The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-14
CRO-DRAMA-GRAPH
BY FRANK J. WlLsTAcH.
From the Billboard.

From the Billboard.
"A short play often has a long run.
Eddie Pidgeon is no relation of Mara
Swan.
A fine drama is not necessarily a play on
words.
Harsh criticism is rarely honest and new
er just.
Some of our actresses have implicit be-
aef IN George Meredith, who says: Per
feet simplicity is unconsciously auda-
c.ous.'
A man who gets his back up usually has
to back down.
If the child is 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 monger. while the fishmonger as
1erts that all bru-nettes are not all in
seine.
1t is curious that a matinee idol should
often be a josh-er.
We all have our crosses to bear; some
have double crosses"
There is no use in an actor roaring like
an epileptic dervish because a critic ig-
nores him. The manager didn't. else he
wouldn't be on the job.
The symbolic play is very often in need
Of the carbolic spray.
Some actors who are welded to their
art should apply for a divorce.
Everyone has a pet nightmare, yet most
Of us &c home on the trolley.
Some people seem to think it moro 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.
Any hathead can find fault with a great
play; but only a great man can write one.
The first dramatic criticism: When Ad.
am told Eve that 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 It is true that he is safest who Is
least talked Of. some actors must be in
terrible danger.
A man of war may be a mighty engine of
destruction, but it isn't half SO deadly as a
slighted female.
A lovely woman VIII ever excuse you for
a lack of sense If you will continually in
form her how beautiful she is.
The critic who says that he never wrote
anything that he regrets adds another
great fabrication to the list.
Herbert Spencer said: BE a boy as long
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 th.nk Of 1t when 'spre.
sented" belongs in Bloomingdale.
The glamour of the footlights is as nee.
essary to the enjoyment of the playgoer as
the glass IS to the champagne. Without
1t 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 Of pushing her there.
To tear a fee from a lawyer, a pretty
woman from her looking glass, or a debu-
tant from a quadrille is as impossible as
to lure a star from out the range Of the
spot light.
Sam Butler. who wrote 'Hudibras," the
witt.est poem In the English language,
said hat to write q good play was the
task for brains in the whole
Yet, little BERTHE Br.ghteyes, the
critic Of the Evening Bigtype, says: Any
should be able to write as good q
as the kind we have nowadays
De Wolf Hopper has nae a long study
Of the matter, and he should know. He
There Is not a Connected actor but
himself the entsra Theatrical