The Washington herald., 1920-01-27
IN the Lirnelight
By George Perry Morris.

Admirers of the poetry. and plays
Of William Butler Yeats are TO have
q chance TO hear him again. az he
has just arrived to follow a lecture
circuit ''in the ststes- Prominent
In the intellectual aud artistic
renaissance OF ireland in the days
when yourselves, Alone" had a man
like Douglass Hyde and a woman
like Lady Gregory for its expo
nents. and before IL had fallen into
the hands Of political revolutionists,
Yeats comes again to get our dol
lars. not as a propagandist. but as
an artist. Essentially a mystic and
modern replica Of the ancient Celtic
tellers of tales and creators Of
myths. he has his own audience
awaiting him. among people who
revolt instinctiveiy from the real
ism Of contemporary Irish politics.
but who hope forever to be under
the spell OF the Celtic imaginzuoL
and idealism.
Georrisns are calling attention TO
the fact that the leading counsel for
and against tie Boisheviki In the SEN
ate inquiry now under way are from
that State, former u. s. Senator
Thomas W. Hardwick. and Hon. Wade
II. Ellis. OF Atlanta, filling these roles.
il will be recalled that under the ad-
ministrations Of Presidents Roosevelt
and Taft Mr.. Ellis was prominent in
prosecution Of the trusts by the Fed
ersi authorities: and that when he
vas attorney general Of the State Of
Ohio, he was one OF the most agares-
sive and tenacious chsllenrers Of the
Standard OIL Company that ever
eamped on the trail OF that corpora
tion.
Washington women. especially
mothers, are 10 have a chance early
next month to hear Margaret Slattery
OF Boston. than whom there Is no bet
ter Informed student OF the contempo-
rary young girl in society and indus
try and the special problems she faces
in these days OF disintegrating per-
sonal, family. and social standards
Miss Slattery was n teacher: but OF
late years has been a prolific author
Of helpful books for girls. She is a
brilliant as well as a sensible speaker.
Washington has seen George Ar
liss an English actor-playwright-s
Interpretation OF the character of
Alexander Hamilton" and John
Drinkwater's notable. and as events
have proved. popular dramatic in
depreciation OF Abraham Lincoln"
On Washington's Birthday there
will be an opportunity to see a rem
dering OF Percy MacKaye's George
Washington" with Walter Hampden
T.
American performance. both Mac
Kaye and Walter Hampden being
authentic products of the country
and credit to its creative dramatic
art. Apropos OF this contemporsneous
fashion for the play with an his
toric parsonage as hero. il is worth
noting that one of the successful
New York managers announces the
coming production of a play about
Poe. the poet. already accepted.
The gold medal for distinction.
awarded as occasion seems to de-
mand by the National Institute OF
Arts and Letters. has gone this year
to Charles Martin Turnov Loefner,
OF Medhe'd. Mass. an Alsatian by
birth. For 'nany years a PLAYER
with the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira, he emerged in 1891 as a COM
poser OF promise, and since thar
time he has ben prolific. His sN-m-
phonic poem, la willamette du Dia-
bic" and his "A Pagan Poem" writ
ten Tor the orchestra and the piano.
are kind of musical composition not
common in this country, being SUI
perior in technique and subtly Sa-
tanic and noncomformist in temper.
mood and design.