Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 10 | Bard of Avon to Cement Entente

BARD OF AVON TO CEMENT E ENTENTE Paris Manager Actor-Manager Plans to Give Shakespeare Plays After War B err The Th Tel II Sperms Special Now Neva Service PARIS Dec 2 Firmin Finnin Gemler the manager actor-manager of ot the Theatre Antoine has founded a Shakespeare society In the notice notice that he has Issued to explain his his action he points out that one necessity after the war will be beto beto beto to prolong the union between the allies allies allies al al- al- al lies that has been sealed upon the battlefield Much attention is already being given to questions of commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial Interest after the war but the Shakespeare society by producing Shakespeare's plays In France will preserve an intellectual bond with England Eng The Germans of the twentieth century century century cen cen- tury writes M Al had the presumption presumption presumption pre pre- to declare at the beginning of the war that they annexed Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare born in a country unworthy of him To Popularize Shakespeare The manager actor whose productions productions are scenically the best of the Paris stage is somewhat severe on previous attempts to represent Shake Shake- In Paris Hitherto he says Shakespeare has appeared on our oui stage as a colossus of whom our public has caught glimpses through the dust of years He promises to give Shakespeare as aa the poet-dramatist poet intended his plays to be given as entertainment for the crowd M. M proposal has met the Uie polite welcome that an intellectual people could not Dot refuse to touch uch a scheme Camille Saint Saint-Sa ens the compose composer however has come out in opposition lie Ile brings out first the difficulty of Shakespeare's constant change of scene a difficulty easily overcome in the sixteenth century when a sign was hung up showing that the scene was a street and after a few minutes another part of the street Without these perpetual changes of scene he says Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake speare is no longer Shakespeare Anachronisms of the Poet Would a modern public allow Cleopatra Cleopatra Cleo Cleo- patra to invite her attendant to a game of billiards with the words To billiards come Charmion Shake Shake- Shakespeare's Shakespeare's speare speare's s characters use low obscene expressions which were common in iny his time as is shown by y Hamlets Hamlet's words to Ophelia Ophella Saint concludes that the true Shakespeare ff cannot be represented in nr our days f i Adaptations P. P more or less close to the original m may y be tried but the t ci true Shakespeare can only be read To find new spectacles suitable to Frances France's new soul after the w war as ML M M- wIshes L asserts the composer search should ld not be made in the n past i but f all n around us among the ther unknown r authors who are kicking their heels at theatre doors who could give us new nef works bearing the imprint of new times