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GRATH,
SATURDAY, MARCH 24,
THE "DISMAINESS” OF HIGHLAND CHIEFTAINS
"GREATNESS.”
SOME REFLECTHINS ON STRINDBERG.
SIX HUNDRED YEARS OF (IVALRY.
Tho spth of a coin, the fall of a One has to be awfully careful card, or the pace of a hores, has when he writes about foreign altered the course of many men's dramatists, because foreign drama-lives. When three rival Highland Lista are Art and Life. Any Chieftains meet on February 28 body whose name ends in "old" or and 29 a coin will be tossed on enchi "vitch" or "berg" or "ov" has an occasion to decide which of them thel immeasurable hdvantage over shall take precedence, says ""rids," "wards,” "ghans," and London Morning Post of Feb. 20. The occasions are the annual High- held in Glasgow and Edinburgh. land gatherings of Clan Donald,
"dales."
Shaw is the marvel of the age because, being the lowest of low-
Each Chieftain claims to be sup browa that ever put pen to paper........ he can point the most serious moral rome Chief of the groat Glan without making his characters Donald. But since the dispute le writhe on the floor he has com- of nearly six hundred years stand- pelled the "Art-and-Lifers to at-ing they have agreed among them-
selves that whenever more than oney knowledge his genius.
Chieftain is present Dacie Chance shall decide who is to occupy, for Supreme Chief of the Clon. The the moment, the position of coin having spoken, the pipers then lead the winning Chief to the place of honour which all his sup- portars declare to be his by.right.
each! But the gathering, over, his claim without prejudice... Chieftain may continue to assert
I went to see Robert Loraine the other night in Strindberg's play, The Dance of Death" play which, in point of construction, 15 beneath contempt. Strindberg is so terribly anxious to let people know just how he thinks about things that he can't abide any body else even thinking. The con- sequence is a perfect monologus with occasional interruptions.
The dispute dates back to the Loraine was wonderful, as usual.. The rest of the characters were year 1307, when John, Lord of the illogical and stupid, They would Lales, divorced his wife to marry the daughter of Robert II. of Stof- have been illogical and stupid in land, the first King of the House "The Father," only Strindberg of Stuart. At that time. the who has more self-pity into Donalds were a great warrior clan, dramatic shape than any author holding allegiance to no man; their living or dead-found it necessary Chief ruled as a virtual inde to etch in nurse and a wife in pendent monarch of the Western order to point the diabolical Highlands. In 1411, Donald of treachery of woman. So he made the Isles endeavoured to make him- the nurse a beautiful,figuro, that her "basepes" at the and should self King; with ten thousand stal- warts he invaded Scotland, but: be more emphatic, and the wife a
was defeated by his own uncle, the. more or less real woman of
Regent. diamond-hardness.
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Divided Clan
enough, their allegiance had nothing to do with their origin, for those Chieftains who could trace their blood to the second wife of John, Margaret Stuart, daughter of Robert II, did not necessarily support the Stuarts, or vice versa; the sides they took appear to have been prompted more by rivalry within the Clan than anything else.
Genius And Misery,
Eventually, when John's grand- Reading his life some years ago, són, Donald, died in 1545 without I sympathised with this queer issue, the Clan split up into various megalomaniac; having seen two of branches, which were often at open his plays, my sympathy goes to the enmity with each other. And but wretched woman who had to endure for the Internal dissension of this contact with a man whose charac- 'powerful clan a certain page of ter was entirely without spiritual | History might never have been beauty.
written. In the rebellion of '45, What puzzles me about those the Clan was unable to meet on grim dramatists is this: why is common ground, and some support- gloom invariably associated withed the Hanoverians while others greatness? Why is it that the fought for the Stuarte, Curlously type of human being that lives on muts and wears sandals can find nothing brilliant in those exotic comedies of foreign origin which keep sano people in fits of laughter? Is it a pose or a disease that they must salute misery with the name of genlus7 Strindberg has written at least two plays which are studies of self-pitying men. The Tather had a story; "The Dance of Death" has none. Thoy are alike only in ono respect, that they give a great actor great op portunities. If Nool Coward suffered from chronic indigestion and a sluggish liver, and cared to put his physical miserios plus (lot us say) an unhappy love affair on to paper, he would make Strind- berg look like the paper on the wall of a seaside lodging-house.
