Life — April 4, 1907 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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ZO in was born too early to read and heed this admonition. More's the pity. annot sce how tremendously ‘They think that ‘Innocents \broad”’ represents him at his best; that “The Jumping Frog” is more important than his imperishable discourse on Abelard nd Héloise; that his book on Christian ence must be a joke. Some persons do not even take Mr. Shaw seriously. And so yes. Only scruples of delicacy restrain from citing instances of potential present day Juvenals, Hugos, Tennysons, Mon- taignes, who must, willy-nilly, wear the cap and bells, because at the outset they put an antic disposition on. On the other hand—but no matter. * *« * Tis train of thought arises from ob- serving Owen Wister’s signal success whenever he essays the comedy vein, The reception cf “Em'ly” alone, in the earlier might have turned him from path of serious portraiture, and made him avowedly a comic writer. But ex- cepting an occasional excursion, such as his delightful “Philosophy 4,” he has dis- creetly preferred to maintain the balance, and to employ humor only as an accent x 8 * =XCEPTION, too, is his most ntventure—the fling at his friend, the President, and other phonetic reformers. And coincident with this is the announce- ment that Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club will probably revive for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the class of ’82, in June, the play that made it famous—his “Dido and Eneas.” rious he is. it R. WISTER not only wrote this play, but set it to music, too. For, though few of his readers may know it, he has qualified as musical critic as well as for the bar. Most professional writers sooner or later convert this sort of technical knowledge into “copy.” ‘Thomas Hardy, for example, tuned his architectural stu to good account in “The Laodicer . But only one instance comes to mind where Owen Wister has drawn upon his musical equipment: in the charming story of the California mission priest who, for lack of religious scores, set his flock to singing the Lord’s praise to the accom- paniment of grand opera airs. As for the law, Mr. Wister has not touched upon that at all in his i “‘A mere accident of selection,” he explained to the writer, “If I don’t develop two such tales suggested by things I saw happen in Texas and at Seattle, it will be because these two stories would not add any suffi- ciently new touches to the general Western portrait I have attempted to paint, but would merely repeat and duplicate strokes already put in. There are a number of stories I shall never write for this reason.” ing policies. 125,000 Vehicles. gan in 1852. unswerving adheronce to sound principles. The Studebaker Station Wagon. 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