Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — The Dramatic Outlook. [ARTICLE]

The Dramatic Outlook.

There is no greater curse to the stage to-day than the swarm of heartless, brainless, supercilious theater- goers who come not to be amused, to be touched, to be interested, but to show their immense superiority to the poof deluded fools whqare amused, touched, and interested. Three or four of them in prominent places will damp and chill' and spoil the evening’s amusement of a whole 1 heater. Barbers’ blocks and milliners’ dummies would be an inspiring and appreciative audience compared with them, I can conceive many reasons why an intelligent man should stay away from the theater. I can conceive

no reason at* all why he should come, except for the noble pleasure of admiration. It is so easy and cheap to laugh; it is so easy and cheap to destroy. It took centuries and men of profound genius to build Westminster Abbey, but any fool or madman can with a pound or two of dynamite blow it to atoms in a few minutes.— English Illustrated Magazine.