The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-05-13

ard shaw. the great English
atist. Is shining 10 the critics
now. says a London cable dis
10 the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
ews on dramatic art and acting
cling widely discussed. and. al.
j be says things which hurt the
ers of some dramatIsts and ac-
be Is read with Intense Interest
tributes his frankness Ia judg.
lays and actors 10 hts habit of
& the truth. lie says II his own
rs life depended on favorable no
from the critic and II he himself
TO write the criticisms be would
an himself rather than speak IN.
ply Of a work which did not de
II. The two volumes In which
Expresses bis views ns an inuodue-
10 reprinted criticisms contain wit,
aOF, satire, earnest thought and are
lines dogmatic In the preface be
OF the effect three years OF the
Il going as dramatic critic had on
Here are his own words:
The theater struck me down Ike
y Yeriest weakling. l sank under II
"a q baby fed on starch. My very
ones began 10 perish. 40 that ! had
get them planed and gouged by &C
onplIshed surgeons. fell from
Flights and broke my limbs to pieces.
he doctors said: This man has not
aten meat Cor twenty years. lie must
at II or DIE said. This man has
1een going to the London theaters for
hrae years, and the soul NJ him has
ascome Inane and IL feeding unnatural
on bis body"
IlIs criticisms, be confesses, are not
npartial. He says no man can write
apartially II he has mind OF his
VI ana II be has theories Of art. He
axes Il clear that the opinions ex-
easad arc bis Impressions Of the
,nya and actors he has seen. Tie In
mates modestly; II am very inter
ding and clever fellow. ! viii tell
"a what / individually think and feel
hen I 30 20 theater,"
Tho author Of Man and superman''
10 of "Autony and Cleopatra"
yhich Forbes Robertson and Gertrude
Elliott have been playing recently in
9t Louis. says he not only tells the
ruth shout the plays and actors. but
Ne n compelled 70 do 40 lnvoluntarily
We puts Il this way:
s'Ig my father were an actor and bis
lfe depended on bis getting favorable
loticea Of his performance, should
orphan myself without an instants
healtation u he acted badly. I am BY
no means the willing victim OF this in,
stinet. spare no EFFORT 10 mitigate III
inhnmabity. tying to detect and strike
out Of my articles anything that would
give pam without doing any good
Those who think the things say 90
we're or even malicious should just see
Tho things / do not say"
Among tho dramatiats to whom h
pays high respects 10 Ibaen. sardOr
aud Jones. The volumes abound n
Ehawlams. which lend themselves Il
quotations easily, like the following:
Love u IN the real active life tn
abiect slave Of every trlfllng habit
prejudice and cowardice.
at IA the mark o. the artist that hs
win not work.
Nobody can be better aware than
an Of the convenience to an Iriahmaf
IN England Of being able by an occa
aional fl0arigh % his nationality to SO
cure all the privileges Of harmless
lnnatic without FORGETTING the position
Of 4 responsible member OF society.
"a character actor Is one who can
not act. and therefore makes an elab
crate study OF DISCUSSES aud stag,
tricks by which acting can DO gro
teaquely simulated.
air. Barrie has no eye for human
character only \ keen sense for hu
man qualities.
'erhe suburban drama IL the lneyita
bio outcome az suburban civilization
lneanlng civilization that appro
clatea fresh air.,
The history of the lyceum. with III
twenty ycaFs' steady cultivation of tht
actor a. I personal force and It's uttel
neglect of the drama, Is tho history o.
the Engiish stage during that period"
This ia Whist he said about Miss Ill
iah Mccarthy when he saw her IN a;
amateur performance during bis career
A. an actiye critic for the Saturda,
Review. playing Lady Macbeth. Sh,
has since become a great actress;
1T b clear 10 me that unless she a
once F~aolutely marries some rich gen
tieulan who disapproves Of the theatOl
"a principle she win noe be able q
keep hersolf on the stage"
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