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TWO LATEST BOOKS.
INDICTMENT AND DEFEŅUK,
["Bolshevism's Terrible Re- Adbert; coril," by Maitre. published by Williams and Norgate, Ltd., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2
Price Is, nuti
"The Republic of Armenia. By Mesrob J. Seth, M.R.A.S., published by the author at Lindsay Street. Calcutta, Price 2 rupees."
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in the United States, there being MARE, RUTHERFORD, ARTIST. "complete security of life and property."
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MR. GEORGE MOORE'S ANTHOLOGY.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1924.
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of course, to decide, for himself min's intense, his almost fright..and supremely lovely collection.eral tone of it, I discovered n appendix.
of
an
and John Clare his cool, con- Seven hitherto unpublished tented."Clock-a-Clay" and letters by Keats, and five un "Thrush's Nest,"
published poems, are incorpor It is as the work of an artist Readers of "Conversations in Mr. Moore's attitude is well ex-ated in a new biography of the expressing in his clear and Ebury Street" will remember pressed in his reference to poet by Miss Amy Lowell, an "Strikingly in contrast with beautiful prose the intensity of that during which Mr. George Wordsworth's sonnet on West-nounced by Mr. Jonathan Cape.
The author, who bases her work- Moore tried to shock Mr., Walter minster Bridge:--- this somewhat mild defence of Bolshevism is the second of the his feelings.
De La Mare and Mr. Freeman by "I admired it until I could no chiefly on her own valuable col books referred to above. Muitre ford's writings will continue to using the term outry-book," longer escape from the suspicion lection of Kents material, clears Aubert, the author, defended be read when his ideas have lost. declared his detestation of tur that it was not the beautiful up a number of hitherto obscure Arcadius Polounine before the
bot silver cigarette-boxes and image of a city overhanging points and re-dates some of the Criminal Court of Lucerne on a their significance. There is brend since, likened seats to "a river at dawn that detained the poorns. Extracts are given from charge of murder, Prisoner was quality about his prose difficult to pussy-cat on a sunny lawn," and poet, but the hope that he might the recently discovered letters of the admitted accomplice of suggest, impossible to define, crystallised his idea, long in solu- once more discern a soul in Fanny Brawne, and fresh light.
on Keats's life and Maurice Conradi, who shot which lends to "his simplest tion, of an anthology of pure nature. Having, 1 said to my is thrown Bolshevik emissary in Lausanne ¶¶¶ and the jury's verdict was one of description an extraordinary dis-poetry-the poetry, that is, of self, discerned a soul in a prim- work from certain new letters condemnation of the crime but tinction. It has a coolness about things rather than of thought, rose by a river's brim, it would from his brothers and friends. the poetry not lendened by seem to him parsimonious to limit The illustrations include a num- "It is not my object,” writes
moralities.
the habitation of a soul to a ber of hitherto unpublished por- the author, "to sing the praises acquittal of the accused on, the it like spring water, a luminous
of irresistible im-clearness which suggests the The promised anthology is now woodland flower, and he would traits, among them a drawing of 'grounds
silver and pearly grey of earliest gathered and most fairly set soon begin to seek it in bricks the poet, and a silhouette by his of Bolshevism or to advocato the
pulse."
Annotations by ause of Communism, but simply
dawn; there are no high colour- Maitre has painted a vivid
ings, nothing of the later reds down by the Nonesuch Press and mortar. But what would he friend Brown." to acdisint my patriots in Calcutta with the events which picture of life in Russia under and golds, but what there is here are those who will quarrel do with the soul when he got it? Keats in various volumes owned with Mr. Moore's thesis, but none And after reading the sonnet by him, and never printed be- a subdued light,
in also given led to the birth of the Armenian Bolshevik rule and if the in-glows with
but must delight in this small again and considering the gen fore, are stances he gives are at all repre- which is the reflection of the Republic."
"Mighty England," he con- sentative, which the reader has,
The original Conversation" carefully concealed morality in He would christianise the ening, earnestness. It is "this
Mr. Whibley is editing for sembodied in the thesis preced-£. WAS tinues, that as everybody'
he has certainly grounds for his earnestness which gives to his ing the poems, which will long soul in nature if he got it, I said; Messrs.
