Bisbee daily review., 1921-01-28
THE DRAM M FER

ludSuuC0 as lhc CiNiC ptds Sio eA v going to put on a snappy comedy drammer tonight (nope, this aint ad- yertising) it might not be out Of the way to explain some of the inside dope about drammer which aint gen. orally known.
 Drammer is divided into three classes, to wit. viz and as follows: comedy drammer. mellow drammer and just plain drammer. without no trimmings.
 Comedy drammer is most popular because you don't have to understand it just so long as you laugh when the guy in back of you does. In a comedy the ingredients vary. but some awful good ones can be woven around most any combination of characters. such as a man his wife and her mother; a set of twin blokes and one girl. or most any other combination that means trouble sooner or later
 In the old days. when the Elltords used to be popular. comedy drammer went over strong if there was a lot of good. lively comedy in it. Nowadays. though, a comedy don't get to 11th street on Broadway unless it has a bedroom, bathtub or half a dozen cases of bum booze somewhere in the plot
 Mellow drammer is entirely differ ent. Instead Of funny. it usually IS mellow. meaning rotten The primer pal thing in mellow drammers used to be mortgage. but nowadays they've cut 'em out. because so many people in the audience think of their own troubles and shivveT when the villain threatens to take away the old home if pa wont let him marry Little Nell. With the kibOsh on mortgages, mellow drammer producers tried to make the old feud in the Blue Ridge mountains popular again hut this IS dargercUS hecstiiss. EhsD t.ie moon sinners ar5 seen iIl action in tue sec and 3cl the audience iS EaGie to rGSn the stage ana kicA out all the loot i lights. Any mellow dTammer will go over. though. if it has villain with a long mustache. a black hat and long black coat.
 Not more than seven people should ! be killed in the first two acts. De cause the audience usually recognizes at least half of them when they cons { back in the last act as revenue Ofnc CTS or soldiers. and 1t crabs play 2 ' A guy who got beaned cold in Act ] l shows up carrying Q torch or cheer | ing Queen Bess just as the show ls [ almost over
 Plain drammer isn't very popIIal
 because folks who go to see one don know whether to laugh or chew then programs to keep from crying. and T a feIler don't know whether the show | is supposed to be funny or sad he a. | ways laughs iD the wrong place
 When dralnmer. either comedy plain or mell-. is sung, 1t ceases t' | be called drammer because it's opry Ifthe third balcony seats sell for '
 without war tax it's grand opry; l | they sell for S2 including wsn tax lt' ! light opry and if the general admis I sion is sl or under and not nor than s2.5O for ringSide seats, you cal chew gum or eat peanuts all the Wa. through it without feeling de troI which is the same as committing
 fox nav. as we French say Some
 the most popular opries are William
 Teu.- which is about a guy who ha to shoot an apple oIt his kld heau
 Madame Butterfly, which was VII l ten before the OdiltoInId law was passed. and Mutt and Jel : in Mexico" which needs no interdu' !. tiOn.
 Most opries is sung in Spanisi
 French. Siamese. Texan, or some oli CT foreign language. but you neFe have no trouble understanding wha | is going on because the woman thre
 rows back of you always informs nt
 three-year-old daughter and ever
 body else in the theatre, what the te Ter in the bull-fighter's costume } hollering about.