Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-10

mot by some sordid and dangerous depot,
but through the spacious corridors or tne
highlands and the lordly gates OF the
Hudson"-a zigzagging, soutneasteriy
course. that You will meet them at Dutch
Hollow or Wales Center. just IN time TO
hear them play that they are walking
to New York by way of Holland or Wales,
sons between the old and the new. And
that is the keynote of the adventure You
will play all the way-till Colin gets sick
and breaks up the party. But IN the play
you will see the countryside trans M
Gallienne will make poetry about birds
and orchards and fields; he Will quote
Ifafiz; he will Just talk. Mr.. Fogarty Will
sketch bits to stir the nome Spots OF
memory. Colin will not say so much. but
he will give of a big atmosphere. A fresh
and buoyant thing, this.
HUSBAND AND THE FORBIDDEN
GUESTS. Two Plays. By John Cor
bin. author Of 1.-The Cave Man," etc.
Boston: Houghton Minlin Company.
A monthly publication in studying The
Women of Tomorrow presents in the
current number by means Of a certain
typical Marie the class known as THE
Masters" This is the great leisured
class of women, the parasitic class, get
ting everything for nothing; rejecting,
through cowardice or vanity, their single
exclusive function; less honestly idle than
a drone: trumping UP silly and pointless
activities to fill the void Of atroph1ed
maternal instinct. This theme turns out
to be. too, the subject Of John Corbin's
new play, wherein an engaging "Clora,
as pattern. takes the place OF Marie.
Hewn to the proportions of dramatic
action the play involves q husband and
wife, with q little coterie Of friends and
associates. The situation Is familiar and
realistic. strenuous. many-sided man
and an idle, childless woman fnventing
foolish and dangerous makeshifts OF IN
terest in lieu of natural vocation. The
play advances alcng the usual lines OF
petty domestic chickering's. the chief char
acters upon occasion not above the ruder
sort of quarreling, though more com
monty venting themselves In satiric, re.
crirainative playfulness. beneath which
hes the deep unexpressed cause of dis
cord and divergence. Two OF the three
acts move the principals OF this play
farther and still farther apart. The Gu
max comes in the nature of rescue.
with renewals and recoveries looking
toward a sounder future. One feels that
this point swcrves away from It's own
logic a bit by an act OF the authors In
diligence. However, it Is a strong ana
vital play. The second Of these dramas
- tragedy'-also uses the theme OF child
iessness and aborted natural vocation.
A direct. uncompromisin9 preface sets
out in clear analysis some OF the pres
ent maladjustments Of women to the
general scheme of things.
MORITURI. Three One-aet Plays-
Teja, Fritx.hen, The Eternal Mas
euline. BY Hermann Sudermann.
Translated from the German by
Archibald Alexander. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Brentanos.
60 long as people go to the play for
mere diverson-to hear the music, to feel
the lights, TO see the ladies' dresses. as
we'll as to keep run of things on the stage
dramas Of the sort given here will find
their real audiences-one. two, three,
may be-beside the library lamp. The
IDENTICAL motive Of these three plays Is
nut into words by male person taking
part ia one of them. And In the enc
however one may work ana strive, IL
mans destiny-he dies Of woman. Here,
i'm three different settings, this theory -
objectified One is that of romantic he
roism, with the barbaric Goth as its
agent. One is that of a bare and tawdry
modern realism: the other. that OF ming
Of philosophic comedy, This biologic fact
of sex antagonisms lifted to the surface
of life Is favorite theme with q group
Of brilliant modern dramatists 1t makes
a sort of by-product OF sctentinc thoOgnt
In their hands. AS object lessons, these
do not carry far; as addresses to the
commonalty, they are lost GOOD read
Ing. fruitful suggestion. examples or lit.
erary excellence. TO rev; as General
message. however-bound to miscarry.
GODS HEROES. A Drama In Five
Acts. BY Laura Cltnord Barney.
Philadelphia: ]. p. Lippincott Com
pany.
The bodily beauty Of this volume is
plainly, in its intent. not any more an
appeal to the eye and hand OF tho reader
than 1t is Of q piece with the author
orA
the drama itself. No less thing Is un-
dertaken here than the revelation Of a
anew religion by means OF series OF
episodes calculated to define its rise and
she vieissitudes OF its growth into the
present bahaistic belief. Set In the east.
The play progresses along the mental and
spiritual grooves peculiar to this region,
in the ceremonial OF its customs, in the
antiphonies OF it's speech. 1t opens with
the dawn. in a Persian garden. the azan
calling the faithful to awake: 1t closes az
sunset in a lonely spot, where the blood
Of a martyr to the new faith hows, the
axan again calling the faithful to prayer
The author. with some significance. makes
4 woman the chief person Of the drama,
the outfiowing medium of this new Cos
pei whose foundations is the following be-
lief: Religions are diversified express
sions OF ruth; they must be renewed by
a succession Of prophets. who show forth
this one truth In the forms best suited to
the ages in which they live" Hence, in
this succession the prophet Bah and later
aha. and later still as the need arises.
without doubt. another. Under the eSthet!c
and spiritual and literary qualities OF this
drama runs a missionary purpose def
nitely expressed by the author: II hope
10 give you glimpse of eastern glory,
and TO awaken your interest in this great
movement, the universal reNgton-Ba-
haisnt. which is today bringing peace and
hope TO eXpectant humanity"
WHAT EIGHT MILLION WOMEN
WANT. BY Rheta Childe Dorr.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
The superficial appeal of this book rests
ON its quality of Insecurity, word used
with no reference whatever to tho in
cquslities Of sex, but used, rather, tc
epitomize what is meant by training as !,
reveals itself In method. This Is ciea,
example of business method applied to u
business matter. II Is direct, clear
logical, temperate. unsentimental. The
book contains a bulk of Interesting aud
arresting matter on what organized WON