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Show Has theatrical degeneracy come to this, that in New York at a leading theater thea-ter an actress can pose before the footlights foot-lights as an artist's model, nude except for flesh colored gauze drawn as tight as her skin, without being hissed off the stage? The pulpit has long since thundered thun-dered its anathemas against tho stage and the answer 'invariably was not to judge indiscriminately tho good with the bad, but what excuse can be made for so palpable an exhibition of shocking shock-ing indecency in a theater that is devoted devo-ted to legitimate art? From Booth to John L. Sullivan, from Modjeska to an artist's model what a chasm there is between thorn.,, |