Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-04-04
CR%0-DRAmA-GRAPHS
By FRANK J. WILsTAcH.


From the Billboard.
\ short play often has n long iun.
Eddie Pidgeon is nc relation of MARI
Swan.
A fine drama is not necessarily "A play op
words.
Harsh criticism il rarely honest and new.
sr just.
Some OF our actresses have implicit he
lief in George Meredith. who says: "Pera
fec. simplicity Is unconsciously auda-
c.ous.'
\ man who gets his back up usually has
To back Down.
IL til" child !s father TO the man. the
baby must be father of the child.
1t is perfectly natural that the critic
should chew up the tough actor.
All blondes are not light headed. says
the joke monKer. while the tishmonHer as
serts that all br,,-nettes are not all i'll
seine.
1t is curious that a matinee idol should
often be- A jcsh-er.
w. all have our crosses to bear; some
have double crosses"
There is no use In an actor roaring like
an ep.'ept!c dervish because a critic ig-
noras him. The manager didn't else he
wouldn't be on the job.
The symbolic play Is very often in need
Of the carhOlic SPRAY.
Some actors who are welded to their
art should apply for a divorce.
Everyone has II pet nightmare. yet most
OF us go home on the trolley.
Some people seem to think it more diff
cult to discuss "A play than to write one.
Hanson is as hanson does. and that
may account for the cab fare being high.
L: Is not necessary for the critic 10 burn
up a light play. 1t will do that of itself.
Any nathead can find fault with a great
play: but only "A great man can write one.
The first dramatic criticism: When Adj
am told Eve tina her fig leaf wasn't on
straight.
If marriages are made in Heaven. it is
evident that the copyright law Is not OBJ
served up there.
If Il Is true that he is safest who iS
least talked Of. some actors must be in
terrible Cangcr.
man OF war may be- a mighty engine of
destruction. bat it isn't half so deadly as n
slightcd female.
A lovely woman VIII ever excuse you for
"A lack of sense IL You will continually in-
form her how beautiful she is.
The critic who says that he never wrots
anything that he regrets adds another
great fabrication to the list.
Herbert Spencer said: BE "A boy as Iona
as you cantor Herbert might have
added. being a real man was "a big under
taking
The prude Is never half SO earnest to
prove facts against her intimate acquant-
ance as the actor to have his name at the
top OF the three sheet.
The critic who thinks he can tell from
reading a play in manuscript what his
brother critic will think of it when pre-
scented" belongs in Bloomingdale.
The glamour of the footlights is as nee
essary to the enjoyment of the playgoer az
the glass is to the champagne. Without
It the juice of the grape is lost.
1t is odd that the poor press agent should
be ordered to push along the leading lady.
1t is often necessary to pull her to the
front instead nf pushing her there.
To tear n fee from a lawyer. a pretty
woman from her looking glass, or a debu-.
tant from a puadrille' is as impossible as
tn lure a star from out the range OF the
spot light.
Sam Butler. who wrote "Huiibras." the
witt.est poem in the English language.
said that to write "A good play was the
hardest task for brains in the whole
world" Yet. little BERTHE Br:ghteyes. the
critic of the Evening Bigtype. says: ANY
body should be able to write as good a
play as the Kind we have nowadays"
DE Wolf Hopper has made a long study
OF the matter. and he should know. He
says There is not a Connected actor but
considers himself the entire theatrical
profession"