{"numero_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_sha256": "e8c6807c3f46703b001dd4b1d6f813dd6b187d85338d1e54904ca1be286c0fc1", "source_tei": "https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/bluemountain-transcriptions/blob/main/periodicals/bmtnaau/issues/1919/04_01/bmtnaau_1919-04_01.tei.xml", "source_mets": "https://github.com/pulibrary/BlueMountain/blob/main/metadata/periodicals/bmtnaau/issues/1919/04_01/bmtnaau_1919-04_01.mets.xml", "url_numero": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01", "articles": [{"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c001", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c001", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "[45]", "page_fin": "[45]", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.1", "titre_corps": "THE AMPHITHEATRE OF POLA", "titre_sommaire": "THE AMPHITHEATRE OF POLA", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "[45]", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2532, "texte": "THE AMPHITHEATRE OF POLA.\nJTALY, with the restitution of the Eastern\nI shores of the Adriatic, won back by those\nheroic troops who have so worthily revived\nthe great traditions of the Roman legions, can\nagain number as her own yet another ancient\ntheatre, .... and that one of the loveliest....\nthe great Amphitheatre of Pola.\nThis Amphitheatre, smaller than that of\nRome, yet holds a dignified position in the\nhierarchy of amphitheatres,... (Aries, Nimes,\nVerona, El-Djem in Tunis, and the rest) ; not\nmerely for its size, but for its fine state of\npreservation.\nM. de Nolhac, (I) writing in 1882, says:\n\" non qu'il les depasse en etendue. Les mesures\n\" de son elipse ne s'eloignent guere des di-\n\" mensions relevees dans ces differents monu-\n\" ments. II leur est superieur surtout par le\n\" merveilleux etat de conservation de son\n\" enceinte. Vu du dehors, cela parait complet\".\nAs for the date of its foundation, says\nStancovich (2); \" Our amphitheatre must be\n\" referred back to the sixth century of Rome;\n\" that is a century and more previous to the\n\" empire of Augustus, or 1900 years before\n\" the present day \" (i. e. 1822).\nWe believe we can now trust to the\nItalian nation, so jealous and so proud of its\ngreat heritage, worthily to preserve this\nsplendid monument of larger days gone by,\nso as to be some guide for those who look\nfor the great days of the Future.\nSO much for what we believe.\nNow for what we fear.\nWe fear now that Culture, or the edu-\ncation of the masses is to be encouraged,\n(and we had fondly dreamed we were at\nwar to put that down), we may expect any\nday to see the Cinematograph installed in\nthe Amphitheatre at Pola.\nWhy ?... Because to prevent a foe from\nentering the capital you must not wait for him\nto come up to the walls and knock and ring\nthe bell : you must keep him the other side\nof the Frontiers :... and to do that you must\nshow courage and use all your resources.\nThe Cinema is the worst enemy mankindl\never had, and if it is allowed to devastate\nour minds, to flood with its vulgarities (and\nit boasts every vulgarity), the taste, feeling,\ngood sense of the Peoples of the Earth, it\nwill do such great harm to all things as no\nwar would ever be able to correct.\nTake care Take care!\nVulgarity poured out through the Cinema\nis destined to damn mankind if you do not\ntake care and steps,... steps to prevent it now.\n(1) STANISLAS DE NOLHAC. La Dalmatie, Les lies lohien-\nnes, Athenes et le Mont Athos. (E. Plon & Cie. Paris, 1882).\n(2) STANCOVICH, DelVAnfiteatro di Pola. Venezia, 1822."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c003", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c003", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "47", "page_fin": "49", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.2", "titre_corps": "NELSON", "titre_sommaire": "NELSON", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "47", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 127, "fin_caractere_exclue": 583, "texte": "NELSON.\n11 r I \"here are three things, young gen-\nI tleman n, said Nelson to one of\nhis midshipmen, 4 6 which you are con-\nstantly to bear in mind.\n\" First, you must always implicitly\nobey orders, without attempting to\n\" form any opinion of your own re-\n\" specting their propriety.\n11 Secondly, you must consider every\nman your enemy who speaks ill of\n!! your king.... and thirdly....\"\n....but this is about Frenchmen and in-apropos.\n\nContinued on page 48."}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "48", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 1478, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3578, "texte": "SJ\nNOW these two things have to be learnt by us in\nthe Theatre.\nAnyhow in the Theatre, even if nowhere else.\nIt's not the first time we have said so.\nWhen we cried \" Long live the King! \" even calm\nand kindly Englishmen (one in particular, I remember),\nmuttered \" Sycophants \" So bustle about, you\nwho feel like that, and get it out of you.\nWhen we insisted on the paramount importance of\nobedience, and \" without attempting to form any opi-\nnion of your own \" as to whether the orders you get\nare just or no we were met by squeals from a little\ngroup that took itself seriously.... and still does so, grum-\nbling all the time. They felt that their proper pride had\nto \" argue the point\nBut now when it is perceived that it is Nelson, the\nNation's Hero, who lays down these two rules as law,\npossibly our friends will think it over, and 1 hope we\nshall all find good sense ready to help us to realize the\ngood sense in the rule.\nFor this is the situation :...\nThe Theatre of England is in a more wretched con-\ndition than we care about. Pessimism is out of the ques-\ntion. Good- healthy rage is what we all feel who love\nthe old Theatre....\nRage against these grumbling nobodies, these pessi-\nmists who prefer to see the theatre sunk than get up\nand obey orders: who will go to any lengths to hamper\ngenius,... who will be obstinate as mules or cats instead\nof willing like horses or dogs.\nIt's the rather clever people who are mostly to\nblame...\nHealthy out-spoken dissatisfaction with our home is\none thing: but sneaking, obstinate opposition in which\nthe chief weapon is misrepresentation of all the best\nefforts in the Theatre and lies about our best men and\nwomen... this is nothing but damnable, and steps should\nbe taken to ridicule this sort of thing by every member\nof the English Stage.\nWe know some of the people who make use of misre-\npresentation and lies to harm our English Stage, and whose\nwhole pitiful joy in life is to be in a state of insubor-\ndination against all which strives to attain to better things\nand a stronger union of men and women bent on esta-\n\nContinued on page 49."}, {"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "49", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1621, "texte": "blishing better feeling in theatrical ranks. Just because\nthey hate men and women of talent, genius, even as\ncripples and sick folk hate men and women of beauty\nand health.\nHuman it i 5,... as all is human..., but we all of us\nwant to help cripples and sick people and are eager to\ndivert the energy of the malicious into creative channels.\nAnd if only our helpers do not unconsciously become\ninfected by the malicious ones we shall soon brace them\nup and get them to drop their devilries.\nA few perhaps are so soaked in their bitterness that\nthe only thing to do is to avoid them for a space of\ntime. They will become sweeter as time goes on.\nOur readers must come to know u5.... and they know\nwe have never sat down content to see the English Stage\nlied out of its rights....\nUnfortunately there are many in the profession who\nare content,... and some of these are unfortunately men\nof note.\nIt is a great pity these men have shown for the last\nten years utter indifference to our campaign.... That was\nmean.... and was no sign that the positions they hold are\nthe right place for them.\nThat indifference damns them. It does not stop us.\nIn fact we hope before long to issue so many co-\npies of our journal monthly that London will be asking\nthese men why they lent us nothing but underhand op-\nposition all this time, and why it is that they allowed\nthe Foreign Theatres to develop in these last ten years\nat the expense of England.\nWe are not going to quarrel with them.... but we\nare going to make them see that this is no time and this\nearth no place, in which to quarrel with us.\nBut we can all of us fight Malice."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c005", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c005", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "49", "page_fin": "49", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.3", "titre_corps": "[Sans titre]", "titre_sommaire": "[Sans titre]", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "49", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 1623, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2108, "texte": "We hope before long both to enlarge \" The Mask \"\nand to make it such a price that everyone can\nafford to buy it.\nThe reason we are unable to do this at present will\nbe rendered clear by the following facts, showing the\nextent to which the cost of production has increased,\nwhile unlike all other Journals, we have hitherto refrained\nfrom any increase in subscription rates, continuing to give\nthe same advantages to our subscribers, and to keep\nthe increased difficulties to ourselves."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c006", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c006", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "47", "page_fin": "48", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.4", "titre_corps": "OURSELVES", "titre_sommaire": "OURSELVES", "signature_source": "N. or M", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "47", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 585, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2039, "texte": "OURSELVES.\nAPOLOGY.\n\nCONSCIOUS THAT THE CREA-\nTION.... THE ETERNAL....\nTHE FUTURE.... AND ALL THAT\nIS WONDERFUL EXISTS NOT\nSPECIALLY FOR U5.... LEAST\nOF ALL FOR U5.... CONSCIOUS\nTHAT IT IS UNAWARE OF US\nAND WILL REMAIN UNMOVED\nBY OUR EXISTENCE.... CON-\nSCIOUS THAT WE ARE NOT\nEVEN KNOWN BY THE CHO-\nSEN ONES.... THOSE WITH\nWHOM WE MAY FEEL THE\nETERNAL AND ITS GHOST ARE\nON GOOD TERMS.... OUTLAW-\nED BY THE RARE SENSE\nAND THE COMMON SENSE OF\nTIMES PAST, PRESENT AND\nTO COME.... WE ARE PREPA-\nRED TO ATTEMPT TO EXIST.\nIN MY WALKS.\nO ME - THO UGHT. O\nI was in the Province of Tartaruga,\nwhich, as you all know, is somewhat\nnorth of the city of Margutta.\nI met an old soldier.... 70 years old.\nHe had fought in the wars.,.. 1870 I\nthink, and another. 11 Yes, I get a\npension. I only got 9Vsd. some years\nback, but now things are enormously\nimproved.... I get 10d.fl I sat liste-\nning to his talk ; wondering which of\nall the Powers that be I might dare\napproach and which would respond\nquickest and without putting me off\nwith arguments, reasons and excuses.\nIt lay between Margutta and G0d....\nand I decided I dared not approach\nMargutta. So telegraphing to God, 1\nthere and then had an immediate re-\nsponse and the old boy's days became\nmore rosy.\nSince then (and it was three weeks\nago) I have plucked up sufficient im-\npertinence to beg Margutta.... for as-\nsistance for the old soldier. The ne-\ngotiations are still dragging on.\nHow well God is served !"}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "48", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1476, "texte": "I saw Ladies prowling...,\nAm I right ? Art which can serve\nas a useful foil to a new gown it\ngood art; but art which will not come\nto heel when whistled to, should be\ngassed by the guardians damned out\nof life by the prettiest of ladies.\nART will in future only be spelt\nwith a capital T.... me-thought.\nO\nI saw six trains pass by, the people in\nthem packed like sardines, fourteen\nto each compartment made to hold\neight, and the passages crammed.\nTaken all for all, this latest civili-\nzation is the funniest, even if that of\nthe Greeks was the most Democratic.\nO\nI passed the Keats-Shelley Memorial\nHouse.\nByron exiled.... and Shelley and\nKeats; but how truly sensible of us\nto have made gods of the weaker two,\nfor no amount of adulation can make\nmen of them. When you pass the\nKeats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome\nare you not immediately struck by the\nprofounder reverence in which the\nBriton holds the genius of Byron ?\nWhen you enter it does not the im-\npression become a conviction?\nO\nI thought of Wu Tao-tzu, the greatest\nof all Chinese masters, of whom we\nare told he was sent by the Emperor\nto paint the scenery of a certain river.\nOn his return, to everyone's surprise,\nhe had no sketches to show. n I have\nit all n, he said, \" in my heart n.\nFOR less than this, I mused, fine artists\nin Europe have been called thieves\nand mbeciles.... for far less.\nBUT the time may have gone by,\nme-thought, when they will continue\nto bear it with impunity.... gone by.\n\nN. or M."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c009", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c009", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "49", "page_fin": "49", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.5", "titre_corps": "PRINTERS WAGES", "titre_sommaire": "PRINTERS WAGES", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "49", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 2110, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2959, "texte": "PRINTERS WAGES.\nThe Printers* Federation has obtained\nthe following advances.\nOn Feb. 12. 1918 50-%\nOn May 18. R 7.50%\nOn Aug. 17. n 3.50%\nOn Oct. 18. n 14 %\nOn Mar. 1. 1919 25%\nMaking in all 100 % and a reduction\nfrom a 9 to an 8 hour day.\no CLICHES, o\nThe cost of cliche making has doubled\nwithin the last year.\no PAPER. o\nThe Paper upon which the journal\nis printed now costs about 6 times\nthe previous price. Packing Paper and\nCorrugated card for packing cost about\n9 times the previous price.\nMISCELLANEOUS.\nAll such items as string, sealing wax,\nstationary, ink, etc. etc., have greatly\nincreased in cost.\no POSTAGE, o\nInland postage in Italy has increased,\nso that the postage of each copy of\nthe journal costs more than twice as\nbefore (5 centes. instead of 2 centes).\nLetters, postcards, manuscripts, re-\ngistrations, have also been raised."