Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-30

io Says Living Pictures Are Nnt In
decent ana Nuinar.

Lawrence Marston Is IN the city com.
r'sLng arraago'ashts for the rrcdu,-
ton Of CLEOPATRA" by Miss Lillian
Lewis. There has boon 80 much said
about the introduction OF living Pie
lures that the Gazette had MIR Mar
ston interviewed. MIR. Morston said;
The production OF ~ play like Cleo
patra' In these days OF advanced slago
mechanism means a gorgcous feast
FOR the eye. OF course, | know every
body has read that some one In At
lanta had the bill poster arrested for
posting the Cleopatra paper on the
boards Wen, what did It result in2
When the case came TO trial, THE news
paper men. the Judge, and in fact all
Atlanta agreed that there was no cause
FOR such an action Now here IN Texas
n prescher-I thlls IN lleArm "a, IN
the pulpit had something to say about
living pictures. and sim some one else
in Shreveport denounced the project VI
the best society ladies there 10 give
one OF theh own friends. who Is
member OF the COMPANY, public re-
|. ccption. Now thcsc things are un-
worthy OF an intelligent community.
People OF today don't need any censors
TO regulate their diet or their amuae-
nents. We are u thinking people, aud
can. without counsel. do what We think
right and good FOR ourselves
Now about living pictures. There ~
| no higher or more refined class OF on
/ tertalnment. Tolstal IN his lNreutzgr
| Sunnnta made his hero arraign music
/ as me Instrument OF sensuous hcen-
/ tiousness. and with Just as much rea-
7 son as these antagonists OF living PIC
/ lures. Music stiil nourishes as high
order OF intellectual and sensual pleas.
ure, and living pictures do aud Will
] continue 10 do the same, In Cleo
patra there are two living pictures
| which have not been eNcelled by any
| production In this branch OF the dra-
| ma. They are tahlcauN Nlvant ana
dramatic In addition 10 being beauu-
| full, One of Antony's vision or tlro-
pntra in her barge, and the othor II
| Cleopatra's vision OF Antunys mar
rlare In the Temple OF Hymen Sa-
crum, The grandest piece Of poetry
dirtion. and description in the Eng
lish language IL Shnkespcres deseill-
lion OF Tits same living picture, which
begins with the lines; she did he
in her pavllion--cloth OF gold-ot us
sue DER picturing that venus when
we see the fancy outwurk nature
one can with lust na much reason say
that II is pernicious for boys and girlf
aud men and women to READ thlR gln'
rlous speech "a to say It is pernicipuf
To look al the living picture Whleh
embodies this Now then has anyone
over seen women Of low class or de-
graded men, visit the Louvre, or th'
Corcoran art gallery. MOL why he
cause the works OF art exhibited lher'
do not appeal To such natures. They
sav nothing 10 such minds or souls.
''They only have meaning and spt AK
10 the refined, the cultured, the m
teuectunl. And SO II IL With l4lving
Pictures. / say again these Living
Pictures. as they are properly named
are the very highest order Of amuse'
ment Let me tell you what me series
Of Living Pictures In cleopatra ~
The grape gathefer' npil,a" su ,',,
completely dressed; ph0roahs dhugh'
ter after the finding OF the llUt
Moses. with the baby In her arms
the Vestal Tuccla, with the slew
above her head, anNiousiy awaitini
her vindicaton or couVicion, eau "
her vestal robe; the Muaea OF Poetry
and Music, the offering TO Pan 10
man youth and girl with flowers u
their hands hanging Eurlands agouu'
their mute shepherd god; the finnins %
Moses. pharoah's daughter on lh'
banks of the Nile az she sees th'
basket in the bushes; Feeding IN
Sacred Ibis In the halls OF karnhh
The dancing girls OF Gadea; Repoae n
Egypt, lone, weary woman slecplul
| IN the embrace oi Wv Hiit'' 49, I,
Circe on her throne with the follower
of Ulysses turned Into awinei the bear
ers OF evil tldings slain by the daugll
ter OF the Ptolemlos. ana the last on
is Cupld and payche Each Of thes
pictures IS u faithful reproduction q
the original masterpiece. and tn
knowledge that II Is life one IL lookin
at enhances the worth ot the orlginh
Living pictures are destined To pla
u great part --thcy are IN their infanc
as yet--and 30 long as Il man or We
man win exist on earth with any sens
r OF What is beautiful, so long VIII liN
Ing pictures flourish The rude, th
vulgar. the coarse, the low proved an
thick skulled can find no pleasure {
looking al living pictures, but the nObl
ana pure and high minded, the refine
and cultured can and living picture
are exhibited FOR them only"