Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-20

OLINE LOGAN ON IIlEATRlCALS.-O more
than one occasion has Miss Olive Logan, for
merly an actress, but more lattery given t
literature, spoken her mind in dcrogati0n o
the theatrical profession. The New ! ok Time!
having accused her OF SANDER in that conutc
ton in her recent speech At Steinway Hall, she
explains her remarks Us follows:
IL referred the other night to decent young
women who are not celebrities merely honest
modest girls, whose parents have left them thu
not very desirable heritage Of the stage, ant
who find 1t difficult TO obtain any other employ
ment, being uneducated Tor any other. Whcr
these girls gointo theatre 10 apply for sltua-
ton now, they find that the requirements o
managers are expressed in the following ques
tons:
II. Is your hair dyed yellow?
80. Are your legs, arms and bosom symme-
trically formed and are YOU willing to expose
them?
''3. Can you sing brassy songs, and dance
the can can, and wink at men, aud give utter
ance to disgusting hall words which mean whole
actions
~. Are YOU acquainted with any rich men
who will throw you flowers, and send you
presents, and keep afloat dubious rumOrs con
corning your chastity?
-. Are you willing to appear to night, and
every night, amid the glare OF gaslights and
before the gaze of thousands of men, in this
pair Of satin breeches ten inches long, without
q vestige of lrapcry on your person.
"Il you can answer these question aitIrma-
lively, We will give you 4 situation. If not,
there's the door.
Now, as far as We may have departed from
the Legitimate in these days We do not think
it quite so bad in the theatrical world As Miss
Olive represents, though doubtless there are
exceptional establishments or perhaps SO-called
opera houses, to which her statements may ap-
ply. The Times, commenting on her note,
says that Miss Logan draws freely upon her
IMAGINATION, and adds
"In fact, the qualifications implied in the
queries she takes the trouble to invent are not
such as are required Of respectable actresses in
the dramas that are performed at the principal
theatres We are quite confident no such ques
tons were ever propounded to her by any man
ager to whom she ever applied for employ
ment'
1t is to be hoped the Times is correct in its
assumption, but certainly Miss Olive ought to
know.-Bab. San.
THE ENGLIsu SERMON TRADE The trade
in sermons manuscript sermons sold to clergy
men for use in the pupit) is an English in>ti
tuiOn. aS nowhere else DO we see them 80 freely
advertised. This trade, We are told by the
English journals, has grown enormously within
u few years. The newspapers which circulate
more especially among the clergy of the English
establishment, have regularly contained advor-
tisements offering original, striking and otholox
manuscript sermons for sale, aud the fact OF
their extensive advertisement shows that they
are extensively used. Upon this subject the
Observer truthfulIy remarks that, in this
country it would impair, if not destroy, any
mans usefulness in the ministry if it were
known that he depended upon Others in any
way for his discourScS, and the grosSneSs OF the
evil seems 10 BE- working cure abroad