Arizona republican., 1915-03-28

throughout the season. The play ground committee. will supplement its report shortly after a conference with Field Secretary L. H. Weir of the National Playground and Recreation Association of America who is here in the interests of the movement.
 Monday, March 29 at eight o'clock in the lobby of the Woman's Club Katherine Wisner McClusky will give her interpretation of Rostand's s Chanticler.''
 Following this will come at the
 Easter season, but not on Good Mon day. the interpretation of Mary. Mag dalen," by Maeterlinck.
 It is rarely that great pec< of literature belongs so fitly to a reli- g;ous festival.
 Probably two other programs will be offered: The Mob" John Gals worthy's war drama, and 'Milestones' comedy of the changing thought
 and manners of three generations, 1860. 1885 and 1912
 Admission to these programs will he thirty five cents.
 1 Because of the possibility of hot | weather the plan for {; series of six | readings was dropped. In discussing "Chanticler" as a
 drama for the reader Mrs. McClusky said last evening:
 This drama, from an artistic standpoint is much finer for a reading | interpretation than for acting, except before an audience of children. mean
 ing of course also adults who cannot perceive the subtler elements of beau
 ty. wit and message. Its great sym i bolisM is, in the stage presentation, ! lost in the cleverness of the imitation
 of barnyard fowls. Had Rosland not pictured the great comedian Coquelicn as portraying the immortal Cock, sure 1 ly he would never have desired his beautiful, drama to be staged with | beings of human faces and human
 voices, With an absence of feathered
 tails and wings.
 1 Never has one particular spetca tor with her two eyes. the adorable
 Robbie" and the wistfully poetic Peter Pan" strutting in plumage that started in some minds the
 French query "Combien.4 how many
 dollars are how many cocks--admira-
 ton for the fortune spent and pity
 f,r the feathered tribes in theic mas
 sacre.
 Never have two ears that had ec- l.,t, rn,.i,, n,,d
 throaty murm urings of Maude | Adams recovered from the discord of that feminine tricky tone issuing from the vauntedly brazen and as-
 suredly masculine throat of Chan ticler
 From the printed page soft liquid
 lyric is the nightingale: Tiny bird,
 lost in the darkness of the tree" X
 small tawny body drops; feather or
 two flutters slowly down. Put in the play heavy dark object, big as a
 duck, falls tnud. succeeding voice
 that was really unpardonabe. Except for delicate shadings of wit, lost necessarily in so many dis
 fractions, the comedy was gayly alive
 on the stage; the ever greedy and gossiping hens, the societydaft Guinea hen. the blackbird, best comedian of all; these witE their l dips and dabs of head movement.
 their awkard lesgy strides or saucy hops, their clutterinS squawks. could l please a matured audience as well
 as one of children.
 I But oh. The glory that was Greece
 and the grandeur that was Rome."
 The study of sex, Man and artist
 with his passion for work; woman,
 with her passion for mans tenderness
 and praise; the new woman and
 her perplexities. the proud glory of her freedom once again gloriously i encircled in the sacrifice for love;
 the symbolises of light and dark
 ness. so wonderful worked out, The
 world that needs to be wakened from ,l the night of the eye-lid. And the T book as Iiterature-its wit, it's glowing beauty of word, of phrase. it's flame | meaning, it's memory:
 , Great drama is drama that has it's
 eternity in the printed page for the generations instead of a glamour on 1 the stage for season.
 i,
 Pure Food Laws will de discuss ,l ed by James Westervelt at the rcgu- = lar meeting of the Woman's club Tuesday afternoon. The program will be presented by the Home Economics
 department. Mrs. R. M Tafel will l ; songs. The. Starling,' The Yellow $ Hammer" and The Owl" i The Ramona Club met at the home , of Mrs Henry Kohl last Thursday thirty five members of the club being ,j ill attendance. The feature of the f meeting was an illustrated lecture : by Mrs. Charles Christy on ~.Ideal- istic Art in Japan" The lecture was , Illustrated with color and block prints ! from the early Buddhist period tc the work of the present day. There ! were more than 800 wonderful illus ! trations of a large collection of prints { in the possession of Mrs. Christy The { illustrations included the work O such artists as Yeisen. Hiroshiga kumishoda, Toyokuni, Shigenori, Yei ! gan, UtinorO, Hokusai and unsigned { work of students fof the Nagoyar { school These prints have to be seer ] to be described and appreciated. Ref ] erence was also made to the work O { Professors Fenelossa and Dow al commissioners of fine arts for Japan ! The gown of Mrs. Christy was