The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-03
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
There is little originality.

mere IS uttlG originality.
If some one springs a new idea, it
is bounced upon and swallowed whole
by the vultures roosting round on the
Intellectual fringes.
Haven't you been "out in society"
or sitting near the door at a club meet
with view of oozing out inconspic-
uously), and been astonished to hear
your own words, issuing forth from a
mouth widely separated from that on
your individual face?
Haven't the creations of your fertile
brain been absorbed by the human
sponges that sit round soaking up ev-
erything in their environ?
Haven't you been surprised at the
conversational scintillations of your
friends at your expense?
Haven't you been out at d dinner
party ready, willing and prepared to
tell a perfectly killing story which
you had been rehearsing before the
mirror for ten days only to have it
snatched from between your teeth by
through the keyhole?
How often is your thunder stolen,
With what frequency are your most
unique mental preserves poached up
on
How constantly you hear your little
pet phrases on other lips.
And do you not see others aping the
cut of your costume or the angle of
your hair?
limitation is the sincerest flattery,"
it is said.
But it's doubtful if the irritation at
tendant upon seeing stolen goods
Haunted without any shame and az
though bought over the counter in
regular barter and exchange does not
out-balance any qualification felt over
the compliment of the imitation
And when it's not an imitation but a
bold and unblushing steal it causes
prostration of the intellect and moral
nausea.
This is, of course, in extreme cases
of plagiarism.
But it is seen and heard in every
of life.
And with no more frequency than in
the theater.
The regular attender on theatrical
services grows weary of their monot
onous recurrence.
Especially does the frequenter OF
the vaudeville house grow stated with
the paucity of ideas shown on those
hard-worked boards.
Tnora &c oil inv ri
bat.
But these rarely tire even if medic
ere for exhibitions of physical strength
and agality are always interesting.
Then there is the man and woman
or the two men, or the two WON en-
who do singing and dancing stunt
or musical turn" punctuated with
intervals of Kidding" monologue Oh
horse-play.
The unspeakable inanities INDUCED
in are only exceeded by the mental
fury which their flat, and, oftener than
not, vulgar maunderings inspire.
1t is a mystery why they intarpolatl
what is sometimes a fairly good set
with these alleged humorous filters.
The writer has talked with many Fl
the class of vaudeville people VIII
come to this town.
And often has found them with i
hearty contempt and disgust for thail
audiences to which they think they
have to play.
People who have INDUCED in ineXcus
able and suggestive gyrations out be
fore the footlights have proved to be
on occasion, intelligent persons with Z
we'll developed theatric sense of pro
priety but who say that is the only
way they can make good"
They refer to the ''low-brows," bar
barians," hired girls" out in front tc
whom they have to cater.
They express disgust with a state OF
affairs which compels them to lower
even their not so often very high vau
deville standard.