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THE PATRIARCHAL

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1926.

far from reassuring craze for. mere modernism. One of the heroes of his early novels was clearly echoing the views of his creator when he declared that the modern art of photography had superseded the worn-out art of When Mr. Shaw was a young painting. And all his work con- man, he took great pains, na hetains a certain corrading element himself has told us, to impress his image on the mind of the murdered by his legitimate son, of topicality. Is millionaire public. His efforts werd successful,

It seems hard to believe now that, then Mr. Shaw must bring the in- at so early an age, any man couldcident, or something like it. on have become a public figure merely famous man of business has been to the stage do we learn that a by criticism of pictures, music and kept relatively poor by the finan the drama. Certain circumstances conspired to help him. The brillers who exploited his talent, Mr. liant young men of the New Jour- Shaw must have that. He intro naliam wrote with gusto para duces Mr. Balsquith and Lord Mitchener to discuss politics and grapha about one another's bril llance, and even if Mr. Shaw had militarism. In the most mystical not actively assisted them, they

and far-reaching of his plays he would still have "found

gives us a very dull hour or so in him an irresistible source of during which thinly delled public material. He was a man whose characters argue on political ques- apprcarance invited the caricatur tions which had grown stale be- fat, as his actions and utterances generally he has shown a suspici

fore the play was produced. And.)

ous attachment to isms and to the latest in everything, plan

the parodiat,

How the Public Sees Him.. So well did his efforts succeed, so deeply was the image im printed that on his 70th birth- day, it has still not been replaced by any other. The public stiil thinks of him as the stormy, scornful, red-bearded young icono- last of the 'eighties and nineties. whose Mephistophelian expression betrayed his delight in combating all settled opinions and in hurting feelings of those who held them. That is its Shaw, and it can recognize no other. A couple of years ago, during the five-highst long performance of "Back to saw him pass, Methuselah, I several times, in and out of the crowded vestibule of the theatre, and no one knew him. The pas ser-by in the Adelphi cannot but remark him, for he is remarkable, but does not know who he is,"

the

These are preocupations which one does not, tule, expect in unduring writers. The author who keeps so closely to the Immediate alla of his own time generally forfeits the interest of any other and..of course, if he choose to do 80, that is his own business. But there are other elements in Mr. Shaw to be taken into considera- tionIn the first place, his com mand of the material resources of the theatre has that something more than dexterity which is genius.

Plays that "Read."

He has suffered somewhat, be cause his plays being so readable, many persons believe that they can there is none of his plays (excopt, judge them on reading alone. But

perhaps, Back to Methuselah") The red has drained out of his which is not better on the stage beard, leaving it a beautiful and than in the study, and there are patriarchal white. His eyebrows same ((Heartbreak House" is á are no longer of the set that al-conspicuous example) which do ways seems to be looking for not. reveal their full meaning quarrel. And with these changes, except in the stage. This, power something has been accentuated over material resources in what in his face that was indeed always ever medium is simply the power there, a look of mild, though to create a certain sort of life, and fovian, and commanding beneval- the artist, who possesses it is the ence. We know now, I think, more artist who survives, Sardou, in of the truth. The young man with whatever doğrde, and whatever. the redbeard, who could not re- Mr. Shaw may have said of him, fuse an invitation to luncheon possessed it and Kardon survives. without being reported, might have| been merely a vigorous and enter- taining impostor. The old man with the white beard is patently one of the great, perhaps some- thing very near to a prophet,

In the second place the passing years, as they have brought on Mr. sion of his spirit, have made more Shaw's countenance a finer expres-

work. That mild and bene- apparent the driving force behind It is because of his vivid, and volent look is not deceptive, nor atill surviving youth that we can- yet the Jovian and commanding not take his 70th birthday quite as traits which accompany it. Ke wo do those of other men. There has a real devotion, though he has will not be, there could not be somewhat obscured it by giving anything very solemn about cele its object the chilling name of the brations. Indeed, Mr. Shaw has "Life Force." He has spoken. celebrated already by declaring somewhat of "the soft, eruel people that his speech at the dinner in and the hard, kind people," and his honour, so far from being of really in this antithesis the whole the anodyne sort considered suit of his attitude is to be perceived." able for broadcasting, will prob-In his earlier, more destructive ably be highly controversial. He period he seemed cruel only to be must have been grateful to the kind. Then, as now he passion- official lack of humour which gave ately loved free life, and wanted him the opportunity for such everybody to enjoy it and he pas- characteristic retort on such an occasion.

Looking Forward,

sionately hated the. restrictions and delusions that prevented them from doing so, In his later years the love has made itself more ap- It is unlikely that he could ever parent than the hatred through bind himself to make a speech fit which it formerly, expressed itself. for transmission through the ether: "Saint Joan," a hymn in praise of and perhaps this impossibility the force of life, exhibits an un- gives him his main importance in tonishing, a radiant toleration to.. an age which was getting itself, wards the obstacles which beset into the broadcasting frame of it.

mind before ever a vibration issu-

ed from Savoy Hill.

It is of

advantage, so ichthyologists say,

Unchanged Age.

So much time has made plain-

If you are sending a number of fish on a journey in a small tank, but it is still difficult to realize to include a catfish, among them: that Mr. Shaw is seventy, is full

it chases them about and keeps of years, and of the most substan them from unhealthy sluggishness. tial and precious sorts of honours, Mr. Shaw has played the catfish Age has pot altered or tamed him, to a generation and a half: when it has only brought out what was he has completed the second and there from the first-or perhaps begun on a third, his answer will it is only we who have grown more be the same,

His speech on the percipient. He is not an easy occasion of his 90th birthday will man to whom to render homage be highly controversial.

Leven on such an occasion. No re If there had been nothing more spires a repartee, of the sort pru

mark addressed to him but in- In his career than this, he would dent mch de not lightly lay them- atill be a great man, still worthy selves open to. But it is possible of such modified birthday homage to rejoice in the anniversary in a as he would permit. He has Shavian spirit and to wish the old spoken of himself as "h man up rascal (one cannot avoid there, to the chin in the life of his terms of affection) as many more times," and a man who has been returns of it as he himself would that, who has touched contempor- wish, as many that is to say, ary life at every point, and affected as will still permit him to enjoy It at every point, cannot, oven, to life and to praise it in his work, his posterity, be a negligible figure. Edward Shanks In the Evening The question is whether he will Standard. survive only as an influential and characteristic figure, or also as a dramatist whose works have

meaning for other times than his

own.

A sliver paten which had been missing 50 years from Rawdon * This polat, too, I bellove, haa (Yorks) Parish Church has been been cleared up by the passing of restored by South County vicar the years. Certainly he dran who bought it in an antique shop Ihis career with a senseless and at Rochester.

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