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NOVELS AND PLAYS
Mr. St. John Erving, the novelist and dramatist, was the guest of honour, at the usual house dinner of the Authors Club, 2. Whitehall-court, on Oct. Shad, and gaye an interesting address on " "Novels and Plays."
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, who presided, said their guest had many claims upon their hospitality and recognition. Ho was borelist, playwright, and critio. I He wore a triple crown-(hear hear) en up with and those various qualifications Obriously fitted him beyond most plier meir for the subject upon which he was to address them. He was outspoken, fair, and eu thusiastic. (Hear, hear.):
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Had they noticed the curious drop in the quality of the popular newspapers since the war as compared with their quality bofore the war) It was not one In paper it was all the popular papers tho old days before the war a paper like the Durly fit would publish a couple of column articles, and pretty good articles, loo; today they published six or four short articles-6 variety of suppitty articles which to him were unreadable, If they asked newspaper men why they published such staff they said that the renders of to day could not concentrate their minds for more than a thiril or a quarter of a culumm on one subject, and an article had to be brok-
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“and so on, 90 that people were humbugged into
believing that they were reading three articles when they were really reading one. Then there was the enormous vogue of the picture papers, in which more and more the ten- Mr. St. John Ervine, after returning doney was to give a picture and one word, thanks for the cordiality of the welcome They saw the photograph of a young extended to bira, in reply expressed the woman entirely unknown to anybody except view that we were half way through the her immediate relatives, and the only word engaged. (Laughter.) The iden transition period of the novel and the play, was: All transition periods, he said, were vague was that if they had." Engaged to be and indeterminate, and more notable for married," that would put too great a strain
than for order; but this" transition on the mind of the reader. Laughter.) period was particularly vague and messy because the normal disorder had been: in- The war, he concluded, bad "resulted in grensed by the confusion of the war. The an enormous increase of neurosis transition was from the Masculine to the main for movement had taken possession Feminine. There might be another transi-of young men and women who had grown when this was completed, from the up to manhood during the violent and Feminine to the Neuter. Off. Berdard strowing and wyerwright years of the Shaw, indeed, had lately produced a play war, with the result that they spent half in five sarial instalments, in which the the day and most of the night dancing Neuter Period was shown in full swing themselves into a state of nervous collapse. There would then be neither novel nor play (Hear, bear,) It was for these distracted her poem nor picture ner music, nor any young people that comic, entertainments
of thing but pure thought. Ali Utopians,
But not only had the were provided. course, saw the future world as a place nerves of the race been strained by the entirely inhabited by reproductions of
war; the mind of the race hait been neg themselves, and no doubt in a world popu fected. At the end of fifty-two years of lated by Bernard Shaws whirlpools of pure compulsory education they coukl fairly say intelligence would be very popular, but that the mass of the population was neither since the only interesting world known to
so sturdy in mind nor so staat in body us mankind was one in which there was the their ancestors of 300 years ago, the greatest diversity of persons he thought majority of who could neither read nor that Mr. Shaw's Heaven was likely to be write. Quite often during the last few a dreary institution. (Laughter.)
years young. men had stated in the courts. It was interesting to note that the great that they could not read, although ther days of drama were strictly masculine had spent years in expensive elementary Not only were the plays written and perchools. What was the cause of this it formed by men, but women were either 20 was hard to say; partly, no doubt, it was admitted to the theatre at all, or only per due to defective administration of the mitted to enter it in a fugitive manner and Education Acts during the war partly it strictly on the understanding that they was due to the fact that life had no use wers not respectable. (Laughter.) When for the education given to these people. the Greek tragedies were performed in the But, whatever the causes might be, the temple of Dionysus, the spectators were result was certain. A half-educated or an mon. There were very few women in the uneducated, overwrought, and fabby-min- audience of the London theatres when ded population was unlikely to be of any Shakespearo's plays were first performed, value whater to nation; and unless wo and none at all on the stage, nor were could scapehow restore the vigour, mentally there many women in the theatre when and physically, of our people we might Moliere was alive. In England, women did not begin to write for the theatre until the Restoration dramatists had done their worst for it, and then Mrs. Aphra Hehu determined to let them see that she could watdo them in every respect. Since the time of Mra. Behn the feminisation of the theatre had steadily proceeded from bad to worsa until to-day it was in the flapper state. What the future held for it he could not imagine, but clearly the tune in the theatro was being called by women, and chiefly by young women, whose taste so far had been for light stuff rather than for the solid material which was demanded in the Masculino Age. The most notable distine tion between the Masculine Age and the Feminino Age, so far as the theatre was concerned, was that tragedy was the sign of a manly people and comedy the sign of womanly people. All great rates, at their
greatest, delighted in tragedy,
Three great tragedians to one comedian had survived from the Greekschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in tragedy, and Aristophanes in comedy, Tragic drama was more conspicuous amongt the Elizabeth- nns than comic drama, and they remem- bered Shakespeare as the author of "Hamlet," King Lear," Romeo and Juliet," and Othello," rather than is tho author of The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Twelfth Night, "The Comedy f Errors." and As You Like It. But the moment a race began to decline in quality, tragedy began to disappear from its stage until, as in the days of the Roman decadence, its place was taken, as Gibbon declares. by licentious faroe, effeminate music, and splendid pageantry."
WOMEN AND THE THEATRE,
It seemed, indeed, as if women, in the theatro at all events, could not antem plate the thought of death with as much fortitude as men, and that because of this, as women became more predominantly the patrons of the play, tragedy was driven away from the stage. Ono observed this curious feminition of life in other matters. When boxing matches were ex- clusively patronised by men they were real matches, not lady-like exhibitions of An old-fashioned boxer got him.
ed into what was commonly call.
o jelly bofore he acknowledged his defeat; but now, when women patron- ised boxing matahes, a pugilist wont into a dead falat after receiving a single punch on the jaw and received £4,500 to te him. (Laughter.) A sort of refinement was the keynote of the Feminino Age, and it might very well be that as women entered more and more iate competition with men in the creativo arts, that the creative arts would perish. The novel and the play would be refined to death, and there would be no more litera- ture and no more drama Women outnum- bered men enormously in the theatre; women, far more than men, read novels, They might in their lifetime discover: that plays wara performed and novels were pub fished exclusively for women, and that man, deprived of aces to the arts of creation, would lose their capacity for creation altogether. On that day civilisation would perish. He declared that this pessimistio outburst was provoked from him by the fact that tragely was a sign of great spiritual and physical health in a nation. comedy and fares were signs of whereas spiritual and physical sickness. Comedi- ans were invariably melancholy nul many of them died in lunatic asylumst They had a great contempt for authom comedian were brought to that room and told that the audience was largely composed of authors his contempt would be extraordinary. Comedians only recreation was that when Bunday came they got out their hooks of Prose cuttings With time oven that and read them. pallet on them, and they died. What ar appalling thought it was that a race which clamoured incessantly for commie 'entertain ments wm really a demented, race (Laughter.)
mon
abandon hope of survival as a race of any importance. (Hear, hear.) The process of making all our institutions thoroughly ladylike might ultimately be good, but at the moment it seemed as if its chief result was to make them hysterical. A race of hysterical women was bad enough, but a rice of hysterical men was the very devil, (Laughter.) For his pact, he could not help wondering whether it would not have been better for the theatre if the rule that women should not enter it had never been abrogated.
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