Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 27, 1914, Page 7

NORWICH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1914 ON EVE OF GREAT DRAMATIC PERIOD Says Professor Phelps of Yale in Slater Hall Lecture. Course— Modern Critics Have Their Minds Closed to New. Impres- sions—But Musical Comedies Now are Not Equal to Good Old Comic Opera. The sbcond afternoon of the pop- first nighters to the great literary pub- ular lecture course lived up to name as successfully as the first and found a good audience at Slater hall to listen to Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale university, upon the present conditions and tendencies of the drama.- : Do not feel too bad, he said, be- cause the critics attack the modern stage. They have always run down their own age in every period. Our modern critic is high-minded, but he closed his mind years ago to new im- pressions. In 1607, probably the time of high water mark of dramatic pro- ductions, Ben Johnson criticised the drama of Shakespeare and his con- temporaries as dreadfully poor. Again in 1612 he did the same. In 1711 Richard Steele declared that all in- tellectual interest in the drama was dead—scenery was all there was left. It is the same old story today, when really we are on the eve of a great dramatic period. The past 25 years have produced as many good plays as any other 25 years since 1616. Names like Oscar Wilde, Pinero, Jones, Phil- lips, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett were noted as against three plays by Sher- idan and Goldsmith in the century be- fore. It is prophesied that the next great literary revival will be in the theater. By the present condition of the stage he meant today and of the 43 performances due in New York city tonight (Monday), there is no example of tragedy; there are 7 melo- dramas; 18 comedies, 3 farces, 1 opera, 3 musical comedies, 11 vaudevilles— and the movies. In 1900 the melo- dramas exceeded the comedies, being brought in by the romantic revival in literature. Neither Music Nor Comedy. After them the musical = comedy arose. This is neither comedy nor music and not_equal to the good old comic opera. This hybrid growth fell off in 1908 and now the comedies ex- ceed the other kinds. America is 2 long way behind Paris and Berlin, or was until the latter gave up artistic and literary pursuits for that of mur- der, America’s Opportunity. This is America’s opportunity to gain the leadership—not in war prep- arations, but in art, science, music and literature, . He compared the list of good plays he had to choose from one week in Berlin or the ten he actually saw in one week in Paris with the' poor ones given in Holyoke or Boston. Germany's Home Stock Companies. Every town in Germany used to have a sotck company. A town the size of Norwich would have everly new play in_ten days after its ap- pearance and the whole country be talking about it instead of waiting three years after New York, as now. A stock company tends, too, to ele- vate' the ~actor’s social position and they-are as much respected as any other profession if they live in a place all the time. The fondness for music halls and vaudeville is not a bad thing. It helghtens the drama by tak- ing away those to whom it appeals. It is only to amuse, &nd if poor can- not bore for long. The theater must cntertain. Then, too, Germany was uhead of all other countries in having ‘Le theaters begin early in the eve- ving. The theater was run for the people and so was able to touch the national life. Effect of the Movies. Moving pictures have been a good f1ng in their effect upon the theaters, The managers have had to sit up and take notice, so that a high class play is now more sure of an audience. The quality -of the men now writing plays is high. . And that the present is a literery drama cannot be doubted. The greatest dramatist today—Rostand—is & moet. So 18 Maurice Maeterlinc] In ¥rgland J. M, Rarrie is novelist 2s well as playwright. In Germany, Haurimann and Ludermann are lit- irary men. So is D’Nuncio in Italy. Russia’s greatest writeér is a dramatist and there is Ibsen and Strindberg in the porth. Literary men now not only write plays, they publish them as well. Even Barrie has consented it last. They are appealing from the itslic, Professor Phelps touched upon the influence of Ibsen in modern times and the redemption of the dialogue, the re- turn to the Eible as the great dramatic quarry and the importance of the New theater. This was a most profitable failure and did more than many great successes to raise the standard of the theater. It showed what a stock com- pany can do. It made the managers Jealous—but after thit things can never go back to where they were be- fore. Bad tendencies mentioned were the lust for scemery, the rise in the price of seats, which lowers the intel- ligence of the audience and the recent rage for dramatizing novels, a form of advertising fatal to dramatic art. Dramatic criticism should also be ele- vated and made absolutely honest. Audiences, too, should be more sin- cere and mot allow poor plays. There should be better acting, better crit- icism and better audiences. ROUSING REPUBLICAN RALLY. (Continued from Page Five.) without regard to Congressicnal Dis- tricts, if it wishes so to do, and the representation of Southern States in the National Republican convention has been cut down eight-seven in all. This meets the reform our Progressive friends advocate. The great madority ol Progressives now realiz> that con- t‘nued division :neans only the success of the Democratic, and =af‘er the ex- perience of the past two vears, they surely want no more of that. The rank ard file of those who left us two years ago, are honest, sincere men, WkLo now dezire, above ali other things, the re- sioration of a protective tariff. Re-Unite 4 Republican District. ‘This Second Congressional District is paturally a Republican District. Our business, farming, and manufacturing interests require Republican legisla- tion by Republican representatives. Mr. Dasis, who two years ago was the Progressive candidate for Congress, held in this district thirteen