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Show MR. DOOLEY ON THE THEATRE. If It's an Educational Institution He Says the People Don't Know It. Now that there are protests from many places on the indecency of the theater, it is interesting to know the Philosopher Dooley's summing up of the playhouse reform controversy: "Sthrange to say, both sides admit 'that th' theaytre is an idjacational institution. institu-tion. I never thought iv it that way., I always supposed that people wint to th theaytre because they had no comfortable comfort-able homes to go to, or to f'rgit th' dishes weren't washed, or to laugh or cry or have a good spoil iv coughing where it wud atthraet attintion. But it seems I was wrong. Th theaytre is intinded to be more like a night school thin a circus. It's a good thing f'r th" theaytres that th' people that go to thim don't know this. If they felt they were bein' idjacaterl whin they thought they were neglectin' their minds they'd mob th' bo office to get their money back. Anny recollection they have Iv idjaca-tion idjaca-tion is clouded with sorrow." |