Constable a second given to understand, came into the wir with the avowed object claim that the system makes style its stark simplicity. There detain the reader, so richly close wherefore the poem comes under series of Tudor Translations"
for fine
of proselytiam in on the lines of the library devised of only saving the civilization of mockery of religion, destroys the is a complete disdain
the home, the writing, a dislike not merely, of are its engaging ideas, so felicit the head
by W. E. Henley more than Lus the gentle melancholy of its poetry." highly-civilized Europa, would do foundation of
cadences. It begins with a Pre-
thirty -E. S. H."
years ago. nothing for the poor, Armenians privacy of married life and has rhetorical tricks, but even
Twelve as the and had evidently quite forgotten done away with all honesty and such aids to expression as meta- Raphaelitish picture of a small
["Pure Poetry" An Anthe volumes are announced what the late Mr. Gladstone; the decency in every relation of phors and similes which most George Moore on the hard back.
logy. "Edited by George first instalment of the new series, writers feel they may legitimate seat of the family coach bound Grand Old Man" of England, had life." "
Moore. Limited Edition of ench "number of which will be a once said that to serve Arminin
"For five months, he writes. ly adopt; there is an economy in
for Galway, opposite a father
1,260 copies. 17s. 6d. The yerbatim reprint of a first or I have studied the distress and the use of adjectives, which once and mother who lay back on the
Nohesuch Press."]
early edition, accompanied by an is to serve civilization."."
Chivalrous France, after hav-agony of the Russian people. I again reminds us of Shaw and Cushlons and talked of "Lady"
introduction. Mr. Whibley is learned to know These two books which hay ng shamelessly, my, treacher have
himself contributing the intro the suggests a spirit too eager to Audley's Secret," thua leading
duction to Thomas Heywood's both arrived for review this week ously, betrayed the Armenians of ignominy of these butchers. To convey its peculiar consciousness the little boy to search the
version of Sallust's Catiline Con- are particularly interesting iniicia into the bands of their appreciate it one must have seen of the significance of the times library and come on the delight. the light of recent events in
A pocket edition of "The spiracy and Jugurthine War executioners, suddenly withdrew the sufferings of the Russian and the changing story of man's of "The Sensitive Plant.": Chua and Yreat Britain where from Armenia as she did not people heard, that endless moan life, to avail itself of resources
There is a leap into to-day Dynasts," in two volumes, is an (1601), as well as" to "The" organisations are said to be perhaps wish to displease Kemal that resounds from the Pacific which are merely literary. with a reference to "Riceyman'a nounced by Messrs. Macmillan. Famous Hystory of Herodotus,” .carrying
out" extensive preist Turkey, lest her prospective Ocean as far as Poland, the moan
Steps;" "The only break in this The second volume is completed printed by Thomas Marshe in Mr. Hardy's play, The 1584, both of which will be pagunda.
coneessions in the New Turkey of un
the most objective of Famous Tragedy of the Queen of among the first dozen volumes. people, Ore must hear the
devastating tide of subjectivity by tragic appeal which reaches us
novels, more than any that I have Cornwall, first produced at Dor-Other early numbers will contain country of
written myself." incessantly from
A digression chester in November last. "The Rogue," translated by' One must
to objectivity in painting, with
James Mabbe in 1622 from the terror and death.
On the last day of the month Spanish of Matheo Aleman, in have a heart in one's breast and
Velazquez and Hals as shining not only à code! &
examples, concludes the thesis. Messrs. Macmillan will issue a four volumes, with an introduc- Fitzmaurice- The poems themselves are an volume of Leaves from "The tion by James.
They start Golden Bough,'" selected by Lady Kelley; "The Civile Conversation uncloying feast: with the joyful description of Frazer and arranged under guch of M. Steeven Guazzo," trans Mistress Isabell Pennell by John headings as "Christmas and the lated by George Pettie and Young, in two Skelton ("a darling poet," said Mistletoe," "Uncanny Beings," Bartholomew Mr. De La Mare in the Conversa-"Quaint Customs," and the like. volumes, with an introduction by tion),,include many of Shake-The volume, intended chiefly for Sir Edward Sullivan; "Seneca, speare's songs and Blake's, and "those who are in the spring-tide His Tenne Tragedies," edited by cease with three of William of their years," has been illus Thomas, Newton, 1581, in two Morris's tapestries and Swinetrated by H. M. Brock. Later in volumes, with an introduction by "Nicholas burne's spring chorus from the season Messrs. Macmillan TS Eliot; and "Atalanta.".
will have ready a further instal-Monardes: Joyful Newes out of From Tennyson come "A spirit ment of Sir J. G. Frazer's work the new-found world, wherein are haunts the year's last hours, on "The Belief in Immortality declared the rare and singular "Marianns," and "The Lady of and the Worship of the Dead," virtues of divers and sundrie says devoted to "The Belief among the lierba, Trees, Oyles, Plants, and Shalott," the only poem,
"whereby Mr. Moore,
poor Micronesians," a race akin to Stones, and their applications," Tennyson justifies his existence." the Polynesians, who were dealt Englished by John Frampton. Shelley supplies several poems, with in the author's last volume Merchant, 1577, in two volumes. Landor his long "Hamadryad," in the series.
