The Washington herald., 1912-11-03

rs It true that he has stolsn some Of
your ideasr'
Not Reinhardt himself Assuredly not.
because. as I've said. he 10 not . pro-
ducer: but they may have besn stolen for
him"
What do you think Of the drama Of the
North?"
The Russian drama 10 remarkably hne-
I am afraid I am not well enough In
formed about the Scandinavian drama to
discuss It. feel. though. that some Of
their writer's were not always big In
truth-Ibsen. for instance"
Its heresy to criticise Ibsen." re-
sponded severely.
I'm . hereto" laughed Mr.. Craig. then
he added dreamily:
We must all bs big in truth II We
want to achieve. We must have ideals
and express them in the best and highest
way. The minute we cheaper our ideals
We are lost. Now. take this great Morris
dance movement. A young man inter-
ested himself in It from tho highest mo-
tives. to try and preserve the charm and
beauty Of these pagan dances. He went
from village to village all over England
and hunted up the men and women who
could dance them. and then he got them
together and encouraged them to continue
and to show the art TO others. as It had
been shown to them. Now. when he
wants to give q special performance he
can lay his hand on an Oxford don. q
laborer. a working woman. etc. who are
Morris dancers from love Of It. Then
along comes = woman who says. oh.
let's make this thing payv And she
trains a lot Of young men and women
and children in Morris dancing and lets
them go and perform at different thea
tres-Just now at the Savoy in the Win
ters Tale It isn't the real thing. you
see"
Yes. I see." I said. and thought to
myself that had never encountered any
one SO sublimely Indifferent to the coin
Of the realm as this Reformer. In his
code. II you pay for . thing It ceases to
be Of value.
AN IDEAL REALIZED.
Then there bounded into the room an
eight-year-old Gordon Craig who IN the
most beautiful young person I've ever
seen in my life.
Talk about your Greek rods!
You Just wait till this one IL full Grown
size. and then II he develops Terry talent
and goes on the stage there'u b sIaugh-
ter among the matinee girls.
He didn't speak to me. He simply
nestled up TO his father and surveyed me
from great blue eyss IN.
der mass Of curling dark hair.
MY son." said Mr.. Craig casually.
YES" I responded. Hes somewhat
like you. He thinks I'm taking I'D q good
deal Of your time. I can Sec that
The Reformsr smiled and dug the young
Adonis familiariy in the ribs.
And said:
Before ] 20 do want to ask you
what you think Of Sir Herbert Tree a. q
producer?'' remembering a. I spoke an
old story to the effect that Sir Herbert
once talked with Mr.. Craig In regard to
. production. and then calmly helped him.
self to the ReIormer's ideas.
"Ehf oh. don't think Of him at alI,"
answered Mr.. Craig chssrfuily.
Three years ago I was bitter, I must
admit but that's all over. Trees q Great
rrodueer. or was once. but he's sold his
oirthright. He's . ma man personally,
dono . great deal for the English staea"
Fairly magnanimous. wasn't III And
nodded approval
How. do you stand on the question Of
the censor in Englandr'
Mr.. Craiy laughed a. he said:
"Oh. I'm n favor Of him for Enkiaad.
Rather! should think 20! We neea
him. We're an awfully immors, lot, yea
know. We can't have any unusual situa-
lions presented to us. We'd sioat ovs,
them too much. II would BE- bad Tor ~
(co1y1sAt 1st4 Nsw.1ssk 1s0UA,