The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-03
st. Louis Newspaper Man Talks to
Girls in Little Theatre Com
pany About Their
Ar.
4 THE PARENTS APPROVE
Everything lie all Right in Art, Even
If it Cannot be Discussgd in
Polite Society, Say
These Girls.


Republic is an interview newspaper
man in that city had with three girls
of the Little Theatre company, which
plays here today. All the girls
are very much wrapped up In
their work and stand by the lessons
it teaches, according to the story.
We made bold to ask Miss Eliza
beth Goodrich of Bryn Mawr, Miss
Elaine Hyman of Chicago University,
Miss. Elice Gerstenberg of Bryn
Bawr and Miss Genevieve Griffin, a
splendid young Irish girl, why they
did it and if their parents approved.
Why" replied all the young ladies
in one breath, "it is art"
What kind of art?"
.'Oh, representation Of life"
3But do you approve of having
young men and women, the young
man and his girl, who make up so
per cent of theater-goers in America,
learn that it is all right and the pro-
per thing for man to discuss his
wife and her physical. mental and
spiritual idosyncracies with any man,
even former husband? Or to see
girls wrung by insane brutes from the
arms of their just dead fathers? Or
teaching young girls of the debutante
age that such things as dear little
girls exist even in Europe? Or show.
ing young men to be beastly jealous
and suspicious like Anatol? Or hav-
ing young girl sit still by the side
of her male companion listening to
two men or man and woman discuss
subjects on the stage that no man or
woman of delicacy or decency viii
discuss, even in private, with any
other man or woman? And what do
your own parents think about it all.
oh" said Miss Hyman, queenly
young woman, who plays Androma-
che. widow of the great Hector, my
father is advanced He like Trojan
Women and to see me play andre,
mache. He told me last week, with
tears in his eyes. that he had per.
fectly lovely time of it listening TO
Trojan Women
Good in the Bad.
No." said Miss Goodrich. q can
not approve of Strindberg for the
young. He is more for the older pei.
pie, who might learn something from
his plays. But as works of art, as
tense and intense writing, crowdins
power into a small space, Strindbers
is wonderful. He squeezes a whole
life of intensity into an hour of play
ing
"All women" said Miss LYMAN
iron and rear families Bernhard,
Duse, Helen of Troy did not rear
families. They lived full lives in their
ways, and Helen gave birth to poetry
More poems have been written to
Helen of Troy than 10 100000 other
women"
Even so-called bad women said
Miss Gerstenberg. did some good.
Helen gave birth to poetry. Isolde
gave King Mark sore heart, and was
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she was responsible for Wagner's
deathless music in Tristan and Isolde:
the so-called bad women oear and
rear poetry, music and art. Venus
was not a good woman. but how many
people have worshiped her manned
statues? The Mona Lisa was thought
to be Very bad woman but what
fuss was made over the loss of the
picture of her.
For myself, | like such plays as
Little Women for the young folks.
We get a lot of that on the stage, SO
why should we not have Ii tie of the
other sort of women for those who
like them?
why who would like Adolph Gus.
tave or Teckla in Creditors or Joe
Carson in "A Power of Darkness ann
who would care very much for a pro-
fessional amorist like Anatol?' you
ask.
"oh. it is a slice of life answered
Miss LYMAN. airily.