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Show ONLY ANIMAL THAT KISSES. ' Man's Peculiarity a Boon to Play-wrlnht Play-wrlnht and Novelist. Why a saluto of tho lips, ordlnarlN known as a kiss, should bo given such prominence In tho literature and drama of tho world, both biblical and historical, cannot bo solved by ro-course ro-course to any written authority; yet during nil thoso yearn since tho beginning be-ginning of tlmo this peculiar salutation saluta-tion does not appear to havo lost In value, nor Is there any Immcdlato prospect of Its bo doing. What tho playwright, ..iO novelist, and tho poet would do without this peg upon which to hang a plot It would bo difficult to say, and this applies especially to tho playwrights, for dozens of familiar dramatic . productions, several of which havo graced tho Now York stage this season, hau found their greatest factor, tho wheel upon which tho machinery of tho scenes runs and tho plot, depends, In n kiss that of a man and a woman. In Franco only a half-century ago a codo of regulations by which tho theaters the-aters of that country 'wore governed provided that any actor kissing an actress without hor consent, legnrd-less legnrd-less of what tho. play might ho, would bo subject to a'fino of many francs. Leslie's Weekly. |