| Show OGDEN AND THE TEE DRAMA the grand drai dramatic natle temple in which oden ogden takes pride and pleasure will doubtless be opened to the public during the holidays it will not only be one of the largest but one of the most elegant and beat best appointed dand and most convenient places of amusement in the country the tile proprietors have shown not merely public spirit in the construction ot of so grind gand an ed edifice itice they bare have done a great de deal almore more they have shown a distinct and decided though personally expensive regard for the good name a and it general welfare of our growing and n ib thriving riving city realizing of coarse course that play people aletho are tho most persistent and effective advertisers in the land and that the tales they tell when they play here now or what they tell when they do not play because of their unwillingness to do so in the only place provided go along a long way and have tended to reduce our importance while casting castl ngan an unjust reproach upon us abroad this Is not the tile only instance in which regard for the public baa has been shown in the construction of the ogden opera house it contains a corn com preben sive system of firo fire esc apai in no part cf cl it will the and auditor aitor ba eo so placed that in case of an alarm of fire or anything else be tie cannot at once find his life way to the exterior this is a matter that is too often overlooked else elsen elsewhere here and the result is that even while there is no immediate danger the of insecurity which a person naturally feels becomes so decided in some cases as to interfere with the enjoyment of the occasion after it shall have been completed wo trust the same regard tor for our welfare will be maintained that has so far been exhibited and a strict attention be paid to the moral character and social status of every enter ta lament which may be per b batted upon its boards of course all cannot bo be satisfied and what some down a perfectly proper production would moat most likel likely y be denounced dey doy by others ns as disgraceful disgrace ful and abbing a thing to bo shunned there are fanatics fanatic sin in all nil departments 1 la I elifet life and between the voluptuary and tha the prude hero there Is precious little choice but steering clear of both and adopt ing the higher and betler better ground which occurs only between extremes one can call generally manage to satisfy and cultivate the improved and well balanced mind we have hire it on the authority of america that when the late ate matthew arnold visited this country he lie found little to craigo in conr manners but bitt he was fascinated by tho the performances performance then given by harrigan arrigan II and hart the london academy sent a commissioner mr frederick wedmore a critic ot of the aus terest school to report on our stage ho ile reported that most ct of it was a feeble imitation of the foreign stage but that the plays of ilarra gan and uart hart were unique and so easily first in the dramatic race that there was no second mr howells IIo has raised a perfect hurricane of disapproval by elating stating what would have seemed to bean be an obvious truth namely that there was no nit national ional drama outside of the war dramas of gilletts Gillett 3 and howard the playa plays at the lyceum theatre in kew new york the old homestead of mr air danman denman thompson and the far farces cleo of mr hoyt and that each of these is sufficiently good to make us independent of foreign importations now when it Is considered that the abe average american drama Is apt to be natural enough to please be the homelike humorous enough to satisfy the morry merry literary enough to bo be at least acceptable to the reader and sufficiently bristling with points and lurid with startling situations to delight the galle rioe fles and that our works find distinguished english endorsement it would seem as though we bad had actually reached the golden mean without being altogether conscious of it and yet there Is much in the drama of the old world without r resorting es orting to the varieties of london or the vs vaudevilles vaude ude villes of paris to bo be worth and enjoying As much cannot be said for gome some of the people who come from those countries an actress BO so called imported from across the alantic Ala Alac otic tle in a new now york theatre has endeavored with considerable success to revive the nude drama this Is part of he the reception she bile rot got from the dramatic mirror ji aror a respectable and able sheet and the woman who willingly consented to exhibit herself publicly in a manner from which even a courtesan might brink shrink leap leaps from rom into public attention become becomes a tr star ina in a tingle single night by the simple process ot of shedding her clothed it li Is not art that attracts the multitude in ili this cac case it li Is prurience the crowd care carea nothing for or doxas Dost lg mol moth it want wants to lee see a woman clad from neck to heel heels in fleshing A nude statue or picture may bo be viewed with pleasure plea ure jure i a virtually nude woman exhibited in a puy play appeals to base ba passions pai gloni the brit first case li Is art the second is 1 depravity what Is wanted in ogden is barring of doors and patting putting up of shut tere toys when the nude the vulgar and the suggestive seek an entrance with all other departments of dramatic lyric or spectacular fiction we can and must got along and the mor a 1 I 1 I 1 1 I determined we become to support nothing that is vile the lees less cause will we have as time advances to continue determined f fsr those w ho 0 oppose va US will gradually get to as we eee see the drunkard would soon enjoy pure puts 4 ator more than whiskey it he could get nothing else |
