The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-10-10
THE PRESCOTT DRAMATIC CLUB.

Owing 10 one and only oae of the gentle
 men, sho took part ia 'DOiag for the Best, ? on Tuesday last, failing to properly commit his part, the play was not so successfully presented as it should have been. We were content to let the thing pass without com. mens, however, since some one has seen fi 70 criticise ALL who took part on that occa- sion through the Arizonan of the Cad inst, we have thought proper to giye our uews ou the subject
 Perhaps some one with better memory nay recall the exact language of Lothair when he declared that the critics he most dreaded were the disappointed authors We do net even guess who the reviewer i, who 90 manfully steps to the front, flip. pantly deallng out his meager need and running hia pen lightly through the eoasci- eutious efforts of ie9 ladies aud gentlemen generous enough to donate their labors for the amasemeat of the public-yery much as if he we're measuring of some yards of fcal co or caneeling his signature to syslue re- ceiyed.r
 IL Is safe to conclude however, that no artist. disappointed or otherwise, would as- sume 10 jgoge an amateur company, with limited experence even as amateurs, by such standards of the dramatic art as are cited. live have no Doctor Savage" gradu- ated from the school of the gods, or Bob. Brierly," who caught his inspirations while selling peanuts in the pit, we can boast several gentlemen of our clus, who have taken rank in different ways in forum ana field, and if we have no Clara Morris, with weak spine, who says to Mr. c. M. taking hervoice from tue pit of her stomseh, ''aow, my love, look unhappy, and we'll go down to dinner" we have at least those sufficient iy educated to the ways of polite society to jusiiiy moderate degree of confidence in their faithful rendition ol character, apart from the usual tricks and illusions of tine stage, the opportunities for which auxil. iisriss beng, as is we'll known, limited m this place.
 Again, we believe some alluson was made i've have mislaid the review) to the ''yalue of the dollar" Now the theatre go- ing public know the terms of lhe Club. the quality of their members, and the choice of plays, nay, mo.e-msny are us familiar with the uresses and cues as the actors themselves, and when they elect to buy d ticket, they take their chances. Indeed there is a class m this, as in every con- munlty, of chronis carPers, whose highest priyelege it is to find fault, and who would regard themselves as defrauded of their rights,or at least as having made weak in- vestment if they had to go awsy satisfied.
 We believe that what the Dramatic Club undertook to do specifically, was to glve echo to the theatrical world outside, assuming that the tastes and demands of Prescott public differed in no essential way from those of civilized world. To thIs end. the Club produced "A Scrap of Paper" play written by Sardou, one of the most eminent and successful female dramatists, a play which ran successsively for weeks m every important city in the Union. It was pre- sented here with an unusual degree of ex- cellence, both with respect to the mounting and acting, every requirement being care fully observed in detail, and yet it failed to please the "art critics" but, then, how should it else have been conveyed, that the art critics had really been ''inside" and had really seen the play in the hands of real artistsl
 It is not to be supposed that any one play shall contain all the phases of high life and low life, and middle life; those who | draw delights from the negro cabin and day dance, must give way, thelr time will | come; our canvas is not broad enough for both, meanwhile, the club will produce | ''Lady Audley's Secret and Caught by the | Cuff with the same degree of compliance, as if not warned of failure. For those who | have failed to commit their lines we have no defense to make. While we dc not, with our critic, expect to fly with one bound from our shadowy and untaught ways, into the white road of the successful artist who has climbed laborious to his place we could afford 10 accede to the author, his right of an ungarbled text.
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