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c010", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c010", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "49", "page_fin": "49", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.6", "titre_corps": "[Sans titre]", "titre_sommaire": "[Sans titre]", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "49", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 2961, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3292, "texte": "The only thing which would ade-\nquately remedy and adjust matters,\n(save by greatly increasing the cost of\nsubscriptions) would be a much enlarged\ncirculation. This we ask each of our\npresent subscribers to assist us to attain,\nby each procuring a few new subscribers,\nand doing all they can to make the\njournals more widely known."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c012", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c012", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "49", "page_fin": "49", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.7", "titre_corps": "NOTICE", "titre_sommaire": "NOTICE", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "49", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 3294, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3817, "texte": "NOTICE.\nTHOSE WISHING TO BIND THEIR NUM\nBERS OF \" THE MASK \" FOR 1918, (VO-\nLUME 8), CAN OBTAIN TITLE PAGE AND\nCONTENTS SHEET FROM US FOR 4D (40\nCENTIMES, 40 CENTES. IO CENTS) POST\nFREE.\nYOU ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN FOR\nTHESE AT ONCE, AS IT WILL SAVE DELAY,\nAND THE TROUBLE WHICH ATTENDS ALL\nDELAYS.\nIN SENDING, PLEASE ENCLOSE STAMPS\nOR P. O. FOR THE AMOUNT, AS ONLY PRE-\nPAID ORDERS CAN BE SUPPLIED, THE NE-\nCESSITY OF SUBSEQUENTLY COLLECTING,\nOFTEN BY REPEATED APPLICATIONS, TRI-\nFLING AMOUNTS INVOLVING TOO GREAT\nA LOSS."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c013", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c013", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "50", "page_fin": "51", "image_debut": 6, "image_fin": 7, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.8", "titre_corps": "ON LIE AND LIARS THEFT AND THIEVES", "titre_sommaire": "ON LIE AND LIARS THEFT AND THIEVES", "signature_source": "Beatrice", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 6, "page_imprimee": "50", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.6", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5856, "texte": "ON LIE AND LIARS THEFT\nAND THIEVES\nby Beatrice.\nWhy Beatrice P... why because 51 I have a good eye,\nUncle, I can see a church by daylight n.\nIN 1914 Mr Gordon Craig was invited to visit America,\nR The Stage Society of New York n, says Mr Dickenson\nin The Insurgent Theatre, 1917 (a book full of good things\nand but rarely incorrect), n took steps for raising a fund for\n?l bringing to America Gordon Craig, Max Reinhardt\nn and Granville Barker. Reinhardt was stopped by\n3 the blockade • the Society found it impossible\nn to raise the 100,000 dollars that Craig demanded,\nn but Barker came. The sum of 30,000 dollars\nn was provided for him s?.\nNow read what Miss Mackoye said in her look, n The\nLittle Theatres in ihe United States of America, 1918. B.\nn It is a rule with the Stage Society to start new\n3 movements, and once they are on their feet, to\n11 begin work anew elsewhere. They brought Mr\nl{ Barker to this country; but they did not guarantee\nn their support of his work for more than a season.\nn Now such work as Mr Barker's demands a following\nn that can be counted on, or at least a backing.\n15 - And as no such backing was forthcoming in\n3 the United States (despite the promises of varioms\nn wealthy patrons of the arts) Mr Barker returned\n!! to England n.\nMr Dickenson tells us in a previous chapter that to run\na little Theatre in New York costs 5,625 Dollars per week,\nwithout considering the cost of a production, which may be\n(he says) as low as 3,500 dollars.\nNow what does this show ? ....that if I, or Mr Barker\nor Mr Craig go to America to produce some work there,\ngiving twelve weeks to prepare the work after we arrive,\nand running the thing for eight weeks on the little Theatre\nscale that indicated by Mr Dickenson we shall have\nto spend 45,000 dollars during those eight weeks, and if\nwe produce three plays as did Mr. Barker we shall have\nto spend 10,500 dollars more and that does not include\nanything for myself, Mr Barker or Mr Craig.\nNow, what sort of tomfoolery is it that such societies\nas the Stage Society propose when they offer Mr Barker\n30,000 Dollars and refuse Mr Craig's reasonable 100,000\nDollars. For with 100,000 Dollars something small might\nbe done.\nBear in mind that Mr Dickenson is an American and\nis on the spot when he tells us that a sum of 55,000 Dollars\nis necessary for a small production in New York.\nI have used the word 51 reasonable n in regard to the\n100,000 Dollars asked by Mr Craig, and use it advisedly\nand very carefully.\n3 Reasonable 1! was exactly what Mr Craig proved\nhimself in demanding 100,000 ; whereas Mr Barker showed\nhimself, by rushing into action on inadequate resources and\nguarantees, unbusinesslike and rash.\nIf an architect, on being approached by some public\nbody or individual, to raise a building, light-heartedly dashes\ninto the project with an estimate for a thousand pounds,\nwhen elementary calculation by any experienced person\ndemonstrates that his materials alone will cost four thousand\nbefore his own honorarium or his worfemer's wages are\npaid, we do not admire him for so doing. And if he\nproduces only a barn or a tenement house where something\nfine and beautiful was expected ; or if, on reaching the\nfirst story, he has to let his work fall to pieces incompleted,\nfor lack of funds, excusing his failure with, n well, what\nmore could I do with so little money ? n there arises the\nvery legitimate argument, why undertake what was\nimpracticable ? why show yourself so inefficient in the\npreliminary estimation of the cost, so devoid qf real\nknowledge and sound clear sense ? n\nTherefore I repeat, it was Mr Craig who was\nn reasonable n and Mr Barker who was n rash n when the\none rushed to America on an impossible sum, cheapened\nhis reputation by making a fiasco ; and the other asked a\nfigure upon which a careful estimate, based on precise\nknowledge, showed that something might be done, though\non a moderate scale.\nAnd I say n moderate n, because the American\ncalculation given above shows that even 100,000 Dollars\nwould go but a very little way as capital towards the finan-\ncing of anything of really generous proportion in New York.\nWe must remember, of course, that that 100,000 Dollars\nproposed by Mr Craig, and the size of which so fluttered\nthe Stage Society, was proposed in 1914.\nFigures have risen, not fallen, in the last four years;\nand one of the very first axioms of commerce, which has\nheld good since the day when the Lady sold the famous\nbooks to King Tarquin 0) is, that if an offer has been made\nand refused, the seller can never be field to that original\nfigure a second time.\nNow no tried artist of reputation in his senses is going\nto travel to New York, and on getting there have to form\na company of actors have his whole theatre over-hauled\nand scenes made, costumes made, just to make a small\nsplash for eight weeks in a puddle of 30,000 dollars.\nWe may not be very acute business men, it's true\nbut we are not so dense at figures as all that.\nWhen a young artist does accept these gay offers he\narrives, finds no money to work with, and is told to go\nhang : ....the ladies and gentlemen who invited him over\nall enjoy themselves very much and seem to have a lot to\nspend in fact more than usual whereas the young\nartist is ruined.\n\n(i) In the reign of one of the Tar quins there appeared\nbefore the king a woman who offered him nine books for sale.\nThe king refused to purchase them, whereupon the woman went,\naway and burned three of the books, and returning offered ihe\nremaining books for the same price she had asked for the nine.\nThe king again rejected them; but when the woman, after\nburning three books more, returned and asked for the three\nremaining the same price which she had before asked for the\nnine, his common sense awoke and he purchased the books.\nThey were found to contain the destinies of the Roman state."}, {"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "51", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.7", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2304, "texte": "A fine trick to play a very fine trick to be sure.\nWhen he is wise enough to refuse to move until there\nis enough money placed to his credit in a sound bank,\nthese same ladies and gents busy around crying out that he\nis an impossible artist or that he is quite ridiculous....\nn would you believe it, he asks a million n. Ive known\nof them saying this.\nBy such lies, leaping like the little frogs and snakes of\nthe old fairy tale from the mouths of the ugly sisters,\n....by such lies the People of a nation are cheated of the\nArt which is only too ready in its willingness to go to\nthem, if they care about it at all.\nSuch a lie as the one above, n would you believe it,\nhe asks a million n, makes out the artist to be wanting in\nall common sense and n impossible n, and that is what these\nladies and gents want everyone to believe.... lest it he\ndiscovered that they themselves are wanting in a little\nhonesty and much ordinary understanding.\nBut let not London flatter itself that only Americans\nare like this.\n€J Londoners, Parisians are like this too : the worst in\nNew York, Paris and London are as like as three peas.\nI once knew of a lady who was going to put, was it\n£30,000 or £lO,OOO into a journal or a picture\ngallery or some useful thing to the artists, 1 forget exactly\nwhat it was. She had the ntoney; she assured a friend of\nmine that she had.... let it go at that.\nShe had privately, unbeknown to him, asked a\nfabulously rich man for a sum and got it for this wrork :\nbut next week.... alas, she came weeping to my friend....\nno real tears, only the simulation of well-borne grief.... and\nsaid she had received a cable from America telling her\nthat all her money was lost in some gamble in stocßs,...\nand so the work never went 0n.... n0,.... but the lady still\nhad the sum from the fabulously wealthy one.\n....Do you take me ?...\nAs by lying and by theft well-to-do women as well\nas men ruin the enterprises off artists too inexperienced to\nknow what these 11 good sorts n or \" intelligent women\nare about.... it is well to mention this instance.\nRob a plutocrat politely if you like...* especially if\nhe wron't give the world the benefit of his wealth ; but\nto rob an artist at the same time is just a little bit too\nmuch of a good joke....\nIt's over-doing it, I think. What do you say?"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c015", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c015", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "51", "page_fin": "51", "image_debut": 7, "image_fin": 7, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.9", "titre_corps": "SKETCH FOR SMALL PLAY FOR MARIONNETTES", "titre_sommaire": "SKETCH FOR SMALL PLAY FOR MARIONNETTES", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "51", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.7", "debut_caractere": 2306, "fin_caractere_exclue": 4983, "texte": "SKETCH FOR SMALL PLAY FOR MARIONNETTES\n(NOT COPYRIGHTED).\nScene 1.\nCurtain rises. Three* large rich persons seated in\npanelled room. Very gorgeous apartment.... lovely gilding\nto legs of chairs. A tune warbled By long, thin-necked\nyoung lady at piano. All else as stagnant pond.\nIs it three frogs we see seated on floating leaves ? No,\nit is three rich persons of London, Paris and New York,\nEnter artist with insinuating ways he asks rather too\nhonestly for £ 10,000 with which to run a Little Theatre.\n(Dickenson says in his book that it takes about that sum\nto run a small theatre for only eight weekf, in New York).\nBy horrid palm gestures the three rich persons convey\nto the artist that they are very sorry but they have not\ngot £ 10,000 to spare.\nThe artist, bowing to the very boards under the carpet,\nretires, covered with awful confusion.\n(This confusion is conveyed to the audience thus....\nThe manipulator of the puppet dabs two red spots, one on\neach cheek and one on the forehead of departing puppet).\n(Art is very simple, you know).\nThe curtain creaks and descends.\nOne bar of Music.\nScene 2.\nCurtain rises nto a whistling tune n. (0 Same scene.\nSame folk. Same long-necked maiden singing same song\none year later at pianola.\nAt end of song six guns are fired off stage very\nloud. The three figures rise - sit rise sit; rise\n- sit and so on. At the sixth explosion enter a\ngovernment official. n I want ten million pounds for a war ®.\nThe three figures reply simultaneously.... \" Certainly! 11\nThey give ten bags. Exit Government official.\nCURTAIN.\nScene 3.\nCurtaiir rises. Same scene. Same folk. Same etc., etc.\nEnter artist.\n?! I wonder if you could spare me £ 20,000 (perchance)\nfor to make for you a theatre to (methinks) amuse you a\nlittle ....and to amuse ethers.... n etc., etc.\nThe Three : n Alas ! We have no money to spare N\nExit artist down a trap. Red Fire this time covert\nhis confusion.\nTREMENDOUS EXPLOSION follows. Enter\nGovernment Official. n I want ten million for a\nRevolution !f. (2) The Drums roll; the furniture is shaken.\n11 Certainly n, etc., etc.\n(Now this slight theme here sketched needs but little\nelaboration to be a thundering success).\nLastly you see the artist enter disguised as Dick Turpin.\nHe produces and points two horse-pistols and cries : !! Your\nmoney or your life! B\nn Oh, yes, Sir! n reply the immortal Three at him....\nn our money.... how much ? I n\n57 Three bags full ® says the artist.\nThree bags are produced to the tune of n Pop goes the\nWeasel\nCURTAIN.\n(1) Sir Richard Burton points out that in the East Horses\ndrink to a whistling tune.\n(2) A Government can be as disorderly as the best when\nit puts itself at it."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c018", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c018", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "52", "page_fin": "55", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 11, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10", "titre_corps": "BOOK REVIEWS", "titre_sommaire": "BOOK REVIEWS", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "52", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 29, "texte": "BOOK REVIEWS.