"introduced" by Stephen Gaselee.
The pooks do not contain
diametrically opposed arguments for whereas Maitre Aubert's is certainly a Indictment against Bolshevism in general, Mesrovir Beth's is argy, a defence of the action of the Armenian Govern- ment in taking refuge under the
tag of Soviet Russia.
CASE OF ARMENIA. ... Armenia berum a Soviet Republic on November 29, 1920. and Mr. Mesrovb Seth practical lydmits that it was to save the infant Republic from total ex- tinétion and complete annihila- "tion
21 the hands of the "Fanatical Tartars" and blood thirsty Turks" although he defends to. n certain extent Lin's doctrines by adherence to "which he thinks the Armenians
· will best be able to carry on the administration and the recon- struction of their little but highly fertile country.
should in any way be jeopardised
or negative.”
""Italy would no doubt have helped the Armenians, but she was single-handed and quite worn four and exhausted after the War
and hack first to put house in order before she could extend her sympathy, no matter how genuine to others in their hour of distress."
her own
enslaved and martyred
"I have lived for five months in thought with these people. I have travelled through their moribund villages and their ruined countryside. I have been "And Germany that would not in their dungeons. I have seen exchange the rotten bones of the ditches in which they have Pommeranian grenadier with shot their victims. I have seen the wholes of the Balkans, would the misery of the multitude and sommer see the Armenians of the the luxury of the rulers have bottom of the sea'than help them had to frequent the repugnant. to become in time a thorn on the company of those rulers, to rub side her dearly
of
beloved shoulders with them in Europe brethren, the Turks."
these rulers who pretend to These are the reasons advanced establish a kind of marvellous by. Mesqovh Sell for the reign of the proletariat at home, alliance contracted with the and Soviet Republic and he claims that under Soviet rule, life in Armenia is now as peaceful as
who have only brought misery to the working man those rulers who, by contrast, when they come to Europe, put.
Like all good writers Ruther
ing as an end in itself; he cared ford did not cultivate, good writ for what he had to say, not for the way in which he said it, and his style goes just as far in point of effectiveness und beauty of expression, as the momentousness of his own convictions carries! him. And, in the last resort, it is in the intensity of his feelings about the universe and of the strongly held convictions in which they issued, that the secret of his power as an artist is to be found.-C. E. M. Joad, in "The Adelphi."
up at the big luxurious hotels.
Russia under the Soviet regime has returned to a primi tive state? There is no longer there, the semblance of justice. there is only brute force, and
bows before Europe
monstrosity."
this
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STARTING TO-MORROW, 6 P. M.
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MAE MARSH
IN
"THE BELOVED
BELOVED TRAITOR"
A CHARMING STORY GF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY GIRL,
A I lay in which Miss Marsh appeare in a more strongly dramatic rôle
than usual, and in which her emotional skill is really surprising.
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"THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK”
with Miriam Cooper, Kenneth Haṛlari, Gaston Glass, Joseph Dowling,
Zasu Pitts, Fred Melätests, Ethel Shannon, Mary Culver Ed
FINAL SHOW TO'DAY}
IBY-ALLIMEANS SEE IT.
WORLD THEATRE
SCREENLAND.
'THE GOLD DIGGERS."
David Belasco In Movies.
Belasco in the Movies. That is the most revolutionary bit of news the-motion-picture-industry-ever- announced that the dean of the druma, revered and loved for his great influence on the stage, had at last turned his attention to the silent drama, to lavish upon it all the infinite detail, the meticulous care and stark power which go with everything connected with
outstanding successes which re- present the result of his life work. "I don't think there should be any rivalry between the stage and the screen," he says: "They ench have endless possibilities For expressing their story of the human soul and they can each do it from totally different angles." Every artist wishes.to tell his or her story to the greatest number of people. That I suppose is the humanitarian motive back of all art. What possibilities the pic- tures give for that. How wonder ful it would be if only we had a screen record of the greatest and most glorious of actresses-Sarah The Warner Brothers Organiza-Bernhardt, during the early part tion, which produces classics of of her career. Bernhardt as she the screen deserves a feather in was in Paris when she first played their cap for the achievement of "Camille.” It was real belief in bringing Belasco to the fold. The Warner Brothers' sincerity of pur- particular instance that occasion pose that make men enthusiastic ed the change was "The Gold about having Miss Hampton do Diggers," the great stage play, The Gold-diggers" for the which has enjoyed a great vogue screen." on the stage, playing continuously for two years in Broadway, and still going strong throughout the country.
his name.
