Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-03-15
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY FRANK j. WILSTAcH.
From the Billboard.

A short play often has a Ions run.
Eddie Pidgeon is no relation of Mari
Swan.
A fine drama IS not necessarily a play or
words.
Harsh criticism is rarely honest and new
er just.
Some Of our actresses W. implicit be-
lief in George Meredith, who says: Per
feet simplicity is unconsciously auda'
e.ous.'
A man who gets his back up usually has
10 back down.
If the child is father to the man, the
naby must be father of the child.
It IS perfectly natural that the critic
should chew up the tough actor.
All blondes are not light headed, says
he joke monger, while the fshmonger as
Jerts 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
nave double crosses"
There is no use in an actor roaring like
an ep.leptic dervish because a critic ig-
nores him. The a didn't, else ne
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 go home on the trolley.
Some people seem to think Il more diff
cult to discuss a play tina 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 Adj
am told Eve that her fig leaf wasn't on
II marriages are made In Heaven, it Is
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served up there.
If It is true tina he Is safest who IS
talked Of, some actors must be in
terrible danger.
A man OF war may be a mighty engine Of
but 1t isn't half so deadly as a
female.
A lovely woman VIII ever excuse o 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 60 the list.
Herbert Spencer said: "Be a boy as lona
as you cantor Herbert might hav
added. being a real man was a big under.
The prude is never half so earnest &c
prove facts against her m acquant
ance as the actor to have his name at the
top OF the three sheet.
The critic who thinks he can tell from
a play in manuscript what his
critic will think OF it when pre-.
belongs in Bloomingdale.
The glamour OF the f%ootlights is as nee.
sssary TO the enjoyment of the ~playgoer as
he glass IS to the champagne, Without
{ the juice of the grape is lost,
II Is odd that the poor press agent should
DO ordered to push along the leading lady.
L Is often necessary TO pull her to the
ront instead of pushing her there.
To tear a fee from a lawyer. a pretty
woman from her looking glass, or a debu-
ant from a quadrille is as impossible as
% lure a star from out the range of the
spot light.
Sam Butler, who wrote "Hudibras," the
poem in the English language,
said that to write a good play was the
task for brains In the whole
Yet. little BERTHE Br.ghteyes, the
,ritic Of the Evening Bigtype, says: ANY
,ody should be able 10 write as good a
,lay as the kind we have nowadays"
De Wolf Hopper has made a long study
" the matter, and he should know. He
iays There is not a Connected actor but
considers himself the entire theatrical
Profession"