The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-26

| Iono or the theater, but there are times
when should like to impart some good
strong English Kisses at the misrepresenta =
tlous that are given and | don't Believe
| Maj. Mckinley would tax those hisses.
| Some OF the most charming men ever met
in my life we're actors, but l think it is
| quite time we got out Of the way of think
| ing Of the actor as an irresponsible child.
whose so-called eccentricities are to be ex-
| cused on the ground Of genius. Genius is
as rare among the stage people as it is
among the reporters, but nobody expects
the reporters to claim the right to do all
sorts Of idiotic things because there have
been some clever men among them.
ACTORS AND MANNERS.
In the numerous schools for the promotion
! OF true art on the stage it wouldn't be a bad
| idea to have a course of lessons given the
| actor on good manners off the stage. Then
| it is possible he would not congregate in
| such numbers on the streets, pose as Romeo,
and make it unpleasant for every woman
| who is forced TO pass him. 1t is true this
| type may represent the man who is not
enough of an actor to even be wakin 2
gentleman. The average actor makes bet
ter salary than any other worker for the
same amount OF work. and l don't see
| why he should dress like a clown
| and not be expected to paw his bills
Severe? Well, you wouldn't think so il you
lived in New York and had to walk three
blocks up Broadway. Just suppose that to-
morrow every reporter agreed to dr. ~ the
name Of every actor; then real, good act
ing would exist and pay; but 1t is the re-
porters who in the goodness of their hearts
have made it possible for the very men who
ridicule them to exist by noting their living.
And that's why am indignant at the news
paper men being made laughing stock of,
and do hope if a newspaper man gets into
office he will see that this is righted.
According to their own account, the best
thing the stage ever produced was Shakes
peare, and all he has ever done for the
suffering Dopulace was
TO FoIsT PAINFUL "HAMLETs,"
lank outlets" badly shaped "Rosalinds, !"
bowling king Lears," and, worst of all,
Lady Macbeth" upon them. | belong to
my century, and l would rather read a
good editorial written by Charles Anderson
Dana, Henry Watterson, Murat Halstead,
or the unknown, than anything Shakes
peare ever wrote.
year ago somebody would have said
that wa, fin de steele. Nobody says that
powadays-one says vingtieme steele And
the difference? Well, when one was fin de
steele, one was blase; life bad no interest;
everybody was bored, and it seemed as IL
even death itself would not permit OF suf-
fiCl0nt laZlneS5. bQG We nave CDduRoQ Oil
that; we are now vingtieme steele; that is,
we can't get too much OF anything. We are
eager to be In the world and drink OF it's
sunshine, TO contras: its joys with its sor-
rows; to be continually on the alert-to
have an opinion of the last new book; to
criticise the last new painter; to be up in
politics, to know exactly what new bonnet
suits u.s. to be able to raise our babies In q
clear, wholesome atmosphere that is going
to make good men and women OF them.
That is what it means by belonging to the
twentieth century, and our enthusiastic
French cousins have set US good example
in adopting the new style.
1t is best typifed by two women. She
who is fin de steele is
GIVEN OVER TO TEA GOWNS,
dark rooms, listless attitudes, Indifference
and languor. She likes heavy perfumes;
she likes low chairs, and everything, even
living, is a trouble to her.
She OF the vingteme steele is up with the
lark. even II she went to bed with the OWL
she is in a cloth skirt and immaculate shirt,
a well-1tting jacket and straw sailor hat;
she Is looking for something, or for some
body: il may be q picture book for her
baby it may be an opinion for the book she
Ia writing on chow to Make the World
Better.n she may be looking up new
dressmaker, or finding out what chance her
husband has for being made the next
President. But whatever she is doing, she
q putting her whole heart into it, and she is