The sun., 1919-09-14

w joke of Booth Tarkinston's'
Or is Harry Leon Wilson
also in it? What are the LinsLis
and why are they? There is a
Linski IN that pale pistacchio of
studies for Seventeen" or some other
book OF adolescence, Ramsay Milhol-
land" He is the pro-German fresh
man working his way through college
and the disturber of the debate AZ
which Ramsay makes his college debut.
Like the other Ltnskis, he peters out.
He is indeed referred to as a Chicago
sgitator later in the book, but he never
renters the action with sufficient i'm
portance to explain the way he blurts
into the story. Is there not a Linski
in THE Gibson Upright? It is GER
tainly true that there is a Linski in up
From Nowhere" which Mr.. Harrington
and Mr.. Wilson wrote for John D.
Williams. This Linski has the family
habit of petering out, since the episode
obliterated in the process of changing
the direction into which the play must
proceed. Whatever that original d.
rection may have been, it is plainly not
the one 1t follows now.
The Linskt of the drama at the
Comedy Theatre is a youthful and
snarchistic secretary of the captain OF
industry who is the hero of the play.
In a moment of philanthropic impulse
he gives his insurgent daughter and
an increase of salary to the secretary,
for one reason as a means of curing
his social heresies. Evidently at some
previous stage of the dramas ex-
istence the daughter and her revolu-
tionary lover played a more important
part in the story than they do now.
They are not the only remnants of an
older state that are puzzling.
This product of the melting pot,
who is intended to represent the
new American" and consist of vari-
ous elements, seemed in the first act
captain Of industry pure and simple.
One Of his aristocratic visitors OBJ
served that to him the country was
Indebted for all that was brought to ii
In ships. In an office adjoining his
den were visible telephones to keep
Rim In touch with the stock markets
o. every city. But after ell this prep
sration the authors threw the man
CT big AFFAIRS overheard along with
NHskt, the art loving daughter with
her Leonardo Society and, settled
down to write an anecdote in two acts.
This told the story of the international
phiianderer who, having wooed women
all over the globe by rafting gold
pieces in his pocket as he made love,
yet out to marry the heiress predes-
uned for his snobbish son.
This aneCdote, although mercilessly
extended, had some Of the charm Of
mr. Tarkington's work. Even such
book as Ramsay Milholland" is not
sItogether destitute Of that, Mr..
harrington as an author. not as a
uranatist is too we'll versed in his
technique ever TO lose all his power
over the means of his art. So the
new play often reveals the light and
tdsy humor, the imagination and the
'hclty OF speech which is Mr.. Tark
nston's. 1t is too bad that the engi-
ueers Of the drama backed and filed
.idhged their minds and the intent of
tne characters so often. There is
very evidence of such a process of
ulelopment. But there is nothing to
explain this Linski joke.
Inc mandarins are especially GER
IAN about the rules il the case Of
,srce They are almost what an en-
G,uslastIc spectator at the Princess
heatre on Tuesday night called
cure nre' when he cried out his good
Nlshes 10 Mr.. Klauber. OF course the
uIes must be varied in their treat
uleht The march of time leaves its
'ost on every convention, but there
~ ways or keeping the machinery
snlhihg and In condition in every sue
euihg generation. Just adapt the
u'es 70 the spirit OF the age and it
collars to doughnuts that the farce
~...'en IN accordance with them will
"ork out as IL should.
lhoeed, farce seems the least varia-
e OF all the forms OF drama. The
ns arm OF coincidence has a mailed
t ana regulates IL inexorably in
fccordance with its wishes. Miss
ualheNs and Miss Stanley have Sc
seeeo Tor their little play "Nightie
Nshl material that has been the
property Of every writer OF farce that
'ss tried his hand al the Job for years