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_An Interested Reader, Chicago_:
THE LITTLE REVIEW bubbles over with enthusiasm and love of life. Here is
an instance of a losing fight with life--perhaps it may interest you.
A childhood spent in the slums of a large city--not in the camaraderie
spirit of the slums but within the close bounds of a little clean
apartment presided over by an aristocratic-notioned mother. Absolute
barrenness of childhood experience--not a toy, never even a rag doll,
not a tree, not a flower, not a picture of any beauty--a household of
petty quarreling and incessant scrubbing and cleaning, and strict
adherence to duties. As the child, now grown, thinks back, she knows
that there was always a subconscious feeling of revolt. She would often
go off for many hours knowing that punishment would follow; she
destroyed much that caused tears in her efforts to create, she craved
and found affection where life was a little richer.
And then came books--avid, unsystematic reading. But life was never
touched intimately and directly from any angle but one of barrenness,
pettiness. A routined school course enriched living by a deep and
lasting friendship. Continually the inner revolt and the outward
conforming dragged along together. And then came a time of complete
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desire for sincerity in living above all things. Life demands some sort
of a medium of expression which has its beginning in childhood
experience. A maturing mind just beginning on impressions that should
have come in childhood is a sorry spectacle. Its desires are so out of
proportion to its human possibilities that it flounders and does
nothing. It finds in itself capacities dulled for want of stimulation,
it looks on things and sees them out of relation to itself. One grows to
despise human beings, to hate living--to see that there is beauty and
radiance in the world only for the chosen ones who respond to it
intimately and not only through day dreams.
Youth is not always synonymous with love of life; the gutter does not
always hold a reflection of the sky, and a conversation or even
understanding with one's parents but seldom solves the problem of soul
imprisonment. Breaking the bars of immediate environment is not so
wonderful a thing for an independent adult, but how is one to overcome
the barriers of a wasted childhood?
_C. A. Z., Chicago_:
What splendid letters those are from George Soule! Every one has been
really worth while and inspiring. Especially the advice and warning he
gives in his last: "Let us go to the theatres next fall prepared to
trace the beginnings of a new stage art in this country; in the
meantime, however, not hoping to escape the flood of cheap and
artistically vicious stuff with which the commercial managers will
attempt to drown our sensibilities."
Perhaps after this warning one ought not become agitated or angry with
any of the productions of those showmen who are frankly in the business
for the sake of revenue. However, when the "super"-showman, who is said
by the press-agent to possess unconquerable ideals, does something that
is supposed to be the uttermost of stage production--and fails--well,
then one can't help becoming irritated. In a production of _Joseph and
His Brethren_ which I saw recently there is evidence that he is aware of
the presence of new ideas in the theatre. But nowhere is it perfect
enough or fearlessly new enough to be satisfying. What new ideas are
used are swamped under, in their imperfection, by the mass of "excellent
mediocrity" that Mr. Soule speaks of. In every act is present that
hideous compromise--rank mixture of the old theatrical devices with a
cautious lifting of some daring modernists' best ideas. But the pictures
received applause. Most came for the scene that jarred most. It was a
moon-light garden scene. The backdrop and sense of distance were
perfect, but stuck prominently in the foreground, on either side of the
stage, were huge clusters of pink blossoms. The applause for that was
great--just as Soule predicted.
Mixing ideals--so-called--with the business of attracting the crowd for
what it brings to the box-office may produce a super-showman and make of
him a millionaire, but it does not advance the cause of the theatre. Not
only is the production to be quarreled with, but the drama itself is of
mongrel character. Everywhere is evident that catering to the ordinary
theatrical taste:--entire speeches from the bible alongside those of
modern idiom and thought together with re-arrangements and useless
additions to the already satisfying detail of the scriptures.
After a "smashing" finale with the gorgeously garmented multitude waving
dusty palms in a private house I decided to dismiss the entire show as
fruitless, so far as the "new note" was concerned. However, one critic
writes that the German and Russian moderns were suggested in some scenes
and that the chief female character might have been costumed by Bakst
himself! That arouses one to the danger of the thing. Is this the final
word in the theatre and what we are to expect as the best this season?
_Marion Thayer MacMillan, Cincinnati_:
The July number of THE LITTLE REVIEW is before me, and the demure brown
cover brings a smile as I recall the stimulating sparkle and scarlet
audacities hidden beneath. After Nietzsche's notion of the Wagnerite, it
is at least interesting to read Mr. Brooke's description of pâte de
foi-gras at the opera. The talk of Dr. Brandes and the tedious speaker
is a gladsome thing, but most of all I was held by _The Renaissance of
Parenthood_. It is a large subject for one article and too large for a
letter; nevertheless I must quarrel with one of your implications. I
refuse to admit that one can deduce anything whatever from the writings
of Mr. George Bernard Shaw. Don't mistake me: I feel sure that I agree
with everything you think about him--"aye more." But I deny that you can
justly follow any statement of his with "hence." When a man takes his
authorized and adoring biographer and tells him "Lo! here is the house
where I first saw the light," and, when the adoring and authorized one
comes a cropper because he deduces from this remark that the self-same
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