Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-02-15
KEEP THIS FILTHY PLAY FROM
4 AMERICUS.

VT is just possible that an effort
may be made by the agent for the
company to book The Girl from Rec
torsN for a date at the Americas thea
tire. If so the management of the To-
cal play house should turn it down
with a decided emphasis. The play
is only fit for presentation to an aa-
dience of abandoned women and dis
solute men. No decent man or woman
would feel otherwise than insulted to
have it thrust upon them.
1t is certainly a pity that such a
disgustingly immoral play should be
put upo nthe stage It may do for the
metropolis, where there is an army
who prefer filthy things to clean, de-
cent plays. But it is an insult to the
South, at least, to send it into this
section, an affront to that part of the
country where a proper regard for
decency still prevails. The only way,
apparently to kill such plays is TO
warn the public as to their character
and to insist that they be not allowed
a presentation on the stage in any self
respecting community. There is little
fear of such a play ever being pre-
scented in Americus when the manage
ment of the theatre here is advised as
to its true character. No theatre man
agement in the country is more care
full about the nature of the plays that
are presented to its patrons.
THE Girl from Rectors" was pre-
scented at Savannah on Wednesday
night. Here are some extracts from
the comments of the Press on it:
We have in the past had plays with
one or more suggestive scenes or with
a little touch of dialogue that smack
ed of naughtiness, but never has
there been served such an a1lopathic
dose of sewer gas and slime as was
| put into the mouths of some of the
| characters in last nights play We
| have survived one attempt at the Sa-
lone dance, have lived through ga
"a with its suggestive atmosphere
stood for "Sappho" and have sat
through Mrs. Fiske and Salvation
| Nell" but these were mere theatrical
incidents compared to the wicked
ness and degeneracy shown before the
footlights last night.
We are told that "The Girl from
Rector's" as presented on the road
has been toned down a little as com
pared to the New Worry production. If
this is so, God help the original. 1t
must simply have reeked with the
gossip of the half world and the dia-
logue of the streets. From the very
first act last night until the end hon
est women turned crimson at the very
boldness of the lines spoken and the
suggestiyeness of the dialogue and the
situations.
Decent women blushed last night at
many of the things that we're said
while those who were not so modest
and they were on hand in unusual
ly large numbers on this important (?)
OccasiOn-must have heard remarks
and observed situations that remind
ed them very much of surroundings
with which they were very familiar
There hasn't been such a show in
Savannah probably since the days of
the old ALEXANDRA, and men only
were allowed to enter this palace of
amusement. Even in this place in
those old days, when beer and other
beverages were served with almost
every act or vaudeville turn, the DO
lice kept an eye out for the proprie-
ties of the occasion. Certainly there
was need for some one to ply the
pruning hook to the Ash Wednesday
show to witness which many Savan-
nahians turned out last evening.
Those who make their living on the
stage must be very hard up for the
atrical engagements to accept parts
in such a play as ''The Girl from Rec
tors" 1t is the presentation of such
shows that makes the world look
askance at those who appear behind
the footlights. That men and women
could be paid to speak in public some
Of the dialogue that is heard in "The
Girl from Rectors" without blushing
with shame almost makes one lose
faith in humanity.