SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18; 1923 THEMICHIGAN DAILY PAGE S"VEN PLAYS then calmly dropped it on the floor, evening was that of Edward T. Gibson ought to be thoroughly entertaining (Continued from Page Two) and also when he threw another to the as Thorold in the Maesfield play. He and interesting, and if by that time while she was before us. I still main- ceiling. To me the perfect natural- convinced with his portrayal of the you have recovered from Mr. Nelson's tain that as long as she preserves her ness of such gestures was an excuse grasping, cowardly Norwegian peas- elabroate interpretation of Percy impudent swagger, her burning wig, for everything, his supple wrists alone ant. Lillian McEarchen and James Maekaye's "A Thousand Years Ago" I her Callot gown, her perfect sense of obliterated the rest. Maloney earned an A each. am sure you will find attendance an good showmanship in other words, she So you can begin to appreciate the While Lionel Ames in Modesty did evening well lost. may sing any way she pleases and still point of view. These tricks-and they his work well, I think that his other pull me-and the thousands of others are called tricks only because thep' playing has led us to expect too much THE INTELLECTUAL -to her worshipful feet. avid press-agent had to label them of him. It is difficult to imagine him . ( Naturally such a statement can be something-enhance rather than de- as anything but a sparkling ingenue, (Ctheutority of the good old book grotesquely twisted if taken in the tract from a performance; without set in the midst of a chorus of our wrong light. These externals, of them, a performer seems stiff and un- handsomest men, with an orchestra, your cause. is automatically lost, for course. are only symbols; are only ointeresting, his program stilted and and pearls, and perfume. the mass assumes the truth of that to possible, in fact, when a perfect! dull. Indeed, we are told that all art The others who deserve mention are begin with. If you advocate investi- technique and positive confidence is synthesis, and from this I would !sargaret Bissel and Htarold Fritche, gation or ask embarassing questions have ieen acquired, and represent the advance the thesis that even as ab- -Donald E. L. Snyder. you have the doubting Thomas story distinctive individuality of the artist. stract a one as music requires skill- thrown at you. One must not be from Chaliapin, for instance, does nothing ful tiuion of all the others, with par-ADVEITISEMENT. Missouri. The most effective weapon b.t walk in circles for an entire act ticular stress laid on Pantaloon s-nd There has recently been formed an of all is the deaf ear and most people o tMehitotle",'N Mary Carden turns his bag of bables. organization which bears the formid- use it, when their prejudices are as- on tc footli hts, eginska rfuses to ;able title of the Interchtirch Drama sailed. The literature of revolt is weasr -tathing but b hitct, DO Pach- PRODUTTION CLASS - League. It merely indicatns a ulnliu making itself heard however. It re- mann cries, "Beatifu l,beautiful' at APPEARS IN . . . of four denominational dramatic fuses to be squelched. The intellect- ris gri p ---sitAssimo. And to these Professor Hollisters play prosci- groups. These societies, in their var- ual is not willing to be hedged in by 1ontaieous eesetricite-s there are tin class did soise rather god eswori ioss stages of development, ire worth- a world which is too small for him, 'hvas th t us few who waggle their ;t aesfeld's Locked Chest antichileeiffir no outer reason tiat that n-'occasionally his screams of rage -c m5 i Ii thi.rror and roIuse to se tis',tt is siodl ty of teau slrerview. Toiler's they furnish ini outlet for the dozens becstfe quite raucous and unrefined, such trifles weld an art togtheir an Wife wfunfortunately east, how- of theatric asirants wiII the rec- i witness the Sunday Magazine fer- ii it through the ver fibre of thesever; forIwo of the best people in ogniz ialubs cannot use. hient if last year. srce.- i::-ti p' ras'atis took the roles rath- To show that even charchles can o- Several years ago a book appeared - ontinuiin Withi te'acMann.you e lr is :oriatly--aleost any other operate the are each to present a one - vhic rstruc iwhat should have been a irecall te incident where he play iuld not hsave failed to e a act play in a program to be givenin so pierful blow at the military system. Iseekda a note from the keyboard vwith i {suces il e s a I tli 0 ans. I.ante tt-a thiWe nesday cvenjin It was called crude and revolting.