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Schnitzler Novel, Written In
1908 And Now Translated,
Preaches Freedom
Icebound—By Ov
Brown & Company
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Winner of the. 1
Schnitzfer, translated by Horace
1922 as the besto
Samuel; Alfred A. Knopf: New
play and acclaime
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eritics in the Eas
A sense of surprise comes to one
five or six best
when he finds himself carrled back
America, Icebound
to a perlodof the past that is so
lished in book for
ecent asto be a part of the pres¬
thousands who wil
ent, yet is forgotten. This book
the play’s fame a)
of Schnitzler’s, which is his first
see it.
long novel, was written in 1908, but
Unless a play ha:
has Just beenstranslated from the.
be read rather than
German, probably duc to an in¬
ease offinterest Insthe anthor, due
er can hardly gra
tohis Casanova’s Home Coming,
value of the lines
and his recent contributions to sev¬
misses all the stuc
ral American magazines. Schnitz¬
stage setting. A S
ler 18 knöwn prlinarily as a play¬
because it was bul
wright. Of lesser fame than Haupt¬
and the eye witnes
mann, his fame is on the ungrade,
tage over those wi
sothat he typifles one phase of
play in solltude
German culture of the moment.
agine the looks o
Whlle Thé Road to#the Open may
the volces, the ac
be of grest consequence, it is
verg welcome reminder of the
leas and the interests that were
Icebound 18 80
Kroused by some of the European
het atits conclus
uthors of fifteenor twentg years
to wonder if ther
go—Rolland, Sudermann, Artziba
American plays la#
And whlle Schnitzler does

shef.
udges who awar
not have ab much to tell us as some
Prize, för tho
of the others, he brings the same
play, presented in
thoughts to mind.
shall best represen
value and power
When a dramatist writesla, novel,
aisingthe standar
eusually does one öfetwé things:
good taste and goo
He lets his characters talk them¬
theplay, it must
selves to death, or he finds himself
anddiönot base t
lost because hei cannot exhibit them
thereading. On
in the flesh, and bores us with
educational value
details of description. Schnitzler
standard of morals
does something of the latter. How¬
8
ners, Icebound’s
ever, since his charscters are in¬
are apparent, even
teresting human beings, mostly of
Owen Davis, whc
that type of Jewish intellectual
and a go.d many
who has contributed so much to
à true picture of 1
the newer types of thought and
for it Nes among
polltics in Europe and, in lesser de¬
sort that I was
gree, in this coufitry, the reader
It isa serlous con
does not mindsthe fact that their
ter statement,
actions are a little löng drawn out.
these people as pi#
The theme is one of those that
hard and crafty,
81
the decadents liked; the finding of
his play should pro
the satisfactions of life without
wvhich this type ma
the assumption of responslbillty.
as others seethei.
The book is unlaus in that the
roved a prophet
characters come and go more of
people out of Egyf
eeschappily, singly and in pairs,
ised land.
but notha marrlage occurs. One
Hardly feels surprised at sthis, or
The plôt is ####l
that, in his interest in cutrents of.
wonderful tribute
thöught, theauthor has played
across a Viennese background of
as a playwright th.
Zionish politics, anti-Semitism and
such gooduse öft
radicalism.
has to do with th
Evidently the war has made us
in Venzie, Maine.
take our opiaions more seriously
of old Mrs. Jordan
both here and in Europe. Fifteen
The first act shows
years ago it was rather a joke to
cred in the sitting !
goto Jail for making speechea thaf
dan home walting
were irreverent to the powers of
from-upstairs that
state or church.
Now it 18 a
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serious business.
Guidebooks
The reader finds little to worry
Expectant
about in the story, there 18no
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tragedy involved, and po charaster
demanding sympathy. Thé hero,
one of those remnants of feudal
arlstocracy, who is not so rich as
his ancestors were, goer räther
happily through the. story,making
love to a good many girls Without
serlous consequences. In the ofe
case where it would secm lögleal
to believe that he had lost his free¬
dom from responslbillty, the au¬
thör, by what scems torbe aldevice
of the stage rather than anordi¬
nary eccurrence of life, has found
a way öut for him. Theethesis
of the experimentalist is proved in
the end—that 1s, that as a résult
of multiple experience life 1s truly
lived; soat last wé findsour hero
settled down to what promises 10
be Successful work.
To one who wishes to get an
casy viewnof some lofthe conflict-
ing elements of race, reilsion and
nolitics thät form the bagkground
of the great war, The Rond töth“
Open is an easy medium, It can
betread plehsantiy, and atthe same
time it leaves definite inpressions.
lotes Of B0o
And Authors
The diary which Lord Northeliffe
kept on his Journey around the
world in 1921-22, with its graphie
description of people and places
and shrewd comments on events of
importance. has beer

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