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THREE LITTLE PLAYS

INTERPRETED BY MISS DOROTHEA •SPI'NNUY.' Writing of the art of Hiss Dorothea Spinney ns nu interpreter of plays, undent and modern (but always artistic), one feels inclined to dally with the superlativo ill words, nud yet more or' less vaguely realises that such in her ease would be wasteful and ridiculous excess. Por she is the apostle of the beautifully simple—the crown of intellectual dominance. Her 'play-readings reflect a. deep understanding, and her powers of convoying that understanding to her audienco Jire really remarkable. To Miss Spinney is given the raro faculty of complete repose on platform, and the warm temperament which is ju3t as much a part of her make-up as her native refinement - ami ripe culture, make her at once the friend of everyone present. Added to this is her charm of manner, voice, and gesture. ' The entertainment at tho Masonic Hall lost owning lia'd a live interest in that it covered three little modern plays of the highest merit. The first play recited—or perhaps it would be moro correct to say interpreted—was "The Riders to the Sea," a powerful domestic-tragedy of West of Ireland peasant life. It is a play loaded with awful grief, and was the more depressing on account of tho splendid characterisation of Miss Spinney. "The Riders to the Sea" is a play by the lato John Synge, a gifted writer, in a dolorous strain..

The second play was "Kathleen-ni-Houlahan," • a beautiful symbolic play from the gifted pen of Mr. W. B. Yeats. Kathleen, an old womnn' with eyes of ■grief, stands for Ireland, and she comes upon an Irish family in the west on tho day before the son', Michael, is to bo married, and woos: the bridegroom to her shattered standard just as the French are reported to be landing oil the bench in an effort to overthrow the thraldom of England. ' The!, end. is peculiarly beautiful. Michael has flung himself out of the door to answer liis country's call, when the aged mother asks her younger son, Patrick, who has just returned from the town, if he met an old woman going down tho road. ' Pat replies in the .negative, but says that lie met a lovely young girl with a step like a queen—a ; beautiful thought, syinbolising the hope of young Ireland in- tho. future. \ And, finally,, Miss Spinney recited Oliphant. Down's pierrot play, entitled, "A Maker of Dreams," « charming little fantasy-which embodies the thought that the object of . one's . dreams may be nestling in the glow of the fire, whilst ono is yearning for an ideal ns-distant 'as the inoon. .Such plays_ in Miss Spinnev's hands are delightful in the extreme. To-morrow .ifternfon Miss Spinney i« .(•(I Todte - "Thn Trojan. Women" of Euripides, in aid of. the Serbian women. '

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2585, 6 October 1915, Page 2

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THREE LITTLE PLAYS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2585, 6 October 1915, Page 2

THREE LITTLE PLAYS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2585, 6 October 1915, Page 2

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