Judge — March 22, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Does Your Human Nature Need a Change? (Continued from page 20) play, “The Fool,” “shows his opinion of money by the kind of people he gives it But the passage in Mr. Lawson’s book which we personally greeted with the pro- | foundest satisfaction occurs on page 88, and is a part of his discourse on the play nstinet which we have inherited from our primitive ancestors—if Mr. Bryan will | permit us to have primitive ancestors. “Almost the only mental signification which we attach to the word play,” he writes, “is in connection with playing cards, hereon our profoundest commer- cial and social intellects concentrate like God Almighty pondering the problems of Creation. It may be worth mentioning that all the creators and near-creators, the artists and the artistic, whom I have ever met, without one exception that I can recall, loathed cards. I cannot imagine God playing bridge or solitaire; hoth are so slightly creative.” Well, if there's any one thing which bores us more than another—and_ there are several—it is playing bridge. We used to think this was due to our feeble powers of concentration. But now we | now it is because we are creative. | ki tis bh we are creativ Thanks, Brother Lawson. Like Professor Robinson in his “Mind | in the Making,” Mr. Lawson devotes nineteen-twentieths of his book to ques- | tioning our current civilization, our 1924 brand of human nature, and only one twentieth to suggesting the proper course of procedure to change it into something better. As those people who remark, “You can’t change human nature,” would say: “OF course, it is easy to criticize.” However, the first step in changing human nature is always to create dissatisfaction with the existing brand. That is the first step in changing anything. And we haven't, after all, got beyond first: steps as yet. In fact, most people still on all fours. They are quite satisfied with themselves as they are. EAR AGO the Little Theater Society * * of Indiana offered prizes for the best one-act plays, and these prize plays have now been gathered into a volume “Indiana Prize Plays” (the Bobbs Merrill Co.). There are six of them. But only one of the six, in fact, appears to be a genuine Hoosier product. If the Little Theaters are going ever to produce a local drama worth serious attention, it has first got to be a folk drama of the neighborhood, before it can gain the authentic voice to reach out beyond its own borders. Just the same, it is a hopeful sign when we get volumes of Indiana pl so called, and North Carolina plays, and California plays. It means the country is beginning, at least, to write its Declaration of Inde- pendence. The revolt from Broadway has begun. Deep Stuff. Absent-minded Motorist—There now, I’ve gone and forgot to bring the 27 darned car! comicbooks.com