\n\nEAST AND WEST."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c019", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c019", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "52", "page_fin": "55", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 11, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1", "titre_corps": "EAST AND WEST", "titre_sommaire": "EAST AND WEST", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "52", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 15, "fin_caractere_exclue": 29, "texte": "EAST AND WEST."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c020", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c020", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "52", "page_fin": "52", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.1", "titre_corps": "THE MIRROR OF GESTURE by Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy", "titre_sommaire": "THE MIRROR OF GESTURE by Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "52", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 31, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5317, "texte": "THE MIRROR OF GESTURE;\nby Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy.\nOxford University Press, England:\nHarvard University Press, U. S. A.\nDEAR Dr Coomaraswamy. It is a\nMarvellous interesting book and\nall that which you have translated, but\nhere I sit in a Palace in Pisa in the\nroom where Lord Byron wrote the\ngreatest European poem of the last\ncentury, which has not yet been un-\nderstood by Europe, let alone read,\nand you ask me seriously to recommend\nthis trifle from the East to Europeans;\nthis 9 Mirror of Gesture B, this book\nof system, this receipt for enslaving\nmen, making 6 actors * of them.... you\nask too much. We are not up to it yet.\nI admire y0u;.... I am ravished by\nyour gestures without understanding one\nof them, or caring a rap for any systems....\nEastern or western.\nI am fascinated beyond description\nby the way you begin the stance.\nFollowing this your text-book you\nshake your head up and down. You\nmean doubtless Indignation, Enquiry,\nSummoning, Threatening and all sorts\nof other things. But who's to guess it\nover here ? for we frown, lower the\nbrows, shake the head sideways when\nwe mean some of those things, and\nwhen we mean the rest of them we\nmake other gestures.\nSo you see you ask too much from\nthe commencement. And when later,\nto recompense me, you assert that your\nwaist is one of your limbs and your\narm-pits another of them, (1) then you\n•how me (and I'm no seer), that your\nwhole system is based on the principle\nB heads I win, tails you lose B.\nNo, dear and gentle Indian; I'll not\nplay that game with you. I too want\na chance to win.\nMind you, I haven't any doubt that\nB the root N I with the prefix ABHI\nimplies Exposition B; all I must\nremark is that your gestures expose\nnothing to us whereas our clowns'\ngestures do, spite of their lack of\nsubtlety.\nI won't speak of our great performers\n....for some of these are so subtle that\nthey might be fresh from Burma.\nBut do not take my expressions\namiss....\nn I mean no harm n said Snook,\nn But me for the pan by the sink B.\n(vide ' Mask ') Vol. 8 No. 2 Page 8).\nThe curses of the West are many,\ndear Doctor. But the cussiest curse is\nthat we are always being tempted to\ntell ourselves that we Westerner frogs\ncan be as big as the biggest Eastern\ncow that ever strayed from the milky\nway.\nAnd we succumb over and over\nagain:... we are dangerously near\nbursting.\nIf v/e draw in one more big breath\nof air (EE by E) we shall burst.\nWe have other weaknesses, ....but\nconceit will be our undoing.\nWe must become faultless like y0u....\nsome day ....if we can, but only along\na more bitter path than your artists\nlingered on as they created their\nloveliest things ....and after that even\nfound some time over to make systems.\nBut we receive only the n Systems B\n....the Art of Gesture does not reach\nu5.... and so if we have any sense left\nwe dare not pretend we understand.\nEven in Europe some there have\nbeen who have offered systems to us\n....perhaps since we have their works\ntoo this is less fatal ....but if you only\nknew us better I think you would agree\nwith Lord Byron.\nAnd with Lord Byron's words on\nwestern systems let me end:...\nB A more amiable man in society\nB than Mr Hunt I do not know; nor\nB (when he will allow his sense to\nB prevail over his sectarian principles) a\nB better writer. When he was writing\nB his 1 Rimini 1 I was not the last to\nB discover its beauties, long before it\nn was published. Even then I remon-\nB strated against the vulgarisms; which\nB are the more extraordinary because\nB the author is anything but a vulgar\nB man. Mr Hunt's answer was, that\nH he wrote them upon principle; they\nB made part of his 1 system 1!! I then\nB said no more. When a man talks of\nB his system it is like a woman talking\nB of her virtue B.\n(1) Limbs, parts of the body and fea-\ntures are differently classified according\nto the Indian cannons of gesture than\nthey are in Europe and America.\nThe book tells us that in India these\nare the divisions :...\n\" Limbs. Head, hands, arm pits, sides,\n< ( waist and feet. Some also say the neck.\n\" Parts of the Body are shoulders,\n\" shoulder blades, arms, back, stomach,\n\" thighs, calves ; some say also the wrists,\nu knees and elbows.\n\" Features are : eyes, \"eye lids, pupils,\nt4 cheeks, nose, jaw, lips, teeth, tongue,\nu chin, face\nYou see what I mean.... Its all topsy\n—~ tutry for us.\nThe first movement of the Head is\nvery interesting. It is called Sama (level)\nthe movement consists of not moving;\nnor is the head bent or raised. It is\nused when wishing to express prayer,\nauthoritative speech, satisfaction, anger,\nindifference, or inaction.\njßw/ a* the risk of being felt to be a\nnuisance I must ask the Indian author by\nwhat means the dancer makes us over here\nunderstand whether he is feeling anger\nor satisfaction, for he has omitted to say.\nNow to the Western actor or actress\nwe critics say, \" Explain to me, oh Lotus\nof the Strand, expound to me without\nany more of your bhavas (nonsense) when\na door can possibly be not a door \" ; and\nindeed some of us have to become like a\nlittle child once more toknow the answer.\nAgain, the gesture called Adhomukha\n{face inclined) signifies that the head is\nbent. It is used to express modesty,\nsorrow, bowing, regarding anything vile,\nfainting, things on the ground, bathing.\nIt is, in short, another language."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c021", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c021", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "52", "page_fin": "52", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.2", "titre_corps": "Mr. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN PRESENTS", "titre_sommaire": "Mr. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN PRESENTS", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "52", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 5319, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6770, "texte": "Mr. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN\nPRESENTS. Knopf. New York, 1917.\nHOW is it that when I receive a\nbook to review which gives me\nso much pleasure as all Mr. Nathan's\nbooks give me I become hopelessly\nincompetent to say a word ? I can't\nlaugh at it or prod it.... it leaves me\nno gaps to fill up: the work has all\nbeen done so well that the most I can\ndo is to keep decently quiet, ....or\nexpress mild pleasure by a round of\napplause.\nSome say this is the author's best\nbook, some say it's his worst.*., to me\nit is a volume of his works, and when\nI like a man's work 1 like all of it.\nThe thing I like most about Nathan's\nwork is not his fun,... and that's ter-\nrific.... but his dead seriousness.\nNot only is it too easy for one to\nsay of him he is America's best dra-\nmatic critic. I should be inclined to\nsay he is the best man in the American\nTheatre.... for he knows it....\nWhat makes him so mighty fond of\nthe Theatre?\nPeople are not often just as fond of\nit as he i 5,... after knowing it.\nAnd if you don't come to the same\nconclusion as I do after reading all his\nbooks and studying part of one of\nthem, say, for about a year, then that\nproves that I have enjoyed myself more\nthan you have,\nBut anyhow, while waiting for the\nnext copy of The Mask, f°r\nB Another Book on the Theatre B,\n* Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents B\nand B The Popular Theatre B(0 from\nAlfred A. Knopf, New York.\nThey cost about $ 1.50 each.\n(i) For Review see page 55 of this\nnumber."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c022", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c022", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "53", "page_fin": "53", "image_debut": 9, "image_fin": 9, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.3", "titre_corps": "FIVE PLAYS from Mr. Egmont Arens", "titre_sommaire": "FIVE PLAYS from Mr. Egmont Arens", "signature_source": "C.D.E.F.G.H. I", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 9, "page_imprimee": "53", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.9", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5330, "texte": "FIVE PLAYS from Mr. Egmont\nArens, Washington Square Book\nShop, New York City. U. S. A.\nC.D.E.F.G.H.I.\nIN Mr. Arens' shop several young\nmen and women found a place to\nplot the destruction of that which\nstood in their way towards giving\nAmerica a new Theatre.\nDestruction with them is bloodless.\nThey Create and that does the trick\nwith a smile.\nApathy insincerity and sheer\nstupidity, blocked the way, Spite of\nbeing warned by a few advance storms\nthat a tempest was coming, Americans,\nlike English, like French, like Russians\nand like other people, smiled the smug\nsmile of idiotic self-satisfied egoism,\nlaughed at prophecy, and now can be\ntold that the New Movement in the\nTheatre is upon them. They can no\nmore escape it than they can escape\nsunrise. They have to be blessed.\nNot that they will all be aware of it\n- but then suns rise and set and they\nare unaware of these - so it wil be\nall right.\nCrass articles on the Theatre on\nDrama on Marionnettes on all\nthings of the stage will still appear in\nthe most celebrated journals for a long\nwhile men and women must be mis-\ninformed it seems it is the preli-\nminary necessity of mind-slavery.... for\nwhich they yearn, and though mind-sla-\nvery is the one thing we artists are\nfighting against, it seems that the rest of\nthe world loves nothing so mueh as to\nimprison its own mind daily and fog the\nminds of others. It* s a species of idee\nfixe with the millions.... a little habit\nto which may be attributed nearly every\nmisery on earth.\nBut let us glide on into important\nmatters.\nThe five plays sent by Mr. Arens\nare by five of the new dramatists. Two\nare pretentious bits of earnestness, and\nthree are excellent little pieces of work.\nThe Sand-Bar Queen by George\nCronyn, Washington Square Players,\nI find excellent for a number of rea-\nsons, the first being that he has some-\nthing to express and expresses it.\nRather difficult to perform,... and\ntherefore all the more interesting to\nthe craftsman.\nThe Angel Intrudes by Ffloyd Dell.\nProvincetown Players, pleases me in\naway.... with proper treatment on the\nStage it could be made excellent.\nAnd lastly Enter the Hero by The-\nresa Helburn.... what shall I say of\nthis ? I am unreasonable in my likes\nand diflikes, and I like this playlet im-\nmensely. I find it a little work of\nArt. And I think Miss Helburn has\nthe genius of the theatre in her veins.\nIf this and other praises she receive\nspoil her, it would be a grievous pity.\nFor this reason.... she has a certain\nlittle genius which I would say could\ndevelop. If she thinks she has more\nshe will spoil. She has the amount and\nquality which will bear discipline, and\nso I pray she may be of that order\nof being which is never contented with\nits marvellous little self, however really\nadmirable that self may be.\nTwo of the plays, Night by James\nOppenheim and Two Blind Beggars\nby Philip Moeller, I did not like. I\nfound self-consciousness and perhaps\ncomplaisancy writ large over both. I\nfound them pretentious, insincere, and\ntherefore of course expressionless.\nThese two are both heralded in the\nadvertisement pompously; the first is\ntrumpeted as follows:\nNIGHT, a Poetic Drama in One\nAct by James Oppenheim, as played\nby the Provincetown Players.\nEverything is subdued to the\npoem. The scene is merely a\nconcave sheet flooded from\nthe back with violet light. A\nmound before this suggests a\nhilltop against night sky. The\ncharacters are silhouettes, and\ntheir few movements suggest\nsomething liquid and flowing.\nThe verbal music of the poem\nis rendered with full value for\nevery word, every rhythm,\nevery tune and melody. The\nresult is very moving, very\npoignant.\nand we would add u and very fu-\ntile \". The second was announced\nthus :\nTWO BLIND BEGGARS AND\nONE LESS BLIND. A Tragic\nComedy in One Act, by Phillip\nMoeller, as played by the Washington\nSquare Players.\nThe scene is a rag pickets cel-\nlar. The characters move about\nin gloomy but their language\nis filled with imagery and poetic\nfeeling as to suggest the best\nof the Irish writers.\nNow this won't do. It won't do\nbecause we don* t want to be told\nthat a play suggests the best of other\nwriters. We get no such flim-flam in\nthe note about the one really good\nplay of the lot. Read and see:\nENTER THE HERO. A Comedy\nin One Act, by Theresa Helburn, as\nplayed by the St. Francis Players in\nSan Francisco.\nRuth Carey has conjured up a\nlover, who suddenly appears in\nthe fleshy bringing with him\namusing complications.\nThis states all we need to know....\nfor who \"wants to b® told about the\ngloom in which the 4< Blind Beggars \"\nmove, or that their language is extra-\nspecial? Or who wants to be told about\nthe concave sheet flooded from the back\n(or the front, damme) with violet light as\nin the note on 44 Night \" ? Do we care\na rap whether 44 the characters are sil-\nhouetted \" or that they have u few\nmovements \" and that these are 44 li-\nquid and flowing \" ? As for being\n4 very moving, very poignant', an author\nshould leave the public to decide that\npoint.