Show THEATER HrEDS 1 publishes and indorses An Kastcrn paper dorses the following Ioicy Fltrirorald tho English author and IJtz1 historian road a papor recently re-cently in London In which ho mndo some pertinent criticisms on tho modern crazo Mr JFltz for elaborate scenic effects pn < 1nnt nnt n Mrrtv of the Dano inmlc I spectacular j i Joys proviueu for the theatergoer of the present epoch Ho has llttlo use for puplcrmachj trees or for stngo rocks mado of noses covered 101 with cloth or for n material sky made ot I linen strips suspended from stocks or for To I wooden eastles or palntod landHCalcn him all these modern devices ai6 clumsy I and Inartistic He fays he would rather 1 rcturn to the simpler staging of former i days when tho drama was the center of Interest and whell the spectator was allowed al-lowed to furnish tho scenery mostly from his own imagination 1C the plays were only for scholars and authorn that would be all right if the actors were all Booths and Ir vlngs that would be all right but men cannot carry on theaters unless they I pay arid the study Is to place something some-thing on exhibition that will draw We suspect that were Mr Fitzgerald to have a theater equipped to his taste the actors selected whom he would recommend and the play which suits him best presented the theater would I not pay J expenses for three nights His criticism is like that made by a great I Cardinal a few weeks ago on the needed I newspaper of the agog It would havo t to all read like one of the cardinals I I i sermons and the result would bo that If such a newspaper were published it I never from the first would pay ex j penses J Air ivuzgenuu wuum nitvu mu thenfcr a great school through which to lift up tile people and he forgets that the average person does not like I to attend school In a theater The rule Is that people go to a theater to be I amused The young go for the direct pldasure It supplies the tired man and woman go for the Indirect pleasure which for the hour at least causes them to banish their cares and anxieties anxie-ties Mr Fitzgerald too forgets something some-thing He would have the theater iriln I isler to the mind and heart alone and i forgets that all we know has come to us through our senses Why then Is It wrong to delight tho eyes with beautiful beau-tiful stage effects Why banish music that charms the enr1 Why not combine com-bine every thing that gives to mortals legitimate pleasure Why not through the senses as well as through appeals to the higher accomplishments of men seek to Instruct them But It all gravitates around a common com-mon center To succeed the theater must present that which will lure the audiences through the patronage of J which the expenses must be met i I Would Mr Fitzgeralds plan draw tho crowd Our thought Is that the newspaper news-paper and theater are alike In this particular par-ticular at least they must be made to Induce the public to suprrnrt them In the case of the theater the great want of the people is to bo amused as well as Instructed |