The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
VOX POPULI.
CUT VULGARITY OUT OF
THE VAUDEVIILES.
Editor Pensacola LonrnaI:

Editor Pensacola Journal:
/ am compelled by a sense of in
dlgnatlon to give public expression
10 a common experience of an every
day sort intruding itself into the COM
mon pleasures of the people, and
which, like a snake. traces its Shiny
and lnsinuous way into the bill of at
fractions offered by some of the
vaudeville shows of the city. That
such condition of things should have
been countenanced so long by the peO
pie without public protest is mar
vel to me.
Every person free from a leaky gall,
and with a safety valve working on
Tune over the bile tank enjoys fun.
VINO wouldn't rather soar to the stars
on good, clean laugh, or get
boost TO the latitude of heaven on a
sweet. tender song than be a god? l
pity the man or woman who couldn't
split sides with laughter, or change the
domlcile of his soul in melody.
Human nature has ever shown the
necessity OF being amused, coddled and
cultured by the JOY ticklers of the
stage, who charge per head to furnish
more of the effervesence of life than
its own ingenuity could supply it
certain amount of pleasure or fun.
a kitten or pup incapable of play
would be only useful for sausage
meat; one-year old collie catcher that
couldn't bubble the antics of joy and
land "boff feet on his daddie'S
stomach between the good night kiss
and the morning squat would move
with haste TO catch the undertaken.
Yes, the world was made for fun;
healthy fun, clean fun,-any other kind
carries the traces of slime that come
from the sewer sIucieS of hfe-and
1t being one of the conditions of life
that thou shalt take pleasure or die,
humanity has pushed the good thing
along. and made heroes of the per-
sons with the greatest capacity TO pro-
vide il.
But it seems impossible to get
pleasure and fun to ripple pure from
the lips of the vaudeville performers
as We know them in their toys before
a Pensacolian audience in the ten and
fifteen cent shows.
l have attended all the local theaters
and in every instance have sat and
listened to lot Of smutty, coarse
and vulgar sayings puked out of
cloaca covered by the moustache
or otherwise, with much indif-
ferences though it were fresh skim
med from the sewer scum for
dive. And / have seen the dis
gust and color Of pain come to the
cheeks of ladies who we're Innocent
ly seeking a moments pleasure in
the presence of the vaudeville attrac-
tons. | have heard their protest that
they should be caught like rats in a
hole that had shiny tracks to the
of
other animal Goo ever made was
vulgar.
Do the managers Of these theaters
imagine they are tickling their patrons
by such vulgar Institutions and say
ings, and coarse JOKES, as pair of
kids" etc. etc. They persist in this
kind of thing as though il took"
Maybe it does with a certain class. but
the masses resent it with indignation.
It seems TO me that capable bust
ness management wouH cut out such
familiarity with its audience as
a matter of business at least, and
prohibit anything that would insult
and hurt the feelings # its patrons
at the ticket office. TIE men who
utter their vulgarity upn the stage
in the presence of Iadns would not
dare do it in their personal presence, !
and the whole thing stpuld be stop |
ped.
Men by themselves aTenot specially |
prudiSh in this matter wen only men |
are present. ] don't prtend to be d |
paragon of the lilly wkte virtue in |
these matters and max no kick on |
that account. The mai species of !
man is a coarse articleanyway, and |
the hide of his nature beloved by |
the scars of human Deficiencies Such |
things are commonplace with him |
though without effect in he multitude |
of cases. and are shed ad spit upon.
but woman's world is brighter |
and sweeter one than / man ever
kneW-GOd help the race If it were
not-and 1 can not unerstand why
a lot of performers Shout keep their
tongues reeking with nouthfuI of
vulgarism in the presene of an au-
dience partly made up ladies'. and
bring the blush of pal TO their
cheeks for the pittance ten or fif-
teen cents admission.
All the first class vauoville I have
ever seen, and l think have seen
a good deal of it, never printed the
remoteSt suggestion to aything that
smacked of vulgarity, al it is time
the stock of Vulgarisms ept in hand
I in the local shows weredumped in
TO quick lime and buried
w. B8ARTON.
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