The "Schieber" lady who took the children to see "The Doll's House" and complained bitterly at the box-office afterwards that the title was misleading and dishonest, is typical of a new class of audience that hag filled the theatres since the war in Germany. "The Wild Duck" has proved upsetting in a like manner. In the very interesting revival of "Der Foh im Panzer-haus," of which "The Flea in the Armoured House" is a literal, if lame translation, the Deutsches Theatre has managed to please everybody. The flea is an actuality, and not a symbol, It lives in a match-box, and it was conveyed into the Armoured House by the Professor "of Natural History, who sought refuge there during the war from the turbulency of the outside world. It escapes, and the peace of mind of the Armoured House inhabitants is gone. It. is found again because it never really disappeared—the Professor is short sighted. In the same ironically tantalizing way the Young Man with the Melancholy Smile does not really commit suicide in Act iv., because his thoughtful friend had supplied him with an emetic instead of poison, and the Flapper—at the dangerous age, too—who follows his example, is rendered likewise pathetically ridiculous, There are five acts that sparkle with wit when they are not tinged with melancholy, and the author, Herr Robert Forster-Larrinaga, himself plays the part of the hero—if the Young Man ith the Melancholy Smile at whom he pokes fun so mercilessly can be called by such a name, Here is an intensely modern German play presented in an intensely. modern way: the characters make their first introduction and their fina] exit hanging like puppets, each from his own dangling rope''on a darkened stage, to the sound of a squeaky accordion. The playwright is true to the latest traditions in refusing to give them names other than descriptive ones—the Professor with the Flea, the Wife with the Questioning Eyes, the Aristocratic Lady, with the rest of them, eight altogether, including the General Servant with the muscular biceps, whose embrace is as athletic as her appearance. For love blossoms in varied guise in the Armoured House after the escape of the flea sets the Flapper pondering as to her own imprisonment and the sun shining in the world outside. The booming of the big guns in the distance defines time and place rather more ductions, 3 closely than most latter-day pro-
Yanazax1 Kadzuo, a third year student of the Law College of the Tokio Imperial University, has been fined $200 for having publish. ed in the "Senku" ("Pioneer"), an organ of the Nem Men's Society, edited by himself, transi: tions of labour songs of the I.W.W.—The piper calls the tune, and pays for it.
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