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A MUSICAL DRAMA,

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EARL HAIG AS PREEMASON,

Earl Haig, whose interest in Freo- masonry is well known, has been invited to become the next R.WM. of Elgin's Lodge, Leven, Fifeshire. It was in this, his "mother" lodge, that Lord Haig received his initiation, away hack in 1899, though it was not until forty years later that he received the third degree. Eart Haig went a further step in Masonry the other evening, when he attended at Leven and took the mark.degree.

The interesting intimation is made that new book entitled "A Cadger's Creet" his to be published in connection with the effort of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club to raise funds to endow the birth- place of the famous writer in Edinburgh. Sir George Douglas invitation has brought contributions from 31 well-known authors, including the following: Hugh Walpole, John Drinkwater, Neil Munro, Lady Margaret Sackville. Stephen M'Ken. na, William Roughead, T. Ratcliffe Bar- nett M'Lean Watt, Joseph Laing Waugh, Ian Hay,J. Storer Clouston, Violet Jacob, and Will Ogilvie. A fea ture of the volume is that it will contain hitherto unpublished contribution from RLS himself.

EDINARA, October 21st, Mr. John Drinkwater's play on Robert Burns, which has just been published, will not rank on the same plane with some of his previous works perhaps, but it is

great effort. It is not a tragedy-in-LOUIS STEVENSON'S BIRTHPLACE. deed it begins perilously like a conyen- tional musical comedy-but it may well be described as a picturesque work of roman- tie sensibility and sentimentality cul minating in pathos. The obvious thing to notice about it is that it is a drama with music. It must not be supposed, however. that Mr. Drinkwater's play is an opera. or that he has made his Burns and his other characters mere operatic beings. For the most part, Burns's songs are dramatically introduced, and probably will especially in the wholly admirable and vigorous scene in Barley Sheaf- heighten the emotional valas of the drama

At Stanhope, Broughton, on the 19th, of which they are an integral part. In- inst, by the Rev. A. Kesting, B.D.. deed, one imagines that this dramatic use Drumelzier, John Findlay, of "Messrs. of song may make the play a popular Baroa & Bell (Ltd.), Glasgow, to Flor- success. That, however, cannos be judged ence Emily,daughter of the late Capt. by reading. A good defence may be offer. M'Ilroy, of Hongkong, and of Mra, George ed for the introduction of Barns's songs | Chambers, Falmouth.. Tanto a dramatic picture of his life. There is a passage in Carlyle's famous essay which may have influenced Mfr. Drink- water in this connection. The poems of Burns, writes Carlyle, "are hut like little rhymed fragments scattered here and there in the grand aurhymed romance of his earthly existence and it is only when intercalated in this at their proper places that they attain their full measure of Mr. Drinkwater's play is significance." quite obviously constructed so as to give the poems their full measure of signi. Seance" But in doing this he has tended to lose something of the reality, if not of the grandeur, of the unrhymed romance of the poet's earthly existence. The life of an artist is not necessarily illustrated by, his works of art.

LABRIAGE.

who SANK THE "EUDEN "Í

The publication of the official history of the London Secttish in the Great War recalls one of the classic jokes that en livened inter-regimental banter in France.. The London Jocks" were widely cele brated as the battalion that sank the Emden." The origin of the ironic dis- Linction is still matter for controversy. The London Scottish were," not unde servedly, the pets of a large section of the press, and one uncomplimentary ex- planation of their mythical exploit is that they were credited with every successful action in the war, from the Battle of the Marne to the anal rout of the Hun, ex- cept the sinking of the Emden, by this glorifying agency. A more probable ex- The first scene shows" Burns at his planation is "the following. The sinking gayest, brightest, most fantastic." The of the famous German raider took place on the same day as the London Scottish shows him in "looser, louder, more exciting society." bhaving covered themselves with glory in what been initiated in those dissipations, was practically their baptism of fire at those vices, which a certain cinas of philo London the proprietor had affixed two Messines. Outside a newspaper shop in sophers have asserted to be a natura! bills announcing the two actions. Ua- preparative for entering on active life." In the third scene he is in Professor Fer. fortunately he pasted one above the other * Great gusson's house in Edinburgh almost like so that the amnigam read,

Enden some Napoleon among the crowned Charge by London Scottish.

