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Show I "KltAl'P," is ai t up in the uurki-t places nnd tin nam liiMri. n ami worohipptNl. l-lvi ry-tiling ry-tiling that hart vacuum and Bound u lollnweti blindly, lu every depart men I ' of bus) in t.t, Qi-itneo and art, I lie "loude.-U" neheine wins. I'll ere ia no more retitieineut or love fur the beautiful beau-tiful hdu than lluio i.1 bohdity In hu.-'iiusi. W'e have hut one. reputable iiuuii'iiin. The Dutch ehum, own and aiippul hiin. Thi-re is not anaitislof nurit m ilit- city, but t lie chroino and the. daub urn iiihtilutioiiB. '1'hero is not a writer here thai haa ever been heanl ofoutulo of Clncagu, but DitTtj are hall" a ihueti great duilie run on the putl nnd pan ler nyilcui. Chicago never gave tlio world a singer. Tne city never gave birth to an actor til for anything higher than "re8on-iihle utility" bu-oiuw in a reputably theatre. thea-tre. In all the p iths ol lile that give fame, where will you liud tho nume of a Cmcagoan T In all the paths of hie th n yield Yiuer, trickery and rogue-, where will you not find a man Willi "Chicago" UU'leJ all over him ?; There aru thoot who may doom lhtfi remark made to pander to sectionalism. sectional-ism. Tney are not. Tlu-y are undisputed undis-puted truths. Never baa there l-eon an art gallery, a musical coupervatt.ry, a literary club, or any tt ut of a venture lor rcial cuhiv.it i-u iuaugiirattd litre that did mi' die out in n lew weeks or ll olltli. hun i ..f ,.a-.,I, lh, aires m Chicago to-day. Aller tin-Week tin-Week lul uue of that uumbtT Will te a hi place fur a pii;,ni of culture ami rtliiiement, tir a person deoirint: culture cul-ture ai.d n liiH iut ut. if you like, to pass nn tvenuii;. 1 have already snken of McVieker's gorgeous kirn and lis poorly-fed animals that are (nrctd upon his patrt'ius ns actors. W'.tda' iiiiiwnim, with its Jo.lX'O dii play of gas on the tmt:de, and iu .-jmdu.-t ai.d nitila.-st-s ftssiLj and theatrical f(tiU inside, is a catcU-penny catcU-penny bail lor grnngt rs and rural Sunday schools. Tiie Academy ol .Muai" plays trained d4 ami otlier combination. Honley's, the unci-bt'autil'ul unci-bt'autil'ul home of comedy and the U i; tim to drama, is given over to waiidiruig ai.d otlier minstrel and ( prifc-..Llitilaleuni. Tiifl Adtlphi ia sd i out-and-out Itowt ry, with non of the i IS-'wery Li'ent. And now the new Ciiieatu theatre, the prettiett little theatre in America, nthe manager, T:u-ms A. Hail, of PniLulelpnta, liaa Minn Irom tUi,'i to fLV.OoX) m awakiening from tho delusion that I there were culture and appreciation in Chicago, will be clcatd to-morrow evening. It is the samo old play of Chicago's pig-lu:ideduCNs and a liberal manager' ruin. And do-pite her fine pro If stations of generous patronage patron-age ot Lilt ut nnd her trundle) appreciation appre-ciation of mer.t, she will play it upon any manager wno di-ea not fall down ard worship ut (he feet of her golden calf of imposition, ignorance and fraud. Cornspotideuco St. Louis |