New-York tribune., 1912-03-31

woman to-day Is In such deplorable con.
diton. You cannot conceive what shes
had to endure. Thank God the ends In
sight! II the good oldfashioncd squire.
with his kind heart and rambunctious
ways had endured. who knows how diff
ferent things might have been-but he has
practically passed along"
Mr. Kennedy twists his legs about In his
wrath and disappears into the depths or
his coat leaving fringe OF hair visible
over his coat collar. His clothes express
rage. raised to the nth power.
II find the high brow muckers perfectly
Irritating I'm sick Of all the rot they talk
about fmpressions-tea cup brands OF
emotion"
DO you write down TO the lowest INTEL
ligence?" manage to get In.
II love the lowest intelligence In the same
degree that | loathe the so-caled INTEL
lectuaP point Of view. Take John Mase-
fields work; how many OF the intellect
uals' appreciate II? l have heard he was
n bar-keep here on your East Side; now
London acclaims him one or her Dig
poets. He is for he is sincere. He didn't
90 out looking for life so he could write
about his experiences. He went plodding
along. and when the time came and ne
could step on and up he did, and gave his
message TO the world because he had found
II I'm the natural sequence OF events"
THE MODERN TOUCH.
What do you mean by the modern
touch?"
when the oxford or Harvard men, as
the case may be, come out OF college they
have wonderful. original ideas They have
poetry, history, philosophy at their iinsers
ends, but when they try to put their ideas
into words they become academic. cap and
gowny. Now, a young chap like Sheldon
has the real modern touch. He expresses
himself in everyday words. He puts his
characters in an everyday environment.
His work is classic in its simplicity. hut
there is no cultured withdrawal. He comes
from his alma mater perfect boy in ex-
perience and gives clean-cut. forcible
expression Of what he sees about him and
feels. There is no emotion in life that
Sophoces did not express, and II Sophocles
were alive to-day he would have the mod
ern touch as he had 1t when he wrote"
There are great truths treated OF in Mr..
Kennedy's play. The Terrible Meek" and
they are clothed in common words.
| ask: Did you have the modern touch
In mind when you wrote it?'
'I certainly did II brings the message
closer home. When I am travelling about
from church to church, from meeting house
TO meeting house. from carttail to cart
tail | often read the Bible and give the
words little CoCkney turn. an East Side
twist a bit of brogue. now and then. The
people like II. Just that little human note
seems To bridge over the great chasm OF
years. Simplcity-that's the whole story.
You've adored your Emerson and ig-
nored Walt Whitman. You've got To learn
where to lind simplicity. and. when found,
to appreciate II. I've said that before
know. but I'm an awful egotist-and II
takes a profound egotist like | am
He gives sort of chuckling look as II
he expected me to contradict [ didn't But
don't object 10 an egotst II only his ac-
tions match his words.
Carlyle used tons Of rhetoric to preach
the value OF silence | say the same thing
over and over to urge simplicity World
OF paradoXes. I'm one. But Whitman was
simple. Your poets don't have Ia bark back
TO Swinburne, who had a wonderful gift OF
words. or to old Tennyson. who, to my
mind. had a finer imagination.
Lady Warwick" said I. introducing one
celebrity to another, made practiealy the
same remark"
Because she has a sincere outlook
Some people question that sincerity.
81 don't" Mr.. Kennedys contortions arc
strenuously optimistic. she used to be
splendidly Some Of my socialistic trends
worked with her. Is she still dasslins'
How does she look?'
stunning. Lovely, Picture Of heslthr
"Her diction? II should be lesson to
YOUR American actresses
I bridled a bit. You think the EnSush
| actresses are superior to oursr'
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