Arizona republican., 1911-05-22
HEARD IN THE LOBB|ES

The mood in which a person goes 10 a thcatcr often determines the opinion he forms of the play.-unless l the play is of the brilliant and force | ful construction that gives it power 1 to make its impression in spite of l unfaVorablc mood, poor scenery. Scant audience. and draughtv theater.-and | there are plays which have succeeded | over olScOuragements as imposing as | the ones mentioned. Mir C. C. Neal is lover of fine plays. and when | he went to the theater Friday even | ing it was his intention to enjoy the show, and pass q pleasant evening But the report he has since given of l the drama is something confusing He was in an unusually good humor when he left the Ford to go to the theatcr. In fact he smiled. cXtrav- agantly. at every person he met on the way to the theater When he got to the box office he stated to friend that he was down to see the show because he believed in being happy, and had no intention to live either a lonely or a sad life He went into the thcater, and opened the per formance before the curtain rang up, by sitting on a five dollar hat X number of other things occurred dur ing the evening. and among other items worth mentioning he saw the play. However, when asked to de- scribe it next mornnC-to sort of pass judgment on it's merits. and state whether or not he considered it worth seeing-he looked blank and replied, in a short, crisp. acidulent manner. as though he suffered from headache Don't worry me about plays. If you want to know what its about, go and See it" This gives a student of the drama a knotty ques- ton t0 solve. Mir. Neal saw the play and vet it made no impression. Why
 
 It is not given to everyone to know Mir. Crane as he really is. Mir. Crane stops at. the Stag where he passes for prosperous young man.-as he is.=off on his summer vacation,-as he is. Most people say of him,-"He is a practical young man, of admir- able ability" but sad as is the duty, this good opinion must be contra .dicted and pronounced erroneous. Al though Mir. Crane may have walked the straight and narrow path of prac- ticality during all the years of his life prior to his recent trip to the Grand Canyon, it has been learned that while hanging over the awful gulf he wrote several sonnets This is a fact as he dropped one of the poems out Of his grip in the Stag, and Mir. FeWeI. d guest of the hotel. although an admirer of Cranes. brought the verses to Heard in the Lobbies" for publication, admitting, as he did so, that although he knew it would in jure Crane to have it known that he had written poetry. he felt it was his duty to keep nothing secret. On eX- animation the verses were found to be of surpassing beauty. but they cannot be published for lack of space. The first lines of the first stanZa are given. however, as conveying some idea of MT Cranes invention, and beauty of imagery The poetry is written in blank verse Standing on the edge of this great
 canyon, I feel quite small and insignificant, | As though I were a fly on Pishon's |
 nose. I contemplate the depths of this great 1
 gulf,
 Immcasuraby vast. with a humble |
 sense Of my own littleness. Indeed I feel | Like a keg of beer before an army Not enough to go round.
 The remaining verses are equally | croaI and rr,aN- ha unbliSbg1 Ia ter