| Show THE STAGE all the world s a stage aliis word of the immortal swan of avon condenses into a small plan enters att his birth a stige of action on which lie lia lias s gollo earn the living of his future lie plays his pirt with wr ks louder or lower applause often lie playa more alt ou one part and dortly laore st ie there arc adorn on hostage of life who see the light of lie corll through lir tearfully through alm va of sorrow and close their for am duala in lint the majority of us actors find the parts hixt d Shake peu can and we make more than once the easy alep from thu sublime to the lour now we create some flurry and admiration in our but more often wr tickle nerves to a aly or u broad laughter over our follina and w eaknes then again how mixed is the cat of charac tera we are thrown in vice and virtue pride and humility generosity and ness sobriety and intemperance truthfulness and deception sober visages and gay eyes glorying in love and eyes gleaming in portentous hatred all these eles thrown through one another like the colored glass pieces of a kaleidoscope form the variegated play in which a humble part is as signed to us if we can thus draw a parallel between the planks that signify the world as schiller bays and the mundane i phare of human action it shows that the stage has a great and wide t ask that it hai an almost scope As a moral educator the stage is little if any inferior to the majority of pulpits of whose oc capants goethie says A comedian can toach a parson tho stage is almost as old as humanity its old as civilka lion alie oldest attempt at dramatic is the book of job in which alie mot sublime and eternal truths are evola ed and renounced in tho oldee dialogues extant with the ancient greeks and klomans the theatre was first ari intrinsic part of their worship originating from the priests dances at the feists of dionysus to whom a buck wai sacrificed as symbol of the fecundity of nature fin ally the stage assumed those vast dimensions and commanded the high respect in public life which is testified by the public writers and understood if we read the immortal productions of aeschylus sophocles euripides anil aristo pl ianes in the middle age i the church ever alert and on the lookout for g ath which to occure and hold their way over alio impressible bahse originated alie nii Bl cries theatrical anta lions of alio moi t dramatic scenes in the scriptures at firl the callied rah and churches were opened to dramatizations of sacred subjects but after awhile too worldly elements crept in tho minimal pro of the age came to a rather too clear expression and the plays were located on the public square where aliey gradually were diverted of alier biblical character and fell into the hands of shrewd shoemakers tailors and other artisans who with homely but telling humor and biting satire commenced to scourge tle follies of mankind and especially tho and licentiousness of the utterly corrupt celibate priests of abo church historical also atia produced in order to awaken and keep alive a spirit of patriotism and manliness from such crude beginnings of which we have only given the faintest outline nrose the great and gaind drama of shakespeare whose magio pen throws open the secret closet of the kings and potentates and picture tl humble cot with loving iam tee there was a time especially jhc n the stage formerly the handmaid of tho church wa devoted to the exposure of the and corruption of hie fat monks and nun that the anath emai of the hierarchy thundered upon the head of ackois even to the enlightened agat of luit IV of franca the king iaun chii contempt of and stage people wib no much eo that moliere Moli cre alie incomparable ac tor and author of unexcelled if not unequaled comedies was denied re burial now however it different ahe stage U n its arlist io il moral e devo teil to legitimate purposes hie of taste and tho ele of moral nol to thac depra asid of tho sene tho singe with schiller gooche sheridan knock s buher ac i an institution or good fur it arc endowed with a vivid force ana a pow or away and the mind fand alie harl ati tender nd lolly aspiration co in yew york lav ad laid renowned standard the of roy falle by the hungarian lou n it st a work full of highly interesting information cobl of it new und tm its low cirice it duhin tho berh II 11 like american believe he lieve that hie i net jupiter which now us n a is howing vi dince of dunnic light which would liddo a ts lency to the old fellow rom ahe rank and file into th dignity of TUB C V pay car will it u ala kisr ti sr |
