Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 303, 25 October 1912 — Page 7

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THE RICHMOND l-AALADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 1912.

IT'S EASY TO TALK

But Sometimes You Had Better Investigate Before Making Oracular Statements About a Lot of Things, Including People and Moving Picture Shows.

"thev" did or did not B&f. the concert ' es " might do a lot of rood.

I was given and "enjoyed by all" as the j Xlld tjieil again jt mightn't.

rural society columns bare it. For R Jg a ttable fact that f, The only person who had any posi- . tiv or authentic information about ! like the bare and undiap. the whole affair was the writer. j truth. hoi-a nrsro Twrsnna nmnini' To rftlirn. however. it mlthl 1

JCI Uiwv ' - - . , , ' round town saying thi3 and that and j well to find out whether or not tr

wua weet snow prevails u wmcm

' BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. It H tJe doubted if the excellent T""' that desire to take up . j jf picture evils or what ,'tT:r""?BJre lts evlls wl11 accom'

Rec&uee they are evidently not en

tirely Informed as to the present character of the "movies." Those famous "wild west" pictures referred to In an interTiew recently are practically nil. Very -.few films of this sort are now ?'fiirji Jbe picture houses. yV't'-iQtn 18 tbere ls a national ceni:tii. which has done more to eliml"t TitAtt exaggerations formerly characterizing the picture plays than al!

other agencies. The fact that the moving picture drama is rapidly evolving into a legitimate medium of theatric expression is becoming established. The stories told by them are entertaining. a Comedy, of course, prevails. But there is little farce. And as little tragedy, although there pre some picture plays that do not have the traditional "happy ending." The majority depict every day life In its various aspects and the human clement is dominant. Many plays are made from historic 'Incidents and characters and these nre educative as well as entertaining. But are these patronized by that rlement which points the finger at the 'wild west" drama? Not so you could notice it. At least not in considerable numbers. Not long since a series of splendid pictures was shown here reciting the (incidents in the life of Columbus, pre'vious and subsequent to, as well as including, his discovery of America. TheSe pictures were brought here ,by one of the picture theatres at heavy expense. And were of enormous educative lvalue.

j In addition to being dramatically

land plctoriauy superior. , If the members of the patriotic or

iganizations of this city were present

lin rtvArvne mine numuers me .

I wail not evident.

t Durine the past year we have had

'some excellent things here In the way

of moving picture plays.

tJist winter, in instance, one of the

. 1 theatres., gave Mrs. Fiske's play of

, . ..- -BecKrSharpe," the dramatization ot

1 4 . : m i fir-it

V J" ; J"JBIJWUB VI....- - J.,-, . .Fiske did not'Tlay the

' - 'leBOfnc tAQ ' VV-KV , " "II wucu by rfttother act,f ess and the ;play pre-1 i sen ted with great" accuracy of detail, 'comprehensiveness and lucidity. At this same theatre during the past i few months was seen IShakeBpeare's "Julius Caeser." . , In the theatre showing, the Columbus pictures, a dramatization of "Pippa Passes," Browning's well known Ipoern, was presented earlier in the season,;, . ..v iiibkifrVrt,,vVi ma liQva a lrrol Rrnwn-

j 1tt J ltys'few of the latter, were in j

AT I'i- ace to view this dramatic pres-

" I. -'i'ai. ioione Of the great writer's ;

s - rititicev Olcott. a deliehtful actor. I

"-' was wen,, in a characteristic play, at;

. - . t -- a v. , ........ i v ni inatffic :

-v .ter, anu 1U sun anouier wits " KTiumctir TirtiRfmtntlotl of Dail-

r Wlien proauciions 01 mis naiuie an? brought here they should be supported by the public to which they particularly appeal. But. as a general thing, they are not. Instead this public, marooned within some drawing-room in club session will discourse about the delinquencies

of the " wild-wt"t" shows given in the j

moving picture houses. There are too many criticisms based on Inadequate knowledge and half baked reports.

That's one reason citizens should ' tteud the sessions of the city council. By getting their information at first hand by personal observation, they j might find out that a lot of things '

were entirely different from what they seem. Its like that famous objurgation that "nothing good ever comes to Rlch,r J'Ad,"- in a theatric way by those ."-,' -ssed up the Irish Players, the - 1 ika orchestra. "Thy Neighbor's - J iiti1 nthur ini-nimiarnhlA thlncn

t... appeared in the Geunett last sea"iw ' .H's easy to talk.

And nothing easier than to talk j about things about which you know j nothing. j To the latter human idiosyncracy j an be accredited most of the villain- j ous gossip which floats round town. Tracked to Its lair most of the out-1 rageous siories which people tell about each other would be found to ; bp absolutely lacking in foundation, j It's a peculiar human quality that ; !e!ights in hearing of the degradation j and humiliation of an individual or set of individuals. j You know yourself that you take nertaln hideous, if vigorously denied,

' r t yoUt dearest friend. i

ithe other thing who couldn't possibly

'have known anything unless it had ibeen" learned through the one under

. ., . ' 'whose auspices the concert was to be And you'll believe any thing from aoBK ttUv neighborhood heresay. . Qracular afe tha prQphe. You'll lend an ear to a story from c,es wWch are made bjr the insplred hose whom you ordinarily would ones v, icorn to affiliate with. t t cnmDfimpl, nrnnhecies can't be

i brought to bat.

And oftener than not the dirty story

How many mistresses can be found

gossiping about their friends and acquaintances with the cook. There's a lot of this. People who regard themselves as patterns of virtue and elegance will descend into the kitchen to share a dish of gossip with the maid or the s-erub-lady. Will permit their servants' to load

them up with the most detestable

handed on behind the hand hand may be purely mythical. History is a tissue of half-trnths and actual Mes. This has been proved more than once. And social intercourse is largely a thing of fabrications.

A Society ' for the Promotion of

tales of their own . relatives. To say i Accuracy among the. Cultured Mas

nothing of their friends.

They say" has been responsible

for more trouble in the world tha.? ;uiy other combination of words or

circumstances.

"They say!" But who are "they?" "Ay! There's the rub!" Who sure enough, but everybody.

and yet nobody at all.

When you confront the paeser-on

of a nasty or derogatory story they

will always fend you off with

"Well, anyway, that's what they

say!"

This was amusingly illustrated not

long since when ;a $ongTecital was

given under the auspices of the writer at a local theatre on Sunday after

noon.

The writer was called up by some

one who said that some man in town.

with whorrt the writer had never held a conversation in her life stated that the concert would not be given be

cause it could not.

"On what authority?" asked the writer. "Well, he heard it down town." "But who said it down town?" "Well that's what he - said they say," Now as a matter of fact whatever

hlv as the excellent women's orgar.

zations may have been led to bellev' They might find out, also, that the are independent managers and pi ducers, Just as there are among tl theatrical people. That these produ-. ers now and then come to Richmor. 8nd generally with something sure lor to the ordinary run. In instance, the Bernhardt and K jane pictures seen here at the Ge nett recently. In fact there is a whole lot, to b' found out about th "movies" i: you're amind to take a little trouble. -

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