Good-Bye to the Stage: Italian Consulate Ball: It Pays to Advertise Civilization is relentless. weeps all before it, it has no' time fo sraste in sympathizing with old-fashioned ideas or in sentimentalizing over lost. causes. "The coacl man and-his erses have died a Rhatural death ind have been. replaced by more efficient' machinery; Pompous manners and the delicate Bubtites of etiquette have gx fosied into, the mists of duceswhich is probably oni re do not regret their disappe
Povary anyway), because we have much to replace them; and now the ety of yet another time-honoured institution ts threatened. The thi tre World is suffering from qua And the hitherto undisturbed star the stage actor is in a precaria ition. Like the. proverbial ost-has evaded "the facts "as possible, but now he Is to face them, All London is. at present occupied in the "theatre Controversy," as. it Is called, famous actresses are clutching the straws of lower Theatres, and better plays in their prices, fewer efforts to keep the head of the thi {re world above. water," Like ra Weserting a sinking ship. (nota very complimentary comparison, but His made for the sake of' the actors Fefuge ju. Hollywood.
They have not forsaken their old metier: they titles of Royalty should be difficult to compass.
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