Woman's enterprise., 1922-01-13

the combination OF the human soul
and the vehicle of the soul, the human
body. Today we have the literature
of the age running in sensationalism,
we have the dance running back to
contortions of darkest Africa, we
have the Interpretation Of all that art
has left US of the stirring scenes of
the past reproduced in the form Of a
photoplay through the medium Of
| photography. In other words all that
is left US of the fine arts has been
canned into compact form either in
discs or in reels by commercial instinct
all tht tends to development Of senti-
ment has been extracted just os our
foods are being digested and concen-
trated to degree that leaves nothing
more of the nourishment they once
contained as they lose their bulk while
transmogrifed into tabloid form. Our
intellects also have gone through the
metempsychosis of passing from the
human to the mechanical and the
lives we lead daily are making US
more and more the automatons that
some wild imagined writer's have de-
picted as possible. The reversion
sought through the medium of the
Little Theatre through its promotion
of renewed interest in the development
Of expression physical and Intellectual
must of necessity be a boon to the
community in which it flourishes for
the very simple reason that no CON-
munitq is any better than the senti-
ment that actuates it. And this SEN
! timent with which some are gifted
and some are deprived what advantage
does it possess to the owner. 1t means
that he or she can better enjoy life
in that they can better harmonic
with the music of the spheres, they
can better assimilate with the human
race, they can better absorb the
gamut Of joys and sorrows with which
they are surrounded and their hearts
! heat in unison with other hearts that
God has made alike unto their own.
! They can see the beauties of child
hood and discern the pathetic features
of old age. They can shed tea,
over the passing of some other soul
into the great beyond and not stant
dry-eyed when the hand of sorrow
rests heavily around them. They car
learn the beauty of the mechanism
of this great world and the men ant
women that are in it. They can love
their country and their communit,
and become better citizens and neigh
bors and better fit into the scheme
\ of the Creator in His predestined re-
lations between man and man, the!
can stretch their hearts SO as to TAX
in the all joys and SORROWS Of the
human family and by that touch o.
sympathy make all the world akin.
! Yes, the Little Theatre has a mis-
sion to fulfill and just as the Pubh
Library is the essential post-graduat,
course to Education, so the Littlt
Theatre becomes the temple of tn
MUSES. where inspiration can be hat
from among the very people among
we usually move and associate. It:
influence is far reaching, its uses arr
Infinite, its purpose is broad and laud
able and no nobler mission has evel
Edevised for like quasi public insti.
tuition. Just how much the people Of
the community will appreciate and
promote it is problematical and their
estimate of its importance l do not
know. do sincerely hope that they
will awake to it's possibilities and
! make it the success it deserves to be.
J. ST. CLAIR FAVROT.
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