| Show SOME NEW APE ADE HUMOR Tells SI Signal Chi j IOUS Brethren About Ills His ork the tho speakers speak speak- of George George George-Ade Ade was ono one recent banquet of ot the Sigma Signia Sigma at a n ers In in at Indianapolis 11 held Chi fraternity Time Tim to 10 the sentiment responding Plays Play's the time Thing ho lie w said sid In part part partI for fori fora I 1 am m going to speak to you ou moments on the tho drama drama Ican I Ican few Cew i a r very about It Jt without without with with- can ti 11 you ou unit all ni I know late Inte Twenty out keeping you ou up very a ago o I knew a a. lot about the time years drama Irama I 1 was wa studying English In or order order or- or literature at Purdue University 01 I analyzed d dall der to escape e mathematics s cale Beaumont all the plays written by Fletcher FIlcher Dekker lIeu Ben Bel Jonson Jon- Jon son Ron Marlowe arlow dramatists ts anti and the other old olmi English old yin I 1 could lal take e an any one of oC these pla plays disjoint It I anti and then Linen put It to together to- to gether again One of ot my mn long suits was to 10 make agin a diagram 1001 looking hookIng something something some some- thing like le a u horses horse's hOl s 's pedigree showing Knowing the relative Importance of f tine the tw plot and the tine sub subplot the time various characterS characters charac charac- lers and conflicting ambitious ambitions al also u uthe the preservation of oC time the unities what unities what what whatever ever ver ver that means meals Later on after I mail had hac graduated from Journalism and got Into newspaper critic At this per oem work I became a n time dune m my knowledge of ot the drama and anti andall all of oC Its branches was wa vast and com com- ni I told Mansfield how to t play piny Richard III II Mr Ir Jeffersons Jefferson's ons portrayal por por- of mIld did II II not satisfy me mc me If I Julia Jula Marlowe had hal lI listened to all al the suggestions I offered she sho would nave been a u great actress today A It Shame to usta ItI It I. I II ItI I knew so o much about dramatic con construction and anti th the Lime portrayal of oC character and accumulative Interest In iii plot and amid the skillful treatment of or dialogue dia dia- dialogue lo logue ue that It I seemed a shame to al allow ul- ul low this hu huge e reservoir of knowledge to go to waste waRte so I wrote a play iila Continuing Ade Alle mentioned his hits first playa pla play a neat heat little Ite play pla with music he called It H. That hot Is Is the time composer r wrote it I. I and amul I provided d time the interruptions tons to the tl lie mu music lc It I began with wih a u war dance and eldell ended with wih a cal cake e walk I gave about ten tent minutes of or plot and two hours of or excitement Later Lter Ade Adl tie explained time the plot Piot plot was omitted t. t lie le then themi made malle the time comment that after he Inc had written wrilen two or three pla plays he lie discovered that his knowledge of or the drama was evaporating To 10 date he said hl I have delivered seven plays to an un eager public and every everyone everyone everyone one of or them has haJ been hel a go Sm Sonic Some have gone well wel and nd others othel's have gone gune ci quickly u ick i y How I ow n a College Education Ed ue lon Pays I n Concluding the humorist discussed the time question as s 38 to whether her or on not a colle college e education paid Many times 1 have been asked Does a college education fit t a maui man for fora a playwright he lie said id Undoubtedly edl emIly edly At Purdue wo we had hat six Sigma Chis who wino were trying to lo outgeneral barbarians It I was waR my knowledge of o practical politics acquired In this this' unequal struggle that enabled m me to write urite The Time County Chairman Chairman And Ami If It ItI I had not L been m personally acquainted with wih members of Sigma Chi I could not have written The TIme College W Widow dow Nearly all an the characters In that piece arc are from the brotherhood The undergraduate un un- UI- UI nt owing the lie tre 18 8 board bill was Booth I may confess conCes that the character of oC Copernicus Talbott Talbott Tal- Tal bott bot time the theological student Is largely large large- I ly autobiographical A college training undoubtedly qualifies one onne to write for COl the time stage stag If I I had hull not taken the tine scientific course at Purdue I never ne er could have ha e written that beautiful lyric t entitled The Mi Microbes Microbe's Microbes Microbe's Mi- Mi 11 Serenade Time The manager re rejected mi It It It said It was too good for or the Ih public or too something something-so so o he hue gave jt H back to te me time as 1 I have havo not noL use for It h. Im I'm Im giving It I to you yoU |
