Show I Quoted I By Hartford Curtis II I Cop Copyright right 1923 New York Kv Eve Eve fling World Pr Pr's ts s Publishing Co I IJ IT J HARTFORD CURTIS Copyright right 1924 1524 N New w York Tonic Evening Worm Q Pr Press Publishing U I Company J The tr majority J t i is never f JOllA JOHAN IBSEN l. Time The great violinist Ole Bull BulJ wee was about to open his new theatre at Bergen Norway and casting casting- about for a manager he hit upon a a. young man Ibsen who had already achieved a reputation In the dramatic dramatic dramatic dram dram- art Apprenticed to an apothecary apothecary at af afterwards studying medicine ds d's d's ds covering his unfitness for tor both Ibsen launched himself Into literary literary literary liter liter- ary work ork b by starting a a. weekly Journal to which ho he contributed brilliant lyrics satires and epigrams One of his leading thoughts was that minorities were more to be trusted than majorities This Idea crops out in many of his writings In expressions Uk like that which I have ha quoted His devotion to the stage lasted his lifetime I The name of hl his dramatic productions du n is legion egl a and his plays plas have earned for tor him the thet t title tle of the leading Norwegian dramatist The genius of ot Ibsen is said not notto notto notto to lie In the brilliance of his language language lang lang- so much as in his Insight into human nature and In hl hi his development development develop elop ment of character His pla plays s 's lyrics l and satires abo nt in quoted oft-quoted wise sayings and epigrams which are as well veli known perhaps as his dramatic w works |