The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26

In speaking of the attractions which will be presented here by the Birmins- ham Center this season, Mrs. Hornady said yesterday:
 :'The outlook for the coming season is very bright and encouraging, and the committees which for several weeks have been actively engaged in forming and completing plans feel just as I do about the situation.
 '"The programme committee has been exceedingly fortunate in being able to secure some of the very finest artists in America to appear before the league this winter she continued.
 The greatest attraction that the mem bers are looking forward to is the ap- pearance of Charles Ram Kennedy and his wife, formerly Edith Wynn Matthi- son, who will be presented in November. and will appear in one of Mir. Ken nedy's own productions. Many of us have seen this play, The Servant in the House. and for that reason will be de- lighted, I am sure, to have the oppor- tunity of seeing and knowing the author and his wife.
 "Montrose J. Moses, in writing about MT Kennedy, says: No modern play wright has ever done more to depict | Christ on the stage than has Charles Ram Kennedy It is said that 1t IS the faith, the courage and the determi- nation which constitute MT. Kennedys s personality. He is a self-educated man. born of a line of English scholars. It Kennedy's life before he became a noteo playwright. At the age of 10 years. 1t IS said, he was forced by circumstances to work for a livelihood. His indiv1duai determination, however, gained for nim broad culture He inherited an apd- tude for Greek, and the consequences were he found no difficulty in graspms it's essentials We find that he had an ecclesiastical tendency of mind anu ayailed himself of a four-year course in theology. He naturally had the gift or critical penetration and the terseness o1 conversational phrase
 ! "It is pleasing to know continued Mrs. Hornady. that about Mir. Kenneoy there is no a1oofness, but that he IS genial and considered by those who know him to be a big brother to mankind. He is stalwart in appearance, broad shouldered and sincere. A friend haa | said that he is hardly ever seen witn- out a pipe and in the midst of clouds or smoke he will run the gamut of philoso- phy, art and economics.'
 'Tn reading Mir. Kennedy's plays" said Mrs. Hornady, "I find that he knows the Bible well, and to him the charac- ters are living personages showing hu' man excellencies and weakness. MT. Kennedy says that if they are disregard ed, then the vividness of the Bible ia | lost. He interprets the Bible in terms of modern thought, and modern thought in terms of the Bible
 "Edith Wynn Matthison Kennedy. ac- cording to Alan Dale, has had wide expe- rience, having played in the role of twen- ty-two of Shakespeare's characters, and is a woman who has the ease and deli cacy that has charmed the admirers of her WOrk, ana ueI IS dI s1Io du0 PcAuSAN art" she continued. Mrs. Kennedy's ed- ucation for the stage began very early. Her mother before marriage was public
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