Show ie e Saint New Greenwich Play by Stark Young emic Followers of Art Will Hail It as Masterpiece Reviewer Says By BEN BENThe The Saint a Provincetown- Provincetown play by Stark Young is 13 at the Greenwich Villagers will willI I as a great masterpiece and the mic followers of art will term wonderful without exactly lowing wing why And the Little thees the- the c es el of the country will present it I tile the cultured few who will reveal Iff ii 11 artistic appreciation by a amount of ot enthusiasm preface to the play has ri t written by Mr Young In InIch inI I Ich ch he outlines very painstaking I what his intentions were which the he way were entirely honorable moral The theme of The Saint Is con- con going on the long line Une of Toul's days that makes life Ufe posIe pos- pos le Ie to bear he explains 1 II have tried always to create o ery e part and element maRp mak- mak rup p the play playa a statement of the idea in terms of that part first thing the theme Isted is isted ted in the quality of the story ich carries one mans man's life from spot in its course to another S and grotesquely filled struggle with the wings of soul oui and the flight of his blood and fire of the world ut mt him the old forces of life hin bin him from one spot in his to another never to an Lend arlend end going on S 0 hat at Mr Young attempted to it would appear is commenda- commenda his play lacks however v vitality The central character sh ish from a seminary on the Mex- Mex nl border is never more than a made a bit ridiculous and at times by an Charles Chaplin when he hees hees es c a fling at a traveling show pursuit of his lady lady- love Dis- Dis he returns again to DiS 1 the mary and in ina a melancholy od before the final curtain he I ands and 3 looking at the door and ding Iding his hand in front of him ja blind man begins to walk I ard rd it slowly In his movement TO re appears a suggestion of VaI vay va- va I y acting one or two steps he hees hees kes es as if he were Charlie Chaplin in am S 0 Just it st as we were beginning to get up to his misery he makes l imitation of Charlie aplin and spoils it all But that ever wever ever may be art There are also such lines in th the yas iy Si Senorito many swaI- swaI s have flown over the house ace C then as my ray mother another used t to I yi are not mistaken others kye v Ye said the same thing Boni I Liveright New York I |