Show 1 s sr sr r r i 0 J I r t oY I Io o 1 y TV ThA Lenten Lt nten season reason le Sn is upon us IS and andar I ar r ia lie at t hand There was a ati atin atia tin tia ti when hen both oC of these there portended mil mu h for far Those who ke keep p pLent Lent L lit ire rte naturally forced tc 1 forego in m ii un j l a ure and the Ute theatre used I to lf tr mentioned among them th Now Nov h t V T r many man Are Bible during the season ton of sackcloth and at 1 ashen and ami society moiety is 1 almost as I C fully rull represented rf at a the theatre as 81 at atam i iau am says other time of too the year This te la as 86 asIt asIt It should b be ee eti here in Salt Jake for we are rot not n a an Rn any time sur surfeit sur I feit d with attractions and must take I th them in as they come Beddes the bi best beat t dr dramatic productions that come to us usan usan an ar as a much for instruction as sa for I amusement and there can be no pos poa poss Kt s ihl hie l harm in them Take rake the James Jame Jamesl hi l engagement the coming com coming comIng ing w week eek for instance It can be noth nothing ing but hut elevating to s nee ee e such INCh artists in hl inV hel V l Winters T Tale le The and Mat Macbeth beth Vi Al far fur as the approach of or wring te is f tt It in I always regained b by managers In the th large eastern astern cities s the utmost apprehension lon For Forth th them Ihm m it means mean the coming oming of or the bicy ln le fever fer and awl the desire to be out of ofa a 9 and the consequent neglect of or the lh theatres They have hae largely met tint this by It the introduction of or r f gardens gard an lite features f tur R of ot the Ule spring an am 1 ummer Here how Mi pr p r the corning coining of i spring nee need l cause Mi 11 managers no distress for we may mayn n h hu i li bi rides rid HI moonlight walks and th 11 theatre th atre as a well having variety ari ty as lUll ast lUllI t R i i 14 I pleasure Then inasmuch h a ani as I ni iii tf f our l best est attractions attra come ome to tou toof u of lit 1 Ib it spring Pring t we Wf are more than v will M Mi I II i n i ard K rd d them th m our full atten aUen on ont oni i t i i the they are art with u for we hr f I n 3 if f opportunity for out of or doo door dooB i sp B 9 rt rig lie tim In New York it t Is probably wise and good that there should be a lull at the beginning of I Lent to t o continue on until r the following I fall tall for the public there is indeed our eur I felted And nd as in the case case of the pres prea present present ent season they are not only surfeited with attractions but with a style of I them from which a rest forever would be he best So if a n phase of either religion I or vr nature serve to drop rop the curtain curt ln on I that type of f drama dr a which is gaining a j I stronger foothold every season it jt would be welcome to all who have the best beat I interests Inter of the stage at heart head Much Interest IB is taken all over the I country in the he fight light between Olga Neth i I and he the law in New York The tight fight was brought about by the New NewYork NewYork York Journal J and the New York World York after the actress appearance in Sapho which they would ld have us be believe lieve is the worst type of the immoral drama dra na ever ever produced in New York There are ure 1 many reasons rekso s why this state statement I ment is Ie open to the suspicion of exalt exal but at the Mme came time it Is true that Sapho is at least one of a grow growing growIng growing ing daM class of plays which shoUld shoud be I I wiped off of the th American stage The trou trouble trouble ble bl Hi iii that there is IE no concerted effort to atop stop them only a badly planned spasmodic occasional outbreak follow followed I ed always by suspicions of personal rno motives Ives advertisement purposes etc And indeed the methods used u d even if i i the motives be sound make these sus plausible There is no doubt that the public taste for the drama te is growing It is 19 not many years since the immoral situations of a play were hissed off of the stage of oC a New York theatre Nowadays such scenes are used to advertise the production used as a bid for public patronage Thousands Thousands ands and of people are turned away from theatre where Sapho is being played pla ed every night and the thea then theatre theatre tre is Ie continually crowded to suffocation suffocation tion Most people go no doubt to see what all the th fuss is about a person nerson f need nero not necessarily be morbidly cu rious to have a desire to see eee it I Curios ity of a perfectly sane and straightforward ward nature is ia the cause of or much of the patronage of Sapho Whether r the exhaustion of or this natural curiosity will m be the end of the plays plaY popularity remains to be seen Gradually has ha the list of unhealthy y plays playa pla B been growing and gradually must U tt be diminished and exterminated It cannot be done by a sudden howl bowl against the immorality of a single play especially a play pIa which stands for nothing but what wha It represents The reprehensible French farce larce comedies which endeavor to mix gaiety and hu humor humor humor mor with the he plainest and mot most harm harmful harmful harmful ful depra deJ depravity raity ty do more harm and as asyet aset asyet yet et have been al owed d to go unmolested ted The New York Herald of last Sunday published a page of oC letters ratters from fr n private 1 to 4 rv LOUIS JUliES 4 fir q BIDDER T Y H S D t I individuals on the subject of the prosecution prose prosecution cution of Sapho One man hit the nail on the head when he said that if the police pollee would devote more attention to the real vice in certain districts of New York and not so much mu h to mimic immorality the result would be far more beneficial to the community 1 17 i 7 11 v l LOUIS JAMES |