The sun., 1919-02-24
GALSWORTHY URGES
ART HERE TO AWAKE
Science Has Worked Miracles,
Says BritOn, and Now 1t Is
Her Sisters Turn.
FEASTED AT BILTM0RE
Edwin Markham InvOkes
Poesy for visitor-Eedowed
Theatre Great Need.

and dramatist, predicted last night Mt
dinner given In his honor by the Society
Of Arts and Sciences at the Hotel Bit
more that period of fine and vigorous
art ie about to commence In America de-
spite the fact that now 1.-THE arts with
faces mufiied to the eyes stand against
the walls of life" while Science dances
along like the Pied Piper Of Hamelin.
The other speakers. chiefly Americans
Of note in the arts, seemed to have but
little hope for American drama and
literature-moet particularly drama-at
the present time, but Mr. Galsworthy, al
though introduced by DR.. Edward F.
Wheeler, the POSTMASTER, as an "opti-
mistic pessmist,'' justified only the first
word OF the description. Indeed, the only
note which could be considered pes
simistic sounded in the brief address OF
the dramatist concerned the Irish ques-
ton.
81 came here as divided in my senti-
ments as ever over the island of Ireland"
said Mr.. Galsworthy. and talking OF
Ireland. why is It that people over here
seem so often to think that Ireland Is a
simple proposition? l am for national
liberty all the time. The only trouble is
that in Ireland there are two nations.
more, they insist that II one of them Is
free the other cannot possibly be. II Is
not any more we wicked, tyrannous Eng
lish who stand In the sunlight OF the
Irish; it's the two Irish nations who
stand in each others. But for goodness
sake don't let US talk about Ireland"
A Very Different Europe.
In speaking of the change brought
over the world by the war Mr. Gals
worthy said:
I'VE have come from a very different
Europe from that which we left at the
beginning OF 1912, when we were last
here; you haven't felt the difference
quite as we have; but enough. am sure.
] don't know what your chief thought is
now; for me the overmastering thought
Is that OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES You
know when we look at bit of moorland
where the gorse and heather have been
burned-swaled We call 1t in Devon
how we delight In the green pushing UP
among the black. shrivelled roots.
long to see the green pushing up. the
creative impulse at work in its thousand
ways all over the world again: each OF
us in both continents in his own line do
ing creative york. and not so much that
wealth and Comfort as that health and
beauty may be born again.
"But> confronting as do tonight, the
Arts and Sciences, let me divide my
words. You Sciences have no need to
listen. You have never had euch a hey.
day as this: In engineering. In chemls
try, In surgery, In every branch except
perhaps star gazing you have beer
shooting ahead. earning fresh laureIs
putting new discoveries at the service o.
bewildered man.
Science drags no lame foot. It dance.
along like the Pied Piper OF Hamelin.
had better not pursue the simile Nov
the Arts. with faces muffled to the eyes
stand against the walls OF life and gaz
little enviously, little mournfully al
the passing rout This Is not their time
for carnival; their lovers sleep. heavy
with war and toll. 1t is to those poor
wall flowers, the Arts, that I would
speak; Drop your wells, have the cour.
age of your charms; you shall break
many heart yet, make many a lover
happy.
In Fair Way to Abolish Night.
You have all noticed as I have IN,
difference between a town by daylight
and town by night well. tire daylight
town belongs to the Sciences the might
lit town to the Arts. I don't mean tina
artists are night birds. though I hav,
heard of such a case: I mean that tn
Arts live on Mystery and Imag nation
Have you ever thought how we SHOULD
get through II we had to live in a towI
which never put on the flmy dark rob,
of night, so that hour in, hour out, W,
had to stare at things CARRIED in tn,
efficient overalls of Science, with thei
prices properly pinned on. How ion,
would II be before we found ourselves II
Coney Hatch? Well, ladies and gentle
men, we are in a fair way to abolis!
Night-Mystery and Imagination ar
on as they say. and that way soone
or later madness lies.
ut Is time the Arts left off leanin
against the wall and took a share OF tn
dance again. We want them to be a
creative, nay, as seductive, as tn
Sciences. We have seen Science wor
miracles of late; now let Art work he
miracles In turn.
People are inclined to smile at m
when ! suggest that you in America ar
at the commencement OF a period o
new and vigorous art. The signs, the,
say, are all the other way. or cours
you ought TO know best; all the sam
stick to my opinion with British obsti
macy, and | believe l shall see it JUST
fled.
ION Thursday am going to see tn
the Woolworth Building. My gracious
as the poet says-you have materia
here In America for painters and singers
for drama and story. that would driv
us In England crazy You must yo
simply must paint. and tell OF this anna z
ing America In terms OF revelation an
OF beauty. Have faith and Jump"
EdW1n Markham read 4 poem which
he had dedicated to John Galsworthy
distinguished man of letters, friend o
humanity. who comes to us in this hou
when the Anglo-Saxon peoples are draw
ing together heart TO heart" The poem
of some length. was entitled THE Twi,
Flags Enslard and America In Battle
born Fraternity"
The last stanza was as follows:
England. America, unite
As heralds OF the rising light
Unite to be comrade force
Up WITH the the sS sfs II as aH'I into tss
Face to the future. dream and dare
An endowed theatre. supported b
those who can appreciate fne things
vas called the greatest hope for grea
Grama in the United States by o. r
HegSie, an associate OF Mr.. Galsworthy
Edith Ellis Furness, Americas on
woman producer, and b. Iden Payne
also a producer.
Claiming Pollock the playwright, wa
the most severe critic OF America
drama Of the evening, for he said Their
wasn't any that really amounted TO any
thing. He blamed the public. not tn
MANAGER for this for the managers, h
said. give the public what It wants.
VI ntty plays now running In NeN
YORK httehn are musical, eleven ar
rank meloAramaa eIev.n or III. -