The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-08-27
UNSAVORY PLAYS

One does need observe the stage Portland ohe
American very long the conclusion that the NOR
salacous play the bigger the audience it draws OF cous
everybody goes Hamlet when famous stars in th
title role not because Hamlet popular ever will be- but De-
convenient addont the titeale Of sociey to ex
claim the play Lately bsen acted by Mrs Fiske and Mad
Nazmova has the false illusion Of popularity which
Shakespeare enjoys when Booth his dramas but is all
good good has become fashion
able for the For genuine orouggong public interest
plays like The Girl From Rectors which SO
base thought and language that respectable critic
does not to discuss il, says the Oregonan
But respectable people go all the and take their
wives and daughters along To language which they would not toll
in their households they listen compaceny when is
used the stage Of the innocent maidens who flock to
witness such plays THE Girl From Recor to be caught
looking such performance anywhere else than in the theatre
she would die with shame and her death would be exceedingly timely
but the tae she gazes and gggs and her parents by her side
approvngy smile Or they do approve why they there
Who in fact will the question why decent Godearing
people whose daily life pattern and example after night
fall to shed their scupe like and by the hundred
and hear things the eater which would scandae them
anywhere else? Have the footigh mysterious dnfectng
which takes the of vice? 1t would be comfort
think but unhappy everything goes that the venom
still there and potent do harm the stage anywhere
else Vice and wedness behind the foog and wicked
still just much when they crawl miseraby the
In the sm they incomparaby less pecous than they are
stage there their appeal shows for what is without
the false auemen of gaiety and charming settings In its true
it be mspresented every possible way Plays like The
Girl From Recors evil because they portray and its
but because they portray them falsely They picture
wickednes something which lends enduring JOY life while
the truth that the pleasure very brief affair while the misery
that follow goes with its victims the grave Why not
show vice it is if show all on the age2 Why make
business Of mendaciy especially when the consequences
ary bad? To say that young persons witness plays like Ie
Girl From Rectors without song their minds talk
AS well say that handle and daub his fingers
Parallel with the strange liking for abomnable plays which
to be characteristic of time there tendency of the
churches which almost equally dsheartennb The heaters make
heir appeal to the multitude with the poisonous
hey dare offer the churches the time desert the multi
ude and follow their wealthy members quarters of the
eavng it likes far concerned al
most they think nobody worth saving unless he
million dollars Whether the mankind are
worth saving their dramas certainly shows that they
iced salvation and need badly Who what them
the slough OF false idols and wicked have
wandered into the church, When the church orsake its =
MISSION who shall take up' That its has been foraken
rey largely in New York Ray Stannad Baker by start
ng figures late magazine If sheep left more shep
erdess than the Protestant population New York would be
ard to find them No wonder the foron creatures patrone the
ehd drama Where the Boaner ges call them repentance
robaby the churches have orsaen the multitude completely
New York than in most other cities but the doeu process
DING on where and the gospel ee the maodoros
amas advance What better proof could the world
eeds faith to keep it somd !,