Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — The Love in Fiction and Life. [ARTICLE]

The Love in Fiction and Life.

▲ periodical devoted to the drama pleads for plays based on some emotion other than love. The difficulty in producing such plays is that every play must have a hero, and in making a hero the playwright, as well as his audience, almost inevitably adopts the view expressed 2,000 years ago by a scribbler of the dead walls of Pom- • peii: “He who has never loved a woman is not a gentleman.”