percent of the total vote, which was just enough to insure the election of a Democrat and the defeatiof a Republi- can. Progressives believe as sincerely as Republicans do in the need of Protec- tive Tariff. ;‘he European War, while it lasts, will’act in a_way as a sort of protective tariff, and when peace is declared, we hope that before they can again flood us with another great amount of foreign products and for- cign-made goods, that we may, with your help, elect a Republican President awnd restor a Republican tariff. Under these circumstances there should be no further division in our party. We feel that we all should re-unite under one banner and present a solid front to our Democratic opponents. We claim that because of the failure of the Demo- cratic administration to make good, it isa duty we awe to ourselves, our families, our state, and nation. Have the Democrats Made Good? - In the campaign of 1912, the Dem- ocrats claimed that they were goiug to free industry, to uphold manufactures, to increase wages and reduce the cost of living. Have they made good? By their record let us judge them. Free industry ~Why, my friends, in eigh- teen months of Democratic rule, they have freed more men from voluntary service than Abraham Lincoln freed from involuntary servitude. Upbuild our manufactures?. Why, when the Democratic Party came to control, it found excellent ~ business conditions, general prosperity of the people, and full employment of labor. For these things it has substituted, general stagnation, idle freight cars, a sure barometer of prosperity, and more than a million men out of employment. It found stability and transformed it into unrest. It fcund confldence, and changed it into fear of the future. Two years ago you heard plenty of promises/from Democratic speakers, of high wages and low cost of living. Have you heard them mention either since? 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Now they are attempting to use the foreign war as an excuse but there they run against the fact that the general business stag- nation existed before the war was even dreamed of, and at least a year ago, they felt compelled to offffer explana- tions. When the Underwood Tariff Law paralyzed business, Mr. Wilson said that the paralysis was not real, but merely psychological. But, my friends, there is nothing psychological about a deflated pay roll. It's as real as a deflated automobile tire. It is a puncture to the manufacturer and a blow-out to the working man. Democratic Leaders Criticise Demo- cratic Records. - Their own leaders frankly criticise the Democratic records. Congressman Fitzgerald, speaking of expenditure, =aid, “It is a horrible mess. 1 fear to face my constituents with such a record.Senator. Reed, Democratic sen- from Missouri, _stigmatized the Anti-Trust Bill, “as a fraud shameful Dbetrayal. Senator Williams, Democratic senator ffom Mississippi, said on_ the floor of the Senate ‘The poor old, dear old foolish Democratic party is going through the same game that she can generally be trusted to do as soon as she gets into power.”. -That - is- ‘what thelr leaders say. Here is what one of the rank and file writes: “To the Editor of the New. York Heral Thank God for Woodrow Wilson. ; I'am not a Democratic politician vet I thank God for Woodrow Wilson. I have been a rallroad employee for twenty-four years and a Democratic ter for twenty-one years. I was laid off last June for the-first time in twenty years—thank God for Woodrow Wilson.” With my savings T bought five shares of the preferred stock of with a number of hands cut in two,|the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Combination Coal and Gas awlord ‘ RRanses You need a coal range in Winter for kitchen warmsh and for continuous hot water supply, but in Summer when you want a cool kitchen and less hot water a Gas range is the thing. You get botk in: the Crawford Combination Range and you get the best of each. The Crawford Gas Ovens are safe; explosions are impossible. Ovens there is an extra set of burners at the top for broiling. For sale by M. HOURIGAN, ich, Conn. No: Malkers, 31 Union Street, Boston In the End Railroad. Last month for the first time since I have owned the stock my dividend wns not paid because the railroad couldn’t earn it—tbank God for Woodrow Wilson. Last January the interest on my Savings Bank de- posit was cut fram 4 per cent to 31-2 per cent. But still I thank God for ‘Woodrow Wilson because what his ad- ministration has done to me has made me see what 4 fool I've been to sup- port a party which has done me so much harm.” Republican Achievements. Abandon such a party, my friends, desert it, if that's the proper word, and join the Republican party, which in the past has always been, not only the part of promise but also the party of performrance. In the last decade of Republican rule, manufacturing capi- tal increased from nine billions to over eighteen billions, the value of manu- factured products from thirteen bil- lions to twenty-one billions, and the value of raw material used in manu- facture increased from six billions to twelve billions—the number of em- ployees engaged in manufacture in- creased from five to seven-and-one- half-millions—the wages to employees from two and half-billions to four and a-ralf-billions. The value of farm property doubled and our export trade ;Pcrea!:flc two hundred and fifty mil- on. Under Democratic Administration Compare the frst six months of 1912 with. the first six months of 1914, when the democratic administraticn was in power, and we find ®hat in the latter period commercial failures increased 70 per cent. and banking failure over 60 per cent, railroad earnings fell off over 10 per cent in gross amount and the number of idle freight cars in- creased 200 per cent. Under the new tariff law, imports increased over $122,000,000. If these imported goods had been made at home, the unem- ployed would have been kept busy, the idloe freight cars would have been used in moving them from state to state and both railroads and mills would have been kept out of the hands of re- ceivers. 