The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-19
STAGE KISSES
#CAUSE TROUBLE.
Woman's Club and Happy Homes
Broken
ACTRESSES GET THEIRS
ELEANOR ROBSON BEGGED HER
LEADING MAN" TO AIM HIS
OSCILLATION AT Her
| EAR.

In Chicago one woman's club and
tWenty-seven happy homes have
been broken up by stage kisses. Ana
they we're amateur kisses, too; at
any rate, the players who kissed were
amateurs, though as kissers they
may have been thoroughly exper,
fenced, says the New York Mail and
Express.
Most of the theatricals are given, =
said righteous member of the club,
just as excuses to let The young men
and young women have a chance to
make love. Amateur theatricals are
menace to society and to young wo-
manhood"
Amateur theatricals are a menace,
certainly to the public peace, if'not to
morality; but II is new theory, and
| one that sprays white light upon
| Chicago society, that young men and
young women must go on the stage
to make love. And all those beauti,
full parks and parlors in Chicago, too.
Times have surely changed.
Whatever the members Of that wo-
mans club may do 20 the amateur
kiss, the professional kiss is an insti-
| tuition too well established to be SER
iously threatened by any such cru.
SADIE Criticism cannot wither Il. no
custom stale its infinite variety. |,
still has the power to thrill an audi
ence, save a situation, divert attention
from bad acting, as naught ever els
can. 1t is one of The most valuabl
stage properties and probably the
only one that the city authorities IL
not require TO be rendered fireproC.
| before the play begins.
| Miss Eleanor Roheon, who Il
| Merely Mary Ann" looks to be on
/ of the most kissablc maiden5 en- the
stage, says the first illusion she hal
shattered for her when she became
an actress was that which she enter
tanned concerning kisses The sis
ters of the convent where she was
| educated were greatly shocked when
she announced to them her intention
10 lake a theatrical career, TAeii
chief objection, it seemed, was TO tag
kissing business in plays. Miss Rob
| son explained to them that actors
and actresses did not actually l,igs a
ALL they just stood in such positions
and the audience was deceived into
thinking they kissed, She really
thought II was done that way; and
so, when she found out differently
she got mighty shock
IF you remember Men and We
men," said Miss Robson, there Is q
scene in which Margery is kissed b.
one of the male characters. The man
who played this character when
made my debut in the piece was 81,
old friend of my mothers whom
had known ever since was a Nurs
small child@ Soon alter we began tn
ehearsals he astonished me one day
~ saying:
Well, where do you want me to
tiss your
HE said it in the most matter of
fact way but | was terribly embar.
raised and did not know what TO an
swer, He explained that II was al
ways necessary to have matters Of
that kind arranged before hand to
avoid any possible mistake when We
came to the astual performance. So
a. last managed TO tell him I
thought he would better kiss me
somewhere around the ear That was
.-e end of it, but the incident Ic-
stroyed one of my childish illusions
of the stage"
Close students of the stage Gnd
in kissing an absorbing study; for
in professional OSCILLATION may he
seen all sorts of signs-sipus of tenn.
permanent or the lack of IL. signs 81