Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-06
Should Suppress
 "The Sins of The Father''

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 Rev. Dixon, after sparring Tor me and a little notoriety, during which he tried to get up a free advertising argument with the editor of the Con- mercial Appeal, took the Memph crit c's advice and left the show. His place last night was taken by George Turner, but if Rev Dixon did not get any more out of the part aef Major Daniel Norton" than hi. successor, Hugh Huhn was right in urging m to go home.
 Following the high class offering of NJ ss Viola Allen, which drew large audience the night before, the Dixon company last night taired badly n the box-office. but it received about all the patronage the play merited. One really clever person is with the company-Mrs. Charles G. Craig, whose Aunt Minerva, good old Southern reg1sss, was well done. As'de from her the other five mem bers Of the cast display no unusual dramatic talents VI ss Ethel Wright at times accomplishes some nice work in the stronger scenes. but falls fiat in the lighter ones.
 In the first place Thomas Dixon should have never been permitted to ytaae ",rhe Sins of the Father. 1t is ancthsr of the Dixon shows thas excitas race preiud ces and this time he has suece eded iii including lines that will have tendency to stir 1l2 ignorant whites and negroes, who us ually atteud show. of thi. character, and this advance ree1. .ne was demon- strated in the upper gallery last ev- ening.
 Tn h's dramatic treatment of tbs rqce problem MT. Dixon is dolrg more to iniure the good feeling be- tween the better class of negroes mad the Southern white. than ahythih2 else of similar nature n recent vaors. Hi. "Clansman was prohi- bited in many cities and his Sins or the Father is even worse than his former race play. in that it r'ngs the threat of negro domination within the home. The play is suggestive III is every line and if anything. might he classed among the 'dramatc unde- sirables.
 Rev Dixon claims that his Clans man. was histori2l, ard that his 'a'z- est offering of last evening is con tanoorary. ''The Clansman' set forth the achievement Of the klu hiuN H<,an ..The Clarsman,' he says justified the att tude eff the South for tv years ago. while "The Sins of the Fatber''-in Mr. Dixons own words calls upon the South of 1910 to DC true to her best tradtione and say American civilizatior. In this MT D'xon i. inconsistent. He : not trn' to hi. own convictions. Ills pia! does not sustain his own advice. lit 3 evidently does not practice what h . preache. for his play $ anything on tru. to Southern traditions.
 Rev. Dxon will do we'll to write II 9 more play. of the type of The Sin r of the Father It i. far rom eie ' vating. The moral it presents IS ne Q in,nressive and there is nota h@ in to appeal.