The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-15
News OF The Green
Room and Foyer
Some of the More Important DOings
of These, Our Actors.
RECRUDESCENCE OF NASTINESS
ming to Experience, in This Country,
an Immoral Relapse, Thcatrically
Speaking General Notes.

Over in England there are earnestly
discussing what will sooner or later
have to be settled on this side also-the
question whether notorious women and
still more notorious men, portrayed at
times by professionals more notorious
than either, are to be accepted as true
types of modern society and duly en-
rolled as a permanent feature Of our
modern education. Or, as George w.
Smalley phrases the inquiry whether
the modern society play is q good and
wholesome work of art, or an unclean
abomination? The discussion on the
other side began says Mr.. Smalley,
with sharp criticism of John a.
Dreams" which Beerbohm Tree put on
the Haymarket stage and is still acting.
Then other plays were attacked, nota-
ly Mr. Jones's 'Masqueraders," and all
on the ground that not only were they
ill-constructed and ill-written plays, but
positive mischief to public morals.
rs the prostitute to take possess
sion of the English stage?" queries
one set of critics. us the girl
of fifteen to set standard for
the public?" queries another What
ever you do, give us works of ant"
cries third, land don't give us such
pieces as the Masqueraders,' by a
manifest botcher, alike a playwright,
moralist and portrayer of society"
On this side by a singular oversight,
the question of morals is almost en-
tirely overshadowed by the question,
us 1t interesting?" An affirmative an
swer means crowded houses, pleased
managers and well paid salaries. The
morals can go hang. Some Of these
days our public, too, will begin to ask
more serious questions. Perhaps not in
| Scranton. We do not bank heavily on
culture hereabouts. But certainly
somewhere between the oceans-some-
where where decency still fingers as a
barrier to pictured nastiness done
player-fashion, with animated models
and calcium effects.
Speaking of Miss Coghlan-the fasci-
mating Rose who has lately produced
a new play gorgeously to inattentive
and declining audiences-last Sunday
Herald gossips entertainlngly, as fol-
lows:
If Miss Rose Coghlan were only able to
forget Forget Me-Not." Submit but q
play containing a character that closely
or remotely even, suggests the role OF
Stephanle, and she cannot resist the temp
tation of producing 1t. OF course this is
quite natural-the part of Stephanie being
associated with the artists most brilliant
success In the past. But the woman
changed. The adventures, the woman
with past, Is not, fear, the interesting,
fascinating creature she was, and Nine.
Romualdo Pacheco in ITO Nemesis; orLove
and Hate" has done but little to rehabili-
tate her. But Is Mile. Wuanoff an ad-
venturess after all? OF course, when you
listen to the endless twaddle of the Baron-
ess de la Bruyere, of Nine. Froissart and
of Nine. Grangelien in the first act, you
are ready to swear that she is as bad as
they make 'em. AS a matter of fact she is
not half bad this Mile. Walanoff. Ran off
when she was quite young, mere chit,
with gentleman of title, who declined the
honor Of becoming her husband-then ran
back home again, only to find the front
door locked and her reputation gone. Home
closed and reputation gone, there was moth
ing left for her to do but to work
herself into terrible passion and to worry