not smea that manuscripts
elicited or voluntorily ofered .re 'without a question the greatest Ameri-
uecessaris in . accord with editorial can dramatist, who afler such crass
opinion either s Principle or form.,
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