“_The Weavers_”
Gerhardt Hauptmann’s Weavers is coming to Chicago! It begins a limited
engagement at the Princess Theatre Sunday night, April 2. If you don’t
go—well, we will pray for you.
It is to be the same production with which Emanuel Reicher stirred New
York this winter. Mr. Reicher is no longer with the company, having
finally given up the struggle of trying to make a financial success of
art and truth. His stage director, Augustin Duncan, who is a man of
vision and ability, has formed the actors into a co-operative company,
and they have been struggling through various cities where their efforts
have been intensely though not largely appreciated. This is to be
expected; but surely in Chicago they ought to find an audience.
P. S.—Since I wrote the above _The Weavers_ has opened, and I have heard
how the first-night audience laughed where it should have applauded and
guffawed when it should have recognized something fine.
_Margaret Sanger in Chicago_
There is an announcement on the cover page of two of Margaret Sanger’s
lectures in Chicago, and others may be arranged after she gets here. We
have got into the habit of looking upon birth control as a thing in
which everybody believes, and which almost everybody practices whether
they believe in it or not. It seems quite superfluous to keep on talking
about it. But then you remember that Emma Goldman has been arrested for
talking about it, and that when her trial comes up—some time this month
or in May—it is quite within the possibilities that she may spend a year
in prison for her crime. That is something none of us could face without
a kind of insanity. So please don’t be content with merely abusing the
government: send your protests to the District Attorney and it may help
a great deal.
Any one who wishes to arrange for further lectures by Mrs. Sanger may
write to Fania Mindell, care THE LITTLE REVIEW.
_The Rupert Brooke Memorial_
It has been decided to set up in Rugby Chapel, England, a memorial of
Rupert Brooke in the form of a portrait-medallion in marble. The
medallion will be the work of Professor J. Havard Thomas, and is to be
based on the portrait by Schell. Contributions not exceeding five
dollars may be sent to Maurice Browne, Chicago Treasurer, Rupert Brooke
Memorial Fund, 434 Fine Arts Building, Michigan Avenue, and will be sent
to England without deduction. Money left over after the completion of
the medallion will be given to the Royal Literary Fund. Mr. Browne adds
that the nickels and dimes of those who wish to make their offering, but
cannot afford the larger sum, will be welcomed in the spirit of their
giving; also that he believes there are many admirers of Rupert Brooke
and his work in Chicago who will welcome the opportunity to pay in some
measure their debt to the poet, particularly remembering that this city
stimulated and interested him more than any other in America.
_Jerome Blum’s New Work_
Beginning April 15 Mr. Blum will have a two-weeks’ exhibit of paintings
done on a recent trip through China and Japan, at O’Brien’s Art
Galleries, 334 South Michigan Avenue. At the same time Mrs. Blum will
exhibit some Chinese and Japanese figures—and there is one especially
that we prophesy will be talked of. It is of a weary-eyed Chinese
philosopher, the art of which has been put into words by a painter: “He
has seen everything, so he doesn’t look any more; he has done
everything—so he folds his hands.”
_The Vers Libre Prize Contest_
Two of the judges for our contest have been chosen. They will be Helen
Hoyt and Zoë Akins. The third will be announced in the next issue, and
the contest will be continued until August 15, as it seems wiser not to
close it before it has been fully heralded. All details will be found on
page 40.
“_A Lost Tune_”
Between April 25 and May 7 Mr. Stanislaw Saukalski will give our soft
teeth a chance to crack a hard nut at the Art Institute. The “Lost Tune”
will lead the flaming lava of this young volcano. Will the readers of
THE LITTLE REVIEW send in their impressions of this sculptor’s work? We
may print some of them.—_L. de B._
_When You Buy Books_—
Won’t readers remember to order their books through the Gotham Book
Society? You can get any book you want from them, whether it is listed
in their advertisement or not, and THE LITTLE REVIEW makes a percentage
on the sales. Our margin of profit per book is small, but it all helps
very much and the continuation of the magazine depends upon just such
co-operation. We have two thousand subscribers. If each one of them
would order one dollar’s worth of books a month we should make about two
hundred dollars out of it,—which would pay for two issues of the
magazine and enable us to eat regularly besides. Will you please
remember?
_The Russian Literature Group_
Alexander Kaun’s next lecture on Russian Literature will be on
Dostoevsky, and will be given April 16, at 8:30 P. M., in 612 Fine Arts
Building. Mr. Kaun is becoming more interesting with each lecture—by
which I mean that he is revealing more of Kaun the artist, and less of
Kaun the professor.
_Independent Society of Artists_
The first international exhibition of this new organization will be held
on April 4 in the Ohio Building, Wabash Avenue and Congress Street, from
three to seven P. M.
“_Because of the War_”—
Paper is going up. We can’t help looking ugly this month.
The Beautiful and the Terrible. Which is which will never be put
into words. But I am free to tell myself; and let me but preserve
the senses—my eyes, my ears, my touch, and all shall be well—all
shall seem far more beautiful than terrible—_Gordon Craig._