| Show TOO MUCH HEALIsM Tun fact tbat a real burglar has been advertised for U play the part of ncrackman in the drama entitled en-titled The Stowaway bag been i telegraphed all over the country I There have been quite a number of applicants the one most likely to obtain the engagement being a fellow fel-low named W F Ensign The preference for him probably arises from the fart of bis being able to show that he is the most expert scoundrel who has asked for the JobThis This novel feature connected with the stage has several notable ispects As an advertising tiodge It relegates the St Jacobs oil business into the shade The next Idea that strikes one Is that this extreme of realism Is not of character to exalt the moral tone of the stage If it be needful inorder to gratify vitiated popular I taste to introduce genuine bUIIr m It nnt J u uc UUCIULU thatns dramatic barbarism I increases uc real cut throats wife shooter voluptuaries et shall be called stand introduced Then shall the art of holding the mirror up to nature be abolished as acting will b a presentation of nature itself There might however be some difficulty In finding genuine heroes as that class are presumed to b too modest to exhibit their heroic qualities qual-ities on the stage When the drama gets loaded up with real wifeshooter burglars confidence confi-dence men conspirators an J Jnosc characters its function usa teacher of morality will have vanished into thin air It will then be a medium for the diffusion of villainy Actors and lovers of the histrionic art should protest against the Ihrett cited corrupting invasion |
