The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-30
DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT

- Announcement is now made that
Grace George is to appear in now
play, opening in New York before the
holidays Miss George ended her en-.
/ gagemont in 'uaIf an Hour at the
Lyccum theater Sunday night, Novem-
ber 10, her engagement with Mr..
Charles Frohman for the j. NJ Barrie
play being for its New York season
only. Miss George has begun rehear-
sails of her new play, which was writ.
ten for for her by Avery Hopwood, author
of Seven Days, - .GlotheS, F." and
Nobody s Widow The new play is
entitled Miss Jenny O'Jones. :" and is
rolllcklng comedy of the most light
some sort. In it Miss George has a
role IN marked contrast TO the one OF
Lady LILLIAN of tHalr an Hour the
! plhable bit of aristocracy which the
nngentlc Barrie uses to display his
irony.
The extraordinary success Of Sothern
and Marlowc, who are at the Salt Lake
theater on February 27-2S is a stun
nIng answer 10 a surprising statement
iately made IN magazine of the
! day, to the following effect: "Shake.
| speare S plays were written for the thea
ter and survive for the library -
1t Is curiously the case that some
| people.-usually those who know moth
| ing OF the stage-imagine that TO un.
derstand the deeper meaning of the
| t, te1t, one must depend upon a partial of
ridiculous tootnotes,. instead of the
finer arts of the actor
In order TO discover TO what a low
level of absurdJty these anuotators
| have sunk, all that is necessary to do
Is 10 pick up almost any copy of
Shakespeare. The reader will there dis.
cover such startling facts as that when
| k~bD lrs,c cFa.A 4 a.
'absurd, and that when he wrote
"houndless, he meant Dig
The purpose seems to be to deprive
the reader of thinking for himself or
making use of his own imagination.
1t is rather rough on Shakespeare to
put him in the same class with the
author of Mother Goose" However.
| before entering upon an examination of
some of the notes to Shakespeare. let
us see what the annotators who CON.
sldcr that Shakespeare is for The
library only, have done for the old
lady Of the shoe. Take "uev, Diddlc,
Diddle,' for example:
.'Hey, Diddle, Diddc.
The cat and the fiddle.
The cow almped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport
And the dish ran away with the
spoon.
Here are Clara Austin winslow s an
notations:
1.-THE following questions are sue
gested for stimulating the pupils
imagination:
"'What is The significance of the
first line? Hey was originally
sad character.
''Do you understand that the cat
had already begun to play the fiddle!
How did the cow iump-bv the Del
sarte method7
What is full moon7
''Was the dog laughing an evidence
of wit or humor, or might there have
been combination of the two Gle
ments'
"Would it have been possible for the
dog to see at such a distancef''
The reader NAV imagine that this
example is an unfair one TO cite, but if
he thinks so, let him scan the country
schoolmaster examination Of youth
as to salt box.
Professor-What is a salt box,
Stndent-It is n box made TO contain
salt
Professor-How is IL dividedt
Student-lnto salt box and box
of salt
Professor-Verv we'll, Show the dis
tiuctiou,
Student--A salt box may he where
there is no salt; but salt Is absolutely
necessary TO the existence OF box of
salt
Professpr-Are not salt boxes other.
wise divided!
Student-Yes. by partition.
Professor-Whati is the abstract idea
of n salt boxf
Student-It is the idea of salt box