Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-02

the cleverness and all the cynicism will
never make this sort of work read as if 1t
had a heart throb in IT, and it's heart throh
that leayens the whole lump Goodness
gracious | haven't the slightest doubt
but II kept on this way some paper would
engage me as u book reviewer / don't
know how well / should I'LL the position,
but should most certainly take all the
books home and keep them and that I
man who praises or damns book.
MAKING AN AcroR's HEART HAPPY.
Whoever started the idea that it was bad
form to applaud in the theatre? Whoever
did may be set down as downright Gao.
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
English people. Boxes, stalls and pit all
give their greeting in their own way, and
the pit doesn't hesitate to hiss bad play,
or All actor who doesn't know his part, and
very often it calls upon the leading acton,
who is also frequently the manager, TO ex-
plain why he set such poor show before
them. Well, now, you and go to see some
good thing; we are pleased, and want the
actor to know we are pleased. As we dom
know him or her, we don't sit down and
write note saying so, but we can give
them the expression Of approval they like
best, the applause Of their audience. Some
times Just one person applauding will give
the cue to be slangy, to the whole theatre
fun Of people, and make the actors heart
happy.
THE CRITIC AT THE THEATRE.
Very often the play that delights the
multitude is scorned by the critic, and yet,
after all, the critic is only one man, and
the critic Is very apt to be little infiu.
enced in his judgment; he is also very apt
70 discuss the play in the theatre, for the
benefit of the people around him, and
compare it favorably with other things lie
has seen, and he is not always an agree
able person. The other night critic sat
behind me who hunnled 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 gentleman doesn't go to
the theatre to sing. The result was the
next morning, when rend his criticism, |
thought to myself How could a man
who is SO rude as to hum in the theatre,
and TO talk very loud, be capable of crit.
cising society play? What does he know
abont good mannersp' Now, it Just hap
pened this was bad play. but no matter
what he critieises no matter how well his
NtiNiNioih 10 Wilhelm Hlidll ulNdNb IHlIlk
OF him us 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 and | and our next door
neighbors who decide the fate of play
and not the critics. And it's more than
YOU and ! If we are women, it is women
ais world over who decides the fate of O
play-write Il play that pleases the women
and your box office will hardly hold the
money that comes in If the women don't
like play the men don't go there, If a
wife says to her husband, 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 YVES a very nice one, Let's
go and see it, and so they go, and Mrs.
Robinson's Judgment has made Mrs.
Brown Jones 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. "0h, my dear, would so much
rather 60 and see that pretty play that
Mrs. Smith-Gray was talking about there
is such charming love story in it., and
they so 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 and so on ad intini-
tum. In every work in the world from
plumbing to writing books, from making
candy to making plays. from the design
ing of frocks TO the designing of great
hotels, from the painting OF houses to the
painting of pictures, from the writing of
checks to the writing stories, it's the femi-
nine button that has got to be touched if
you want to make a success.
WHEN YOU'RE AWAY THIS SUMMER.
What are You going to do when you are
away this sumner? ! hope you are not
going to talk gossip.
hope you are not going to do anything
you are ashamed of.
| hope you are not going to pick up
charming ~ acquaintance whose charms
are worn out in three days and whom you
are forced to cut in less than week.
hope you are not going to find fault
with the table at the hotel; nine times out
of ten it's better than you get at home
/ hope you are going TO be amiable,
hopeful and agreeable--the three graces
that best decorate woman.
hope you are rot going away il some
body else has got to work through the long
hot summer days that you may have an
easy time of it.
do hope you are going to TIP the people
who wait on you well. They expect it and
you might as we'll do it and be graceful
about it. And after all there is an i'm.
mense amount Of pleasure in seeing the
smile on black face when the eye lights
on a silver quarter carefully arranged
under glass Of water.
That's tip from BAB.