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BOOK BY POET PRAISES
MOVIES AS BIG FORCE
FOR SPREAD OF ART
Vachcl Lindsay Writes First
Esthetic Philosophy of Screen
In "The Art of the
Moving Picture"
OTHER NEW NONFICTION
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The voice of Vachl Lindsay Is the first
voice of a poet to be raised In apprecls
tlon of the photoplay. Some would deny
Mr. Lindsay that honorable title, but they
must be persons better acquainted with
his "red bartender" than with "The Art
of the Movlpg Picture" (Macmlllan. New
York) Nothing less than the warmest ap
proval Is possible toward the Volume. In
earnest Interest. Jn Just appraisal of the
past and fine foresight. It stands alono
In current letters. It praises nobly; It con.
demns fittingly; and It Is backed In praise
and condemnation by that thorough know),
edge of subject which cannot be done with
out l'roperly enough, the book has for hero
David Orimth. Mr Lindsay's brae efforts
to allot to this producer the role of villain
aro amusing- As he goes on and on he
realises the futility of doing this, and he
finally takes D. W. a. as the archetype of
the best In pictures. But before ho does
this, he submits certsln definitions of a a
rlous sorts of photoplays. These hs calls
d-amas of action, Intimacy and splendor.
..it!i iiugui u translated ror the laity as
melodrama, psychology and pageantry.
Through pages and pages of swift-moving,
lld, plangent writing he carries his reader
on to the heart of cinematography, not the
mere Indulgence tn costly sets, nor yet the
loe of rank excitement, nor again the
futile admiration of certain male and fe
male types among actors. Because he has
vision, being a poet. Mr. Lindsay goes far
ther than this. If ha does not prove that
the cinema can be mad a thing of peer
less loveliness, a lifted taper In the dusk
lie at least proves that he believes that
It can. And that la all that really counts
his belief.
In subdivision of subject, he hsa worked
so nicely that his chapter-headings of
rarer suggestive power than any criticism
are given. In part. here. Boms are:
"Sculpture In Motion." "Painting In Mo
tion," "Furniture, Trappings and Inven
tions In Motion," "Architecture in Motion,"
"Thirty Differences Between the Photoplay
and the Stage." "Hieroglyphics." "The Or
chestra, Conversation and Censorship,"
"Architects as Crusaders" and 'The
Prophet Wizard."
The latter theme probably was suggested
by Orimth, whose Influence Is palpnble all
through the book. The Griffith production,
"Avenging Conscience," Is described In a
concise bit of prose not unworthy to rank
with that macabre masterpiece, and there
aro analyses of popular productions, such
aa "The Birth of a N'at.on" and 'The Spoil
ers." and of unpretentious comedies like
those of Sidney Drew. To the feet of Mary
Plckford. the little girl, he brings singing
rhapsodies that are not for Mary Plckford,
the keen business woman; and fingernail
sketches of old Blograph pluys, "The Bat
tle," "Man's Genesis" and others, form In
terludes to more weighty businesses.
Like all men who read books, as well as
write them, the author quite often finds
himself seeking an analogy In poems Ills
suggestions In this respect might be profit
ably read by all directors (If theyocver read
anything but scripts). For the mere picture-goer
th ample discussions of more
general Interest are recommended.
Mr. Lindsay makes one or two errors of
Judgment As an Instance, he disapproves
of tnuslo aa an accompaniment He also
haa some rather dim notions on communal
and clvlo pageantry that are not germane.
His most terrifying piece of adocacy Is
advice to the Imaglsta to put their works
on tho screen. But his repudiation of the
censors, his demand for permitting quiet
speech at the shows and, most of all, his
splendid apocalypse, alono, for these mis
takes. "It has come then," he ooncludes, "this
new weapon of men, and the face of the
whole earth changes. In after centuries
Its beginning will be Indeed remembered.
It has come, this new weapon of men, and
by faith and a study of the signs we pro
claim that It will go on and on In Im
memorial wonder,"
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The "Literary" Method
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IJf of CadallaIrr Caper, th men who
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Arnold Bennett at the front When
ho is bnck'ln England ho busies
himself writing booka for the
George H. Doran Company.
MORE PRINTED PLAYS
FROM PUBLISHERS' LISTS
GREET THEATRICAL YEArx
Pinero Lends Off With Fir.o
Drama Already Produced
in London, "The Big
Drum"
BOOKS ABOUT THEATER
Djr Sir Arthur Wine Pinero. Visiter IK Daker
A Co., lloiton.
So- many dramas In book form reaqh this
office that It was impossible to give lm
presslons of all the recent ones In the sum
man printed In these columns lately.
The most regrettable omission was a con
sldcratlon of Sir Arthur Wing Plnero's
newest drama. "The Big Drum," which waa
put on tho stags In Ixndon a year ago,
but which has yet thanks to tho myoplo
vision of somo of our theatrical producers,
to reach the American footlights. Walter
II. Baker & Co , Boston, aro the publishers.
It may be said without much fear of con
tradiction that Pinero das again wrought
with that large modeling power that mads
his "Mldchannel" nearly a masterpiece.
