The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-11
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delightful company and have even
loaned many OF them money and
got Il back. | must say that IN one
weak In New York ] saw, more dis
agreeable, nasty characters. por'
,rayed on the stage than / had met
In real life in 90 years.
Il went 10 those shows expecting
TO be amuscd--you know how we
hicks from San Francisco act when
We got 10 New York--and / came
away sort Of discouraged"
Then you weren't shocked" Cap.
pyy' O
SON" Cappy replied, when
you'rr9as old as I am. nothing
under heaven will shock you.
Anybody who gets shocked nj
anything IL weak vessel and
most anything win shock him.
He's the boy who sweeps the
dirt into dark corners. He's
satisfied II IL can't be seen by
him. Tie isn't interested in The
unfortunate who has TO live in
The dark ccsfier."
We'll. what was tho FIRST play
you went TO see. Cappy," Mr. Re
dell quericd.
90 eIdTHAT PRICE GLORY Gus
w This IS q war play and writ.
tcn around the principal that war
is oil that Sherman said it was.
Tho heroes belong TO the marine
corps nno ottory night some decent,
marine walo has come 10
seo tae show Is carried out in a
fatai.
TITS n marvel TO me that some
uNine. who loves his country and
his service. doesn't throw Mills
hand snannats "a tho actors in the
opening act. 1t secn,s TO me this
play gets by on scenes OF drunken.
pcss, lcchery and cess words. Every
time the drunken marine corps cap.
tain or his top sergeant talRs like
q ckIof mate addressing, n rnutiny.
the audiences snivcE with mirth
and artistic thrills.
The ansieaco has Kept It's dirt
Ia dark cerAors 80 leuis. afr.as even
to look ut II, that II aasairM tpl.
EcBsely ma actor who has the cour.
ago 10 swear IN public aad taik out
loud abogt hts women uoweyer.
/ drew a lot OF comfort fron the
laet that p,rslss setiess C ts,s kind
are yractiuttlly cea1insd to acton
s0w.a- days.
'-raksaPe sreA phps s1pSay y
nesssa need fer ysan9 lsihSs
~hs s5s ~.itaxis rsteR - tasrR
hxs ~ ta.s~."
II understand that 'pssire Undor
the Elsn' 10 hot stuff" young NJ,
Raves siAtsosted.
ITS cold 4un. I.ail-cold as tho
dagsr Of death. It's play about
all the people In tho world that
You and i will never meet outside
n pyschopathic ward. Tho actors
employ little old English. vulgar,
almost obsolete, but not quite
Sort Of reminds ono OF the talk Of
hired hands around bunk house.
Powerfully wr,tten and Dramatic,
but makes you feel that everybody
In the world is crazy, nasty. dirty,
stupid. mcaD and cruel. One min.
ute after tho show is over you feel
Just like one OF tho principal char.
meters In tho play, Tho gang no
trained nnuscated him so he had n
continuous hankoring to go down to
tho barn and listen to the dumb
chew their fodder.
81 think this play gets by be.
cause the characters in II ore frank.
" rotten and that's what we all
want TO be from the TO time, only
there isa't any sense being rotten"
H0H, so that one didn't shock
" your morals, Cappy?" said
Eddie Smith. ~
mot at all" Cappy admlstAt
frankly. I'm not so certain that
/ have sufficient morals TO sl,Gsis.
l Just regard thea matters favor
ably or unfavorabiy--sort of--wel.
it's like the difference between liv.
ing in n pig pen and then trying
3 neat bungalow for u change.
ut doesn't follow that folks
who live In u pig pen are i'm.
moral. They Just prefer pig
pens TO bungalows.
81 prefer a bungalow, but being
q normally healthy, curious sort OF
cuss, | like to peck into the pig
pen from time to timo TO see how
tho other follow Is getting along,
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