Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

tree. and yet behind the giitter ano
glow with substantial structure
grown from traditions OF romance
accepted as a part OF history itself
And over yonder ponderous
and serious book entitled Ibsen's
Ghosts" supposed to be very I'M
proving to the mind 1t is filled
with suggestions which accentuate
mature tendencies TO cyniciSm and
sorely puzzle the intTospections OF
youth in a romping civilization,
And here, under the title Love-in-
a-Mist." is a collection OF marion
cites, Jumping jacks and other toy
figures arttully ventriliquised!
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The Madge Kennedy play is writ
ten i'll a spirit of modern balance
with funereal things. 1t could be
scarcely equaled for audacious def
ance of the undertaken lowering III
the background, than was Con
Shaughran when he assisted in his
own wake, or Charles Hoyt's comedy
mortician, Mr.. Caraway Bones.
II was most interesting holiday
week and the distinction OF recog-
nizing Washington as a proper two
week stand falls to the lot OF The
Nagabond King"
The King" is one of the numerous
recent musical successes based on
we'll tried dramatic material that as
sures libretti of substantial merit
and popular appeal. The play by
Justin Huntley Mccarthy, IF |
Were King" belongs TO an era when
playwrights, or theatric poets, must
at least possess scholarship. Heroic
rhythms or rhetorical cadences were
offered with a confidence to which
the audiences lent remarkable sup
port, by such men as Stephen Phil
lips and by our own American poet
obscured by scenic magnihcence and
the ostentacious mechanism of the
theater, but still a poet, John Luther
Long.
A general impression left by the
work is one of substantial romance,
something akin to that of Robin
Hood" The costuming makes the
stage a picture of extraordinary
beauty, yet the garb is not tortured
into fantastic eccentricities. VIII
II. Post, much of whose record as
a stage producer and director was
made with stock companies in this
city, has done an excellent piece of
work in relaying the incidents from
speaking drama to opera.
The bold outlaw of the Partisan
parable in character to the gallant
archer of Sherwood Forest. Robin
Hood gathered about him band of
rebellious personages, some OF them
eligible, were they capable of good
behavior, to civic distinctions, while
Francois was content to display his
intellectual gifts for the sake oi
authority over a group composed
of prototypes OF our modern gang
men"
When Villon composed his inn
mortal poems which sound on the
ear today to find an ever-renewlng
welcome, the word Apache" had
not been borrowed from the aborigi-
nal American vocabulary to desig-
nate i'll the most .atrocious terms
possible the desperate of the
Partisan underworld.
IHEIG l1CAAGiAA OSAA Tag .
from this continent put on effectual
display in European artistic sur
roundings; for example, the Navajo
designs which assert such conspic-
uous authority in later-day garb. :.
In the Villon production, Rudolf
Frimi, whose music has assumed a
position of leadership in current
operate composition, employs some
thing OF the same process IN melody.
He sets the ensemble pulsating in a
swinging, robust chorus, which must
bring to the mind of any who has
had acquaintance of the stalwart
cowpunchers or miners of earlier
Western days the rugged song SO
close to nature in its unaffected
rhythm, Down, Down, Down the
Lonesome TrailY
The privilege of the composer to
take folk melodies and utilize them
in terms of orchestral scholarship
has seldom been more agreeably
availed of than in this case. The
pleasure of one acquainted with the
old Western song from the heart
intended only for the camp fire, or
perhaps for the relief of solitude
itself, has been equaled only when
that wonderful singer Roland Hayes
swung into the cowboy chant:
slack O Diamonds!
Jack o Diamonds, | know you of
old.
You robbed my poor pockets
Of silver and gold.
One OF the most telling applica-
tions of the Western American song
was the use in The Nirginian" OF
the verses which evidently were
inspired by the simple chords
strummed by primitive performers
on the old-time guitar:
"Ten thousand cattle straying!
They quit my range and Travelled
away,
And its sons of guns. that's what
say,
For they have rustled my pile away
1t is as true as trite that music
speaks universal language. Thanks
TO the higher types of composition
and authorship. now and then some
simple intensity OF feeling uttered
with untutored impulse finds its
way 70 appreciation far beyond that
accorded the studied effects of COM
plicated rhythms and extraordinary
combinations of discord to be in
geniously resolved into momentary
harmonies.
The .lowly fellow who finds himseli
Unexpectedly introduced to the lux.
uries and authorities of mighty
prince has been often utilized since
il formed the favorite theme Of the
Oriental story-tellers. It is the basl: