Artificial Childhood
SINCLAIR, UPTON
Artificial Childhood By UPTON SINCLAIR THE reader who •hares the art beliefs now prevalent In the world will be quite certain that the ideaa here being expounded are fantastic and absurd. Among...
...Maude to England I ¦.1 dtk wife...
...Songs in the spirit of the piece make pleasant interludes, and another excellent production of the Prpvincetown group is complete...
...HIPPODROME Eddie Leonard , and kit Minstrel Bunch, tht Balalaika Symphony Orchestra with Alex Ivanoff...
...duclng for a moron public, it will not avail to argue with you...
...His composition...
...John Golden will ttsrt casting "The Straight Shooter," a new drama by George Abbott, achaduled to open in Atlantic City on May 25...
...ha ia thinking ordered thoughts about Hfe, and?: making a deliberate record thereof...
...13-10tb A. D. I.ilh-iflth Assembly District haa moved to 41 Debevolso street, and meets every Thursday evening...
...Re a Martin will be succeeded by Lillian Ross...
...The function of play in adults has been ably studied in Dr...
...We humans have onjy recently developed the upper lobes of tho brain, and cannot stand using them sll the time...
...It is what dia-tinguishea art from other forms of expression, essays, sermons, speeches, mathematical demonstrations...
...Maude is appearing, •unojnieei the following cast: Alma [•II, Qoeffrey Miller, Margutrltt St...
...The Makropoulos Secret" has been adapted by Randall C. Burrell, formerly of the Harvard "47 Workshop," and the "Jltn«y Players.1' It was...
...Karel Caepk, whose "R...
...The Provincetown Players give a competent performance of the comedy, with many figures well presented...
...How comes it that the quality of enjoyment without thought, which is characteristic of popples aad ln« fantt, romts to be o.isldercd a greet quality in adults T In tho fields of industry and education, wa know...
...special features will be offered at each performance 1A addition to tht regular show...
...Larry Semen portrays th* role of tht "Scarecrow" originated by Fred Stone...
...The Makropoulos Secret," A New Capek Play, To Be Produced Soon Herman Gantvoort, producer of "Hell's Bells," announces that within a few Weeks he will present "The Mak-ropouloa Secret," a new play by Or...
...Let us have another principle, to guide us in our analysis: Art Is play, having for ita purpose the development of human faculties, and experiment with tie possibilities of rife...
...Borie Godunoff," With Chaliafiin—Final Week of Metropolitan Season "Cavalleria Rostietna" and "Pagli-acci" will open th* Ittt week of tht opera season Monday afternoon...
...Cort's production of "China reached th* century mark en JJJMtasy evening at the Knicksr-"*r Thettrt...
...Eva Clarke will offer a song cycle...
...If you art a moron artist, pro...
...The so-called "purity" of art la thus a form of artificial childhood...
...j, .1...
...Geletti and Kokln...
...August Claessens will -lecture on "The .Housewife and the Social Revolution," at tho Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman street, Brooklyn...
...And if you think that those who ran the world's thinking 1 for the ruling class an not Intel-I Ugent enough to formulate such a > purpose this, my reply li that 1 you are as unintelligent as they would wish to bo, and you Justify all ¦ the contempt they feel for you...
...and Cis function 1* carried right up into odern art products...
...WttMe Collins gave his formula for success aa a Action writer: "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait...
...that pitiful thing, tho mind of a, child in the body jf a grown man...
...it Is propaganda when It become, mat lire *nd conscious...
...Modern science has a name for such people) it eallS them morons...
...Patrick'a book, "The Psychology of Relaxation...
...Charles Ruggles will succeed Clark Sivcrnail as "Cousin Henry," Catherine Dale Owen will essay the leading feminine role now in the hands of Mona Kingsely...
...Abbott, last seen in "Processional," is alio co-author of "The Fall Guy...
...In other words, make 'am do just what they would have to do if they wore taking part In actual life...
...He writes: "There ia and should be such a thing aa the enjoyment of what we are pleased to term 'pare' beauty...
...and likewise it glorifies tho art-moron, the man who has emotion* without brains...
...But Jjotice this distincticmwf Two puppies, leaping at each other's throats'and dodging away, do not reason about what they a re, doing...
