"INGOMAR"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 121, 8 February 1918, Page 3

"INGOMAR"

♦ PROFESSOR, TRUEBLOOD'S RECITAL. Professor T. C. Trueblood gave another dramatic recital in the gymnasium hall of the Y.M.C.A. last evening before an. appreciative audience. The chair was taken by Dr. Anderson, Director of Education. Professor Trueblood took as his subject the seventeenth century German play, "Ingomar, the Barbarian," bv Von Munch Bellinghauscn. He mentioned that some of the greatest players of Britain and America had appeared in this play, which in the original and in translation had gained a high place in the tsteem of critics of the drama. The central figure in the play, he explained, was Parthonia. The scene was laid in Southern France in Graecian days, and Parthenia was the type of Greek maiden, cultured, courageous, full of the sense of truth and right and honour. She was one of the most vigorous women characters iti the drama. Ingomar was the chie of a Germanic tribe, rough in exterior, hold, honest, and honourable. He was a man of action, who believed: Tnnio'indolence is living; death; The buttle of the strong is life. Dr. Trueblood sketched several of the subsidiary characters, and then proceeded to the recital of large portions of the plnv. He made his characters live without anv of the aids provided for the actor and the actress, and gave the audience a thorough insight into a play that although a classic is seldom staged outside the important centres of the drama. He was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his entertainment. This evening Professor Trueblood will deliver an address on "The 'Making of an Orator" at College.