Judge — November 1, 1924 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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William Kent in’ “Rose- Marie” “So the king sentenced me to be thrown into a cauldron of boiling soap and water.’ “What lux—what lux!” Young But Not So Stark hy George Jean Nathan I tank Younc’s play, “The Saint,” is very much like his dramatic criticism. It sounds good, but it is hard to make out just what it is about. It seems to be our colleague's technique to. think up something interesting and then deftly to conceal it with all the literary art at his command. To read one of his criticisms of a play is to come away with an idea about everything but the pla Young's especial forte is the dis- cussion of a production. He is rich in allusions to its nuances, its esprit, its timbre, its verve, its diatonic scale, its arpeggio, its demisemi- quaver, its oscillation, its allegro, its Anacrcontic values, its éan, and so on. If, in a certain exhibit, the Hon. Geoffrey St. Hubert V M.P., turns a step to the left ins of astep to the right in his avoidance of the revolver held by the Hon. Reginald St. Ives Goldvogel, K. C. Young devotes three or four indig- nant paragraphs to pointing out the grievous error in the direction, taken by the Hon, Geoffrey St. Hubert Wasserbauer, M.P., implying that the masterpiece has been entirely ruined by this ridiculous and inex- cusable blunder. And if, in another play, the heroine takes six seconds to pick up the tele- iver instead of five and a half, he is not less indisposed, after a few hundred words’ parenthetical eulogy of Stanislawsky and any other Russians who come to his mind at the moment, to point out the com- plete débdcle, dégringolade and culbute of stage direction in America. Young had a hand in staging his own play. It is therefore to be assumed that he put his theories of direction into that phone rec overpaid, to write theatrical sm. “The Saint,” as a play out traces of imagination, beauty and me But these, as I have hinted, are never permitted to take on their full potential value, Lack of a sense of sheer form and the apparent inability to work out a theme or an argument with lucidity lay heavy hands upon the manu- seript. Young can write. His diffi- culty lies in thinking clearly, (Continued on page 30) is not with- Frances Howard and Margaret Dale it “The Nydia Westman in “Pigs” “Tost my girl while I was away at Harvard.” Mrs. Lenor—Herbert was ayood © Marion—Good! Why hie was so sk to a party we'd lost our permahent w you probably can gether | back—she’s kinda weak-minded.” comicbooks.com