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Show Tlieatriiai -roi;rir,nii'a. There is a certain feasible reform that would bo eagerly welcomed by frequenters frequent-ers of the theatre. Tho public would be glad to see banished tiio vulgar, voluminous volum-inous and inconvenient programmes that nro forced upon them. It is perhaps pardonable that in a house of low grade, both as to tierform.'tnce and public, the progriuiiuie should lie sandwiched into Volume of tawdry advertisements. There is ample pecuniary justification for such Methods, and tho frequenters of third rate places of amusement are not likely to bo delicate as to such details. But where the management caters to a higher high-er t;uste surely tho averago programme of these days is entirely out of keeping. Nor is it altogether a matter of taste. It is a serious annoyance to spectators who would examine tho cast of a drama to have to rummage through many pages to find it. A man who goes to the play for amusement has a right to insist that the amusement shall bo as unalloyed as possible; and managers would find it to their interest, we should think, to respect re-spect tho legitimate wishes of their patrons in this regard. Even to themselves, them-selves, one would imagine, there would be a certain satisfaction in a programme on a level with tho performance to which it is tho guide. Now York Commercial Advertiser. |