The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-28

have fashion of saying over anything
that's absolutely true great many times
but here's the difference between the two
men. Jerome writes from an experience
with the world. what he has seen and what
he has felt. Rudyard Kipling writes about
the world as 1t has been described to him by
other people aud all the cleverness aud all
the cynicism will never make this sort of
work read as IL 10 had heart throb in il,
and it's heart throb that laavens the whole
lump. Goodness graciousl | haven't the
slightest doubt but if kept on this way
some paper would engage me as book re-
viswerl don't know how we'll should fill
the position, but / should most certainly
take all tbs books home and keep them and
that believe is the special duties of the
man who praises or damns book
MAKING AN ACTORS HEART HAPPY.
Whoever started the idea that it was bad
form to applaud in the theatrea Whoever
did may be set down as q downright cad.
And while New York Is so eagerly anxious
to copy the English, it may be mentioned
quite casually that there are no people in the
world who express their like or dislike for
the play that is before them as do the Eng
lish people. Boxes, stalls aud pit all give
their greeting in their own way, and the pit
doesn't hesitate to hiss bad play, or an
actor who doesn't know his part and very
often 1t calls upon the leading actor, who is
also frequently the manager, to explain why
he set such poor show before them. Well,
now, You and 60 to see some good thing,
we are pleased. and want the actor to know
we are pleased. As we don't know him or
her, we don't sit down and write note say
ing so, but we can give them the expression
OF approval they like best, the applause of
their audience. Sometimes Just one person
applauding will give the cue, to be slangy,
~ han tra Full off ex,A
the actors heart happy.
THE CRITIC AT THE THEATRE.
Very often the play that delights the null
titude is scorned by the critic, and yet, after
all, the critic is only one man, and the critic
is very apt to be a little Influenced in his
| judgment; ne is also very apt TO discuss the
play in the theatre, for the benefit of the
| people around him. aud compare it favor
ably with other things he has seen, and be is
not always an agreeable person. The other
night a critic sat behind me who hunmed
out loud every tune the orchestra played,
| and made every woman around him as
nervous as the proverbial kitten. Nobody
| wanted TO hear him sing. and a gentleman
| doesn't go to the theatre to sing. The result
was the next morning, when I read bis
criticism. thought to myself: "How could
| @ man who Is SO rude as to hum in the thea
tire. and to talk very loud, be capable OF
criticising society playi What does he
know about good manners?n Now, it Just
happened this was bad play, but no mat
ter what he critIcises. no matter how we'll
his criticism is written, shall always think
Of him as the round man in the square hole.
HINT TO OUR DRAMATIsTs.
don't mean by this there are no good
: critics, for think there are good. ones,
clever ones, brilliant ones, but after all my
friend, it's you aud l aud our next door
| neighbors who decide the fate Of a play aud
not the critics. And it's more than you and
il we are women, it is women this world
over who decides the fate of play-write a
| play that pleases the women and your box
office will hardly hold the money that comes
| in. Ii the women don't like play, the men
| don't go there. IL a wife says to her hus-
/ band, Mrs Robinson went to see that,
| and she said she didn't think it was nice at
all; but she did think the other play was a
very nice one. Let's go and see il, and SO
| they go. and Mrs. Robinson's judgment has
| made Mrs. Brown-Jones well pleased, and
| Mrs. Brown-Jones tells her friends and they
| tell all their friends, and when the girl of
| your heart wants to go to the theatre with
| you she says, "Oh, my dear, would SO
much rather go and see that pretty play
that Mrs. Smith-Gray was talking about.
there is such charming love-story in ii. y
and they go and the love-story pleases them,
and they like the play, and they have gone
/ there because another woman urged this
! one to go, and so on aud so on ad infinitum.
| In every work 10 the world, from plumbing