The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

The only thing that Edgar Allen Poe ever wrote with his gloomy eye fixed on the theatre will be pro- dtced for the first time, for one per forrnance on Christmas Eve at New York university, not far from the gaunt columns of the Hall of Fame, where his name at last found grudg- ing welcome. Not far, either, from the small, white shanty in which he lived for time on kingsbridge Road, although the shack no longer stands on the site where Poes instinct guided him when he came home late at night.
 The Grand Guignol players, who have been trying to shock New York with a repertoire of plays selected for sheer gruesomeness, and who have found the town shock proof, will commit Poes "Politian" under distinguished auspices.
 Kentrckians wise in the lore ot their stories state. will not recog- nize, unless they have been told, a celebrated Kentucky killing. done in the chivalric manner back in 1925. For the the original action upon which Poe founded his only play has been disguised by transference to the author by translation into French and by editing of the trans lation. Yet, the selwyns. who brought the Grand Guignol across from Paris, have made sure by ref erence to the authorities, that Pol titan" Is derived from the murder of Col. Solomon P. Sharp, Kentucky politician, for getting fresh to some body's girl about 100 years ago.
 The estimate of Poe in his old neighb borhood has advanced far since he lived on what is now Kingsbridge Road, in a cottage that then stood on the furthest hem of the city's ort- skirts Very likely he had no close neigkbors then, but the whole region is now planted to high apartmen buildings and the car line traverses the spot where the cottage stood In his day.
 It is only a few years since work men grading a street found the cot tage in their path and were about to knock it over when someone who happened to know about the place, saved it from the steamshovels. It was then moved to a block square plot of grass on the Grand Con- course which became Poe park. The cottage is now preserved by the city It's white paint is kept fresh and the shutters are always new green. After many rejections, Poe's tablet was admitted to the Hall of Fame on University Heights, remotely over looking the ste or DlS SlOOIDy iu- cubration and with the production of his play "Politian," it might be said that Poe has arrived as celeb rity, in his old voting district.
 Thundering cleats on thousand fields of combat have subjected pr. Stewart Patton of Princeton univer- sity to severe trampling and no more has been heard from him since he reaffirmed his belief that foot ball was on the way to make dlmb- bells of non-combatants as well as combatant college boys. Dr. Patton is the lecturer who decried the fase importance which the press, the pub lie and the undergraduates yield to football, He has been widely mis- quoted and the replies to things which he never said have been un- just to him
 But without going beyond what ne did say. 1t is not difficult to find evidence that Dr. Patton rang in false alarm.
 Chester La Roche. an old star quarterback of Yale, suggested that the good doctor might be mistaken, which was a courteous way of saving that pr. Patton was chattering through his mortar board.
 La Roche held that football men were usually a good example to other students in all respects and far from losing their sense of propor- tion, developed that facility to fine degree. roll call of old football men discovered most of them In good circumstances and in good standing in their respective communities.