Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1912 — Craig's Crazes. [ARTICLE]

Craig's Crazes.

Gordon Craig, who interlards Ms sapient utterances wtth moretlmn average man’s nonsensical lapses, perpetrates this: ‘1 take an entirely common sense view of the man and his motives. He simply succeeded in performing in two months a task that has been tried in every court in Europe for centuries. He set out to cleanse social and official life of its moral grime* and Its degeneracy. He set about bls task with direct purpose, and with the full enthusiasm of a young, virile, and cruelly wronged man. His ideas were logical, and he reasoned and thought out eyery movement and act during that brief/time of storm and stress that ended in tragedy. That is my idea of Hamlet.” Apropos of which the Nation tartly remarks: "It that really Is Mr. Craig’s notion of Hamlet, there does not seem to be much reason why he should be encouraged to promulgate it. What fatality is it that condemns so many enthusiastic stage reformers to be freakish?"