Show Pecks Bad Boy The dramatic editor of the San Francisco Fran-cisco Post gives a neat little sendoff to c Pecks Bad Boy and as the DEMoCRATS DEMO-CRATS criticism of the piece was thought by the manager to be a harsh and an unjustifiable one we will furnish the opinion of the Post We regret to have to say that Pecks Bad Boy is a piece calculated TO debauch the youthful mind and deprave the immature understanding understand-ing At the end of the first act a bit of bathos is introduced which positively is enough to make the audience fire rocks at the stage As the author told us that his play was not to be criticised as a play so too perhaps John J Williams would warn us that his performance of the Bad Boy must not be criticised as acting But for that we would say it was bad very very bad He is not like a boy he does not talk like a boy and he does not act like a boy but perhaps he does all as well as any man could and the fact that he makes a poor job of his attempt to be boyish and is hampered with lines which are essentially unboyish shows that the man who wrote the stuff is not so clever cever as he would have us believe |