| Show IS BEN HUR HUB INSPIRED RED There havo have been only a few stories like ke Ben Hur in all an the literature of oft the t o world Few men have come so 80 near to greatness It is not alone lone the tho greatness of ot the material with which General Wallace worked when he wove the story The greater marvel marvelis is that any human could with any materials ma so group incidents BO so express known knoWD facts as to g give gye ye a work tho the power Dower and the impressiveness of ot Den Ben Hur I The play pIny has bas been seen in Salt in the week weck just passed There is something impelling about the tho play There 13 la some rome strange and gripping power in the lines often lines often badly spoken t There is something more than mortal as mortals are measured in the sum Bum l moning of ot atmosphere the piling of ot argument and conclusion till conclusion till the denouement de de- tN IB Is r reached ched I Was it inspiration In tho the author Is Isit I it inspiration in tho the playwright who constructed It r If ii one knows his Bible Dible if It one realizes realizes realizes real real- izes the tho significance of that scene when the liberated mother and sister I of Ben Den Hur cover their brows and warn all human beings with tho the most moat desolate note In all the world Unclean Unclean Un must realize real real- clean Unclean Then ono one f Ira ize that something more than the power of man has been employed I The strength of or the play seems to tobe tobe tobe be tho the essential humanness of the ma ma- With Just the passions w wInch ch appeal to mankind today and which have appealed to the race from the ti beginning the strongest drama in all the world has been staged And it does not grow old Year after year Ben Hur summons to tho theater thousands who hang on tho the speeches of ot the players who go in spirit with those who rejoice and with those who mourn mourn and como come up with them like the triumphant worshippers who bare baro their heads in lu tho presence of or a 1 miraculous Healer That may mayor or ma may not be Inspiration That roa may or may not be simply a I clever assembling of or strong stron factors But Dut whether or not it goes goca beyond tho the j 1 realm of ot tho the mortal for or its faculty the fact remains that it stands alone There Is no other stor story which so lifts the earth toward Heaven and no play pIny which strikes In tho the human breast BO so 0 sure a n challenge o from Immortal fields And what beyond that Is inspiration inspiration tion 1 |
