| Show I Retirement of o William Vinter Winter I lover of or the best beat bl In dramatic NO N criticism read r without regret t f of f the Its resignatIon of or Wit Win Winter WitIe ter Ie s from the ew York Tribune Tn The Te fact are ar now flow before bf the Ue public and nd a know knowledge led Be cf of c them Impel the th thought that Ihal Mi Mt I Winter VInter emerges emea from th Ih lbs conflIct with wih isis his editors elor with wih flying colors ulora Indeed Ind the light Ich In n nit leaves 1 then them before bor the tho public Is I A x distinctly had Imd 1 one It I was the old od 01 story lor that ot of r business buln interests die dic dictating dl tating to 10 the dramatic critic and nd try tryIng tr trIng Ing big to 10 control his hi conscience Mr I Win IVIn Winter In ter ler called a spade a spade ripped In Indent detent dent plays pIa ii wide Ide open held beld up their to In public and natum ally U d the theaters receipts Tim h managers protested to lu the owners sf f t the paper and nd they nave gave BIe Instruct Ion to Iu have Mr I Winters copy cop liberally blu blue pencilled pencie Mr r objected rh ih Tribune owner onel Insisted and Mr II Win VIn Winter VIntEr In ter Ir addressed thorn them a letter leter In I which h h he asPi Id About Mout two 10 years yearn ago ao there came a ai i hatiRe Many articles article art I of or mine dealing with manifest abuses bUM In the th theater theal r rhe have he be bean n within that time altogether Many hul Ihor lle sonic of or th thur same ur kind some aetna containing critical crt le condemnation of ot plays pl I have been out cut or oh modified In important passages passage I In protesting against that Injustice I 1 wrote to 10 your our managing editor ellor Mr 11 Brown Hron Jan Ian JI 17 IT I 1 My 11 article relative to Indecent sni nj therefore reprehensible plays play have hae been b n and ni arc are trained framed for the purpose of or do doing doing ing as much Injury to 10 the business ot or the he persons person exploiting them as I In is I pee noi rs utile Ible of or Informing respectable person i of what ht IB is going on In tho Iho theater and of or keeping as many man readers adar as a away Ia from obnoxious and injurious plays After Arte this Ihle the exchange of 01 oomph mont menla grew sharper the blue blu penciling went eft on and one day de lately Mr II Winter r resigned the position he had hd held for tor torn nearly n ay 15 n years year erl The Republican n makes mke the following timely comment on the lh epi episode I II lode sode I The in rh resignation nUon of or William Ulam Winter from the place of or dramatic tc editor of nr the w York Vork la is I an n went nl of o Importance e In American Am newspaper history because It 11 drops drop out of or service a me man of or conscience who has hA said al 1 tha th truth about abut Indecent plays pl and nd lode Inde Indecent cent ct acting without any An regard for tor the tho Ih Interests interest of o the In th tim way WY of oC theatrical advertising through throughout out his hll long career car Mr Winter r ha has been boeti 41 44 yenta yean In the th service of 01 thi th New York Tribune In to his hl i iline line for tor he be Is U a 1 specialist lal t a lit lithe Ii lilt 11 the he perfection of or The di i maU matic columns lun of the Ih Tribune hn 11 been bean famous for far all IU thin this lImo a as m in n authoritative record rr of or the Iho diama f 1 four fOur our day da and the performance of oC th I Iii greatest alton actors of the Ih bygone by on run n tur Winter Is l now no alone alne and his hi n coul I quite complete te as a a I man ma n to I ho hn 1 n character r uplift genius and Ind high til ti d sOt ent nl are arf essential The Th Tribune has ha Ill IllI let t mOl moie P than Ihan a B distinguished it t 1 I nan isis hA lout lost a i primary primacy among aiming t pars er In his hil field and anI If It the Ih story of or tin tim breach elsewhere told loh Is I read ireful irefully ly iy I It II will ivill wi be 0 recognized that it il lnor Its I it standard In an Important matter Mr 11 Winter haw has hal often ofen bet b n binned biased Iv Ivl iv y personal l predilection for foi ho hI his hii h In t 1 thi his hI friends friend the greatest a 8 tar tor we hov b known on ous the American Amean stage IJ and aid Id In lii Inha h hi ha i hais exercised exel the privilege which h h hI hw n hitherto been his hii hi of or telling the truth about plays pi fund and d actors r t of nC hono heno and nd grace grae He lie J has ban ha been unjust no not seldom hut hul everybody know knows that Ii is has ba stood Io for tor the Ih clean drama drains dra and nl this thu Ihal he lie h ha given Iven the Tribune just an u the Tribune has b given him dU die dl |