The Gold Diggers is the first of the series of Belasco plays. To do it justice, the services of such stars as Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing and Louise Fazenda were secured, as well as Gertrude Short, Alic Francis, etc., etc.
For more than eight years, every American motion picture organization, large or small, has endeavoured to induce the greatest It is the story of a group of theatrical producer in the world to young chorus girls, blase, plea join the ranks of the silent drama sure-loving, happy-go-lucky, who and to permit the picturization of see life in terms of extracting the plays which, because of his painlessly as much as they can marvellous ability, have become from wealthy men in search of recognized as the deme of perfec-diversion. Jerry Lamar is queen tion in stage production.
THE GIMME GIRLS ARE HERE-
ALL SET TO GRAB OF ANYTHING.OR PERSON IN SIGHT WORTH GRABBING
"THE
SEE THEM
in
GOLD DIGGERS"
THE INTRIGUING SCRREN VERSION OF THE FAMOUS BELASCO HIT THAT RAN CONTINUOUSLY ON BROADWAY FOR TWO YEARS.
Made with the assistance and co-operation of BELASCO himself, and bearing his indorsement.
(A WARNER BROTHERS CLASSIC OF THE SCREEN)
with
HOPE HAMPTON, LOUISE FAZENDA, WYNDHAM STANDING AND A BRILLIANT CAST.
A picture with a theme as old as the ages, yet as modern as to-day's newspaper. It dwells on an interesting phase of sophisticated society, with the never ending feminine craving for Wealth and Luxury.
Commencing
THE
DATE
REMEM Wednesday, 10th, World Theatre
of them all, and, being a good girl «THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK." be constructed indoors, bushes,
trees, pool and all. Incidentally this decision made it possible to
studios new lighting parapher- bring into play the Schulberg nalia-used for the first time on
To, secure the services, the co- with strong influence, she is able operation and the extraordinary to keep them in check, and make talent of this foremost dramatic them lead good lives though, the The sheik episode, without. genius, who has been responsible voice of slander is busy through which no picture is complete, has for the brilliant successes of many the brash streets of Broadway and been given a new twist in Tom of the greatest stars who ever they are supposed to be dangerous Forman's film production of "The
A complete garden, with colossal appeared on the legitimate stage, to men. Jerry takes the initiative Girl Who Came Back," the "Tom an "exterior" scene. has been the laudable ambition of when a situation arises where Forman production showing at gateways and silken hangings was every individual or organization Viola, her, friend, is having a the World Theatre for the last therefore erected on one of the stages, which had been previously who desire to accomplish some romance with Wally, but is afraid time today. thing that would be universally of marrying because her sweet-A costume bail, staged with the cut away to make room for a st appreciated as one of the greatest heart will be disinherited. Jerry picturesque rim of the world" as in "Foor Men's Wives." In the forward steps made in the motion loses no time in proving to his a background, serves as the centre is a novel pool, on which. picture business in
the past uncle that underneath their gild- opportunity for the extravagantly floats a flower-decked boat, and in decade.
ing, the gold diggers are human staged, feature of the picture, whose depths splash oriental
Kenneth Harian, a recent acquisi- maidens. Warner Brothers, succeeded and fine. where others failed. It remained.
tion of the B. P. Schulberg In the picture, which is a film for this organization, now the
organization, appears, in the role version of Charles Blaney's famous. play of regeneration largest and most successful con-
of the sheik
Owing to the fact that the pleappear such favourites as Miriam corn in the country to convince Mr. Belasco that he owed it to
ture was filmed during California's Cooper, Kenneth Harlan, Gaston posterity to make a permanent
rainy season it was decided that Ginse, Za Su Pitts, Fred Malatesta and lasting record of some of the
the big garden exterior should and Joseph Dowling-
The Gold-diggers" will play at the World Theatre for four days beginning Wednesday next as the fesure attraction. It was directed by Harry Beaumont and adapted Grant Carpenter from the play
ery Hopw