Show TOO MUCH REALISM tire THE fact that a real burglar has been advert advertised lied for tt t play the part of a cracksman jn the drama entitled the stowaway has been telegraphed oil all over the country there then have been quite a number of applicants the one most likely to obtain the engagement being a fellow named W F ensign the preference for him probably arism arises from the fat fa t of his bis being able to show abow that he is the most expert scoundrel who has asked for the job this novel feature connected with the stage has several notable aspects As an advertising dodge it relegates the st jacobs jacob Is oil business into the shade the next idea that strikes one ja is that this extreme of realism is not of a character to exalt the moral tone of the stage if it be needful in order to gratify it a vitiated popular taste to introduce genuine burglars may it not be anticipated thatah that as dramatic barbarism increases real cut throats theoa to wife shooters voluptuaries etc shall be called for and introduced then shall the art of holding the mirror up to nature 9 be abol abolished libed as acting will be a presentation of nature itself there might however be some difficulty in finding genuine heroes as that class are presumed to be too modest to exhibit their heroic qualities on the stage when the drama gets loaded up with real wife shooters burglars confidence men conspirators and loose characters its function as a teacher of morality will have vanished into thin air it will then be a medium for the diffusion of villainy actors and lovers of the histrionic art should protest against the threatened corrupting invasion |