...Baehaut, Carrtrat, Qabrile-witaeh, HusMheJon and tehtlllng will take cart la the recital...
...jftf'tV a new play by Bate Betten, producsd by the Messrs...
...Feodnr Cbaliapin will give a aong recital at the Metropolitan Opera House Sunday afternoon...
...I. Gniomar Novaata givtt her final piano recital thlt Saturday afternoon at Town Bell...
...Harry Farbman will glvt hit violin recital at Aeolian Hall Sunday afternoon...
...Boris Godunoff," as a matinee on Wednesday with Delaunois, Bourtktya, Chtliapin and Rothier...
...John Cort le building a theatre at King (bridge aad Fnrdham roads, which will be named The Windsor...
...J«n, Harry Ashford, Hugh Huntlty, Whit Brooke, Issbel Lamon, Timothy J»»%, F. Gattnby Bell and Olive wts.SniJti,, foadway Brief $ JJm»'i, „Tht Wild Duck" retehet itt yik performtnc* at tht 48th Strttt "¦It Wedntsday afternoon...
...Helen Freeman and Rosalind Fuller sre likewise gracefully in evidence, with Eve Balfour and Adrienne Morrison joining hands...
...Walter Abel, Sir Sampson...
...Tht announced Butonl Memorial eon-cert will ttkt place at A itllan Halt Hen-day night...
...Healy and Allan Cross, Qeorge McKay and Ottle Ardlne, Wilfred fisrk'e and Company, Douell* Phillips and Harriet Sill, Henry He-Arthur and other actt...
...the play loses nothing if ita flavor, and gains a desl through the fact that time hss grafted new artificialities upon us, in the shape of censorships and taboos and respectabilities of unspoken words through which "Love for Love" breaks boisterously...
...Sophie Tucker, Kitty Doner, with Eddlt Fits-gerald...
...I do not want to gain an argument by the easy device of omitting everything that does not help me...
...Tht Rlvoll will chtng* its policy ntxt Wttk, "Tht Codt of tht West," closing on Thursday to permit prtptratlons for tht premiere of Gloria Swanton's "Ma-dai.it Sans Gen " on Friday evening The theatre will remain dosed throughout Friday until SilO p...
...Slnyl Mandtll witl glvt a cottum* recital for childrtn tnd adults at tht Princttt jThtatr* on Sundty afternoon, April 19...
...Monday evening, April IS, Morris Paris, B.A., L.L.B...
...Aid,,," Fridty, tvening with Rttabtrg, Branxtll, Lauri-Volpi and Bohnen...
...it Is necessary occasionally to let them root, and to live in the lower centers...
...Hwsee Brahsm, now playing tht title ?» "Iht Rat," will bt ftttortd in ' *» »lty by Earl Carroll...
...The Wizard of Oa" has been familiar for the past twenty years...
...Music lovers will have a large increase in the number of low-priced seats ntxt season...
...The Keith acts Will Include Ruth Roye, Ed...
...To my friend the Poet, who asks if I believe in play, I answer by pointing to my tennis racqnet...
...Dohnnnyi, a native of Bratislava Pres l'ii'.-, now living in Budapest', ii one pf the outstanding figures among contemporary Hungarian musicians, and it conductor of .the Budapest Philharmonic Society...
...LtkttOI it the author of "The Sapphire Ring," which opens at tht Stjwyn next Wtd-ntsdty...
...State Symphony Ernst von Dohnanyi and Eugene Goossens Engaged for Next Season THE State Symphony Orchestra an-inunced recently tho engagement of Ernst von Dohnnnyi and Eugene Goossens, as conductora for ita third season, Mr...
...This land, where the favorite bird was tht quter little euekuo, where tht favorltt beast waa horned, where every ton tricked his father oat of the fertene" that he would ultimately have received hat he could net watt for in dutiful patience, where every man was honest —who had never been fhlsted, '*nd ?very'woman a virgin -who had never been tried: this land lives 1n the peg...
...Coa.it...
...Two puppies pretending to bite each other's thrusts learn to fight without having their throati torn in the process...
...Travlata," Wednesday tvening With Borl, Egentr, Lauri-Volpi and DeLuca...
