Show DEBASING performances 10 IT is a matter of regret that there should be any such inch exhibit exhibition iou as that given give n at the theatre last night there is a reasonable excuse for placing performances for mances before the public that are not of a high standard from an intellectual standpoint it is only a certain class in every community that is capable of appreciating the line of bf plays in which the philosophic is embodied and there is a more or less wide demand for the trashy and sensational demand is so popular that theatrical managers could scarcely conduct a successful business without giving it some satisfaction salis faction there is however no argument lu in existence of sufficient tent force to 10 causti tute an excuse for presenting exhibitions which tend directly to debauch public and popular morals the santley performance of last evening even in it was waa of that character when to immoral tendency the element of sacrilege is added the exhibit is robbed of every redeeming trait or feature its direction is wholly bad and such presentations should not oe be permit permitted teA in say any further farther they theys should boula not be allowed in any theatre whatever plays of the description under consideration pander to tile the most debasing passions pas sums and being life illustrations of the ideas and suggestions they embody are more so far as they extend than yellow back literature universally admitted to be i an oi of public morality it is id not probable that tae ane condemnation 0 of the press will have the effect of keeping a great many aliese tastes run in a questionable direction away from such suggestive portrayals as those on chica we are now treating those who are that way inclined who are not overburdened with self res hect and have no special regard for the he effect of their example are not likely likely to be ba deterred irom the gratification of a morbid inclination by the censure of the press upon the source by which their satisfaction is produced there may be some however who are not aware of the brutalizing character of the abe per e r alluded to that might become unwitting sp spectators vie we desire that suan should be in informed on the subject besides in these matters independent ot any effect that may be produced a duty in the premises devolves devolved upon the press |