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Show I AMERICAN PLAY HOWLED DOWN. Over in London a gallery mob howLed an American play off the stage on Thursday night. This is a return of the disgraceful scenes of other days when rival theater managers hired gangs to break up plays. London papers were quick to state that the theater offense was not an expression of an anti-American sentiment, but was directed at Manager Charles Cochrane. Here is a little affair which, widely ; aired, flight give endless trouble in rekindling the flames of prejudice between this country and Great Britain. A comparatively small group of men now and then poossess the power to do a nation great injury. Many of our big international problems have grown out of intemperate in-temperate utterances and ill-advised acts of irresponsibles. We must not make the mistake of viewing a show house clique as expressing English sentiment. Men who are so lacking in courtesy cour-tesy and good manners as to disturb a play scarcely represent anything any-thing in publio life other than the coarse element, which has no deep, abiding conviotions established on intelligent understanding. They are not worth considering except as they drive home the lesson of the mischief maker. |