Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-11
in SOCK AND BUSKlN.
Some Breezy Notes of Interest
From the Mimic World.
GOSSIP OF STAGE AND FOYER
An Epidemic Of Child Players Milton No
hls's sew Plaw-Ths serpenuae Dance
Theatres and combiaalions-
chal Of the Stage.

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Theairss and combiaa.ious-
chal Of the Stage.
From the present indications the
coming theatrical season In the East is
To 10 devoted almost entirely 10 the IN
FAINT prodigies, and the Little Lord
Fauntleroy craze bids iair to be he
newcd with greater viruleuce than
ever before known. Just why the pub
lie is expected to be Interested ina pcr-
iormanoe where children OF tender
years essay the roles OF men and
women, and IN their childish way por-
tray roles that have tried the talents
OF some OF the most famous actors the
world has over known, is one OF those
incompehcusihlo Things that secm be-
You'd ordinary human understanding,
To live and act scenes beyond thuh
years, TO enact roles OF which they can
have but feeble comprehension.
and TO live In am atmosphere
oi paint and tinscl, when
they should be coming their lessons; to
appear In the glare vi the iuotlights
and pose before an audience until after
the noon OF night, when they should
instead be wrapped IN tho soft, sweet
slumbers OF childhood, Is NOT art. II Is
prostitution of the stage 10 the sordid
views Of the box office. WHAT art Is
there in l2-y2ar old boy mounting the
lines OF Richard III, or mimiciug the
decrcpit vet fiery Hdchclicu whom his
childish mind cauuOt understand
the meaning Of the lines he uttors,
parrot like ns he has boon Taught 10
is possible to teach q puppy numborless
and almost marvellous tricks. but no
one prosumos 10 say the puppy is an
artist, Yet the public will 20 20 see
these 'prodigiosn simply because 1t ~
the fashion, just as they Will pay So and
SO seat TO see Bernhardt or SIT until
midnight 10 hear Emma Iuch butcher
grand opera. This child drtnu revival
lis like the cholera or yellow ievel'
cpl emic IL must be endured
People are expected 10 patrdnize thom
literally and newspapers 10 gtHh
over them. whether they ura uhlo
TO show aught of mcrit or uaught So
far no child dramas have been booked at
Grcenwall's aud consequently The Fort
WORKMAN has abundant cause for self
graduation
Milton Mobiles who has always been n
great iavorlto IN the South has opened
his season with new play For Reyo-
nua Only, aud it broadly satirizes cur
rent political methods. MIR. Mobiles
has the role Of "a reporter u brilliant,
ontcrprising Bohemian, who gains The
presence OF a Third party candidate by
climbing through window and with IL
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Robert Downing, the traredian, has
been successful in more than ons line
Of ondoayor. II Is not generally known
for Instance, that he Is In the publish.
ing business. Mr., Downing IL a Knight
OF Pythins, and This gave him renewed
interest in the story OF damon and
Pythins. y in which, during his stag,
career, be had taken the part Of one OF
the principals. He became convinced
that tale so full Of dramatic interest
and 80 successful on the stage, would
make a splendid subject for a romance
Having conceived the idea IL did not
take long to execute il. ~ True
| Knight was soon written, story OF
the loves Of Damon and Pythias. and
OF their antagonism 10 tho tyiant Of
Sytncusc. The tradition. as treated In
! lobn Bnnim's great play, was followed
very closely, the only departure being
/ in the introduction " tender and ro'
mantlc love element the germ oi
! which Is Ia the old story, but which
| Mr.. Downing believed worthy Of more
prominence.
The romance being finished, tho
question OF u publisher had 10 be settled