they have made life to short, remarked Arthur
Schnitzler, the great Austrian playwright.
Although Schnitzler has advanced several steps over the
threshold of his six decade, neither his bronze face nor his
eager eyes eyes that have looked deeply into the heart of
woman-betray his age.
Life," said the playright, whose fame, more enduring

than the empire of Francis Joseph, has outlived a world War,
War¬
would be too hort, even if we were all Steinached or if
panying
Shaw Creative Evolution prolonged our span by several
ein em¬
centuries."
ress.
Do you want to live as long as Methusalem:
What, Schnitzler exclaimed shrugging his shoulders,
are a thousand years, compared with eternity!
Do you think mankind will be able to correct the error
of Providence in making human life so brief? Do you believe
that your compatriot, Steinach, is on the road to discover the
Elixir of Youth
The Mysteries of the Soul
Schnitzler is not only a poet. He is also a student of
medicine.
Steinach, Schnitzler replied, is moving undoubtedly
in the right direction. He is on the threshold of the work¬
shop where the World Spirit weaves the wool of life. The
wonder world of our internal secretions holds the key to the
riddle of all life.
In that world, we must be prepared for surprises.
Columbus, seeking a new way to the East Indies, discovered
America. Steinach, in search of rejuvenation, may have
stumbled upon an extraordinary discovery.
The Steinach operatio seems to be deterrent of can¬
cer. It would be cruel to hold out hopes that may be illusory
lot of an
until we have before us the authentic records of a thousand
by the
cases. Nevertheless, it seems to me that it would be advisable
to try the Steinach operation in all hopeless cases where the
of cotton
slight surgical interference involved can do no possible harm.
I am, as you see, interested in the mysteries of the body.
I am even more interested in
the mysteries of the soul.
Even if we solve all the
secrets of our physical func¬
tions, the secret of life will
elude us still. We can dissect
the optic nerve. We can re¬
produce the mechanism of the
human eye. But this does not
explain the miracle of sight.
Riddle of Life
Even if we guessed all
the riddles of the universe to¬
day, other riddles would face
us tomorrow. Life always
create new wonder. Every¬
thing changes. Every hour
gives birth to a new world.
Boredom is an affecta¬
tion, when it is not a disease.
am sometimes bored by
others. I am ever bored
when I am alone
fliers, all but one of whom Capt.
I would not be bored,
Left to right they are: Lt.
pursuits.
Schnitzler continue,
were the last man alive in the
well Smith and St. John Harding, J.
icy solitude of the North Pole.
One can always think. Thinking is the healthiest exercise.
opment for
Is that how you keep of young
I always write at least two plays at the same time.
substantial
When my mind grows a little tired of one I turn to the other.
ovided for
and as a matter of mental gymnasties I always read severa
properly
books simultaneously. I dip into one, now into the other, to
commercial
keep my brain fresh.
To the world at large Schnitzler is the dramatist of
tions that
love. His chronicles of amorous dalliance from "Anatol¬
there are a
to sanova Hoecoming proclaim him one of
Geone
Kiele
.
NEW and striking portrait study of Arthur Schnitz¬
ler, the celebrated Austrian playright and philoso¬
pher, drawn by George Kienzle, of the Sunday American
Art Staff,
ments, held grand fetes drove a
the most astute interpreters
carriage with six horses and main¬
of feminine psychology in
tainen the ceremonial of a gre¬
the world of the theatre.
court. He remained every in a
With a skill no less amaz-
king even in St. Helena.
"You are not a monarchist
ing he makes a human heart
on neither a monarchiet no¬
tick for us in his novels.
a republican. I am interested in
human phenomena. I am inter¬
ested in Napoleon because he is
Freude Psychic Twin
the most perfect examplar of the
exceptional individual."
"We Americans," I remarked,
"What," I ventured, are yo
look upon you as the master in¬
pet aversions?"
"My pet aversions," came
terpreter of modern eroticism, to
Schnitzlers reply with the prompt¬
whom woman's soul is a stringed
ness of three shot from a ma¬
Instrument on which he playa.
chine gun, are Wilson, Poincar¬
"You flatter me." Schnitzler said
and Lenin. These men were three
with a smile, and you do me an
great minfortunes, finsters, cata¬
injustice. I deal with all problema.
trophes, for the world."
cannot ignore love, the main
You do not include Clemen¬
spring of all human actions. But
ceau?
I am not an erotic author, I am
No. Clemenceau was only
far more interested in social prob¬
minoris fortune. But Len
lems and in the probleme of the
stands for the dissolution of evi¬
family than in erotesam.
lization. Wilson destroyed al¬
Most people seem to ignore my
lam, his failure made de con¬
unique achievement of writing a
temptible. Policare represents the
entire play in which there is not a
unbending legal mind which in all
female character, I refer to my
ges has been the band of huma¬
Dr. Bernhard, which deals pri¬
ity."
marily with the problem of medi¬
"Are you not, perhaps, a little
cal ethics
too severe on Wilson? His am
In some respects I am the
was high."
double of Professor Freud. Freud
himself once called me his pay¬
tin. I tread in literature the me
Wilson an Ignoramus
path which Freud explores with
amazing audacity in science."
Wilson.“ Schnitzler remarked,
Do you accept the tenets of the
Behavioris, who deny completely
getting up excitedly from the table,
the freedom of the will?
was an ignoramus. Ignorance, too
"How can anyone doubt the
is a sin. In spite of his profes¬
potency of who nad the
sions as the arbiter of the world,
story of Napoleon Napoleon
he did not have the most element¬
willed to be a ruler Arduously he
prepared himself to ale task.
ay notions of geography. He
He actually engaged a great actor,
know less of European geography
Talma, for the purpose of len¬
and history than any Austrian
ing the real manner of walking.
schoolby.
He needed to such von Napo-
was given incredible instances
leon would have been a ruler even
of Wilson's ignorance by a mem¬
there had been no French
ber of the American Mission in
Revolution.
Vienna. The entire leuce Trenty,
When Bonaparte lost his om¬
especially his treatment of my
pire and lived in Elbe, he still ruled
ke an empero, made improve¬
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