It appears that the American! Jcorrespondent of the 'Manchester Gua wrote to his paper about this new Wales Act, and said more than he need have' said, according' to Mr, Warren, when he remarked that "one does not like to think what next season's productions will be." Mr, Warren then sets out to take him to book. It is in cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco and others and not in New York, that one finds Fepresentative American audiences—gatherings of intelligent people to whom the lure of the libidinous is zero and the snare of nudity with. Jout fangs. The classics flourish in such cities and the better sorts of plays are appreciated and patronized. Mr. Warren declares that San 'Francisco, happily, particularly clean-minded," the support given to lubricity here being jof the briefest sort. A play that Jdraws the lover of the pornor-Jeraphic he continues, has at most two weeks of paying' business, rud then, "the theatre where such'things fare done is like a barren field, a leafless. forest."
New York is very wonderful, but] it is not America, New York lby any means as much America London is England. In many re-[spects, New York is distinctly American, but one cannot say that! [London at any time represents any-other than the British ter, and, so far as the stage is concerned, it is significant that most of the sordid plays that have had such a vogue in New York rarely go through the country. Plays or "The Vi fan," or "The Captive" (the latter'
magnificent play in its technique, however repellant and sordid theme) would never last long of the large cities of the Middle West and the West. New York gives very little support to any serious plays, and the bedroom farees that Al. H. Woods is so fond of producing have a market jonly in New York. They would foffer no drawing power the in Javerage American city.
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