The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . s on a basis of truth, were thechief elements in the melodramaticappeal. ^ly Man holds the promiseof better things to come. New York, by W. -T. Hurlburt, aserious and ambitious drama owningto American authorship, was sent tothe public pillory fox- crimes againstdecency it did not commit, while agrave technical fault passed unnoticed,possibly on theory that the greater al-ways comprehends the less. A mur-der has been done. The murderer isthe bride elect of the man whose il-legitimate son she has slain wit
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . s on a basis of truth, were thechief elements in the melodramaticappeal. ^ly Man holds the promiseof better things to come. New York, by W. -T. Hurlburt, aserious and ambitious drama owningto American authorship, was sent tothe public pillory fox- crimes againstdecency it did not commit, while agrave technical fault passed unnoticed,possibly on theory that the greater al-ways comprehends the less. A mur-der has been done. The murderer isthe bride elect of the man whose il-legitimate son she has slain withoutany knowledge of the relationship, indefence of her virtue. Horrified atfirst by the enormity of her deed, sheis later stung by unjust reproaches todefend the crime. She finally suc-ceeds in convincing the father that ason of such mad passions is bet-ter dead than alive. The reasoning isindisputable and any modern rational-ist would accept this view withouthesitation. But the point is thattragedy knows no reason, and thedramatic fault lay in the attempt to 380 THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE. MISS LULU GLASEll, IN THE GIRL AND THE KAISEK reason away consequences that byevery law of tragedy are curtain goes down on a prospect of happiness, but we know that avolcano smolders underneath the sur-face. The play should have succeed-ed, if only for the admirable perform-ance of the two women, Laura NelsonHall and Mary Shaw. The wave of family sentiment fort-unately did not quite submerge thecomic spirit and leave us joyless. Afew seeds of the early farce crop hadtaken root in public favour, and onthe bare spots left by others, newseeds that at least held the germsof mirth were scattered. Of thesefell by the wayside with ascriptural exactness thatwas touching — TheOther Fellow for in-stance, or Mr. Preedyand the Ck)untess—and others on soil too shallow to af-ford much root. We had an agreeable revival ofOscar Wildes social satire, The Im-portance of Being Earnest, TheConce
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