Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 275, 23 September 1912 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGKA2I, MONDAY SEPTE3IBEK 23,1912.
THEATRICAL PEOPLE MISJUDGED
By a Public which Forms Its Opinions Through a Few Conspicuous Examples Who Are Supposed to Be Typical, but Are Not.
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE, j There are some things the theatre managers and the public should not stand for. One is the sort of stuff handed out by one of the vaudeville acta last week. ' For this a theatre manager is not to blame, for an act may be recommended to him as good because it has possibly taken with a public of a low order of theatrical taste. And he is not able to have any intelligent comprehension of its nature until he sees it. The -writer does't remember the name of this affair but it Included two people, one a mature woman, the other a young boy, who gave one of those singing and dancing numbers familiar to the patrons of vaudeville houses. ' But it was the nature of the songs and the character of the alleged dramatic accompaniment which were objectionable. Even at that, however, if either of the two had shown any evidence of histrionic or musical ability it would have justified itself. For sometimes some pretty rotten things are interpreted so cleverly that their rottenness is forgiven for the .manner in which it is done. ' But from no point of view was there (the slightest justification for this performance. It was putrid clear to the core. Vaudeville, a legitimate and interestling form of theatric expression, suffers by just such exhibitions as these. ; On this same vaudeville program i-wag a young woman of education, reilinement, modest manners and a beautiful singing voice. A concert singer who had gone into 'Vaudeville because the latter's engagements are more certain and emoluments more Inviting. The two women were at the opposite endsof the pole in every way but they were necessarily thrown into proximity through inclusion on the came program. The woman of the two who did the singing and dancing was evidently entirely out of her element on the stage. She was common, coarse, unutterably sordid. The boy was vulgar but evidently a sort of theatrical smart Aleck capable of better things. They sang one of the nastiest songs ever heard in a vaudeville house and "acted it out" in an obnoxious and disgusting manner. They weren't funny. They weren't amusing, or cute or any of the things they evidently thought they were. , Morally their act reeked and theatrically it had no reason for being. When vaudeville purges itself of this sort of performance and this sort of performer It will have taken a stride a hundred leagues onward. There is nothing more entertaining than good vaudeville. And there is no reason why it should not be presented by straight theatrical and musical people. It is gradually refining- end adjusting Itself to the demands of the pubHe but it Is yet at fawfr in including such detestable stuff as- this on Its bills. These people were simply impossible. They had nt place on any stage. . And they are" the sort that lower the atmosphere? of? the entire theatric: profession. ' Because they are what they- are they are necessarily more- conspicuous than the element which possesses ex
cellence of character and theatrical
merit. They make themselves conspicuous. And the unknowing regard them as (typical of the whole class.
There is no profession more misjudged, perhaps, by the public than
;the theatric.
' There are just as many nice people just as many good people, and people Just like everybody else in this phase
of society as there are among others. Just as many nice actors as lawyers or doctors or journalists. .It is their business to go on the
-stage each day and act so much and
tso long. When they're off they are human "beings with the rank and file. They have wives and husbands and
children and mothers and fathers and
sisters and brothers and stand in the
eame relation to them as does the rest
of the world.
' Some have homes and love them al
though they don't get there often.
The writer recorded herein some do
mestic data with regard to May Irwin who told the former when here last spring that she could "hardly wait" until she reached their summer home. That all they did In off hours was to
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consult seed catalogues and florists
guides.
In a pretty garden this summer an
actor was heard to say that he had al
ways longed to have a home with a flower and kitchen garden and that he grew weary to nauseation of the
constant going from place to place and of the necessarily vagabond life.
Possibly George Ade's fable has
been referred to here before but it is
apropos again that of he young man who was violently enamoured of a dancer and at last, through some friends, was promised an introduction to this fascinating being with an attendant invitation to supper.
How he feverishly sat through the
performance and flew to the place of meeting.
And of his "feelings" when the nice,
middle-aged woman, with all her "makeup" off took him to her partments and there presented him to her husband and several children and how she could hardly pay attention to
him for the endearments exchanged with her youngsters whom she adored. This is a typical case, more or less. Publicity is the actor's business. It is the medium through which he works and through which he earns his living. It is absolutely essential. And he thinks no more of it as an asset than the lawyer does of his library or the surgeon of his instruments. But it is these people referred to in
the beginning who cast a bright over the whole. . People who have no more business on the stage than a cat has in a bowl of milk. ' And are as utterly unfitted to exist therein. , ;. They are a disgrace to the profession and to the stage and should either be whipped into shape or eliminat
ed entirely.
SOME EXTRA GOOD FURNITURE WILL BE OFFERED AT THE PUBLIC SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS OF SARAH J. CLARK, OPPOSITE EARLHAM COLLEGE. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 O'CLOCK. 23-2t
On the Right Road. - "Our daughter puts on too many airs, observed Mr. Spillikins. "She does, does she?" sneered Mrs. S. "What's the trouble?" "She seems to be too aristocratic and haughty." "What do you want her to be? "I'd rather have her to be a good cook." "And did you ever know anybody as haughty as a cook?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
PURDUE SPECIALIST DELIVEREDLECTURE Claim that Demonstration Orchard Is Best Apple Orchard in the County.
His Usual Preference. "What kind of meat have you this morning, Larry?" asked the board of trade operator. "Well, sir," said the butcher, "Tve got some fine bear steak and some beef that's just bully." "H'mph! Give me some lamb!" Chicago Tribune.
' Unnecessary. "Does your course of home reading include the profane authors?" "No, I don't need 'em. I belong to a golf club." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Palladlura Special) , CAMBRIDGE CITY, Sept. 23. The
demonstration orchard of Purdue University, belonging to H. A. Whiteley & Son southwest of Cambridge City, is remarkable, from the fact that it is the only orchard in the county which has produced a great amount of fruit this year. , The Purdue agricultural department this orchard last Saturday before many of the most prominent fruit growers of the state, Ohio and Michigan. After a picnic - dinner, the demonstrators gave an interesting lecture on the spraying of trees-and the growing of fruit, both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The laws governing the diseases of trees and the stringency of such laws in the Western states, where -fruit is more perfect than in
other parts of the United States, were discussed. A visit to the orchard followed where demonstrations" in- pruning were given. The young trees are very heavily loaded, especially the Ben Davis apple trees, which mere bent to the ground, hile the Grimes Golden apples were pronounced to be the most perfect seen in this locality.
FIRE CHIEF RETURNS Fire Chief Ed Miller has returned from the annual convention of Inter national Association of Fire Engineers of the Americas held at Denver, Col. The meeting convinced him of the efficiency of the fire fighting auto
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and
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