, 1881-02-12
Edwin Dootft Serving II Good Purpose
By Turning Pnbllo Attention TO
Lofty Idcnls.
Indecent Farce and Burlesquo the Rago
Owing to the Low Tone Of
Society"
E1eellenta Among ittors, but That Excellence Net
on tho Higher Planes Of Art

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occome SO rampant as to provoke renlo's-
slrahce from I'll" euttor OF tho Theatre. y
tho theatrical profession, "Aias that It
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were to put up q roaring nonscustcal farce.
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best people III London, refined wotnon would
be ricglina belind their fans. yo,tua n1rls
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'uLuAHlff AND DoonlE'ESFESTE,
nnu beInE " competition with n tlozen others
who llave, thu kendn!s nre now losing monty
rs fast rs only theatrical, managers and
newspaper. publishers eGn. THO fact ls but
not 50 much Of tho immortality of tho Stage
as Of tho low tone Of, our, fashionable world,
Or at leist Of = pronllMent por!lnll Ut the non
denotes Itself by tho elastic name OF "So-
ctety:" What one hears on the stago, .ald
sees In the auditorium, of, some of tic then
trea where "the best people In London u 70
nightly, carries one's thoughts back to tic
most ,lissnluto times IL English, history. !
do n1t say that the stats OF things now IL
ways thun one tho close Vt tho Victorian nr1l