The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-30
BIaOTED BRITISHERS.
A Returned American Says Home
Talent Has no Chance in
England

A Post Dispatch reporter met Mr.
Joseph Arthur, the manager of the
bunch of KEYS company at the South
ern hotel this morning. The gentle
man has lately returned FROM Eng-
land, where he went to introduce
series of American plays. In an
swer to a question about the success
of his trip, Mr.. Arthur replied as
follows: We succeed as we'll as can
he expected in England fer American
stars, for auv engagement there i,
without emnlu:uents. No matter
artistic success mAy be, or how poten'
the drawing power. there is no,
enough proft in i: to buy mouse a
pair of mittens No money has ever
been 'na e there by al Americas:
star. Ii IL sai'! by an English CORES
pondent mat | nave not superficial
knowledge OF the country and lis peo-
pie. Bur | know perfectly well what
/ en- talking about, having taken
three attractions to that country and |
have lived two or three years. in Lon
don,
You Claim that a prejudice exists
agaIns; American stars in LordOn ?
/ do not snow If it be prejudice OF
not. Certain ii is, none OF them sue
ceed, ana! an ailusioa to America as
the iand If the brave and the home oi
the free in Rowe,s play at Drury
Lane. this summer elicted a storm If
Kisses.
What American stars have you seen
play in London ?
/ do not like to mention failures.
said Mr.. A.
Blame me, said the reporter.
/ was present at the opening 81
nearly all of them. Booth failed ard
bankrupted Walter Gooch, of the
Princess. The failure so worked On
the latter that the mental trouble b.
afterwards had was attributed to the
strain. Booth never had recognition
as the grea. artist he is until Henry
Irving took him into his stock cOmpa-
ny. Our best comedian, j. Il. RAY
mond. failed. They wouldn't laugh
at Colonel Sellers, and thought the
candle la the stove and the turnip
seen. stupid. Frank Mayo and his
wolverines YVES jeered and guyed, or
chatfed, as they term it. The audi
ence left the theater IL disgust with
Cyril Searles' realism when as bloody
Bill Sykes he slew unhappy Macy
Rose Evtnge. Many exclaimed On I!
Ain v hen Baker ard Farron appear
ed. and many held newspapers before
their eyes and real them while Rob
SOD was on. | was told that bonfire.
We're lighted all over the country
when John Stevens left for home, and
that his life was spared on premise
that he would hot c,me again.
Fanny Davenport was outlawed by a.
arlstocra:ic DILL POSTER whom Price
her husband. had antaeonized. Drur,
Lane was The alter upon which the
peopes of John Mccullough were sacri-
feed, Lii ian Russell failed, ami her
Msjesty's Theatre swallowed the HAY
rrly and his cunning maze of A merican
wit and his profits. Yes, sir. They
carry their dislike of American stars,
or whatever il is. to the level of dog
II extends from the most
aristocrat'c patron to the lowest attach
rs If the ,heater and TO the Lord
Chamberlain. The latter on hearing
an American plsy was To- be produced
at first refused to license it. not be-
cause all the conditions had not be sat
i>tied, bu. because it was
AMERICAN TRASH
\ certain editor after witnessing an
American play characterized it as
vulgar irreyereBt AmericaniSm, ami
advised his friends not to see it. Yet
one week after he asked 10 be given
box for lis wife and daughters.
What does this imply?
| leave i: TO you to guess | know
what | think. But we go or swallow.
Inc bad stuff called dramas and actors
sent over to us. IT'S well known
fact Americans persistently toady, and
English people don't like them any BET
ter FOR it either, Minister Lawell leads
the van. He is the first American
n twenty-five years 10 Sc;
side the honnred American dinner
given on the 4th of July to Americans
in London.
Did he +?
Aye, in order to attend the dinner