New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

7, l. curious tnat bNnS&NN H"S seen
-, - the plays that ne mas written.
y. sss ne, even me, Stuart Walker,
..so has done so much to make his
.,svs known IA this country. But there
correspondence between them that
.,rows much light on the plays and
the personality of Lord Donsany
simself. In enc letter he says: Don't
:, them hun. for allegories What is
- sllegory man wants the streets
70 be better swept. or ne wants his
r.icbbors to have rather cleaner NOR
i. He can, say SO straight out, be
.suse he might be had up for libel.
= he saws what he has to say, but nc
avs it about some extinct king i'm
psbvlop. However, he's thinking Of
lie town all the time Now when I
write Of Babylon there arc people
.,o canno. see that write it for love
- Rabylon Ways. and they think I'm
.5,rkjnc Of London still and our beast
i. Parliament. Only want to get
sr,ber Eas, than Babylon, even TO
.;,rdoms that seem to lie N The tWi-
,,rb. bevond the East Of the world.
want 10 write about men and women
and the great forces that have been
with them from the cradle up-forccs
hat the centuries have neither aged
nor weakened"
And in another: Il have no inten-
ION of ihrustnr a message al them.
pcopic seem 30 have been so
frightened by the schoolmaster that
.bov think thov see him in every ono
thereafter. Often critics sec in my
alavs things tina. did not know were
here. And that is as it should be, for
iastinc. is swift and unconscious, while
reason is slow and comes UP long after
ward to explain things. ] try some
ames to explain genius to people who
mistrust or nate 1t by telling them it
is doing anything, as fish swims or
swallow flies. simply and with abso
ute ease. Genius is in fact, an inf
mite capacity for not taking pains
The latest Dunsany play TO be added
"a The Stuart Walker repertory is THE
Laughter Of the Gods and it is IN
.erestinc to note how Dunsany regards
mis- play.
Nc Dear Mr. Walker
Il am home on few days leave and
nave Jus; been lesding The Lauehter Of
.Ae Cod received your iconoclasNc
able. which read Slaughter OF the
Gods available and easily translated ~
Nobcdv is doing it-vet I used TO think II
superior to The Gods nj the Mountain
Nlst a. thought a night ~ an Inn I'M
t.rio~ Have you evcr read 1t anywhere
The great King has lott his capital for
sgral palace The courtiers arc delighted
but their wives hate the change. The
1ives at first of and attcrward on the
s.age set their husbands scheming 70 get
the King back again TO the great metropo-
ia. The scheming goes on al through the
play Nobody is sincere in 1t except the
King and Queen. the gods and the execu-
toner.
The men and women are very clever
and the gods are wonderfully simple. lne
a1iience can back which they choose. The
end so obvious. so logically certain and
nertahie, that it viii probably come as
4 believe You would overcome the diff
fcultes OF staging. but II would be diff
cult 70 say how. | have also received yoGr
ong letter and WIS very glad 70 hear from
gcu again. [ have great deal OF grati-
gde 70 rou for making me known 20 my
rierds fer We poets are not always born
among our friends. but often great My
aF. and sometimes it takes them . hun
red yeats to know us. and sometime
an~or Not after ALL there's time
sfoaga- frorc are plenty more rentur'o-
coming and I don't suppose " is 20 amusp
fAs mo -cngers that the gods send tho7o
n7ssago fnsl. take 20 long on the way.
One h. therefore no right 10 complain.
even though one should have the voakno ss
'o Norea-of. haze this hope TO nuos
mc o. london Library haHc heard of
ng fanHv yc1 look up pursal. iu
'fsir cafa'or9a eoG p.ii find certain
ieos or treatise written about 1870. not
feriooeed was written Is nay grand
i@iher 'eot sre only tno generations he-
aHd ne almost / hear their Literary hN-
'e-i gi'3rs tongue down tne age. ia
'escnty seaf= he viii have discovered mY
rave, v.e.e ne pll ne found painting
and Hs al tie Unnecessary noise
ast hound no make Wnen their toN has
seas . ground amc "iN be blowing biz
ON, WITH 5oilr rcd CHECKS pulled out.
ale he honest fellow will bc rolling and
ling or erc of the mud that plastered
IN lnlcf as ne came through INC dirty
COS o. The modern novel
VI colee re may not find me after
te- j nafo laitn IN that elo~ patient
or yas zrati-udc. too. for having
.'t q inn winch for while my
lsrifa dreams caa rest But mo=t ~
'nart 5er for yolr cntnpsia m. the
recorarr- tnat uoet neede, tho
-, t9lnn fe.a at which hc can bc infcr-
Therefore. J ncoJ not tel yos
= sol ate i2nt iu believing that {
'.f ii.o t'" .e.or oogvar. iu Tho Cods
'as aosnfeIr ~ be turned INTO green
.. me ey rest ouai'ty. guaranteed
vii soaa eol ~fae Laughter or tho
~, ~ in c<t t1o. Send nc auo,ner
S1a FOL me Z yoo Ike # and nov
sfs %s'f.a1 ~, -FOUR very sincerely
"DUNSANY
4n' aplsa " gealism which has cul
aS'fa On or modern stage n real
''' 'aad.es roa food and real tcars
~ ''"eaow capped with Donsany's
.s''. Iae or.ng mas auag vide and
pay nave thrown us back on the