\nMiss Helburn leaves the public to\ndecide it, and there is surely no one\nwho will not award her the palm. The\nother two with the unnecessary win-\ndow-dressing awaken a suspicion, which\nbecomes a certainty after the two plays\nare read, that the goods need it.\nSo, for Miss Helburn.... bravo Ame-\nrica I\nAs for Oppenheim and Moeller....\nrun along."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c023", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c023", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "53", "page_fin": "53", "image_debut": 9, "image_fin": 9, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.4", "titre_corps": "TARR by Wyndham Lewis", "titre_sommaire": "TARR by Wyndham Lewis", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 9, "page_imprimee": "53", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.9", "debut_caractere": 5332, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5887, "texte": "TARR by Wyndham Lewis. Knopf.\nNew York• Dollars 1.75.\nREAD it Can you get it in\nLondon ? It is a novel.\nI only ask, for I had not heard of\nit there. A friend in America sent it\nme. He knew that as I am an\nEnglishman I would very naturally be\nglad to know of a work of English\nGenius. I hope I don't exaggerate.\nI'd hate to do that.\nI shall hope to review it later on,\nbut am waiting for a copy to arrive\nfrom England.... from the English\npublishers of this work by a young\nartist packed full of the signs of genius.\n....Again I do hope I don't exaggerate."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c024", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c024", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "53", "page_fin": "54", "image_debut": 9, "image_fin": 10, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.5", "titre_corps": "THE EURHYTHMICS OF JACQUES DALCROZE", "titre_sommaire": "THE EURHYTHMICS OF JACQUES DALCROZE", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 9, "page_imprimee": "53", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.9", "debut_caractere": 5889, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6668, "texte": "THE EURHYTHMIES OF\nJACQUES DALCROZE. -\nlion by Professor M. E. Sadler. Con-\nstable & Co. Ltd. 1917. Price 2\nshillings.\nWE cannot see why it is that this\nbook about this System 4 4 Rhyth-\nmische Gymnastik \" has come out in\nEngland.... and what Professor M. E.\nSadler means by still pushing German\ngoods in England at this day is\nincomprehensible. Because even if\nGermany has as much right on earth\nas any other lunatic, it is not the time,\nnor is England the place, to encourage\nany but our own lunatics.\nIn this book we find that Herr\nDalcroze of 1913 has now become\nMonsieur Dalcroze. Detestable if\nincomprehensible. Herr Feichmann\nbecomes Monsieur Teichmann of Bale.\nThe ladies in bathing drawers have\nnot changed anything, so little was\nthere left to change.... except some of"}, {"page_pdf": 10, "page_imprimee": "54", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.10", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3575, "texte": "their poses and their too intense, if\nalways charming, facial expression.\nMonsieur Dalcroze says nothing\ndifferent from what Herr Dalcroze said.\nHe does not approve of the \" Russian\nBallet and their \" Apr&s Midi d'un\nFaune \" though he is good enough to\napprove of \" several \" of the plastic\ninterpretations of Miss Duncan.... in a\nfoot note: but his aim is the same as\nit ever was, ....to turn out a number\nof Isadora Duncans if by hook or\ncrook he possibly can.\nAnyone who has seen Monsieur\nDalcroze's early books, before the\ngenius of Isadora Duncan illumined\nthree quarters of Europe and M.\nDalcroze into the bargain, will have\nnoted that his movements, costumes and\nwhole system had the appearance of\nbeing what the Germans call gemutlich ;\nthat means comfortable.\nMonsieur Dalcroze saw that these\nwoollens really wouldn't do. So he\nremoved some of them; then some\nmore.... and then another little bit,\nseeing no harm: and at last made his\npupils really comfortable;... but still he\nwas unable to give them a scrap of\nthe genuine thing which they think\nthey are to get.... and the genuine\nthing is the power of expression.\nHowever we must admit that for\nservant girls or programme girls it, should\nbe an admirable school to go to:\n....can't you see Fanny entering with a\ntray tip-toe like Mercury and realising\nsomething which M. Charles Blasis\naimed at in 1829?... I suppose you\nknow his book ?... quite interesting.\nn The Mask 11 should really reprint it\nwith the pictures....\nAnd now that one comes to think\nit over a moment longer, why should\nnot a school or two be started in\nEngland taking M. Charles Blasis and\nM. Del Sarte as guides ? They wrote\nsuch good books, too. Did you never\nhear of the books of Del Sarte ?...\nAmerica has. Americans in some of the\nSlates were brought up on Del Sarte.\nThe effect was, I believe, that it\nmade young ladies walk better than\nbefore ....which is most deceptive.\nTell me, don't you like a rat of a\nwoman to walk like a rat, so that we\nshall not mistake her for a lady or a\nblessing when we meet her ? The\nworst of these T systems ! is that they\nbaulk expression. No longer shall we\nsay n here comes such and such a\nnature n, ....but we shall be aware that\nhere comes a trained Dalcroziam i hat\nultimately ....I admit only ultimately....\nwill tell against the lady who adopts\nhis systematic beauty at so much a\nesson. And they are dirt cheap.\nMen soon begin to see under that\nsort of mask.\nI am one of those who think that\nindividual expression in life is what we\nmust preserve; therefore I think Dalcroze\nis a nuisance.\nExcept, as I said, for servant girls,\nprogramme sellers, waitresses and all\nand any who are or want to be in\nuniform pattern,\nIf Monsieur would guarantee to train\nnone but the servants of the public,\nthen might not we hope to see\ngovernments and local bodies taking up\nthis system and stereotyping hundreds\nof females per day ?... Democratic\nany how.\nI have turned once more to the book\nto see if I am not doing injustice to\nMonsieur Dalcroze.... I am not.\nN0.,., n0.... the results achieved are\ninsipid:... he may be right in his\ntheory.... but not right as rain:... and\nthe artisticness of the whole thing would\nbe right enough for those groups in\nAmerica or even England or Germany\nwhere groups of ladies thrill, gush or\nschwerm over things they take to be\nuplifting, n perfectly lovely n or reizend:\nbut for any place not befogged by\ndoubts, or at any period when people\nare at last trying to awaken to realities,\nit is out of place and it is out of date.\nAnd Isadora Duncan is still a living\ninfluence."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c025", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c025", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "54", "page_fin": "54", "image_debut": 10, "image_fin": 10, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.6", "titre_corps": "AN IRISH ANTHOLOGY, COLLECTED WORKS OF PADRAIC H. PEARSE", "titre_sommaire": "AN IRISH ANTHOLOGY, COLLECTED WORKS OF PADRAIC H. PEARSE", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 10, "page_imprimee": "54", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.10", "debut_caractere": 3577, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5865, "texte": "AN IRISH ANTHOLOGY. COL-\nLECTED WORKS OF PADRAIC\nH. PEARSE. Maunsell & Co.\nDublin. 1918.\nIF every one doesn't love the spirit of\nIreland and determine to see that\nthis spirit, composed as it is of the\nessence of all we are told the four\nyears' war has been to capture, and\nwhich is perhaps the only spirit fitted\nto lead us peoples of the Northern\nnations.... then.... then what.... ?\nWell, we could say a great deal on\nthis subject.... and we could point to\na case of obstinacy on the part of an\nIgnorant and Prejudiced Nation which\nhas turned out so badly.\nn But it's Ireland that is obstinate n,\nsome one says.\nNo, n0,.... gently, no No, not\nobstinate, my dears.... Think for a\nmoment 1 you may be obstinate because\nyou may be stupid, prejudiced, puffed\nup.... a bit snob.... who knows ? May\nbe. But Ireland is a thing of genius....\nclever, gay, remarkable, unique. ....Can\nbe what you wi11,.... wrong, wicked....\nwhat you will, but can not be\nobstinate. Do you not see the diffe-\nrence ?...\nNo such thing as flame can possibly\nbe called obstinate.\nCall it something else, ....what you\nwi11.... but not obstinacy.\nBuy this Irish Anthology, with its\nbeautiful \" Dirge for an Irish Soldier\nits \" Keen for Fair-Haired Donough\nits \" Roman Vision \".\nEspecially to the Romans will these\nsongs be dear. But to no one who is\narrogant, stupid or vulgar.... prejudiced\nagainst real liberty.... or cruel at heart.\nMr Maunsell has quite a fine list of\nbooks. You should get him to send you\nhis list.\nTherfc is no more important thing in\nthe world just now than for us all to\nlearn how beautiful is the heart of\nIreland.\nWere Ireland less gifted, had she\nless genius,.... then she might make one\nof a party at whist ....where honours\nshould always be easy.\nBut this Ireland is an event, ....is a\nthing in ten thousand, ....and there is\nalways one way to manage Ireland\n....it is to try hard to obey her.\n\" But you are getting quite political\nin a mild way \", you say.\nNo, No, not that ....Don't you see\nthat just as there are some volcanoes,\nsome typhoons, (I admit only some),\nthat are quite apart, as it were, from\nall politics, and belong to that secrest\nsociety known in hushed breath as\n\" Nature \", so are there some people.\nWell, but what do you mean by\nNature ? you ask....\nIreland, I reply."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c026", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c026", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "54", "page_fin": "54", "image_debut": 10, "image_fin": 10, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.7", "titre_corps": "SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM", "titre_sommaire": "SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 10, "page_imprimee": "54", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.10", "debut_caractere": 5867, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6112, "texte": "SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM: A\nSelection with an Introduction by D.\nNichol Smith. Oxford University\nPress.\nTHIS is a really useful little book,\nan anthology of Shakespearean\ncriticism.\nThe one thing which it lacks to add\nto its usefulness is an Index."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c027", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c027", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "54", "page_fin": "54", "image_debut": 10, "image_fin": 10, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.8", "titre_corps": "THE PRINT-COLLECTORS' QUARTERLY. Edited by Fitzroy Carrington", "titre_sommaire": "THE PRINT-COLLECTORS' QUARTERLY. Edited by Fitzroy Carrington", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 10, "page_imprimee": "54", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.10", "debut_caractere": 6114, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6534, "texte": "THE PRINT-COLLECTORS'\nQUARTERLY. Edited by Fitzroy\nCarrington M. A. Published by the\nHoughton Mifflin Co. Boston. Mass.\ndollars 2 yearly.\nANY one who cares for the best\nreproductions on a small scale of\nthe best Prints in the world must\nsubscribe for this work.\nIt is very cheap and very admirable.\nAnd try to secure the back num-\nbers.\n.... Altogether a delight.\nIn London you get them at the 2!\nGallery in the Adelphi."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c028", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c028", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "55", "page_fin": "55", "image_debut": 11, "image_fin": 11, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.9", "titre_corps": "BUZZ, BUZZ, by Captain James Agate", "titre_sommaire": "BUZZ, BUZZ, by Captain James Agate", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 11, "page_imprimee": "55", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.11", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3102, "texte": "BUZZ, BUZZ, by Captain James\nAgate. W. Collins & Sons, Price\n7/6 net.\nTHE author is a Manchester man.\nThis should naturally prevent us\nfrom uttering the word provincial; for\nManchester is Manchester.... apart from\nthat which is provincial. Yet provincial\nthis book is :... almost parochial. His\nbeau ideal of the actor is Sir E. F.\nBenson, ....Mr Benson, as he calls\nhim.... and adds, \" the finest living\nEnglish actor n.\nIt is a book apparently all about actors\nand acting: the writer has absorbed 11 The\nArt of the Theatre \" by Mr Gordon\nCraig.... whose work, by the way, he\nmisunderstands very well.\nHe goes by hearsay, and the usual\nmisrepresentations are carefully set down\nwith all the cock-surety of perfect\ncarelessness. He talks of models which\ndo not exist,.... which, mark you,\nhe has seen (! !) ....and he descends\nto a personality which seems a little\nrepulsive when writing of this artist :...\nHe takes Mr Craig to be a man\nconcerned only with sceneries; and\nbecause Miss Ellen Terry produced\n11 Much Ado About Nothing \" in 1903\nor 1904, (that is, fourteen years ago), in\norder, let us say, to give her son some\nopportunity, he becomes sentimental in an\nunpleasant way about this Listen....\n\" I shall always hold the spirit of\n\" Motherhood to be capable of no\nn greater sacrifice than that shown by\n\" Miss Ellen Terry when she delivered\n\" her Beatrice to the scenic mercies of\n\" Mr Gordon Craig \". \" This devotion \",\nadds the author, \" reminds me of the\n\" French story of the Mother's bleeding\n\" heart which, being conveyed as a son's\nn offering to his mistress, exclaimed as\n\" the boy stumbled, 1 Are you hurt,\n11 my son ? \".\nHe later goes on to say : f5 let me\n\" be frank and say that Mr Craig has\nn actually arranged such settings which\nw by themselves make up so tremendous\n\" a sea of emotion that no actor could\n\" hope to live in it \".\nThat \" let me be frank n» ....how\nEnglish it sounds:... clique English:\n....Not the real old genuine voice of\nthe Englishman.\nCliques have been busy :... they have\nmisrepresented all things about the arts\nto all England.\nExample :... they have howled over\n\" poor Ellen Terry \" who sacrificed\nherself for the Art of her son and\ndaughter and grandsons and father and\nuncle and Irving and the rest of em.\nIt is a favourite mode of attack in\nEngland: ....so frank: ....frankly the\nmeanest.