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Show the stage, managers and actors, with j the aid of the morally pure actresses, j "began an. agitation fon a fumigation. There is too much of this tilth being; presented to the public. The salacious sala-cious and lecherous might not do injury in-jury to those in the bald headed rows at these operas, but too often children are present to hear and seo these things which tend to make light of tho moral precepts of home and establish es-tablish a now conscience in tho boy or girl. Older people, who have form- cd their habits of life in thinking and acting, arc not to b turned aside by a voluptuous display or a bold state- j ment of . sensuality, but children. I reaching puberty, allowed to gain a misconception of right and wrong by a display of lechery, might develop abnormally, to their great sorrow in after years. Against this we protest. APPEALING TO THE BASE AND VULGAR. ' "The Merry Widow" of Maxim's, ) Paris, Is to lecherous that Butte, Mon-' Mon-' tana, known the world over as a wide-open wide-open city, where "anything goes." oD-i oD-i jeets to Its sensualism. One of the critics of Butte, reviewing the per formance given in that city, says: The first act was to show what the cocktail is to tho dinner. The second act was bewitching in its semi suge-estlve art. Tho Marsov-Ian Marsov-Ian dance of Sonla. which preceded ihe "Merry Widow" waltz, was the acme of physical tantalization. It wa3 about five parts "Salome," four parts hoochl-koochl with dashes of Usher's horn-pipe and Highland fling. The "Merry Widow" waltz was a study In abandon. The audience drew loug breaths as the Widow with each seductive 6train leaned back heavier and. heavier, on the arm of the prince and with her head back and one yielding arm, outstretched, resigned herself, gave herself to h6r lover. It was Incarnated voluptuous art; Naughty as a chapter from "Three Weeks" and quite as Interesting was tho arbor song. It seemed quite a shame to break up the clandestine affair af-fair In tho arbor with an encore. This is a daring conception and one which required the greatest delicacy in pre-Fentlng; pre-Fentlng; In fact, the overwhelming delicacy and art of the last two acts purged them of their basic sensuous-ness. sensuous-ness. "Such a rowdiness" as was in the last act. It was extravagant In Its pulchritude. Decollete, negligee, lingerie lin-gerie and hosiery In a kinetoscoptc revel, beautiful as a sultan's dream. It's a safe bet that Abdul Hamid never boasted such a harem, even before he lost his job. A captain kissed a rouged dove while a girl danced on a table. It was all fluff ami bubbles and noise. It was the whirl of inebriety the dance of the demi-monde, attuned to the rhythm of the poet. It wafted on the btrains of the virtuoso and radiated the colors of the artist. It was the refinement of revelry. This description or the display or lechery fully confirms the reports received re-ceived as to "The Merry Widow," that it is an indecent exhibition or the base and low and an appeal to the vulgar and the coarse in human nature. It Is about time the clean men or |