The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-25
IN SOCIETY
| By Jeanette H. Poland Telephone ooA

!, direful foe. The other type, the Sud"
class is intensely intellectual He
: responds to beauty with every fiber
: of his being. His senses are so cul-
: tivated. so acutely educated, that he
: instinctively repudiates anything that
. is coarse or common. He is almost
!: over-civilized, according to Mrs. Barry
. the Irish, by reason of this super
: sensitiveness of the senses are the
: most civilized people in the world to-
: day.
|: Shaw possesses that very faculty
; of intellectual concentration which has
. led him to eliminate from his scheme
: of things all romance and sentiment,
; and to be concerned with life action
. and vital force. He had a peculiar
: aversion to poverty, he denounced So
/: cial ideas that brought poverty, pow
{: erty was so absolutely offensive to
/: his sensuous nature. Early in his
career, he threw down the gauge to
I: that group of idealists in England
/: who believed in art for arts sake,
:: and he was the first who sought TO
: show, and successfully proved, that
{ a drama can at once point moral
:, and entertain an audience. That art
): can serve a ddactic purpose. lie
:: was the first to emphasize and con-
:: vince the public of the educational
(: value OF the drama.
!: Mrs. Barry spoke of Shaw's hatred
;: of poverty and said it sprung from
): a personal fastidiousness which alb
I; hors the ugliness, the squalor, the
!, degradation attendant upon poverty,
!: also that his antipathy to poverty has
!: its source in his sense of economy
J: which deplores that some people, hay
8 ing more than they can use, waste
!: their substance uselessly.
!: Shaw evolved during the last few
!: years from a destructive philosopher
:. into a constructive philosopher. He
): had new things to say, and said them
): in a new, fresh way.
= In "Man and Superman," the great
u est work of his second period, Shaw
mas proclaimed that the greatest
thing in the world is the creative
, impulse, that produces life at any
=, cost. He breaches the doctrine OF
= higher breeding. He declares that
the strongest life force is in woman,
=, not in man, and to her belongs the
. power of selection. The power to
- select the fathers of their children.
:. Many of the apparent paradoXes
and inconsistencies to be found in
Shaws' writings, Mrs. Barry attributed
% to his chastity of intellect. He was
- absolutely immaculate in his own life
=, and believed in absolute chastity.
= Many things offend the readers
9 which never suggested offense to him
- because of mis- inherent purity of mind.
- This purity was a marked trait OF
the Irish people.
Man and Superman," was addressed
to Arthur Walkley of the London
Times, who mad suggested to Shaw
!. that he write a Don Juan play. Be
tween the time that this suggestion
- was made Don Juan had changed sex.
- The play is full of wonderful sym
boltsm and in many ways is clev'
:, or caricature. Anne Whitfield is not
:. an erratic or sensual woman, but an
.. impulsive young woman, vital gen
ius who marries John Tanner at all
cost. The drama is marked by ex
cessive clevarness and intensely in
~ teresting from the preface to the end
- ing.
$, Mrs. Barry read the Irish dialect
- most perfectly AMI the afternoons
entertainment left very pleasant
" memories with all who had the op
portunity of being present.
- This concluded series Of most in
teresting lectures and interpretatiye
readings the Browning class has en-
ioyed during the winter and spring
I months.
! Mrs NcElrOy spent the weekend