The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-10
SHAW imp OSS|BLE
/. SAYS ARNOLDDALY
Genuine Accomplishments DIM
med by His Insufferable
Vanity.
HIS METHODS ARE OLD
Irish Dranatist Is Discussed in
Anything but Compliments
airy Manner.
lis METHODS ARE OLD
Especial to Tho rlmea.pispatoh,

Especial to The Times -Dispatch.l
new York. December 9.-Arnold
Daiy. who Increased his own tame and
| that OF Bernard Shaw by acting the
, latter's plays. arrived to-day on tho
steamer Baltic, and promptly proceed :
, ed TO discuss the Irish dramatist In
anything but complimentary manner.
In recent and noteworthy inter-
view In London, Shaw praised the real
irish and their ideals ana their genius
as exeniplihed. in his opinion. by the
Irish players and John Synge. who
wrote The Play Boy of tho Western
World, and harshly and Sharply criti-
clhea those Irish who are no more
irish than their false pretensions. as
cNemplthed by the mob that hisseu
and SHE'D potatoes ut the Irish play
ers when they attempted to give the
Synge play ut the Maxine Elliott Thea
tire IN this city some lew nights ago.
incidentally, Shaw talked about Shaw.
Wherefore Arnold DAILY said to-day.
with great vehemence:
BERNARD Shaw Is an egotist of such
stupendous magnitude that he IL i'm
possible"
In his Interview Mr.. Shaw was told
that John Dewey was conceded In
America to be The greatest living
lrishman. Shaw denied that Dewey
was even an Irish name. and went to
columns length to prove Is. As for
the greatest living Irtshman:
There arc let Oh them. Mr.. VIII
liam Butler Yeats could give you on
hand the names OF six men, not in
cluding himself or myself. who may
turn out to be the greatest, for Ire
land Is producing serious men.
There Is an Impression in America
that you regard yourself as the great
est man that ever liveu." he was told.
daresay. sometimes think SO
myself when the others are doing
something exceptionally foolish.
Shaw referred to the type of Irish
who mobbed tho play Boy Of the
Western World" as the Clan ma Gael"
The Play Boy OF the western
World" Is classic. John Syne was a
very great dramatic poet Tue silly
Clan na-Gael conceived the brilliant
idea that TO satirize the folltas of hu-
mainly Is to insult the Irish nation.
instead OF listening te u great play by
great 1rishman. they bawIei and
"n'stled and sang God Save Ireland
(not without reason. by the way).
think there may bs trouble with
Tho clan anywhere where there are men
who have lost touch with Ireland, and
lili Keep up the old Dragging and
posing.
why do they stand this sort OF
'hinS in American Why don't they
PACK all these fervent patriots back to
liverpool or Glasgow or Bermondsey.
1r wherever else they may have come
:rom7
u warned Lady Gregory that Amer
ica was an extremely dangerous coun-
Try to take e real Irish company to-.
But why7 Surely America, with Its
immense Irish element"
"Rub1JiShi Thar
dozen real Irishm.n in America out
side that company of actorsI. he ex-
claimed.
Have you seen what the central
council OF the Irish County Associa-
aon OF Greater Boston says about the
Irish players7" he was asked.
Yes. but please do not say 40. n
would make them insufferabIy CON
eeited to know that their little literary
effort had been read right through by
me. You Will observe that they begin
by saying that they know Ireland as
children know their mother. Not a yerv
happy bit of rhetoric that, because
children seldom know, their mothers.
They declare they are either Irish
peasants or the sons Of Irish peasants