...Others in the ctBt includes Bryant Washburn, Charlie Murray, Virginia Pearson, Oorothy Dwan and Mary Carr...
...Montgomery snd Stone gained their fame in the musical comedy version...
...Sundty night't Easter concert will b* for th* benefit of th* Metropolitan Opera Emergency Fund...
...include orchestrsl works, operas, songs and solo snd ensemble instrumental pieces...
...Chevalier Brothers...
...the entire play, with ita unreal life and its pleasant "god from-tne-machine" type of ending, exists to remind an artificial eoriety that behind its play and pretending one thing at least, love, is real F.ven today that story can be told...
...tfrled," Fritt Lang't production TWA, will have its American pre-J*ln Rochester Monday night, under J^JMelcet of the University of RoJft* School Maid," th* 8hub*rtt' let-XPnlctl production, optntd Thurs-¦Njlt tt tht Majestic Thtatrt In A»t* ballet from Offtnjfceh'i optra ¦%"U Orandt DuthatsVde Qtrol-¦j- *m introduced Friday night in n 1st* Beng," at the Century...
...tht former with Ettton, Delsunols, Toktt-yan and Balletttr;' th* latter with Mario, Mtrtlnelli and Scottl...
...Man and Wife," a comedy by the ^Hungarian playwright Lasilo Lakatot, will be presented by the Chtrles Froh-niinin I'umpany next season...
...So all young creatures develop their faculties...
...How comes it that such defective mentality is glorified in tha field of art...
...He will conduct the remaining performances...
...Among those who thus differ is a friend of mine, a very great poet, who is patiently reading the manuscript and suffering, both for himself and for all poets who will follow him...
...unendingly through every rharaeter the theme of love recurs...
...The Wizard of Oz"— Albertina Raich Girlt At the Colony Sunday L. Frtnk Btum't "Wisard of Os" will bt shown at B. S. Moss' Colony Theatre, beginning Easter Sunday, In connection with other features itjcluaV Ing the, Albertina Rasch Girls, In t danet novelty, "The Ptstelle Ballet," created and staged by Albertina Reach...
...This Is the ons indispensable element: tha artist, by whatever trick, must persuade us that this is no trick, but reality...
...But what shall we say about adults who play all the time...
...But we have to inquire: how comes it that the art of morons is glorified and defendsd as "true" and "sure'' art...
...The answer Is what you will expect from me...
...Music Notes Sophie Bratltu glvet her reclttl in Cirnegle Hall on Thursday evening...
...Qunrteti by Haydn, Mozart and Brahms will be presented...
...Toto, Jack Benny, Jack HaUy and Helen Eby Rock...
...And again: "Jfou matt believe either that we have a fight 4o play, in which case the poet-who-dotsn't preach" 1* justified, or believe the contrary, with its corollary of a coming race of solemibaci-entiftc monsters...
...As conductor In this country, most of his activities have been in Rochester as loader of the local Philharmonic Ochestra...
...The anawer Is: play ia Nature's device whereby the young train themselvei for reality...
...Goossens, son of a Belgium.conductor, was born in London, and has had a wide experience ts conductor, both of opera and symphony, in Great Britain, notably with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Brltith National Opera Company...
...Tht feature picture wilt bt a new production, ."White Wan'," from tht novel by George Agnew Chamberlain, starring Alice Joyct, Kenneth Harlan and Walter Long...
...they are guided by instinct 'But a modern novelist knows what he ll doing...
...Dillingham, under whose ¦Magtmrat Mr...
...It glorifies the scholar, Hitman who walks backward through life...
...Just at the Chinese bind the feet of their women in order to keep them helpless and acquiescent, so ruling-class culture binds the imagination of tha 1 race so that it may not stride Into tho future...
...Pelless tt iMelisande,"' Monday evening with Borl, Howard, Johnson and Whitehill...
...II Trova-i ore," Saturday night with Eaiton, Tel-vt, Mnrtinelli and Dtnise...
...Love for Lav'**..whila^ Bet the most fainoD*, is , • i,aj.it (he best knit of Ins stones, with, «ll tht complications worked out that every Restoration drama teveala, Ita dialogue catches every rung on the...
...Der Frei schutx" TJiursday tvening with Rtth-berg,' Daldlty, Taurhe?' rfnd ' Bohaett...