\nThey want to attack, let us say,\nMr Fred Terry.\n\" What would he have done \", they\ncry in that holy voice of Satan, n but\nfor the perfect abnegation of dear\ndarling Julia Neilson n.\nOr they wish to go for D'Annunzio:\n....\" It was all that dear angel Duse \",\nthey wail.\nNow no one would ever dream of\ndenying that every woman worth her\nsalt is a blessing to the work of an\nartist, be it mother, sister, wife or\nfriend.\nHistory is packed full of such sto-\nries.\nPossibly the mother of Captain Agate\nhelped him considerably and at some\nsacrifice in his career.\nBut I would bite my tongue out\nbefore I would attempt to belittle a son\nby gushing about a mother's sacrifice.\nBut poor Captain Agate is under the\nBensonian influence, ....a moral influence,\nI understand."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c029", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c029", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "55", "page_fin": "55", "image_debut": 11, "image_fin": 11, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.10.1.10", "titre_corps": "THE POPULAR THEATRE by George Jean Nathan", "titre_sommaire": "THE POPULAR THEATRE by George Jean Nathan", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 11, "page_imprimee": "55", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.11", "debut_caractere": 3104, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5424, "texte": "THE POPULAR THEATRE\nby George Jean Nathan. A Knopf.\nO New York 1918. O\nTHE Author is not a Manchester\nman.... the Author is one of those\nrare critics who can cut through the\nroots of a prejudice or cut off an inane\nactor or an intellectual actress in their\nprime and yet be innocent of any\ncruelty.\nFor the Author is never stupid. To\nbe slain by a brilliant man should be\nan honour ; to be carved by a duffer\nis the only disgrace. And that alone\nis cruel.\nMr Nathan is one of those rare cri-\ntics who by no streteh of the imagi-\nnation could possibly be called re\\o-\nlutionary.\nThe revolutionary critic is a conceited\nfellow who wants to air his own hope-\nlessness: all Mr Nathan wants to air is\nthe Theatre.\nIt would be a mistake to say that\nMr Nathan is as clever as Bernard\nShaw.... as a critic he is twice as\nclever.... he sees.... Shaw tried to see.\nHe feels.... Shaw thinks.... that is the\ndifference, and to us it seems so clever\nto be born with eyes with some sight\nin them.\nIn short Mr Nathan, so far as cle-\nverness goes, is no Chesterton. To\nsay that Mr Nathan possesses a clear-\nness of vision, a breadth of horizon\nand vigour of idea seldom found in\npresent day dramatic criticism would\nbe to miss the target.... Change the\nword H seldom n to n never w, and you\nhit the bull's eye.\nTo make matters worse one might\nspeak of his stuff as talent; genius is\nthe right word, or call it rice pudding,\n....for rice pudding and talent are alike.\nI know a fman who says that nno\nother critic unless it be James Huneker\nis so well informed about the British\nand Continental Drama, etc., etc., as\nNathan I object to the accursed\nword !! unless n, and the accusation\nagainst Huneker. Huneker is all right\n.... fine .... excellent .... pretty good ....\nbut Nathan is so different.\nIf I have said enough to in any\nway rouse your energy to the point of\nsending for a copy of his newest book\n.... buona notte. I'm done.... for I\nshould no more think of reviewing it\nthan of discussing theatricals with Na-\nthan.\nNathan knows.... I know.... most\nfolk I know only half-know. You know\nhat I mean :... they are fine, perfect,\nmarvellous, but they just don't know,...\nand one could not hope to help them\nany further till they procure some eyes.\nAdd to this that Nathan is an artist,\nand let us all sleep the better for the\nfact."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c031", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c031", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "55", "page_fin": "55", "image_debut": 11, "image_fin": 11, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.11", "titre_corps": "[Sans titre]", "titre_sommaire": "[Sans titre]", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 11, "page_imprimee": "55", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.11", "debut_caractere": 5426, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6150, "texte": "EVEN IN MOMENTS OF THE\nHIGHEST HAPPINESS AND THE\nDEEPEST MISERY, WE STAND IN\nNEED OF THE ARTIST.\nGoethe. 1919.\nARTISTS ARE THE ONLY CLASS\nWHO HAVE NEVER OPPRESSED\nTHE PEOPLE AND AGAINST WHOM\nTHE PEOPLE HA VE NE VER RISEN.\nJohn Quinn. 1919.\nYET NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN SAID BY\nA SINGLE MEMBER OF THE GOVERN-\nMENT ASSEMBLED IN PARIS TO BRING\nHAPPINESS TO THIS EARTH OF OURS BY\nTHE POWER OF ART AND THE ARTIST ; AND\nNOT ONE SUGGESTION MADE ANYWHERE\nAT ALL TO BENEFIT MANKIND THROUGH\nTHE ARTS AND THROUGH ARTISTS.\nI PROPOSE THAT PROPAGANDA\nBE LEFT TO ARTISTS TO ADMINISTER ....\nTHAT THE PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENTS\nOF THE NATIONS SHALL NO LONGER BE\nADMINISTERED BY HUSTLERS BUT ONLY\nBY THE EXACT OPPOSITE TYPE.... ARTISTS\nGORDON CRAIG."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c032", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c032", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "56", "page_fin": "56", "image_debut": 12, "image_fin": 12, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.12", "titre_corps": "THE KIND OF THEATRE YOU SHOULD BUILD IF YOU WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE UNABLE TO KEEP AWAY FROM IT . TAKE GRANDEUR AS YOUR MEASURE", "titre_sommaire": "THE KIND OF THEATRE YOU SHOULD BUILD IF YOU WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE UNABLE TO KEEP AWAY FROM IT . TAKE GRANDEUR AS YOUR MEASURE", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 12, "page_imprimee": "56", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.12", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 126, "texte": "THE KIND OF THEATRE YOU SHOULD BUILD\nIF YOU WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE UNABLE\nTO KEEP AWAY FROM IT . TAKE\nGRANDEUR AS YOUR MEASURE."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1919-04-01-c033", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01#c033", "volume": "bmtnaau_1919-04_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "56", "page_fin": "56", "image_debut": 12, "image_fin": 12, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.2.13", "titre_corps": "THUS ENDS THE MASK FOR 1918", "titre_sommaire": "THUS ENDS THE MASK FOR 1918", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 12, "page_imprimee": "56", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.12", "debut_caractere": 128, "fin_caractere_exclue": 155, "texte": "THUS ENDS THE MASK FOR 1918"}]}], "pages_ocr_originales": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "[45]", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.1", "texte": "THE AMPHITHEATRE OF POLA.\nJTALY, with the restitution of the Eastern\nI shores of the Adriatic, won back by those\nheroic troops who have so worthily revived\nthe great traditions of the Roman legions, can\nagain number as her own yet another ancient\ntheatre, .... and that one of the loveliest....\nthe great Amphitheatre of Pola.\nThis Amphitheatre, smaller than that of\nRome, yet holds a dignified position in the\nhierarchy of amphitheatres,... (Aries, Nimes,\nVerona, El-Djem in Tunis, and the rest) ; not\nmerely for its size, but for its fine state of\npreservation.\nM. de Nolhac, (I) writing in 1882, says:\n\" non qu'il les depasse en etendue. Les mesures\n\" de son elipse ne s'eloignent guere des di-\n\" mensions relevees dans ces differents monu-\n\" ments. II leur est superieur surtout par le\n\" merveilleux etat de conservation de son\n\" enceinte. Vu du dehors, cela parait complet\".\nAs for the date of its foundation, says\nStancovich (2); \" Our amphitheatre must be\n\" referred back to the sixth century of Rome;\n\" that is a century and more previous to the\n\" empire of Augustus, or 1900 years before\n\" the present day \" (i. e. 1822).\nWe believe we can now trust to the\nItalian nation, so jealous and so proud of its\ngreat heritage, worthily to preserve this\nsplendid monument of larger days gone by,\nso as to be some guide for those who look\nfor the great days of the Future.\nSO much for what we believe.\nNow for what we fear.\nWe fear now that Culture, or the edu-\ncation of the masses is to be encouraged,\n(and we had fondly dreamed we were at\nwar to put that down), we may expect any\nday to see the Cinematograph installed in\nthe Amphitheatre at Pola.\nWhy ?... Because to prevent a foe from\nentering the capital you must not wait for him\nto come up to the walls and knock and ring\nthe bell : you must keep him the other side\nof the Frontiers :... and to do that you must\nshow courage and use all your resources.\nThe Cinema is the worst enemy mankindl\never had, and if it is allowed to devastate\nour minds, to flood with its vulgarities (and\nit boasts every vulgarity), the taste, feeling,\ngood sense of the Peoples of the Earth, it\nwill do such great harm to all things as no\nwar would ever be able to correct.\nTake care Take care!\nVulgarity poured out through the Cinema\nis destined to damn mankind if you do not\ntake care and steps,... steps to prevent it now.\n(1) STANISLAS DE NOLHAC. La Dalmatie, Les lies lohien-\nnes, Athenes et le Mont Athos. (E. Plon & Cie. Paris, 1882).\n(2) STANCOVICH, DelVAnfiteatro di Pola. Venezia, 1822."}, {"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "47", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.3", "texte": "THE MASK\nA MONTHLY LEAFLET OF\nTHE ART OF THE THEATRE\nPRICE THREE PENCE\nVOLUME EIGHT: NUMBER TWELVE\nADDRESS: BOX 444. FLORENCE\n\nNELSON.\n11 r I \"here are three things, young gen-\nI tleman n, said Nelson to one of\nhis midshipmen, 4 6 which you are con-\nstantly to bear in mind.\n\" First, you must always implicitly\nobey orders, without attempting to\n\" form any opinion of your own re-\n\" specting their propriety.\n11 Secondly, you must consider every\nman your enemy who speaks ill of\n!! your king.... and thirdly....\"\n....but this is about Frenchmen and in-apropos.\n\nContinued on page 48.\n\nOURSELVES.\nAPOLOGY.\n\nCONSCIOUS THAT THE CREA-\nTION.... THE ETERNAL....\nTHE FUTURE.... AND ALL THAT\nIS WONDERFUL EXISTS NOT\nSPECIALLY FOR U5.... LEAST\nOF ALL FOR U5.... CONSCIOUS\nTHAT IT IS UNAWARE OF US\nAND WILL REMAIN UNMOVED\nBY OUR EXISTENCE.... CON-\nSCIOUS THAT WE ARE NOT\nEVEN KNOWN BY THE CHO-\nSEN ONES.... THOSE WITH\nWHOM WE MAY FEEL THE\nETERNAL AND ITS GHOST ARE\nON GOOD TERMS.... OUTLAW-\nED BY THE RARE SENSE\nAND THE COMMON SENSE OF\nTIMES PAST, PRESENT AND\nTO COME.... WE ARE PREPA-\nRED TO ATTEMPT TO EXIST.\nIN MY WALKS.\nO ME - THO UGHT. O\nI was in the Province of Tartaruga,\nwhich, as you all know, is somewhat\nnorth of the city of Margutta.\nI met an old soldier.... 70 years old.\nHe had fought in the wars.,.. 1870 I\nthink, and another. 11 Yes, I get a\npension. I only got 9Vsd. some years\nback, but now things are enormously\nimproved.... I get 10d.fl I sat liste-\nning to his talk ; wondering which of\nall the Powers that be I might dare\napproach and which would respond\nquickest and without putting me off\nwith arguments, reasons and excuses.\nIt lay between Margutta and G0d....\nand I decided I dared not approach\nMargutta. So telegraphing to God, 1\nthere and then had an immediate re-\nsponse and the old boy's days became\nmore rosy.\nSince then (and it was three weeks\nago) I have plucked up sufficient im-\npertinence to beg Margutta.... for as-\nsistance for the old soldier. The ne-\ngotiations are still dragging on.\nHow well God is served !"}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "48", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.4", "texte": "I saw Ladies prowling...,\nAm I right ? Art which can serve\nas a useful foil to a new gown it\ngood art; but art which will not come\nto heel when whistled to, should be\ngassed by the guardians damned out\nof life by the prettiest of ladies.\nART will in future only be spelt\nwith a capital T.... me-thought.\nO\nI saw six trains pass by, the people in\nthem packed like sardines, fourteen\nto each compartment made to hold\neight, and the passages crammed.\nTaken all for all, this latest civili-\nzation is the funniest, even if that of\nthe Greeks was the most Democratic.\nO\nI passed the Keats-Shelley Memorial\nHouse.\nByron exiled.... and Shelley and\nKeats; but how truly sensible of us\nto have made gods of the weaker two,\nfor no amount of adulation can make\nmen of them. When you pass the\nKeats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome\nare you not immediately struck by the\nprofounder reverence in which the\nBriton holds the genius of Byron ?\nWhen you enter it does not the im-\npression become a conviction?\nO\nI thought of Wu Tao-tzu, the greatest\nof all Chinese masters, of whom we\nare told he was sent by the Emperor\nto paint the scenery of a certain river.\nOn his return, to everyone's surprise,\nhe had no sketches to show. n I have\nit all n, he said, \" in my heart n.\nFOR less than this, I mused, fine artists\nin Europe have been called thieves\nand mbeciles.... for far less.\nBUT the time may have gone by,\nme-thought, when they will continue\nto bear it with impunity.... gone by.\n\nN. or M.\n\nSJ\nNOW these two things have to be learnt by us in\nthe Theatre.\nAnyhow in the Theatre, even if nowhere else.\nIt's not the first time we have said so.\nWhen we cried \" Long live the King! \" even calm\nand kindly Englishmen (one in particular, I remember),\nmuttered \" Sycophants \" So bustle about, you\nwho feel like that, and get it out of you.\nWhen we insisted on the paramount importance of\nobedience, and \" without attempting to form any opi-\nnion of your own \" as to whether the orders you get\nare just or no we were met by squeals from a little\ngroup that took itself seriously.... and still does so, grum-\nbling all the time. They felt that their proper pride had\nto \" argue the point\nBut now when it is perceived that it is Nelson, the\nNation's Hero, who lays down these two rules as law,\npossibly our friends will think it over, and 1 hope we\nshall all find good sense ready to help us to realize the\ngood sense in the rule.\nFor this is the situation :...\nThe Theatre of England is in a more wretched con-\ndition than we care about. Pessimism is out of the ques-\ntion. Good- healthy rage is what we all feel who love\nthe old Theatre....