Strindberg nearly touches great-ed the peace. ness in "The Father"--but only be Cause of his un-reticene, Any- I'have seen the document; it is an body, it seems, can be great if they impressive parchment, bearing the lack self-restraint, A sense of seal and afgnature of each Chief. humour and an appreciation of the Nome walves his claim but cach common decencies of life, and, agrees to cease from "active" ng- having some writing ability, cansertion of his claim, and in the event give their ugly and distorted vision a dramatic form.
This rivalry continued all through the vicissitudes of the Macdonald family long after they had been dispossessed of their land and their power right down to 1911. Any form of social or welfare work be- came impossible until the three present day Chiefs put their heads together and signed a treaty, tripartite agreement among them- selves, in which they agreed to toss a florin when their dispute threaten-
The Agreement.
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of more than one being present, "the question of pre-eminenco and You must be drab to be great; precedency within the Clan-having you must only write about the lower to be considered, auch pre-eminence middle classes and their problems and precedency shall be pe- Apparently all the tragedy of life | remptorily decided for the occasion is concentrated in the lives of by lot without prejudice to the schoolmasters, shop assistants, im- permanent position and claim of pecunious officers, doctors, lawyers, any of us.” and other members of the bour geolsle. Grand dukes and grand duchesses, princes of the blood royal, ambassadors, and ministers of state do not interest the writers of these plays. And they are men and brothers; they too have In growing toenails, or what wer it is that wraps a man's soul and blunts his fincat feelings,
The names of the Chieftains themselves are impressive; in the preamble they read as follows; "We, the undersigned, Angus Rode rick Macdonald, otherwise Mac Mhic Allein, Chief and Captain of Clan Ranald; Eneas Ranald M'Donell, otherwise Mac Mhic Alasdair, Glengarry, and Sir Alexander Wentworth, Macdonald Highbrows And Lowbrows,
Bosville Macdonald, otherwise Mac- The truth is that these high Dhonuill na'n Elican, of Sleat, brows are most horribly self- Knight Baronet, desire, &c. centred. They think nothing The treaty was signed by Glen- happens outside their own froway Barry in Russia, by Sleat in York- circles and beyond their own un-shire, and by Clanranald in France. Thus from time to time thees fortunate experiences which has
the slightest interest for humanity. three rival Highland Chieftains They take no account of the meet, and for the evening or the milliona of really, happy people day, carry on the ceremonial and there are in this world whose life traditions of their once most power- is at least as interesting as the treaty and the cotn, they no longer ful clan, But, thanks to the miserable existence of Edgar, "actively" assert the claims by be- Strindberg's living monumont. One has had any amount of ex- labouring each other with clay- perience of the macabre,
once saw a sergeant of in-
moro,
fantry dying on a military hospital gether and had a bearing one upon bed, and his brother standing by the other. But who would bene- his side, reproaching him with anj fit7 I think it would be better to inconceivable bitterness for some dramatise the "Paychopathia"-at. wrong he had Inflicted on him. I least there is some theory to ba have seen a woman of the town learned from that, who, having discovered that her Sentimental dramas of the "East own daughter was following the Lynno" type were useful, since they, same profession, had slashed her gave our emotional parents an ex- face with a razor to make her un, cuse for a good cry:" but what attractivé. ' 1'. Have listened to a ] is the value of a play that sends an woman tell how she killed the erip audience into the street with their plied son she loved because she minds as muddy` as a churned was terrified of leaving him to the duckpond? world
However, brilliantly acted-and. You cannot be a newspaper re there is no doubt about the genius porter, as I am, without meeting of Robert Loraine-plays of the caso after caso of horrifying | Strindberg type do not deserve a incidents In real life. But long run, and it is a very whole shall," I benefit If I put these some and healthy sign that such incidents into play form? Ithames do not tune in to the could with the greatest case con balanced British mind, I shall alk. struct a play or a story in which ways be a lowbrow because I am a all these Incidents were linked to utilitarian.
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