Sunk,' The sovereigns of modern Politics."

Other battalions kept up the calm, unaffected, manly planner"in France to hear, a whole battalion, pass- joke, and it was a common thing in which he not only bore this dazzling blaze of favour, but estimated its value ing: the London Scottish on the march. is admirably displayed by Mr. Drinkwater shout with one voice.

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In the excellent fourth scene the poet ix Emden while the Jocks with equal shown with all manner of convivial Terve shouted back, "The London Scat- Maecenases," There is some excellent tish"! characterisation in this vivid scene which should make it go with zest on the stage.

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I have never yet seen a Bolshevik in

In the less convincing fifth and sixth a kilt-Captain Elliot, M.P. scenes a more moody Burns is shown, In humour, as in "whisky, the Scot is Mr. Drinkwater makes no attempt to hide an epicure, and will have only the very Barus's infidelity or his weakness, but he best blend-Lord Marria shows Jean to be the poet's stoutest de- Like all sensible people who are not fender. He's no pattern maybe.' she the slaves of a political machine, he is says in one place, but there's few with a bit of a Tory, a bit of a Liberal' and the heart or the brain to copy him a bit of a Socialist John Drinkwater, the There's that in him that is beyond the poet. supporting Mr. G. K. Chesterton understanding of the likes of us. I've for the past of Rector of Glasgow Univer had my share of him, and I know how to sity.

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keep my share of him. And I'd rather' It is hard with some audiences to get have that share than ten other whole your little joke to synchronise with their men." Moreover, there is no suggestion laughter. It is easiest in Scotland-Lord of priggish self-righteousness in the char acter of Burns. He is all too conscious Why was it that Scots have the insati- of his failure:-"It's hard for you, lass,' able desire to dine together and drink ha says. "I've got a head often enough to their native land? It was because the damned well full of resolutions, but what's Scot was fundamentally most senti. the good of them they scatter. The mental being Oce reason for the Scot's land's mean and it's beaten me. Or I've enthusiasm was that he habitually had beaten myself. I can't help the tunes to keep it down; but it was a great force running in my head, or getting a dry within him, and from time to time it had gallet.' It is thus not a tragic hero that to End an outlet-The Archbishop of Mr. Drinkwater presents: 'but a pathetic York. one. His conception is sympathetic and touched with fine emotion. It is the in-s finite sadness of the poet's life that be

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and reflect when reading the annual re declared Mr. St. John Ervine at the part on the Velaotary Hospitals in Great First Night Playgoers' Club last month, Britain (excluding London), issued by the

Joint Council of the Order of St. John of is the Oxford voice that lamentatio Jerusalem and the British Red Cross thing that is worse than Oxford Society. The report shows that the total trousers. received by hospitali in England and

To him, ue of the functions of a Wales was 370,337, or £15 per bed, as

theatre was to supply the citizens with compared with 2699,000 in Scotland, or u standard of good speech, a standardi 279 per hed. A comparison of interest of apenking In the old days the actor from invested funds shows about £10 per took pride in the fact that, if he talked bed in England and Wales as against in a whisper, his voice could he heard all over the theatre, and that he could supply a standard of speaking to his A strong limelight is at present being of speaking from young actors of to-day audience. If they took their standards thrown on the slums of Dundee. Last they would be expelled from decent week Mr. Baldwin, paid a surprise visit society.

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seem to have become habituated to these Lodge go to a theatre in the course of a visitations, and there is no 'blátenéns " year Probably, they did not go once, about them in introducing the investigate theatre was good enough. If it were the reason being that they did not think tors to the miseries of their surroundings. Mr. Chamberlain was given a most in-

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