The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11

as only the chosen can
AT time when the theater-poer is
! 100 often fed with such verse us:
fony boy. pony boy. won't you be my
Pony Boy?
Don't say no. here VIC go OF across the
Marry me. carry me right away with
you,
Giddy UP, ,giddy up. giddy up. whoa! My
Pony Boy.
way of what might be called "the
poetic offset. - And it has come, as
the weeks have been measured out
not III the London banquet of the
Poetlcal Recital society, where descend
ants Of Shakespeare. Keats. Chaucer,
Dryden; Wordsworth. Coleridgc, Shell
Icy, and practically all the other great
bards of England. sat down to applaud
a Maori chief singing and dancing as
II on has native heath, nor yet in Mr..
Hudson Maxim 9 remarkable volume,
which not only defines and criticises
poetry, but goes on to produce it. but
In 1--WE brief publishers notes which
worthy books. Possibly of highest
worth (and surely showing the greatest
bravery is Prentiss Cummings hcxa~
meter translation OF the "Iliad -
The other items are Curtis Hidden
Page long awaited ''Golden Treasury
of American Songs and Lyrics" slight
but polished volumes of verse from L.
A. Robinson and Florence Earle Coates,
and posthumous poems Of George Cabot
Lodge and "Father" Tabb.
Across the Footlights.
, Dramatic literature has splendidlv
aided this good work. The two great
est successes of the year, across in The
footlight world, have undoubtedly
been Rostand IS "Chantecler'' and
Maeterlinck s "Blue Bird and each
is poetry of high order. The perform
ance of the French academiciap IS
play has been, indeed, one of the
marked features of 1910. The critics
have hesitated' to call it symbol, n
tire; or parable, but they have
agreed that its verse surpasses even
"Cyrano. One Gross of Chicago has
again pushed out into what Gmelight
he could reach, with tho old claim that
Rostand has stolen everything from
his (the Chicagoan 's) Merchant
Prince of Cornville.'' and urging the
Immortals to expcl "Chantecler' So
author from their honorable body; but
that is merely the amusingly unim-
portant side Of the penny.
Maeterlinck fanciful little stage
sermon has made a striking appeal to
audiences, both here and abroad, part
ly from its imaginative, poetic beauty.
partly from its lesson. even as the
dramatiZation of j. X. Jerome IS "The
Passing of the Third Floor Back so
ably presented by Forbes Robertson,
has found its continued success in It's
teaching that the best in any man is
called out as one makes direct appeal
Of New York has used the Belgian
dramatist s work TO make experiment !
in reaching East Side audiences at
prices ranging from 10 cents TO so
cents, and the usual result has been
so markedly satisfactory as TO add yet
another distinct entry to the asset side
of the literary year.
garet Angelin S magnificent rendering
of the Sophoclean .'Antigone,' at
Berkeley, Cal; the elaborate "Mac-
beth" of the Sothern- -Marlowe com
pany; Sir Herbert Trees wonderful
revival of "Henry VIII; the London
revivals of "David Copperfeld" and
q :. 1vauhoe;" each in adequate dramatic
form; the premiers of Barrie IS
Twelve Pound Look and Mere.
dith's "Sentimentahsts," and Gals
worthy's remarkable "Justice,' which
is said TO have led directly TO a re-
form of the English prison system, The
British capital has also found food for
talk of things theatrical in the cen
sor's refusal to. license a play by
bred by that " Florizel," who later
came to the throne as the fourth
George, and the (consequentG appoint
mcent of an advisory board to act with
this much-criticised official, This iu-
cludes Sir John Hare, Sir Squire Ban
croft and Professor Walter Raleigh.
So far AS American interests are con
cerncd, Josephine Preston Peabody
(Mrs, Lionel Marks) shares dramatic
honors with Rostand and Maeterlinck.
Her play "The Piper" adapting to
footlight uses the old Hamlin legend,
was last March Judged most worthy
Of all the 315 submitted, to receive
the $500 prize offered by the Cover
nors of the Shakespeare Memorial the
ater at Stratford 1t was presented
there, May 5, by the Benson players,
during the annual festival held in mem
ory of the Bard of Avon.
Some Sensations
The pardoning of "Jobn Carter"
serving a ten-year term in the Mime
sofa peniteDtlary, because his verse Gas
''With Muted Strings'O printed in
some of the foremost magazines in the
country. was Of SO high an excellence as
to call attention to his case and bring
to light that actual injustice was be-
ing done under the cold letter of the
law-this was not the only sensation of
the year in the field of letters There
has come n cry out of Indiana g self
(from the borough Of Lafayette on the
Wabash) against the flnane and ln.i