The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-06-01
In the Limelight
BY George Ferry Mo- rs.

GrinnelI College. Iowa, Oldest OF
such institutions west OF the Mis-
sissippi River. has just bean enter
tanning guests from the faculties OF
the universities and colleges Of New
England. a region from which the
founders OF the Iowa College came.
The college has had one great
teacher of politics and history, Jesse
Macy. and a sample OF his boys"
is seen in Albert Shaw OF the Re-
view of Reviews, and also Vir-
ginia farmer whose experiments
with agriculture as well as his
journalistic and political duties
bring him to Washington regularly.
He went from Grinnell College TO
Johns Hopkins University: was
there in its palmiest days of great
teachers and outstanding students;
became an expert adviser on munich
pal government: finally landed in
New York with American rights to
W. T. Stead's idea of a review of
reviews" and began a career that
has brought him fame as an editor
and publicist.
The head of the department Of
dramatic literature at Carnegie In
stitute. Thomas Wood Stevens, has
unquestioned high rank as q prac-
tical administrator OF an aesthetic
department OF a school mainly tech
nical and unitarian. He has been
given funds and other resources
with which to work out the best
equipped department of its kind in
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try to demonstrate to the country
that he not only can produce"
plays, train playwrjghts and teach
the technique of the dramatic art,
but also create art himself. In short.
with B. Iden Payne as stage direc-
tor. he is TO produce a play Of his
own. 1t Is called Poe" II has
been acted out in Pittsburs and
pronounced good. lnaSm3ch as
John Drinkwater is at work on a
play with me same hero: and also
Samuel Shipman, one Of the best OF
our wright-carpenters. IL would
seem as II the Boston born, but Nir-
ginia- shaped poet and essayist
might at last come into his own as
| a tragic figure in the history of his
time and his country. Supremacy
artistic in temperament he had to
live in a day of prohibitions and
inhibitions compared with which
those of today are feeble.
Next Thursday they dedicate a
memorial tablet to F. d. Millet ia
the widener Library at Harvard
University. His fast dissolving
will appreciate the honor to be done
/ o. - Af -
gifted and charming men this city
ever knew. The great temple Of
literature and patriotism which is
to have the tablet placed on its
walls has many such impcFishab le
| bron1e registers of fame. but nome
telling of . man Of wider culture.
Gorham Phillips Stevens. who is
! representing the American Fedora
tion Of Arts in Rome, reports the
King of Italy as profoundly inter
ested in the plan to gather, arrange
and transport to the United states
| a fine exhibit OF Italian industrial
art. Once here. IL will be cared for
by the American Federation OF
Arts and exhibited in ten Of our
| largest cities. Mutual proht is GER
tain TO come from this project. the
Italians gaining by showing new
| sources OF supply to our traders;
and we gaining culturally. as the
display Of art and commerce welded
teaches our Commentaries that
aesthetics may have q cash value.
Boston's Common Council has
voted to bring into being q cttisens'
committee which will collect funds
for . Henry L. Higginson memorial.
Thus does the ancient town plan to
show its gratitude toward and ap-
probation OF Q banker who was
more than q hnancier. A hne site
awaits the statue or such other
memorial as may be agreed upon.
On land given to the city by Maj.
Hiesinson and providing q fine APP
proach to the superb Harvard Medi-
cal School group of buildings. the
/ bronze or marble symbol should
stand, for Il is a region Of the new
Boston inseparably associated with
Higeinson's name and character. He
suffered much in his last years from
the strife that the war brought to
him, to the Symphony Orchestra
which he maintained, and to his for
mer friendships. Unchsllenged and
| unthwsrted most Of his life he had
jolt in his old age that rudely
shook him. The least that Boston
now can DO Is to forget this chap