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Show MUST HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS Playooers Will Not 8tand for Dramas That Finish In an Atmosphere of Gloom. A popular novel had been dramatized and all the critics declared that, while dramatic art had not been trans-gresMMl trans-gresMMl and ad the scenes were as true to life as In the novel, something wns lacking. It wns soon discovered what was the matter. The story ended nnhnVplly. What ono mny like In literature, one doesn't In drama. So tho third act was rewritten nnd ' a Joyous "climax substituted. The effect was Inslnntnneous. "The reception re-ception of the play," we learn, "wns electric. Tlme who weie seeing It for the first time were thrilled Willi this great exposition of American life. Those who had seen It In Its llr.st form marveled at the quickening of the piece. And yet the cognoscenti agreed Willi ono voice that tho story which closed In unhnpplnc.ss was the truer art, with Its logical and liici'ltnble llnale, Nevertheless, one of the noted critics who came to the revised performance per-formance said: "I'll have to ndmlt that I'm lowbrow. I like the accepted, tried forms better." So that's the difference between the drama nnd the novel. "Tess of the d'UrbervllloR" goes out In gloom, but whnt n weak thing If Tess nnd Angel Clalro had "lived happy eer after." St. I.ouls Olobe-IJeniocrnL |