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Show 'Mr, Podd" Chases Gloom of Early Morning Blues Jfa a great life If you don "week-end." for a week-end la rten foiioweu by the beginning of a leavy meek H la all right if the heavy beginning, la not one of trouble trou-ble trouble with a reluctant iyp? urlier that haa also bcn "weekending" "week-ending" snd trouble But why talk vf iroubl when 'Mr. Podd" la lying ly-ing on your desk itching to read. "r. Podd." by Freeman Tilde MacMiMan. u the cur for any sort of trouble. Kollow:ig Mr. Podd on bis pilgrimage around the world on his- 4elf-pohited mission ot spreading his views of an Ideal International In-ternational commonwealth bring one into quite enough trouble but Just ihe right kind of trouble to cure those early MonJay morning blues. Mr. Tilden hss written a eerio-com'c adventure story thst Is well worth reading. Mr. Podd (how curiously hko Mr. ford thy rams 1st starts Lomeihlng he finuV It mighty hard to finish. We believe be-lieve Mr. Tilden haa struck a very active nerve cenier of 'tm world a organlam in bringing humor and aatire into thia treatment of a tery radical group. - l'rhpa "Master "Mas-ter Freddte." on of the eelf. Invited In-vited youngsters on this, curious voyage, has given tha correct. thoUKh slangy, answer to each and (very one of these "pilgrims' when he bellows to his mother: "Oh. don't argue with the fJumhbli. He don't know whether he going or stopped. He's only (en minutes peat one. and losing every minute." e LOVr VFJISKS ft OWPAMOKSHir. Karlv In the week we were quite Impressed with the sentiment expressed ex-pressed in "The Ringing Welle." by Kolamt Pertwee Kuopf, relat-r relat-r g to blcal companionship versus love. "AM th's understanding this intellectual in-tellectual companionship this Infernal In-fernal analysis. What's It give youT' we are asked. "sot happl-ress, happl-ress, you may bet on that. Misery more likely, and plenty of It. I euppoae If'a the modern eoclnl condition con-dition of thing but apply the test of what's to bs got out of It I'lcture It, the woman and the kid of your own to feed and fight for and her loving you and love being be-ing the thing. It wouldn't matter whether ymi wi ted your feet or not whether you'd read Freud or Nletrsche what you thought of K ii gen Ice Fhe wouldn't care how j you turned a phrae if your eye lit tip when she looked at you an J i ynitr muacles tightened! when danger dan-ger came along. You'd bs her msn end aha your woman. and love would it master of you both. A0 THKX- We read "The Adding Vschl.ie. Flmer rttce'e contribution to the Theatre Oulld library fpouliledav. ! Page A fo.l. Phillip Moeller writes I In a foreword that Mr. Itlc baa j "exposed the starved and bitter littleness lit-tleness and st the same time the huge unlversslltv of the aero type, that from eternity esprease the futility and tragedy of tha mediocre medio-cre spirit. We are going to quote a brief nart of the tirade given to Ms lero hv tbe "woman ha feeda and fights for" AX. do.i't go - pulltn that stuff shout bcln" tired- Tired! Where do vou ret that tired stuff, mv. bow? Whet "shout me? Where Jo I nm. In" Bcrubbln floors sn' cook In' meals sn' washln your ilr-tv ilr-tv clothes: an' you slttln' on a chair all day. Just addln' finger p' waltln for iris. There's no : for me. I dor.'t wait for no whistle. I don't get no vacations 1 neither. And what s more. 1 don't et no pay envelope every Pa turds tur-ds r nlaht neither. I'd like to know w here yoe'd be without me? An' what have I aot to show for It 7 slsvln' my life awsv to give you a home. What's In It tr me. I d like to know, etc, etc.. etc. LOVE OR COMPANIONSHIP? WHICH? |