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Show ARE ALWAYS ON THE DECLINE Wonder It That the Dramatic and Culinary Arts Haven't Reached the Bottom. From time to time some ancient gentleman bursts Into print ou tho subject of tho Good Old Days of the stngo, walls over tho lumentnblo depreciation depre-ciation In public tustos, raves about what be Is pleased to call "tho classics" class-ics" and wonders In a spasm of hysteria hys-teria v.ltat we all are coming to anyhow. any-how. Whj is It that th.) stage nod homo cooking nro the only things tbat have consistently been on tho decline for tho Inst threo hundred years? And why. If hnlf what these old folks say Is true, haven't the dramatic end cull-nnry cull-nnry arts reached tho bottom by this time? Anybody with one good eye and recourse to a public library cin Ascertain As-certain with easd that over lncn tho advont of George Frederick Cooke In this country, hewhlsknred pessimists have been comparing tho contemporary contem-porary stage with the one -of a dead generation to tho srent disparagement of tho former. Thero must be a limit, a bottom, a llnlsh somewhero to the pit Into which American theatricals have beon tumbling for tho Inst 110 years If we aro on the way to the demnltlon bow-wow e and havo been beading there clnco the days of Hallnm, when aro wo due to arrive? Glenmoro Da' vis In Success Mngazino |