The Little Review, April 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 2) — John Shaqi
The Little Review, April 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 2)Various
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The Little Review, April 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
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Your scenario, the “second cousin to the dream that will one day come
forth”, seems quite symbolic of your prophecies. Pallas Athena, Jeanne
D’Arc, and Our Lady Springfield; a treeless hill top in Washington Park:
this then is the rank of the Goddesses. Springfield is to have secular
priests and her patriots are irresolute! “Without prophecy there can be
no fulfillment. Without Isaiah there can be no Christ”.—A truly
Christian interpretation of the Hebrew’s great Isaiah, to whom Christ
was but a disciple! But so you will have it.... We need Isaiahs and John
the Baptists, but they were prophets and fore-runners of a Christ, a
personality—not a Utopia, World State or International Brotherhood. If
you appear before us as an Isaiah we demand to hear of your Christ. You
recognize the demand of Confucius for rectification of names. Do you
realize Nietzsche’s transvaluations for our day? Faith as opposed to
affirmation! Zarathustra has spoken! There is now the mountain peak—and
you are still rhyming about a hill top.
Announcements
“_The Weavers_”
Gerhardt Hauptmann’s Weavers is coming to Chicago! It begins a limited
engagement at the Princess Theatre Sunday night, April 2. If you don’t
go—well, we will pray for you.
It is to be the same production with which Emanuel Reicher stirred New
York this winter. Mr. Reicher is no longer with the company, having
finally given up the struggle of trying to make a financial success of
art and truth. His stage director, Augustin Duncan, who is a man of
vision and ability, has formed the actors into a co-operative company,
and they have been struggling through various cities where their efforts
have been intensely though not largely appreciated. This is to be
expected; but surely in Chicago they ought to find an audience.
P. S.—Since I wrote the above _The Weavers_ has opened, and I have heard
how the first-night audience laughed where it should have applauded and
guffawed when it should have recognized something fine.
_Margaret Sanger in Chicago_
There is an announcement on the cover page of two of Margaret Sanger’s
lectures in Chicago, and others may be arranged after she gets here. We
have got into the habit of looking upon birth control as a thing in
which everybody believes, and which almost everybody practices whether
they believe in it or not. It seems quite superfluous to keep on talking
about it. But then you remember that Emma Goldman has been arrested for
talking about it, and that when her trial comes up—some time this month
or in May—it is quite within the possibilities that she may spend a year
in prison for her crime. That is something none of us could face without
a kind of insanity. So please don’t be content with merely abusing the
government: send your protests to the District Attorney and it may help
a great deal.
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