Again he takes fairly ordinary men and
women, and, endowing them with something
of splendor In their great momenta, and
more than enough of vulgarity of emotion
In their smaller moments, molds from them
fine drama. Not, perhaps, the Intellectual
Btuffs of Maeterlinck or Verhaaren (peace
to thatr poesies!), but drama sound In tlasu
and strong In character contrast and highly
suited to public performance. One hardly
knows whether to pra'se "The Big Drum"
(which Is not a war play, as some think, but
a travesty on social cllmbjng) more as a
reading drama or as a piece for the theater.
For It Is both.
bur energetic younger Impresarios, like
John D. Will ams. would do well to cast a
critical eye on the play; but ha had bet
ter, It he la going to buy the rights, sign
up some good actors. Tho parts of Ottollne
and her lover need a Florence Reed and a
C. Aubrey Smith.
Representative, English Plays
Edited br John 8. 1. TatlocSc and Robart Mar
tin Century Company, Nw York.
"Representative Kngllsh Plays" (The
Century Company) Is the only volume In
the language giving a view, with examples,
of the progress of the native drama from
the moralities and mysteries to the comedies
of Oscar Wilde, taking In the spacious days
of the buxom Bess and the equally huxom
Restoration drama.
Tho selections have been made by John
S. 1", Tatlock, of Inland Stanford Univer
sity, and Robert O. Martin, of Northwestern
University, who have also supplied Intro
ductions to the various periods and brief
analyses of each play and playwright There
Is also to their credit a considerable body
of notes, explaining moot points of toxt or
obscure allusions. Credit Is given to the
specialists who have restored various texts
authoritatively, though the editors have not
hesitated to make their own collations from
the best available editions. The critical ap-
Also at the front Lieutenant Con-
ingsby Dawson, nuthor of "Slaves
of Freedom."
paratus Is scholarly, but by no means un
necessarily recondite, and the Introduc
tions hae value for substance and charm
of statement
The main thing, of course. Is that the
texts are accessible In full of tho striking
and representatle dramas of tho entire
period of Kngllsh literature, omitting our
own contemporaries. Thero are very few
names missing and none of any real Im
portance, .
The choosing of plays has been dono with
such a nice senso of discrimination that
there can be little criticism of the table of
contents. One might prefer either "(Jam
mer a ur ton's Needle" or "Ralph Roister
Shakespearean dramaturgy Instead of the
Play selected, John Lyly s Mother Bomble."
These plays. howeer, are aallablo In Pro
fessor John Manly'a, unfortunately uncom
pleted, "Specimens of the Bro-Shake-spearean
Drama," hence, possibly, their
omission from he present work. Yet they
have In them more of the germ of what
haa developed Into Hngllsh comedy than the
play of Lyly, who wrote for the court, and
even In his one "popular" piece, "Mother
Bomble," has certain refinements of ex
pression and academic limitations of tech
nique. The other dramas were written, of
course, by men of rare scholarship for their
time, but they had the advantage of having
been designed for presentation at the uni
versities, and hence are of robuster sub
stance, coarse-grained, with more of folk
feeling, and a raclness of the soil appro
priate to their origin and their purpose Just
like the college plays of today, they have
more of the "roughhouse" ejjment of com
mon things In them and are more loyal to
the gusto of popular enjoyment than closet
drama,
A Book About the Theater
Or Orandtr Matthew. Charles Bcrlbner's Bon,
Niw Tork
Professor Brander Matthews, of the Co
lumbia's chair of the drama, hay gathered
his papers and essays on various phases of
tho play and amusements In general Into, a
portly and Bomcfchat self-important vol.
ume, "A Book About the Theater." The
book Is not at all recondite; In fact. It Is a
collection of popular presentations of enter
taining Items about entertainments (In a
largo sense) written obviously In tho main
for mugaxlne readers' consumption and
henco predlgestod and not making any ex
tensive demands on the thinking faculties.
Yet tho work rescues from oblivion many
quaint and curious facta and fancies and
ranges over a wide field of Interests. There
are papers on puppets, the dsnee, the opera
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BtMlM HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Ntw York
libretto, collaborated plays, drnmntlied
novels, negro minstrelsy's decllnn, scene
painting, circuses and what not Many of
the papers, written years back, Have been
brought to date by supplemental notes.
The proofreading hns not been performed
thoroughly. Thus. In the chapter "Tho
Book of the Opera," concerning two librettos
drnwn from Victor Hugo, we learn that
"Urnanl" was tsken from "Hernanl,"
though It was "Hernanl" which atarted the
romantic movement In France in tho early
thirties of the Inst century There Is a dis
parity nlso In the piece about puppets on
page 43 "Pocock" Is given as one of tho
practitioners of this nrt, and on the plato
facing page 4! the name Is given as "Pol
lock." The book has tho merit of clenr writing
and entertaining qualities. Tho chapter on
"Why Flvo Acts" Is comprehensive and
authoritative and easily the most valuable
In tho volumo.