\nRage against these grumbling nobodies, these pessi-\nmists who prefer to see the theatre sunk than get up\nand obey orders: who will go to any lengths to hamper\ngenius,... who will be obstinate as mules or cats instead\nof willing like horses or dogs.\nIt's the rather clever people who are mostly to\nblame...\nHealthy out-spoken dissatisfaction with our home is\none thing: but sneaking, obstinate opposition in which\nthe chief weapon is misrepresentation of all the best\nefforts in the Theatre and lies about our best men and\nwomen... this is nothing but damnable, and steps should\nbe taken to ridicule this sort of thing by every member\nof the English Stage.\nWe know some of the people who make use of misre-\npresentation and lies to harm our English Stage, and whose\nwhole pitiful joy in life is to be in a state of insubor-\ndination against all which strives to attain to better things\nand a stronger union of men and women bent on esta-\n\nContinued on page 49."}, {"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "49", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.5", "texte": "blishing better feeling in theatrical ranks. Just because\nthey hate men and women of talent, genius, even as\ncripples and sick folk hate men and women of beauty\nand health.\nHuman it i 5,... as all is human..., but we all of us\nwant to help cripples and sick people and are eager to\ndivert the energy of the malicious into creative channels.\nAnd if only our helpers do not unconsciously become\ninfected by the malicious ones we shall soon brace them\nup and get them to drop their devilries.\nA few perhaps are so soaked in their bitterness that\nthe only thing to do is to avoid them for a space of\ntime. They will become sweeter as time goes on.\nOur readers must come to know u5.... and they know\nwe have never sat down content to see the English Stage\nlied out of its rights....\nUnfortunately there are many in the profession who\nare content,... and some of these are unfortunately men\nof note.\nIt is a great pity these men have shown for the last\nten years utter indifference to our campaign.... That was\nmean.... and was no sign that the positions they hold are\nthe right place for them.\nThat indifference damns them. It does not stop us.\nIn fact we hope before long to issue so many co-\npies of our journal monthly that London will be asking\nthese men why they lent us nothing but underhand op-\nposition all this time, and why it is that they allowed\nthe Foreign Theatres to develop in these last ten years\nat the expense of England.\nWe are not going to quarrel with them.... but we\nare going to make them see that this is no time and this\nearth no place, in which to quarrel with us.\nBut we can all of us fight Malice.\n\nWe hope before long both to enlarge \" The Mask \"\nand to make it such a price that everyone can\nafford to buy it.\nThe reason we are unable to do this at present will\nbe rendered clear by the following facts, showing the\nextent to which the cost of production has increased,\nwhile unlike all other Journals, we have hitherto refrained\nfrom any increase in subscription rates, continuing to give\nthe same advantages to our subscribers, and to keep\nthe increased difficulties to ourselves.\n\nPRINTERS WAGES.\nThe Printers* Federation has obtained\nthe following advances.\nOn Feb. 12. 1918 50-%\nOn May 18. R 7.50%\nOn Aug. 17. n 3.50%\nOn Oct. 18. n 14 %\nOn Mar. 1. 1919 25%\nMaking in all 100 % and a reduction\nfrom a 9 to an 8 hour day.\no CLICHES, o\nThe cost of cliche making has doubled\nwithin the last year.\no PAPER. o\nThe Paper upon which the journal\nis printed now costs about 6 times\nthe previous price. Packing Paper and\nCorrugated card for packing cost about\n9 times the previous price.\nMISCELLANEOUS.\nAll such items as string, sealing wax,\nstationary, ink, etc. etc., have greatly\nincreased in cost.\no POSTAGE, o\nInland postage in Italy has increased,\nso that the postage of each copy of\nthe journal costs more than twice as\nbefore (5 centes. instead of 2 centes).\nLetters, postcards, manuscripts, re-\ngistrations, have also been raised.\n\nThe only thing which would ade-\nquately remedy and adjust matters,\n(save by greatly increasing the cost of\nsubscriptions) would be a much enlarged\ncirculation. This we ask each of our\npresent subscribers to assist us to attain,\nby each procuring a few new subscribers,\nand doing all they can to make the\njournals more widely known.\n\nNOTICE.\nTHOSE WISHING TO BIND THEIR NUM\nBERS OF \" THE MASK \" FOR 1918, (VO-\nLUME 8), CAN OBTAIN TITLE PAGE AND\nCONTENTS SHEET FROM US FOR 4D (40\nCENTIMES, 40 CENTES. IO CENTS) POST\nFREE.\nYOU ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN FOR\nTHESE AT ONCE, AS IT WILL SAVE DELAY,\nAND THE TROUBLE WHICH ATTENDS ALL\nDELAYS.\nIN SENDING, PLEASE ENCLOSE STAMPS\nOR P. O. FOR THE AMOUNT, AS ONLY PRE-\nPAID ORDERS CAN BE SUPPLIED, THE NE-\nCESSITY OF SUBSEQUENTLY COLLECTING,\nOFTEN BY REPEATED APPLICATIONS, TRI-\nFLING AMOUNTS INVOLVING TOO GREAT\nA LOSS."}, {"page_pdf": 6, "page_imprimee": "50", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.6", "texte": "ON LIE AND LIARS THEFT\nAND THIEVES\nby Beatrice.\nWhy Beatrice P... why because 51 I have a good eye,\nUncle, I can see a church by daylight n.\nIN 1914 Mr Gordon Craig was invited to visit America,\nR The Stage Society of New York n, says Mr Dickenson\nin The Insurgent Theatre, 1917 (a book full of good things\nand but rarely incorrect), n took steps for raising a fund for\n?l bringing to America Gordon Craig, Max Reinhardt\nn and Granville Barker. Reinhardt was stopped by\n3 the blockade • the Society found it impossible\nn to raise the 100,000 dollars that Craig demanded,\nn but Barker came. The sum of 30,000 dollars\nn was provided for him s?.\nNow read what Miss Mackoye said in her look, n The\nLittle Theatres in ihe United States of America, 1918. B.\nn It is a rule with the Stage Society to start new\n3 movements, and once they are on their feet, to\n11 begin work anew elsewhere. They brought Mr\nl{ Barker to this country; but they did not guarantee\nn their support of his work for more than a season.\nn Now such work as Mr Barker's demands a following\nn that can be counted on, or at least a backing.\n15 - And as no such backing was forthcoming in\n3 the United States (despite the promises of varioms\nn wealthy patrons of the arts) Mr Barker returned\n!! to England n.\nMr Dickenson tells us in a previous chapter that to run\na little Theatre in New York costs 5,625 Dollars per week,\nwithout considering the cost of a production, which may be\n(he says) as low as 3,500 dollars.\nNow what does this show ? ....that if I, or Mr Barker\nor Mr Craig go to America to produce some work there,\ngiving twelve weeks to prepare the work after we arrive,\nand running the thing for eight weeks on the little Theatre\nscale that indicated by Mr Dickenson we shall have\nto spend 45,000 dollars during those eight weeks, and if\nwe produce three plays as did Mr. Barker we shall have\nto spend 10,500 dollars more and that does not include\nanything for myself, Mr Barker or Mr Craig.\nNow, what sort of tomfoolery is it that such societies\nas the Stage Society propose when they offer Mr Barker\n30,000 Dollars and refuse Mr Craig's reasonable 100,000\nDollars. For with 100,000 Dollars something small might\nbe done.\nBear in mind that Mr Dickenson is an American and\nis on the spot when he tells us that a sum of 55,000 Dollars\nis necessary for a small production in New York.\nI have used the word 51 reasonable n in regard to the\n100,000 Dollars asked by Mr Craig, and use it advisedly\nand very carefully.\n3 Reasonable 1! was exactly what Mr Craig proved\nhimself in demanding 100,000 ; whereas Mr Barker showed\nhimself, by rushing into action on inadequate resources and\nguarantees, unbusinesslike and rash.\nIf an architect, on being approached by some public\nbody or individual, to raise a building, light-heartedly dashes\ninto the project with an estimate for a thousand pounds,\nwhen elementary calculation by any experienced person\ndemonstrates that his materials alone will cost four thousand\nbefore his own honorarium or his worfemer's wages are\npaid, we do not admire him for so doing. And if he\nproduces only a barn or a tenement house where something\nfine and beautiful was expected ; or if, on reaching the\nfirst story, he has to let his work fall to pieces incompleted,\nfor lack of funds, excusing his failure with, n well, what\nmore could I do with so little money ? n there arises the\nvery legitimate argument, why undertake what was\nimpracticable ? why show yourself so inefficient in the\npreliminary estimation of the cost, so devoid qf real\nknowledge and sound clear sense ? n\nTherefore I repeat, it was Mr Craig who was\nn reasonable n and Mr Barker who was n rash n when the\none rushed to America on an impossible sum, cheapened\nhis reputation by making a fiasco ; and the other asked a\nfigure upon which a careful estimate, based on precise\nknowledge, showed that something might be done, though\non a moderate scale.\nAnd I say n moderate n, because the American\ncalculation given above shows that even 100,000 Dollars\nwould go but a very little way as capital towards the finan-\ncing of anything of really generous proportion in New York.\nWe must remember, of course, that that 100,000 Dollars\nproposed by Mr Craig, and the size of which so fluttered\nthe Stage Society, was proposed in 1914.\nFigures have risen, not fallen, in the last four years;\nand one of the very first axioms of commerce, which has\nheld good since the day when the Lady sold the famous\nbooks to King Tarquin 0) is, that if an offer has been made\nand refused, the seller can never be field to that original\nfigure a second time.\nNow no tried artist of reputation in his senses is going\nto travel to New York, and on getting there have to form\na company of actors have his whole theatre over-hauled\nand scenes made, costumes made, just to make a small\nsplash for eight weeks in a puddle of 30,000 dollars.\nWe may not be very acute business men, it's true\nbut we are not so dense at figures as all that.\nWhen a young artist does accept these gay offers he\narrives, finds no money to work with, and is told to go\nhang : ....the ladies and gentlemen who invited him over\nall enjoy themselves very much and seem to have a lot to\nspend in fact more than usual whereas the young\nartist is ruined.\n\n(i) In the reign of one of the Tar quins there appeared\nbefore the king a woman who offered him nine books for sale.\nThe king refused to purchase them, whereupon the woman went,\naway and burned three of the books, and returning offered ihe\nremaining books for the same price she had asked for the nine.\nThe king again rejected them; but when the woman, after\nburning three books more, returned and asked for the three\nremaining the same price which she had before asked for the\nnine, his common sense awoke and he purchased the books.\nThey were found to contain the destinies of the Roman state."}, {"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "51", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.7", "texte": "A fine trick to play a very fine trick to be sure.\nWhen he is wise enough to refuse to move until there\nis enough money placed to his credit in a sound bank,\nthese same ladies and gents busy around crying out that he\nis an impossible artist or that he is quite ridiculous....\nn would you believe it, he asks a million n. Ive known\nof them saying this.\nBy such lies, leaping like the little frogs and snakes of\nthe old fairy tale from the mouths of the ugly sisters,\n....by such lies the People of a nation are cheated of the\nArt which is only too ready in its willingness to go to\nthem, if they care about it at all.\nSuch a lie as the one above, n would you believe it,\nhe asks a million n, makes out the artist to be wanting in\nall common sense and n impossible n, and that is what these\nladies and gents want everyone to believe.... lest it he\ndiscovered that they themselves are wanting in a little\nhonesty and much ordinary understanding.\nBut let not London flatter itself that only Americans\nare like this.\n€J Londoners, Parisians are like this too : the worst in\nNew York, Paris and London are as like as three peas.\nI once knew of a lady who was going to put, was it\n£30,000 or £lO,OOO into a journal or a picture\ngallery or some useful thing to the artists, 1 forget exactly\nwhat it was. She had the ntoney; she assured a friend of\nmine that she had.... let it go at that.\nShe had privately, unbeknown to him, asked a\nfabulously rich man for a sum and got it for this wrork :\nbut next week.... alas, she came weeping to my friend....\nno real tears, only the simulation of well-borne grief.... and\nsaid she had received a cable from America telling her\nthat all her money was lost in some gamble in stocßs,...\nand so the work never went 0n.... n0,.... but the lady still\nhad the sum from the fabulously wealthy one.\n....Do you take me ?...\nAs by lying and by theft well-to-do women as well\nas men ruin the enterprises off artists too inexperienced to\nknow what these 11 good sorts n or \" intelligent women\nare about.... it is well to mention this instance.\nRob a plutocrat politely if you like...* especially if\nhe wron't give the world the benefit of his wealth ; but\nto rob an artist at the same time is just a little bit too\nmuch of a good joke....\nIt's over-doing it, I think. What do you say?\n\nSKETCH FOR SMALL PLAY FOR MARIONNETTES\n(NOT COPYRIGHTED).\nScene 1.\nCurtain rises. Three* large rich persons seated in\npanelled room. Very gorgeous apartment.... lovely gilding\nto legs of chairs. A tune warbled By long, thin-necked\nyoung lady at piano. All else as stagnant pond.\nIs it three frogs we see seated on floating leaves ? No,\nit is three rich persons of London, Paris and New York,\nEnter artist with insinuating ways he asks rather too\nhonestly for £ 10,000 with which to run a Little Theatre.\n(Dickenson says in his book that it takes about that sum\nto run a small theatre for only eight weekf, in New York).\nBy horrid palm gestures the three rich persons convey\nto the artist that they are very sorry but they have not\ngot £ 10,000 to spare.\nThe artist, bowing to the very boards under the carpet,\nretires, covered with awful confusion.\n(This confusion is conveyed to the audience thus....\nThe manipulator of the puppet dabs two red spots, one on\neach cheek and one on the forehead of departing puppet).\n(Art is very simple, you know).\nThe curtain creaks and descends.\nOne bar of Music.\nScene 2.\nCurtain rises nto a whistling tune n. (0 Same scene.