Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1889 — The “Legitimate” Coining to the Front. [ARTICLE]

The “Legitimate” Coining to the Front.

For a decade or more, the stage of America and Europe has been largely occupied by so-c.:l!cd dramatic work of doubtful merit. Slang has taken the place of wit and aero oats rank as comedians, reducing the burlesque of former days into idiotic coarseness to all except the vulgar-minded. On all sides now the change for the better is heard, and the legitim ite is coming to the front with rapid strides. hrom London comes the news that Sliakspearean and other legitimate plays appear tube the ruling passion in the theaters. Irving leads, but has notable followers. At the Princess Theater a revival of “Hamlet” is to be given, with Wilson Barrett as the Dane; at the Haymarket the “Merry Wives of Wind.-or,” and Mansfield is to give a grand production of “Richai’d III.” In Chicago, at Mc\icker’s Theater alone, many notable productions are now in view : “The Winter’s Tale,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” “Macbeth,” while the future bright in promising us Florence, as FalstaT, in a production of “Henry IV.” Then the “Twelfth Night” is to be superbly mounted, while “The Tempest” will be given in a manner even superior to that which made “A Midsummer Night’s Dr.-am” so successful. A Nevada man who had seven homely daughters got a paper to hint that he had seven kegs fi led with gold in his cellar, and every giil was married in five months. Before the wedding-day a girl generally overrates the man she is to marry, but she more than makes up for her mis judgment afterward. The man "who is believed in everything he says is far luckier than th 6 man who always tells the truth.