Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — An Example of Realistic Drama. [ARTICLE]

An Example of Realistic Drama.

“Realism may be carried too far.” The speaker was Augustus Thomas, the playwright. Mr. Thomas was condomning certain overrealistic plays that he had seen in Paris. -—“They were so realistic;” he said, “that tfcey inflicted pain and disgust on th& audience. The audience under this excessive "realism suffered likez Mrs. Dodledum. “Mrs. Dodledum was horrorstruck to see her little (laughter come home 1 from the beach one morning with her new silk frock cut Into about a hundred holes of various sizes. 'What on earth,’ the mother cried, ‘have you cut all these- holes in yo’u» frock for?’ 1 1 “ ‘We was playin’ store,’ the little girl replied, 'and I was the Swiss cheese.* ” .