Symons In Cornwall
Ur Arthur Hrmona. John I. in. New Tork,
Since the vogue of Masefleld'a "Tragedy
of Nan," with Us Cornish dialect and vivid
tragedy, several writers have looked north
for the flame of Inspiration Arthur Sy
mons, one of the few really poetically
minded authors left over from Victoria's
days, has laid the first of his "Tragedies"
In that locality. It, Is called "Tho Harvest
ers." and Is a flno It rather leisurely piece
of work. Single lines, like "I have wept all
the water of my eyes," leap at you from
tho page, and the blank verse In which It
Is written Is generally sound and melliflu
ous. The two other dramas In the book
ar of an older day and are reminiscent of
Mr. Hjnions'a earlier efforts In tholr cloy.
Ing, erotic tono.
More l'lays
Among other prlntod plays which missed
the round-ups may be mentioned Percy
MacKaye'a elaborate and beautiful masque
of "Caliban" (Poubleday, Pago & Co., Oar
den City, N. Y ), performed last summer In
New York as tercentenary commemoration
of Shakespeare. Tho Macmlllan Company
has brought out two volumes of collected
plays and poems by Mr. MacKnye which
embody his best and most rcprrsentatlvo
work.
Tho Macmlllan Company llkowlse Issues
a new play by Jack London, "The Acorn
Planter," largely written In verso.
In two new plays, "Jane Clegg," a fine
piece of work by St John O. Krvlno, pub
llshed by Henry Holt & Co., of New York,
and "darslda's Career." a study of a rising
young workman, fay Harold Brlghouse,
author of "Hobson's Choice," coming from
tho A. C McClurg Company, of Chicago, wilt
will be found the words 1 "Produced for
the first time by Miss Hornlman'a company
at the Gaiety Theater. Manchester." They
are both characteristic products of that
theater, which has created a school of
drama new to England.
There are four pieces In each of the
two volumes called "The Bymphony Play"
(Charles Kcrlbner'a Sons, New York), and
"Four Plays from the French of Emlle
Auger (Alfred A. Knop, New York); but
the Continental dramas are full-tlcilsed
and famous pieces, while those making up
Jcannetta Lee's volume are only one
ncters. But hers are very far from the
usual casual playlets, because she has
schemed them out In spirit and mean
ing ns n consecutive series bearing a
relation to each other similar to the move
ments of a svmphouy. This Jeannctte Lee
explains entertainingly In a preface. For
Augler's volume there Is not only an In
troduction by the tramlator, Barratt If.
Clark, but also a preface by the French
playwright Brleux, 1
Soon Lauretto Taylor will bring to the
Broad a new play by her hUBband, Hart
ley Manners, who wrote "Peg o' My
Heart" Mennwhllo you may find tn his
play on tho drug habit. ."WrecknKe"(Dodd,
Mead & Co,, New York), a singular con
trast to the early comedy.
A play of similar feeling la "Punish
ment" by Lou Iso Burleigh nnd Edward
Hale Blerstadt It la a drama on prison
reform which has elicited a warm Intro
ductory commendation from Thomas Mott
Osborne. It has humor ns well as power.
From the Century Company, New York,
comes a book of "Plays for School Chil
dren," by Anne W. Leutkenhaus and Mar
garet Knox. It sVould prove n. useful sug
gestion not only to teachers, but likewise
to mothers who wish to find something to
occupy their, children's creative energies
outside school hours.
From D. W. Huebsch, of New York, we
get "Criminals," a one-act play by QeorVe
Middle ton, dealing bravely and sagely
with one aspect of marriage.
Tho Fred A. Stokes Company has is
sued In "Bernard Shaw, the Twentieth
Century Mollare," a very thorough and
scholarly study of England's greatest
playwright written by the French trans
lator of his plays. Augustln Ilnmon. For
American or English eyes there Is a good
deal of obviousness In the volume, but
there Is also the spice of another raoe'a
point of view.
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Gilbert Murray's "Stole ?
loBophy" Another PofHttar
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Dr ailtxrt Murray. S. P. fatftam's See.
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For more than a centray SmrMasl IkM
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publlo Utters. A singular faeutty for trtV
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And the result a sublimated Jounwllesw
which brings home to the average man eVee
matters that the writers of other nUeM
too often cloud In a welter of literary
scurlty.
Such an expositor Is Pref. Gilbert Mttrrsvr
In this reprint of a lecture on "The 'HaH
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the average man, contemptuous of philoso
phy aa ha has become by Ita muddled at
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Library. For this collection of the preeetrt
world's knowledge, Maseflold haa written e
Shakespeare. Illlatre Belioo on the Frenel
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house on politics and economics. Chester
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To theso high lights among some eighty
authors are now added William L, David
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Phillips on embattled Poland and Jeflerso
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Men of tho Old Stone Ago
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