Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-13
OF u IRISH THEATER: A CHAPTER OF
autobiography. By Lady Gregory

".
illustrated, New York: 6. p. Put
MANS Sons.
s.ot other person is quite SO fit to
write the story OF the Irish theater as
LADY Gregory, since she, herself, is the
chTef cause of the ultimate triumph of
this modern Irish Institution. Her story
OF the undertaking goes away back to
the time when certain men, and this
womah,- through the strange affinities
or race and passionate love of Ire
land commenced to drift toward one
another under the impulsion of a com
mon design. This design, to revive
ancient Ireland in it's traditions,
legends, folklore, to embody 1T. and to
set 1t before New Ireland in the living
ard appealing person of the drama The
record is one of high ideals unswerv-
ing loyalty, inSensibility to rebuff, dis
enlargement disaster. and. above all.
IT is q record Of incredibly laborious
effort. In the story one comes close to
the members of this brilliant IRISH band
close 10 Yea 5, SyRge and Lady Gregory
as the center of il, and around them.
Hyde, George Moore, A E." Edward
MARTIN, Fiona Macleod" with Bernard
Shaw upon the borders, an acciamatory
host m himself This book builds the
theatsr before ones eyes. writes the
aSs, chooses the actors, conducts re-
hedrsas, Gu $. eXpan-s, recas s the play
does anything to II except TO MAJ its
origiaa ntent There is Included here a
most Interesting account of the Irish
players" In America The Playboy of
the west. during this visit, kept the cen
sorld4 agencies OF the Atlantic seaboard
IN state of imminent nervous cola Sc
In Phi adeIphia-a city that Lady Greg
DRY says. has an innocent look. as if
II had gene astray in the fields. and ii
names its streets after ees.'' the street
nam ms pres .mabiy an effect of this ru-
raj me nGering-in Philadelphia the play
ers We're in state o. ac.ua. slese and
E.zI n Ill
was the real enemy of the play The co :
lege boys of Harvard. Yale and the Uni
We s-ty of Pennsylvania were its cham
pions. IS well as sort of bodyguard to
Lady Gregory herself. The point o. this
history 10 readers is that ii presents an
intelligent. organized. focused and high-
~ ar.istic use of the drama to cherish
and foster the deep racial feelings and
instincts of a people.
THE NEAR EAST. BY Robert Kitchens.
author OF The Garden of Allah
etc Illustrated by Jules Guerin.
New York: The Century Company
One has pleasure in this book some
time before he reaches Mr.. Kitchens
part of it. The book itself, as sucn.
arrests one Coiors. Byzantine decora-
tions, paper. type and. above all, the
pictures. come together to make a vol
une of exceptional beauty and impress
siveness Half a hundred photographs
reproduce picturesque scenes in Dali
malta, the ruins of classic Greece, the
mosques and market places OF Con-
stantinople. The paintings of Jules
Guerin are remarkable for what they
convey 10 one beyond that which is
actually set down in mass aid color re-
semb ing. in this respect. Mr. Kitchens
own gifts OF descript on. The boo s a
record of the leisureiy goings about OF
this writer in far sout eastern ueoD
Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople are
the general points from which radiate
the excurs ons that give rise to the in
Vulnerable views. experiences and i'm
pressions of this travel story. Vivid and