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Page 66 The Southern Israelite YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO MAKE THIS BANK YOUR BANKING HOME MUSCOGEE BANK & TRUST COMPANY COLUMBUS, GA. : :::: x x x a x x a :.x.!X r X Xx x : % f $ - - :t :: :: :: fxj (it ra [xj 'Xj !«'• :X ii ii I X 3t !x |x C. L. Torbett it Hi mtu ii U n st it » a u a a u u u X n u nn n it st n 35 a n a n a n a a » n u n a n n a n n a a R K x x x a Xft a u.u u a )t n n it it R x it it n n a n x x x x x x x x it it n 3: x x x n a a it n it n n x x x x it a a a x a tt x x : “ | x m n n % M x X, X X m IX] M m a H i (x) r«| in] INCORPORATED Funeral Director I 1 14 Firs! Ave. Columbus, Ga. tuhtMKuHixMMk!Xi;x xixix x-x x n a it n x x x 3! it n n n it.it it it x it it a n n it n a a it a u.u a n a x x 'ft ft • • • • • • ! MILLER-TAYLOR SHOE CO. • • • • • • • • • Where The New Styles Are Shitwn First 2 • " • • • • • • We Appreciate Your Patronage • • • • • 1130 Broad St. Columbus, Ga. J. B. ROBERTSON INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS "Largest Builders of Motor Trucks in the IY orld" 1117 First Ave. Columbus, Ga. Ladies Ready to Wear Ling erie and Hose “100 STORE BUYING POWER” Vtf YgRK_WAI«T houii: 1106 Broadway Columbus, Ga. The Weakness of Jewish Drama (Continued from Page 56) of the action and who would represent the entire group and symbolize a na tional personality that extends from early history to our age. The anti-Semi tic group-complex that makes the Jew an object of conflict robs all the others of the first prerequisite of artistic cre ation—disinterested neutrality. In our hands the Jewish play be comes a plea in which “the bad qualities of the Jew, too,” are personified. But this very formulation is the source of failure; for an artistic figure cannot be created by the balancing and timid counterpoising of the good and bad qualities of the personage to be invent ed, but only by the reproduction of a section of life according to the laws of organic form and regardless of conse quences, evaluations or judgments. As long as European anti-Semitism makes it impossible for us to create as freely as we can see or know, Jewish plays will always—with emphatic intention or equally emphatic unintentionally— confine themselves to half-truths and good will, just as non-Jewish attempts to portray Jews still adhere to for mula and are forced in character. In this connection we may mention “The Emperor Jones,” the Negro play of the great Irish American dramatist Eu gene O’Neill, for here the anti-Negro group-complex that dominates Ameri ca gives way to the hand of a master. But it must be forgotten that this play wright himself is neither a Negro nor an Anglo-American. Incidentally I would point out the erroneousness of the impression of vi tality and vehemence which the reader gains from plays whose authors con fuse shouting and excitement on the part of commonplace characters with dramatic passion. In every-day life we are guided by an accepted formula that recognizes the man of passion by the vehemence of his speech. He who with flashing eyes gushes forth his words, shaking his fist the while, is regarded as of a passionate temperament. Ac- tually, however, he is hut a poo, -possessed by his emotions, ,luuT, hie impulses discharging hi, disturbances. His demeanor aw » inkling of the degree of n, which he is capable. Indeed he »k * unable to restrain his emotion, invariably falls into the „ tm09t ,7* tenee when it becomes necessarv tol eentrate all his own powers upon,Z drawn out struggle for a final rirj -whether this victory is to be ,, lW over an antagonist, a woman hi" will or a piece of work. The signs of dramatic passion and of passion in real life are the same psychologists know that the man'o! passion is taciturn, calm, alraog sleepy, that his utterances are distia- guished by their expression of drv fanatical, uncompromising adherence to his cause. The style of the true drama of passion is sober. The character, of plays of the other sort make a gr^at effort to identify themselves as pat,, sionate in their speeches. But their ef forts are vain—all their vivacity j, merely superfical. I would exchange a!! our Jewish plays of this sort for on* of those whose passion is revealed bt their restraint. Nonetheless, however, it is good to write Jewish plays—and even better to produce them—in an age like our*, with its crying need for nn antidote to remedy the unhealthy relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Ger many, in Russia, everywhere. •—Copywright 1929 by Seven Arts Fra ture Syndicate. Doctor (inquiring after boy wh< had swallowed a half dollar): How ii the boy today? Anxious Mother: No change yet.— Satyr. Teacher: Johnny, what is a “de canter?” Johnny: A decanter is somethin? that a horse breaks into.—Oklahoma Whirlwind. THE MOST TEMPTING FEAST OR THE SIMPLE MEAL is not complete without CRAIGS HONEY BREAD •THU PERFECT HREID FROM THE MODEL BAKERV (ERAIG’S lAKERY 1901 Hamilton Ave. Phone 414 Columbus, Ga.