The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-20 00:00:00

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MOCK IirODfBTY !
" If • body kias • body
Need any other body cry out?
This Is 'Had), different to the original query in the
fia itch ballad of Coming through the Rye," lam
&was. Probably. it would not quite so well
set to
music, but i• answer, my pap...., which I. to have a
word with the gentleman or lady—l 'on't know which
—who wrote the cri of ' Beloh-yor at the Amity
Hall" for y cout mporary th. Otraccrer. Toe writer
observes in tit • ours, of his or her remark.. :

It re•v sot tr• LOWer r. to ,mad amateur
actor. tv the d .play of effectton to the stage should
not be • • exuberant el to wattle the cberact rot. mama
for kisses, or at ealt that a limPed number of those
mark. of affectioo should te. reserved for lb. &erector
in the pip who boa the heel right to look for tfieni."
Now, thie I. lk somewhat round -about w .y of nutting
It, but it simply means the. the pathetic scene* of
the piece were carried out rather t o re disticatly t
pls." the Puritaniival feelings of the critic of the
Observer. Probably, be or shit ban never aren Ouarles
Wyndham in one tif IS hr ght I,t le pieces, or the
writer would at fancy th it the.* tern toetratiot • are
c •nfined to amateur.. The old tr./Aloha' stage hi..
on the top of the bee 11. pretty well uheolete But the
writer has drawn upu • his or her imaginati ta when a
"mania for kiwi's" is talked about. There was
nothing of the It al, awl it was ~nly when one
realistic sslote on the cheek c *lied f-rth a go-xl-
natured 1..u.11, thst it we. plebs th•se on the boar•la
were obi tyin.t tberneelves as well as those who were
witnewslog their efforts to amt... l'ossibly, the
writer, male or femur, felt unto:a-enable because the
grapes were Sour I
•

Here is whet an American paper say. about the art
of kissing on the stags :
" The or of hive.miking and the art of kissing, have
been can folly et plied by toe Indies actorsies of the day,
cad earth of tim have their Peculiar oat pnd of .neeting
lios with lira Pretty Mies Nailer nad to hang shout
Renee' not with an eoitatle abandon thee wen am ist
haulm at turps, cod elan' the kir come it st red a Ling
while. Mrs Lingtry, it is said, (1,611 trams.' he
spectetors with tbe idea ti at she wants to be tier& es
she aro es her latinl man t • loch ber lips roe hilly.
and et. 1112. ill at ease while eh- is in his arms. Masi Mary
Anders's le rather d Skutt to kiss nicely, basuse she is
• tci toll to ne•tle down upon Sir D iwaing's brined chest.
She hums in a good, straightforward way. however. as
though she isn't selinmed of it, and triers is no a •nsinee
rib iut the performance. It's In the pert, and she d lee it,
without putting soy very delicsti touches to it. Mir
Catherine Link, wharoprightly wapiti oper boas win
for her hod • of m tie admirers in ev r city Er 'Wu., hag
evidently given • great deal of thousbt to the art. She
wraps nor arms about the neck of boo usook•lover an if she
wanted to mike them go twice round. arid when she is
sure of her grip, elri give. • hungry .CCD. end then all is
still for a few seconds. Siddenly there is • lou I to p end
the operet on is over."
• •

By the way. I hear that the expetent of the part
of Belphegor has oersted hi. conneoti ,n with the
Garrick Club. It le I. be hopall be will reloceidmr
hi. proems determination, for, I fumy, the club will
bit at • too to fill up the vacancy.