Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-09


soma non grata al the New Ntnstef-
dam, went TO Philadelphia 10 see Fetl
! Gyut." He adds thai performances
| he has witnessed IN Chinese, HeprcW'
| Russian italian and spanish were w
open books beside this 'phanlSSlnN-
goria-' All honor--yon see iNe
! caught the habit OF acclain1-~le me
critics who really did ind poetry ana
symbolism In The play, ana aIl hotNr
| TO those who had the sense 70 Cph-
| fcas that they didn't. II e so easN 10
seem learned. ana SO very hard 10 con-
| TESS ignorancc'
AS for me, | stand between ne li'.
| two stools'--Or schools--prayertul
| hoping that \ stau't fall To the ground
I flatter myself that ! understand 'feert
| Gyni" but I can't convince myself
| that ] enjoyed H. Nobody realizes
more than ] the odlum thai attaches
10 this statement but feel mat ! lIluht
| be frank bout the matter Honesty
or dishonesty are INFORM like tcn~
dency toward M castles. and, IN the mat
ter OF EXPIRE sSing opinion ] am absc-
| lutely honest don't say thls 10
boast. | wish | We're not. nave
taken everything FOX IL. Including TWO
positions a. press agent ] would gave
a great d cal to- he able to lie amiably
aud keep my friends and my popular
Ity with the people who pay me
salary The most cOugenial post
ever occupied was lost to me because
couldn't bring myself to proclaim the
loneliness of Chris and the W0hder-
fnl Lamp" I've simply got to risk
the scoru OF John Corbin. and insist
that | didn't care for Peer Gynt.
when / go 20 the theater I go to see
a play and all the jumbtes of rlful
folklore and fragmentary fairy tales
that ever came out of the north leave
me still unsatisfied,
Most OF our reviewers continue ~
show that peer Ciyut" synboizeS tho
opposition of youth to love. OF the at
traction OF love for youth, OF some
thing OF the sort. 1hsen himself wrote
~ the critics and his poem. They
have discovered much more In It than
WAS Intended by me but tribe like
an authors intention never disturbs
your habitual symbollst- To the end ne
Finds tongues in trees, books In the
running brooks,
Serm ons In stones.
And symbols IN everything.
John Paulseu. In his interesting lltt
tie volume, SANITY med Ibsen.' tells
snch a funny story OF these seekers for
hidden meanings. 1bsen had chosen
-'Arakrina' US the name OF female
character IN Emperor end GalileAn.
He had happened upon this name In
an old book, ana used 1t because OF
its unusual foreign sound. Then the
scribes found that 'Makrlna' was
Greek and meant the far-seeing,"
How pregnant and profound, Only an
lbsen could have thought OF such a
thing. And fbsen laughed,
What folly Is the idea of symbolism
in the tlleater, where the depletion of
everyday life conveys SO much more
vivid lesson. In Peer Gynt'' NO
are told that an ugly creature with
horns and tail was created TO typify
Consequences Why should Ibsen
have chosen creature with tail,
which everybody knows does not exist
and which nobody fears, to typify con-
sequences, when he was able to show
them so much more terribly and In
telliglbly in that poor mad boy, the
victim of heredity. in "Ghosts2'
Peer Gynt' is a very wonderful
poem and a very charming fairy tale
so, that whatever Its unsuitabllity 70
the stage the venture is greatly 70
the credit of Mr. Mansfield. II I adj
mired the actor for nothing else !
should love him for an innovation IN
the program at the New Amsterdam
whore he has printed Gbsen's name In
type az large as his own, This idea
of ark nowledging the author to be Of
some Importance is refreshlngly orig
inal When a certain manager pre-
sented" Stuart Robson in The COM
edy ~ Errors" 10 years ago, the man
bills the stars six inches high. and
poor old Shakespeare trailed along In
agate al the bottom. The uninitiated
probably gathered that THE Comedy
OF Errors was written by Stuart Rsb-
son.
Peer Cfyut is combination of boast
ful De Bergerac and reposeful Rip Van
Wrinkle. a Norwegian peasant lad,
he deans great dreams, and does
rothlng. In the first act we hear him
telling his mother, Ase, of his thrill
ling adventure with buck. Ase rec
ognizes the tale as an old folk yarn.
She tells her son OF the forthcoming
marriage Of a wealthy girl. Ingrid,
whom he might have taken 10 spouse.
Peer goes to the wedding, Is greeted
with ieeTs, gets quite drunk and car
rios off the bride
once safe In the mountains, how
ever. he wearies OF the adventure. and
sends Ingrid back TO her people Then
he meets the hobgcblin daughter OF
the Dovre king and goes to the cavern
home OF that gnome, where he falls
III with falsetto-vOiced supernaturals,
COinically suggestive of "'Fhe Dreams
Of the Rarebit E1end-" Making his
escape, the lad builds hut IN the
mOunts ms whittier comes young
glrl, scveig. who has fallen In love
with him. They are TO spend the rest
of their days together but the Dovre
kings daughter arrives with the brat
we are told Is the application of CON
sequences, Peer feels him self too
much contaminated 10 go near
SolVeig, so he wanders away
and leaves her waiting. Next We see
him back in the hut Of Ase, who Is
dying, The little, ugly, dear old moth
err lies ON her hard bed, thinking OF
The days when Peer and she Pretend
cd that they We're riding in a mag
niflcent carriage, so Peer mounts the
footboard, bitches up a chair aud
drives Ase straight 20 the gates OF Pdr-
adise
Thirty years elapse. Solyeig is still
waiting. We see her doing 1t, and
hear her singing. When she sings We
know why Peer stayed away so long.
The dreamer Is now a man of wealth
and power, He is In a palm grove
of the coast OF Morocco. False
friends steal his yacht to sail away
from him, but the boat Is wrecked
Then a sort of Greek chorus of very
plain dancing girls tells us what hap
pens 10 him up to the time when We
nleat him again, Impoverished old.
going home. He arrives there and ts
met by Death, in the form OF a but
ton molder. The unbidden guest
wants 10 lake him away. Peer flnds
Sclvclg, realizes that while he sought
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