Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 7 | Gloomy Uplift

n I J l 1 Gloomy Uplift I By a DR FRANK CRANE Alan Alan Dale Daie the well known theatrical critic said saida a a mo mouthful the other da day when he wrote S. S I 1 wonder why everything that Is worthy is drear and drab and desolate and doleful and discouraging and eyer thing unworthy cheerful and amiable and amusing musing and entertaining and worse still stin laughable laugh laugh- able This wonder has come como to all aU of us S The writer had three children n who wanted anted to see ee Buffalo lo Bills Bill's Will Wild 1 West Vest show snow Their heir grandmother bel eing g a strict religionist did not vant tant them to attend at- at tend end They were overhead discussing the matter and speculating peculating as ns to why grand grandmother nother opposed their going gorng The Tho boy said that it was because the riders v vere tre re in III danger of ot breaking their necks One of ot the girls insisted that the reason was that the women I w wore vore re short skirts The other girl however Insisted th that hat t the only reason was that It was fun tun for tor she s said aid ld whatever Is fun Is wrong and whatever Is unpleasant Is good for you Many another child mind and many a mind of those hose who are older have come about about to to to the same conclusion When we look over the sea of ot novels and nd plays plaY's that come to us from abroad and see how pessimistic they all are arc when we look at plays that are put on for the uplift of ot the stage and see how drear rear they are most of ot them and when we consider works works works' that are supposed to be great sUch stich as th the works of ot Dreiser and ONeill O'Neill and see how disgusting they hey are and uniformly tragic we are inclined to speculate peculate as to why a thing has hns to be disagreeable to tobe tobe toe be e real and why anything that is pleasant Is supposed to o be cheap and nasty For our own part we are convinced that life is not lot a humbug nor a tragedy There are plenty of I nobleness and good humor In the world and literature that hat expresses s this can be Just as good as literature that hat expresses the contrary opinion Those who Write encouragingly and Induce people to o go ahead with the hard battle of life lite and to keep their heir chin up and smile may not be great but they are re doing more to help their fellows along than those who vho write discouragingly S There is much to be he said in favor tavor of the happy ending People go to the theatre or read a novel to escape from the actualities and to amuse themselves There Is enough disappointment and disillusionment In n real ical life Ute without them upon the stage The least that literary follows fellows can cm do is to cheer us up a bit Copyright 1926 by the McClure Newspaper S Syndicate A