Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — The Elevation of the Stage. [ARTICLE]

The Elevation of the Stage.

A Scene-Painter’s Outfit and a Carpenter's Tool Chest were hurrying down street when they met a Toiling Dramatist. “Out of the way,” they said, haughtily, as the Toiling Dramatist bared his head and bowed low. “We are going down to the Lumber Yard to get a New American Play,” “But,” pleaded the Toiling Dramatist, “here is one I have just written. The Heroine is a pure young girl ” “That settles it,” they said harshly. “What we want is an American Play that is Purely English, and hasn’t a throb of any other sort of Purity in the whole Five Acts, and we can make it Ourselves. Away, Slight Manager!” And trampling over his Prostrate Form they got their Lumber and Canvas in twenty-four hours, and sawed out a play which they filled with Circus Posters and ran every night for Two Years. Moral —The Race is not Always to the Swift, but sometimes to the Fellow who Cuts across the Course and Gets There.— Burdette. With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most .contemptible individual to do incalcuable mischief.— Waxhirmton Irving,