\nSame folk. Same long-necked maiden singing same song\none year later at pianola.\nAt end of song six guns are fired off stage very\nloud. The three figures rise - sit rise sit; rise\n- sit and so on. At the sixth explosion enter a\ngovernment official. n I want ten million pounds for a war ®.\nThe three figures reply simultaneously.... \" Certainly! 11\nThey give ten bags. Exit Government official.\nCURTAIN.\nScene 3.\nCurtaiir rises. Same scene. Same folk. Same etc., etc.\nEnter artist.\n?! I wonder if you could spare me £ 20,000 (perchance)\nfor to make for you a theatre to (methinks) amuse you a\nlittle ....and to amuse ethers.... n etc., etc.\nThe Three : n Alas ! We have no money to spare N\nExit artist down a trap. Red Fire this time covert\nhis confusion.\nTREMENDOUS EXPLOSION follows. Enter\nGovernment Official. n I want ten million for a\nRevolution !f. (2) The Drums roll; the furniture is shaken.\n11 Certainly n, etc., etc.\n(Now this slight theme here sketched needs but little\nelaboration to be a thundering success).\nLastly you see the artist enter disguised as Dick Turpin.\nHe produces and points two horse-pistols and cries : !! Your\nmoney or your life! B\nn Oh, yes, Sir! n reply the immortal Three at him....\nn our money.... how much ? I n\n57 Three bags full ® says the artist.\nThree bags are produced to the tune of n Pop goes the\nWeasel\nCURTAIN.\n(1) Sir Richard Burton points out that in the East Horses\ndrink to a whistling tune.\n(2) A Government can be as disorderly as the best when\nit puts itself at it."}, {"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "52", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.8", "texte": "BOOK REVIEWS.\n\nEAST AND WEST.\n\nTHE MIRROR OF GESTURE;\nby Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy.\nOxford University Press, England:\nHarvard University Press, U. S. A.\nDEAR Dr Coomaraswamy. It is a\nMarvellous interesting book and\nall that which you have translated, but\nhere I sit in a Palace in Pisa in the\nroom where Lord Byron wrote the\ngreatest European poem of the last\ncentury, which has not yet been un-\nderstood by Europe, let alone read,\nand you ask me seriously to recommend\nthis trifle from the East to Europeans;\nthis 9 Mirror of Gesture B, this book\nof system, this receipt for enslaving\nmen, making 6 actors * of them.... you\nask too much. We are not up to it yet.\nI admire y0u;.... I am ravished by\nyour gestures without understanding one\nof them, or caring a rap for any systems....\nEastern or western.\nI am fascinated beyond description\nby the way you begin the stance.\nFollowing this your text-book you\nshake your head up and down. You\nmean doubtless Indignation, Enquiry,\nSummoning, Threatening and all sorts\nof other things. But who's to guess it\nover here ? for we frown, lower the\nbrows, shake the head sideways when\nwe mean some of those things, and\nwhen we mean the rest of them we\nmake other gestures.\nSo you see you ask too much from\nthe commencement. And when later,\nto recompense me, you assert that your\nwaist is one of your limbs and your\narm-pits another of them, (1) then you\n•how me (and I'm no seer), that your\nwhole system is based on the principle\nB heads I win, tails you lose B.\nNo, dear and gentle Indian; I'll not\nplay that game with you. I too want\na chance to win.\nMind you, I haven't any doubt that\nB the root N I with the prefix ABHI\nimplies Exposition B; all I must\nremark is that your gestures expose\nnothing to us whereas our clowns'\ngestures do, spite of their lack of\nsubtlety.\nI won't speak of our great performers\n....for some of these are so subtle that\nthey might be fresh from Burma.\nBut do not take my expressions\namiss....\nn I mean no harm n said Snook,\nn But me for the pan by the sink B.\n(vide ' Mask ') Vol. 8 No. 2 Page 8).\nThe curses of the West are many,\ndear Doctor. But the cussiest curse is\nthat we are always being tempted to\ntell ourselves that we Westerner frogs\ncan be as big as the biggest Eastern\ncow that ever strayed from the milky\nway.\nAnd we succumb over and over\nagain:... we are dangerously near\nbursting.\nIf v/e draw in one more big breath\nof air (EE by E) we shall burst.\nWe have other weaknesses, ....but\nconceit will be our undoing.\nWe must become faultless like y0u....\nsome day ....if we can, but only along\na more bitter path than your artists\nlingered on as they created their\nloveliest things ....and after that even\nfound some time over to make systems.\nBut we receive only the n Systems B\n....the Art of Gesture does not reach\nu5.... and so if we have any sense left\nwe dare not pretend we understand.\nEven in Europe some there have\nbeen who have offered systems to us\n....perhaps since we have their works\ntoo this is less fatal ....but if you only\nknew us better I think you would agree\nwith Lord Byron.\nAnd with Lord Byron's words on\nwestern systems let me end:...\nB A more amiable man in society\nB than Mr Hunt I do not know; nor\nB (when he will allow his sense to\nB prevail over his sectarian principles) a\nB better writer. When he was writing\nB his 1 Rimini 1 I was not the last to\nB discover its beauties, long before it\nn was published. Even then I remon-\nB strated against the vulgarisms; which\nB are the more extraordinary because\nB the author is anything but a vulgar\nB man. Mr Hunt's answer was, that\nH he wrote them upon principle; they\nB made part of his 1 system 1!! I then\nB said no more. When a man talks of\nB his system it is like a woman talking\nB of her virtue B.\n(1) Limbs, parts of the body and fea-\ntures are differently classified according\nto the Indian cannons of gesture than\nthey are in Europe and America.\nThe book tells us that in India these\nare the divisions :...\n\" Limbs. Head, hands, arm pits, sides,\n< ( waist and feet. Some also say the neck.\n\" Parts of the Body are shoulders,\n\" shoulder blades, arms, back, stomach,\n\" thighs, calves ; some say also the wrists,\nu knees and elbows.\n\" Features are : eyes, \"eye lids, pupils,\nt4 cheeks, nose, jaw, lips, teeth, tongue,\nu chin, face\nYou see what I mean.... Its all topsy\n—~ tutry for us.\nThe first movement of the Head is\nvery interesting. It is called Sama (level)\nthe movement consists of not moving;\nnor is the head bent or raised. It is\nused when wishing to express prayer,\nauthoritative speech, satisfaction, anger,\nindifference, or inaction.\njßw/ a* the risk of being felt to be a\nnuisance I must ask the Indian author by\nwhat means the dancer makes us over here\nunderstand whether he is feeling anger\nor satisfaction, for he has omitted to say.\nNow to the Western actor or actress\nwe critics say, \" Explain to me, oh Lotus\nof the Strand, expound to me without\nany more of your bhavas (nonsense) when\na door can possibly be not a door \" ; and\nindeed some of us have to become like a\nlittle child once more toknow the answer.\nAgain, the gesture called Adhomukha\n{face inclined) signifies that the head is\nbent. It is used to express modesty,\nsorrow, bowing, regarding anything vile,\nfainting, things on the ground, bathing.\nIt is, in short, another language.\n\nMr. GEORGE JEAN NATHAN\nPRESENTS. Knopf. New York, 1917.\nHOW is it that when I receive a\nbook to review which gives me\nso much pleasure as all Mr. Nathan's\nbooks give me I become hopelessly\nincompetent to say a word ? I can't\nlaugh at it or prod it.... it leaves me\nno gaps to fill up: the work has all\nbeen done so well that the most I can\ndo is to keep decently quiet, ....or\nexpress mild pleasure by a round of\napplause.\nSome say this is the author's best\nbook, some say it's his worst.*., to me\nit is a volume of his works, and when\nI like a man's work 1 like all of it.\nThe thing I like most about Nathan's\nwork is not his fun,... and that's ter-\nrific.... but his dead seriousness.\nNot only is it too easy for one to\nsay of him he is America's best dra-\nmatic critic. I should be inclined to\nsay he is the best man in the American\nTheatre.... for he knows it....\nWhat makes him so mighty fond of\nthe Theatre?\nPeople are not often just as fond of\nit as he i 5,... after knowing it.\nAnd if you don't come to the same\nconclusion as I do after reading all his\nbooks and studying part of one of\nthem, say, for about a year, then that\nproves that I have enjoyed myself more\nthan you have,\nBut anyhow, while waiting for the\nnext copy of The Mask, f°r\nB Another Book on the Theatre B,\n* Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents B\nand B The Popular Theatre B(0 from\nAlfred A. Knopf, New York.\nThey cost about $ 1.50 each.\n(i) For Review see page 55 of this\nnumber."}, {"page_pdf": 9, "page_imprimee": "53", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.9", "texte": "FIVE PLAYS from Mr. Egmont\nArens, Washington Square Book\nShop, New York City. U. S. A.\nC.D.E.F.G.H.I.\nIN Mr. Arens' shop several young\nmen and women found a place to\nplot the destruction of that which\nstood in their way towards giving\nAmerica a new Theatre.\nDestruction with them is bloodless.\nThey Create and that does the trick\nwith a smile.\nApathy insincerity and sheer\nstupidity, blocked the way, Spite of\nbeing warned by a few advance storms\nthat a tempest was coming, Americans,\nlike English, like French, like Russians\nand like other people, smiled the smug\nsmile of idiotic self-satisfied egoism,\nlaughed at prophecy, and now can be\ntold that the New Movement in the\nTheatre is upon them. They can no\nmore escape it than they can escape\nsunrise. They have to be blessed.\nNot that they will all be aware of it\n- but then suns rise and set and they\nare unaware of these - so it wil be\nall right.\nCrass articles on the Theatre on\nDrama on Marionnettes on all\nthings of the stage will still appear in\nthe most celebrated journals for a long\nwhile men and women must be mis-\ninformed it seems it is the preli-\nminary necessity of mind-slavery.... for\nwhich they yearn, and though mind-sla-\nvery is the one thing we artists are\nfighting against, it seems that the rest of\nthe world loves nothing so mueh as to\nimprison its own mind daily and fog the\nminds of others. It* s a species of idee\nfixe with the millions.... a little habit\nto which may be attributed nearly every\nmisery on earth.\nBut let us glide on into important\nmatters.\nThe five plays sent by Mr. Arens\nare by five of the new dramatists. Two\nare pretentious bits of earnestness, and\nthree are excellent little pieces of work.\nThe Sand-Bar Queen by George\nCronyn, Washington Square Players,\nI find excellent for a number of rea-\nsons, the first being that he has some-\nthing to express and expresses it.\nRather difficult to perform,... and\ntherefore all the more interesting to\nthe craftsman.\nThe Angel Intrudes by Ffloyd Dell.\nProvincetown Players, pleases me in\naway.... with proper treatment on the\nStage it could be made excellent.\nAnd lastly Enter the Hero by The-\nresa Helburn.... what shall I say of\nthis ? I am unreasonable in my likes\nand diflikes, and I like this playlet im-\nmensely. I find it a little work of\nArt. And I think Miss Helburn has\nthe genius of the theatre in her veins.\nIf this and other praises she receive\nspoil her, it would be a grievous pity.\nFor this reason.... she has a certain\nlittle genius which I would say could\ndevelop. If she thinks she has more\nshe will spoil. She has the amount and\nquality which will bear discipline, and\nso I pray she may be of that order\nof being which is never contented with\nits marvellous little self, however really\nadmirable that self may be.\nTwo of the plays, Night by James\nOppenheim and Two Blind Beggars\nby Philip Moeller, I did not like. I\nfound self-consciousness and perhaps\ncomplaisancy writ large over both. I\nfound them pretentious, insincere, and\ntherefore of course expressionless.\nThese two are both heralded in the\nadvertisement pompously; the first is\ntrumpeted as follows:\nNIGHT, a Poetic Drama in One\nAct by James Oppenheim, as played\nby the Provincetown Players.\nEverything is subdued to the\npoem. The scene is merely a\nconcave sheet flooded from\nthe back with violet light. A\nmound before this suggests a\nhilltop against night sky. The\ncharacters are silhouettes, and\ntheir few movements suggest\nsomething liquid and flowing.\nThe verbal music of the poem\nis rendered with full value for\nevery word, every rhythm,\nevery tune and melody. The\nresult is very moving, very\npoignant.\nand we would add u and very fu-\ntile \". The second was announced\nthus :\nTWO BLIND BEGGARS AND\nONE LESS BLIND. A Tragic\nComedy in One Act, by Phillip\nMoeller, as played by the Washington\nSquare Players.\nThe scene is a rag pickets cel-\nlar. The characters move about\nin gloomy but their language\nis filled with imagery and poetic\nfeeling as to suggest the best\nof the Irish writers.\nNow this won't do. It won't do\nbecause we don* t want to be told\nthat a play suggests the best of other\nwriters. We get no such flim-flam in\nthe note about the one really good\nplay of the lot. Read and see:\nENTER THE HERO. A Comedy\nin One Act, by Theresa Helburn, as\nplayed by the St. Francis Players in\nSan Francisco.\nRuth Carey has conjured up a\nlover, who suddenly appears in\nthe fleshy bringing with him\namusing complications.\nThis states all we need to know....\nfor who \"wants to b® told about the\ngloom in which the 4< Blind Beggars \"\nmove, or that their language is extra-\nspecial? Or who wants to be told about\nthe concave sheet flooded from the back\n(or the front, damme) with violet light as\nin the note on 44 Night \" ? Do we care\na rap whether 44 the characters are sil-\nhouetted \" or that they have u few\nmovements \" and that these are 44 li-\nquid and flowing \" ? As for being\n4 very moving, very poignant', an author\nshould leave the public to decide that\npoint.\nMiss Helburn leaves the public to\ndecide it, and there is surely no one\nwho will not award her the palm. The\nother two with the unnecessary win-\ndow-dressing awaken a suspicion, which\nbecomes a certainty after the two plays\nare read, that the goods need it.\nSo, for Miss Helburn.... bravo Ame-\nrica I\nAs for Oppenheim and Moeller....\nrun along.\n\nTARR by Wyndham Lewis. Knopf.\nNew York• Dollars 1.75.\nREAD it Can you get it in\nLondon ? It is a novel.\nI only ask, for I had not heard of\nit there. A friend in America sent it\nme. He knew that as I am an\nEnglishman I would very naturally be\nglad to know of a work of English\nGenius. I hope I don't exaggerate.\nI'd hate to do that.