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Show For the Critics. Creston Clark, whose untimely death at Asheville robbed America of a serious and capable actor, was somewhat impatient of criticism. To a Philadelphia critic he once said: "You chaps are unwilling to accept a man for what he is. You want to change him to your own taste. But each of you has a different taste. To whose inclination, then, is he to bend? "No, no! Take the artist for what he is. That is the right critical attitude. atti-tude. Don't be like the farm urchin I once saw an urchin who, as he stoned a frog to death, repeated severely: se-verely: " 'I'll l'arn ye to be a toad.' " |