0 I have gone into figures because these facts measure to you and ts me and the country at large the difference between these two parties. Which party, in your opinion, ought to be en- trusted with the government of this nation? 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Before that the Connecticut members didn't understand what they were up against in Southern domina- tion of legislation, so that when they protested that they couldn’t vote for measures which would be against their promises to their constituents, _they had the riot act read to them in se- cret democratic caucus. They were throttled and gagged and were between the devil and the deep sea. Mr. Un- derwood the democratic leader told them how they might have exempted thémeelves from being bound by the caucus, but none of them did so, and they ail voted for the Underwood bill under which in the first quarter after ed it again by introducing Senator Brandegee as the “honored” son of an honored father.” Senator Brandegee rerdrked in op- ening that he took it as an omen of sucess for the republican party, when 2 man like Mr. Brewer came out of his retirement because he felt im- pelled to show his interest in the party and the principles which it pro- fesses. He commended Mr. Freeman for having come over like an honest man from the democratic to the republi- can ranks, and he paid a tribute to Judge Marcus H. Holcomb, who was sure to be eclected Governor and was another who had seen the light and come into the republican ranks. Lieutenant Governor Tingler, he said the democratic candidate for governor had not always been a democrat, but had once been a republican, and Gov- ernor Baldwin was raised as a republi- can, but had become a democrat. He recalled the names of the re- publican congreeman, who had rep- resented this district from the time of the civil war and said that the his- tory of this country from that time had been the history of the republican partz7hich came into being with that beloved martyr, Abraham _Lincoln. (Applause). To deny the history of the republican party is to deny the prosperity of the country. All the great statues written on Its books had been adopted by the re- publican party, and our achievements as a country were the pride of every patriotic American and the envy of|said Senator Brandegee. every foreign power. Republican _principles had been en- dorsed year fater year till it came to be considered that the fundamentals of the republican party had become imbedded in the principles of the na- tion. But two years ago 34,000 re- publicans in Connecticut felt . called upon to withdraw as a separate wing and the democrats slipped into power. They claim that it was with the man- date to smash the protective tariff, but they never received such a mandate. They are the party of minorities and always will be. Connecticut is not and will not be a democratic state. Three fourths of the progressives are back in the republican party mnow although they are mot saying much about it. for the shouting is all being done by} the other one-fourth of the party. A minority came into the governin; power because the majority was d vided. The progressives believe in American principles and 4n_nothing that the democrats declare for. They are just as anxious to put the dem- ocrats out as we are. Let them get into the fray then and have a hand indeciding this question. They are the friends of the American Deople. and I believe they are going to be with us. Senator Brandegee devoted consid- erable time to showing how powerless the five Connecticut democratic con- gressmen and other northern congress- men are to influence legisiation af- fecting their own constituents, be- cause the chairmanships of the im- portant legislative committees are all in the hands of Southern democrats by reason of their seniority. Before election the democrats went up and down saying they wouid do nothing to injure any Connecticut] it was in effect our commercial opera- tions showed a loss of $160,000,000. Democratic “Statements The senator quoted Mr. Underwood, who declared that there isn't a par- ticle of possibility of the democratic party fixing a tariff_so low as to equalize the cout of production at home and abroad, and Senator Sim- mons of North Carolina, who said that we are not trying to balance the labor cost because we are not trying to give protection in the duties imposed by the tariff bill. 3 Before the passage of ihe Under- wood tariff bill, Senator Simmons had stated that the country seemed t at an unparalled stage of prosp but in one month after its pass Senator Brandegee said over 60 mii- lion dollars’ worth of imports had come from abroad in articles every bit of which might-have been made here. e Democratic Promises Failed The trusts have not been busted and the cost of living has not been re- duced. All the. democratic prpmises have amounted only to promides. The speaker read from quoted re- marks of Governor Baldwin regarding the way the tariff ®ill had affected New England industries, in which the governor admitted that the new tar- iff might have borne hard on some, but said democrats were most likely to make needed changes. “The gov- ernor appeals to you to Support him for what the democrats have. done,” ‘and for what he is going to: undo. For a chief justice of the supreme court of ervors, his wits seem muddled.” I'm not going to endorse a presi- dent and a policy that has filled my state and my country with.men look- ing for work. We are wallowing in a democratic quagmire of trouble and we must stop this ghost dance under which the American manufacturer has Dbeen in gooseflesh and chills for the last two vears. 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He brought out vigorous appla as he spoke commendatory words Freeman A Candidate Sherft for congress Brown, Probate ng, and the state he said was irreproach- om top to bottom. fore the Germans will definitely aban- Chairman Brewer’s “Goodnight.” dney “I'm glad I came,” eclaimed Chair- man b a rose to his feet when Senator concluded. “Three cheers fo: tuy more millinery American women than $10,000,000 worth supplies from France. of