The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-24
" DRAMA IN
Love on the Dissecting Table
Sex Relationships in Theory and in Reality at
Little Theatre Matnees

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diences will have an opportunity of
enjoying an excellent treatment of the
eternally interesting love theme by
talented cast in the Little Theatre
where the "The Grand Street Follies"
hold forth nightly. The tragi-comedy
is translated into English by Madame
Strindberg
Nicolai Ivanovich, an old professor
would rather discuss IN abstract
subject than eat sunflowers, while
the equally old but not equally garral-
Gus Serge Karnovich, army physician,
had some definite ideas on the
foundations of the love emotion. "a
disturbance of the inner secretions"
was Karnovich's explanation of the
mystery, but the audience was not
left completely at the mercy of pair
of word-juggling philosophers. Half
a dozen live subjects were trotted out
to test the philosophers theories to
the great sorrow and pain of the
philosophers, because it appears in
real life as well as on the stage that
the particular emotion called love
bestows as weighty a sock on the
philosopher as it does on the dock
walloper or the hill-hilly. Let us see
what happened on the stage.
Professor Ivanovich thot he was
burdened with fussy wife who made
the dust fly around him for three de-
cades. She pestered him thru sheer
devotion. But he cried like a child
in forest when she died and between
sobs admitted that he often wished
she died, feeling that she was in the
way of his ambition. His anaemic
daughter Valentino was married to
a husky person who went by the
name of Peter and the doctors quiet
ascetic son Pavel was the spouse of
a dashing, sensuous woman by the
name of Trina.
The doctors daughter Valeria
seemed to Peter to be the girl he was
waiting for, but when he is forced to
choose between the new flame and
the old one, he is undecided, but he
puts enough business into his love-
making to make Valera happy, so
she stages dance on the veranda
of the Ivanovich home to express her
joy. While she is dancing to the
great delight of Peter, Valentino takes
a shot at her, an incident which is
taken in good part by all concerned.
Indeed had Valentino pulled the trig-
ger on Chicago husband a Jury
could not have treated her with more
consideration.
To give the philosophical duo's
theories wider scope a dashing lieu
tenant in the Imperial Guards, notices
that Pavel is quite satisfactory to
Trina as human being but rather in
different as husband. So he de-
cides to supply the deficiency and
lays siege to her affections and after
gallant resistance she surrendered
Internationally, which fact came to
the ken of Pavel thru the good Of
fees of his sister, who did not relish
the idea of having a cuckoId in the
family. This about covers the com
plications.
Peter is torn between his passion
for Valera, the sprightly one and his
more seasoned, more tender and
memory-filled love for his lawful
wife. In fact it appears that Peter,
tho an honest fellow is quite capable
of loving the two like gentleman
provided the delicate affair could be
engineered without giving pain to the
parties of the first, second and third
parts. Indeed the learned doctor,
furious because his daughter looked
like the scapegoat in the piece, dis
turbed Valera when he suggested
that Peter would jump at the PROPOSE
ton that she be his mistress on the
CT. AS if afraid that the doctor
knew what he was talking about,
Valera kept the proposition a secret.
In the. end Valera makes a tenn
porary exit and Peter seems to be
happy again, having fallen at his
wife's knees in abject repentance. And