Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-27
AMERICAS TO ENJOY AN
EVENING AT LIBRARY
Miss Cobb Will Read peer
Gynt" Here.

Peer Gynt'' the drama in which the
late Richard Mansfield starred, is to
lie resented before an Americas au-
adience at the Crnegie Library on the
evening of December Sth. Miss Caro-
Ign Cobb, of Athens, an instructor in
Lucy Cobb Institute, is to render a
genuinely inetrpretative reading of
lie work
Miss Annie Mae Bell has in training
number of young ladies who will
render eight piano ensembles concerts
which will greatly assist the impress
son of the reading.
In fact this music will be a neces-
sary adjunct to the play, and will
cause the listener to feel that Mans
field and his troupe have come back
% their former roles.
Peer Cynt is ne'er-do-well of the
Norwtg ian peasant class. His father
having flled a drunkard's grave, Peer
goes the almost inevitable way. He
drinks, loafs, rbams tilei woods, and
makes himself the source of unenn-
ing anxiety for his weak old mother,
Ase.
He is a monumental liar, having a
genius for quick construction of tales
that amuse in spite of their hugeness.
Such tale is that of his driving the
devil through worm hole into a
nut and pegging his Satanic Ma
jesty on the inside.
Peers sweetheart is reported to be
in love with MAIDS Moen, another peas
ant. Peer goes in his rags to the
wedding party and is snubbed by all
there. His qualities would seem not
entirely to deserve snuibbing, but a
drunlzard's proliffgate son gets no sym
pathy anywhere, we may be pretty
well assured.
The bridegroom is found to be
sniveling because the bride has
locked herself in, seeming to regret
that she has married.
0h"io nAoCh, IiiS pour SIOUls Calls
upon Peer for assistance in this pre-
dicament. Peer, madcap that he is,
noisily complies, and next is seen With
the girl on his shoulder scaling the
mountain like a goat.
by this act, Peer is further outlaw
ed. All men are against him aud he
stubbornly sIwears his fealty to the
philosophy of utter selfishmess..
The Troces, a mythical tribe of
the mountains, take him in. Repulsive
he agrees to do, if they will consider
their gruesome ravine palace, which
he agrees to do, if tehy will consider
his mothers tumble-down home as
another palace They propose that
they slit the lens of his eye, so that
he may see them in actual form as
he has pretended to see them, but he
declines, resolving to be himself, even
at the mockery of make7believe.
Utterly sworn to selfishness, and
Iconsecrated to the purpose of making
himself the Great Emperor of Self .
he goes to America and thrives. He
becomes wealthy. He espouses formal
piety and snugly declares himself UNI
der the protection of God.
His exaltation of self has now be
come more pretentious in that he imi-
tate a SORT CT special tuletage on the
part Of the Deity for the one Peer
Gynt.
But his purpose of being for him
self and sufficient unto himself is by
no means carried out A dancing girl
makes fool of him. He is led to
house of madmen and there elected
at last Emperor of Himself.
Thus his stony resolution to reach
Standardization is made ridiculous.
Old age brings him to old Norway
again. Thirty years have passed. Dur
ing that time he has had opportunity
to get a wholesome philosophy of
life
Fortune has favored him. He is sat