...ef Cofigreve and on the Haglt where he V> revived...
...nor eta ifbe entirety*'propaganda, if it i«> Wmm» at*, tt moat keep fx* JjM form Moreover, the play element must be real, not simply a shami the work mutt be a representation at life to skillful that we can pretend to take it for aotualKy...
...Cyril Maude In "Aren't We Alir At the Globe Monday Cjlfl Maude, the English artist, re-Mi tt the city in Frederick Lons-W*"i comedy, "Aren't We All...
...it li merely because the play element in art U recognized by everyone, to the exclusion of the element of rational thought and purpose whicrf is no less essential...
...hia sons, Stanley Howlett as Valentine, and Ivins ss B«n;Edgar Stehli ss Tattle...
...Witl deliver a lecture on "Religions," at the Labor Lyceum, 210 Sachman street, under the auspices of the Socialist' Party...
...E. J. Bsl-lantine aa Foresight...
...Shuhert ^wtatlt, wtia Jean CretawtU...
...The clubhouse will be open every evening...
...So we have a second principle: ", , Art ia play, to the extent I hat it ia Instinctive...
...and Cecil Clovelly as the servant, are all old friends snd welcome...
...Tht third eonctrt of chirabir music by Mltcha Elman and hit string quartet la scheduled for Wednttday trtning at Town Hall...
...Thsro s a class which owns and runs tho world, and wishes everything to stay as it is...
...As one of the functions of ownership, this class controls culture and determines taste...
...U. R." and "The' World We Livt In...
...in other words, to go back Into childhood and play...
...Let us ask: what is play...
...which »ill ret,pen ,t the Globe Theatre Mon-''l.Wt The last metropolitan run *J||y was interrupted by the ' Ttttfs of Mr...
...Edna Brothers by Louise Carter, and Donald McClelland by Lewnrd Meeker...
...From many new novels I may learn, without risking the fatal experiment, what will happen to me If I permit the wild beast of lust to get me by the throat...
...Manifestly an element of play is essential to all art...
...T. S. Five changes in the cast of "White Collars" at the Cort Theatre take plact Monday...
...21st...
...PALACE Clara Kimball Young In "Hie Adorable Wife" by Tom Barry...
...Bo-henie," Saturday matinee with Mueller, Hunttr, Johnson and Seotti...
...Rat Samuels, Roy Cummjngs, Jot Mandi, eighteen months old chimpanzee, "Tht Vtnt-tian Mttqueraders'' and special N. V. A. Week features...
...If we do not emphasize this play element, it is not from failure to realize the difference between a work of art and essay, a sermon, a speech or a mathematical demonstration...
...ladder of love, with unhesltant steps running up and down...
...originally presented at the Opera House la Prague, following "R...
...At these tpecitl rehearsals compositions can be tried and their merits Judged by the composer...
...It will 'open in October...
...1----Vaudeville Theatres MOBS' BROADWAY ' R. at- Meat' Btoadwaf Theatre, tesginning Monday, will eelehfttt N. V. A. week...
...He has sn important plsce smong modern British composers...
...FRIDAY, April 10...
...U, It " and "The Insect Comedy,'' reused quite a sensation a sesson or two ago...
...Admission' th fcsfisV 1...
...therefore I take up this friend's conten-t um...
...A feature for next season, which will hsve twenty concerts, at Carnegie Hall, are ten special rehearsals to aid American composers...
...Dohnanyi will be in charge for the first pert of the season beginning Oct...
...The first meeting will be held Thursday evening, April 17...
...Love for Love" Congreve's Comedy' Revived of Greenwich Village Theatre la th* period which followed tat Puritan Revolution ia England, attention wat turned more and mere te conduct, to manners, to external manifestations of conformity, in courtly circles, this attention, which was a compromise between Puritan severity ef living aad Cavalier license, grew to the code of gallantry, to that decorous reveling in the fashionable preliminaries of love, that piny of fan and hand and eye and word, of sheerly veiled allusion and silk gloved insiraando which wat caught and carried to heights ef artifice in the comediet tj Cpngrtve...
...Maniftxtfawrt flan nevefWIt tirely play, because no human being is entirely ilnetlnctive...
Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 15