\nI shall hope to review it later on,\nbut am waiting for a copy to arrive\nfrom England.... from the English\npublishers of this work by a young\nartist packed full of the signs of genius.\n....Again I do hope I don't exaggerate.\n\nTHE EURHYTHMIES OF\nJACQUES DALCROZE. -\nlion by Professor M. E. Sadler. Con-\nstable & Co. Ltd. 1917. Price 2\nshillings.\nWE cannot see why it is that this\nbook about this System 4 4 Rhyth-\nmische Gymnastik \" has come out in\nEngland.... and what Professor M. E.\nSadler means by still pushing German\ngoods in England at this day is\nincomprehensible. Because even if\nGermany has as much right on earth\nas any other lunatic, it is not the time,\nnor is England the place, to encourage\nany but our own lunatics.\nIn this book we find that Herr\nDalcroze of 1913 has now become\nMonsieur Dalcroze. Detestable if\nincomprehensible. Herr Feichmann\nbecomes Monsieur Teichmann of Bale.\nThe ladies in bathing drawers have\nnot changed anything, so little was\nthere left to change.... except some of"}, {"page_pdf": 10, "page_imprimee": "54", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.10", "texte": "their poses and their too intense, if\nalways charming, facial expression.\nMonsieur Dalcroze says nothing\ndifferent from what Herr Dalcroze said.\nHe does not approve of the \" Russian\nBallet and their \" Apr&s Midi d'un\nFaune \" though he is good enough to\napprove of \" several \" of the plastic\ninterpretations of Miss Duncan.... in a\nfoot note: but his aim is the same as\nit ever was, ....to turn out a number\nof Isadora Duncans if by hook or\ncrook he possibly can.\nAnyone who has seen Monsieur\nDalcroze's early books, before the\ngenius of Isadora Duncan illumined\nthree quarters of Europe and M.\nDalcroze into the bargain, will have\nnoted that his movements, costumes and\nwhole system had the appearance of\nbeing what the Germans call gemutlich ;\nthat means comfortable.\nMonsieur Dalcroze saw that these\nwoollens really wouldn't do. So he\nremoved some of them; then some\nmore.... and then another little bit,\nseeing no harm: and at last made his\npupils really comfortable;... but still he\nwas unable to give them a scrap of\nthe genuine thing which they think\nthey are to get.... and the genuine\nthing is the power of expression.\nHowever we must admit that for\nservant girls or programme girls it, should\nbe an admirable school to go to:\n....can't you see Fanny entering with a\ntray tip-toe like Mercury and realising\nsomething which M. Charles Blasis\naimed at in 1829?... I suppose you\nknow his book ?... quite interesting.\nn The Mask 11 should really reprint it\nwith the pictures....\nAnd now that one comes to think\nit over a moment longer, why should\nnot a school or two be started in\nEngland taking M. Charles Blasis and\nM. Del Sarte as guides ? They wrote\nsuch good books, too. Did you never\nhear of the books of Del Sarte ?...\nAmerica has. Americans in some of the\nSlates were brought up on Del Sarte.\nThe effect was, I believe, that it\nmade young ladies walk better than\nbefore ....which is most deceptive.\nTell me, don't you like a rat of a\nwoman to walk like a rat, so that we\nshall not mistake her for a lady or a\nblessing when we meet her ? The\nworst of these T systems ! is that they\nbaulk expression. No longer shall we\nsay n here comes such and such a\nnature n, ....but we shall be aware that\nhere comes a trained Dalcroziam i hat\nultimately ....I admit only ultimately....\nwill tell against the lady who adopts\nhis systematic beauty at so much a\nesson. And they are dirt cheap.\nMen soon begin to see under that\nsort of mask.\nI am one of those who think that\nindividual expression in life is what we\nmust preserve; therefore I think Dalcroze\nis a nuisance.\nExcept, as I said, for servant girls,\nprogramme sellers, waitresses and all\nand any who are or want to be in\nuniform pattern,\nIf Monsieur would guarantee to train\nnone but the servants of the public,\nthen might not we hope to see\ngovernments and local bodies taking up\nthis system and stereotyping hundreds\nof females per day ?... Democratic\nany how.\nI have turned once more to the book\nto see if I am not doing injustice to\nMonsieur Dalcroze.... I am not.\nN0.,., n0.... the results achieved are\ninsipid:... he may be right in his\ntheory.... but not right as rain:... and\nthe artisticness of the whole thing would\nbe right enough for those groups in\nAmerica or even England or Germany\nwhere groups of ladies thrill, gush or\nschwerm over things they take to be\nuplifting, n perfectly lovely n or reizend:\nbut for any place not befogged by\ndoubts, or at any period when people\nare at last trying to awaken to realities,\nit is out of place and it is out of date.\nAnd Isadora Duncan is still a living\ninfluence.\n\nAN IRISH ANTHOLOGY. COL-\nLECTED WORKS OF PADRAIC\nH. PEARSE. Maunsell & Co.\nDublin. 1918.\nIF every one doesn't love the spirit of\nIreland and determine to see that\nthis spirit, composed as it is of the\nessence of all we are told the four\nyears' war has been to capture, and\nwhich is perhaps the only spirit fitted\nto lead us peoples of the Northern\nnations.... then.... then what.... ?\nWell, we could say a great deal on\nthis subject.... and we could point to\na case of obstinacy on the part of an\nIgnorant and Prejudiced Nation which\nhas turned out so badly.\nn But it's Ireland that is obstinate n,\nsome one says.\nNo, n0,.... gently, no No, not\nobstinate, my dears.... Think for a\nmoment 1 you may be obstinate because\nyou may be stupid, prejudiced, puffed\nup.... a bit snob.... who knows ? May\nbe. But Ireland is a thing of genius....\nclever, gay, remarkable, unique. ....Can\nbe what you wi11,.... wrong, wicked....\nwhat you will, but can not be\nobstinate. Do you not see the diffe-\nrence ?...\nNo such thing as flame can possibly\nbe called obstinate.\nCall it something else, ....what you\nwi11.... but not obstinacy.\nBuy this Irish Anthology, with its\nbeautiful \" Dirge for an Irish Soldier\nits \" Keen for Fair-Haired Donough\nits \" Roman Vision \".\nEspecially to the Romans will these\nsongs be dear. But to no one who is\narrogant, stupid or vulgar.... prejudiced\nagainst real liberty.... or cruel at heart.\nMr Maunsell has quite a fine list of\nbooks. You should get him to send you\nhis list.\nTherfc is no more important thing in\nthe world just now than for us all to\nlearn how beautiful is the heart of\nIreland.\nWere Ireland less gifted, had she\nless genius,.... then she might make one\nof a party at whist ....where honours\nshould always be easy.\nBut this Ireland is an event, ....is a\nthing in ten thousand, ....and there is\nalways one way to manage Ireland\n....it is to try hard to obey her.\n\" But you are getting quite political\nin a mild way \", you say.\nNo, No, not that ....Don't you see\nthat just as there are some volcanoes,\nsome typhoons, (I admit only some),\nthat are quite apart, as it were, from\nall politics, and belong to that secrest\nsociety known in hushed breath as\n\" Nature \", so are there some people.\nWell, but what do you mean by\nNature ? you ask....\nIreland, I reply.\n\nSHAKESPEARE CRITICISM: A\nSelection with an Introduction by D.\nNichol Smith. Oxford University\nPress.\nTHIS is a really useful little book,\nan anthology of Shakespearean\ncriticism.\nThe one thing which it lacks to add\nto its usefulness is an Index.\n\nTHE PRINT-COLLECTORS'\nQUARTERLY. Edited by Fitzroy\nCarrington M. A. Published by the\nHoughton Mifflin Co. Boston. Mass.\ndollars 2 yearly.\nANY one who cares for the best\nreproductions on a small scale of\nthe best Prints in the world must\nsubscribe for this work.\nIt is very cheap and very admirable.\nAnd try to secure the back num-\nbers.\n.... Altogether a delight.\nIn London you get them at the 2!\nGallery in the Adelphi."}, {"page_pdf": 11, "page_imprimee": "55", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.11", "texte": "BUZZ, BUZZ, by Captain James\nAgate. W. Collins & Sons, Price\n7/6 net.\nTHE author is a Manchester man.\nThis should naturally prevent us\nfrom uttering the word provincial; for\nManchester is Manchester.... apart from\nthat which is provincial. Yet provincial\nthis book is :... almost parochial. His\nbeau ideal of the actor is Sir E. F.\nBenson, ....Mr Benson, as he calls\nhim.... and adds, \" the finest living\nEnglish actor n.\nIt is a book apparently all about actors\nand acting: the writer has absorbed 11 The\nArt of the Theatre \" by Mr Gordon\nCraig.... whose work, by the way, he\nmisunderstands very well.\nHe goes by hearsay, and the usual\nmisrepresentations are carefully set down\nwith all the cock-surety of perfect\ncarelessness. He talks of models which\ndo not exist,.... which, mark you,\nhe has seen (! !) ....and he descends\nto a personality which seems a little\nrepulsive when writing of this artist :...\nHe takes Mr Craig to be a man\nconcerned only with sceneries; and\nbecause Miss Ellen Terry produced\n11 Much Ado About Nothing \" in 1903\nor 1904, (that is, fourteen years ago), in\norder, let us say, to give her son some\nopportunity, he becomes sentimental in an\nunpleasant way about this Listen....\n\" I shall always hold the spirit of\n\" Motherhood to be capable of no\nn greater sacrifice than that shown by\n\" Miss Ellen Terry when she delivered\n\" her Beatrice to the scenic mercies of\n\" Mr Gordon Craig \". \" This devotion \",\nadds the author, \" reminds me of the\n\" French story of the Mother's bleeding\n\" heart which, being conveyed as a son's\nn offering to his mistress, exclaimed as\n\" the boy stumbled, 1 Are you hurt,\n11 my son ? \".\nHe later goes on to say : f5 let me\n\" be frank and say that Mr Craig has\nn actually arranged such settings which\nw by themselves make up so tremendous\n\" a sea of emotion that no actor could\n\" hope to live in it \".\nThat \" let me be frank n» ....how\nEnglish it sounds:... clique English:\n....Not the real old genuine voice of\nthe Englishman.\nCliques have been busy :... they have\nmisrepresented all things about the arts\nto all England.\nExample :... they have howled over\n\" poor Ellen Terry \" who sacrificed\nherself for the Art of her son and\ndaughter and grandsons and father and\nuncle and Irving and the rest of em.\nIt is a favourite mode of attack in\nEngland: ....so frank: ....frankly the\nmeanest.\nThey want to attack, let us say,\nMr Fred Terry.\n\" What would he have done \", they\ncry in that holy voice of Satan, n but\nfor the perfect abnegation of dear\ndarling Julia Neilson n.\nOr they wish to go for D'Annunzio:\n....\" It was all that dear angel Duse \",\nthey wail.\nNow no one would ever dream of\ndenying that every woman worth her\nsalt is a blessing to the work of an\nartist, be it mother, sister, wife or\nfriend.\nHistory is packed full of such sto-\nries.\nPossibly the mother of Captain Agate\nhelped him considerably and at some\nsacrifice in his career.\nBut I would bite my tongue out\nbefore I would attempt to belittle a son\nby gushing about a mother's sacrifice.\nBut poor Captain Agate is under the\nBensonian influence, ....a moral influence,\nI understand.\n\nTHE POPULAR THEATRE\nby George Jean Nathan. A Knopf.\nO New York 1918. O\nTHE Author is not a Manchester\nman.... the Author is one of those\nrare critics who can cut through the\nroots of a prejudice or cut off an inane\nactor or an intellectual actress in their\nprime and yet be innocent of any\ncruelty.\nFor the Author is never stupid. To\nbe slain by a brilliant man should be\nan honour ; to be carved by a duffer\nis the only disgrace. And that alone\nis cruel.\nMr Nathan is one of those rare cri-\ntics who by no streteh of the imagi-\nnation could possibly be called re\\o-\nlutionary.\nThe revolutionary critic is a conceited\nfellow who wants to air his own hope-\nlessness: all Mr Nathan wants to air is\nthe Theatre.\nIt would be a mistake to say that\nMr Nathan is as clever as Bernard\nShaw.... as a critic he is twice as\nclever.... he sees.... Shaw tried to see.\nHe feels.... Shaw thinks.... that is the\ndifference, and to us it seems so clever\nto be born with eyes with some sight\nin them.\nIn short Mr Nathan, so far as cle-\nverness goes, is no Chesterton. To\nsay that Mr Nathan possesses a clear-\nness of vision, a breadth of horizon\nand vigour of idea seldom found in\npresent day dramatic criticism would\nbe to miss the target.... Change the\nword H seldom n to n never w, and you\nhit the bull's eye.\nTo make matters worse one might\nspeak of his stuff as talent; genius is\nthe right word, or call it rice pudding,\n....for rice pudding and talent are alike.\nI know a fman who says that nno\nother critic unless it be James Huneker\nis so well informed about the British\nand Continental Drama, etc., etc., as\nNathan I object to the accursed\nword !! unless n, and the accusation\nagainst Huneker. Huneker is all right\n.... fine .... excellent .... pretty good ....\nbut Nathan is so different.\nIf I have said enough to in any\nway rouse your energy to the point of\nsending for a copy of his newest book\n.... buona notte. I'm done.... for I\nshould no more think of reviewing it\nthan of discussing theatricals with Na-\nthan.\nNathan knows.... I know.... most\nfolk I know only half-know. You know\nhat I mean :... they are fine, perfect,\nmarvellous, but they just don't know,...\nand one could not hope to help them\nany further till they procure some eyes.\nAdd to this that Nathan is an artist,\nand let us all sleep the better for the\nfact.\n\nEVEN IN MOMENTS OF THE\nHIGHEST HAPPINESS AND THE\nDEEPEST MISERY, WE STAND IN\nNEED OF THE ARTIST.\nGoethe. 1919.\nARTISTS ARE THE ONLY CLASS\nWHO HAVE NEVER OPPRESSED\nTHE PEOPLE AND AGAINST WHOM\nTHE PEOPLE HA VE NE VER RISEN.\nJohn Quinn. 1919.\nYET NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN SAID BY\nA SINGLE MEMBER OF THE GOVERN-\nMENT ASSEMBLED IN PARIS TO BRING\nHAPPINESS TO THIS EARTH OF OURS BY\nTHE POWER OF ART AND THE ARTIST ; AND\nNOT ONE SUGGESTION MADE ANYWHERE\nAT ALL TO BENEFIT MANKIND THROUGH\nTHE ARTS AND THROUGH ARTISTS.\nI PROPOSE THAT PROPAGANDA\nBE LEFT TO ARTISTS TO ADMINISTER ....\nTHAT THE PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENTS\nOF THE NATIONS SHALL NO LONGER BE\nADMINISTERED BY HUSTLERS BUT ONLY\nBY THE EXACT OPPOSITE TYPE.... ARTISTS\nGORDON CRAIG.\n\nAll rights reserved April 1919.\nGerente responsabile : Gitilio Vanzi.\nTipografia Giuntina. Firenze."}, {"page_pdf": 12, "page_imprimee": "56", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191904-01.1.12", "texte": "THE KIND OF THEATRE YOU SHOULD BUILD\nIF YOU WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE UNABLE\nTO KEEP AWAY FROM IT . TAKE\nGRANDEUR AS YOUR MEASURE.\n\nTHUS ENDS THE MASK FOR 1918"}]}