To the Editor of the "Nowmi-Cunta Dany News"
Sm—It ever one could be con. viered of "damning with tint praise; believe your critic of the LAT's jeurrent show "Lysistrata" would' releelve. the "censure of most of. the Audience which saw this performance fon the second night. Although the [general tenor of. your review. was fSimost condescendingly, tolerant was certainly not fair to the efforts the TAT. have made to produce this play. "Your crile was' apparenty ouch concerned wit the choice Selde's to Donnay's version and with the fact that thi version does not resent. the true "Aristophanes. fight point out. that' the average spectator fs less concerned with such academic questions than he. is_ with te. aetuet presentation of the ploy.
tight I venture to suggest that [Shanghai stands greatly' in. need fan organization such a0 the LAT, fan organization which can enlist the Interest and active participation of Jnumbers "of people in propagating artistic and dramatic enterprises. feel that it. should. cecelve all extent that it serves this purpose
Possible support and encouragement. The popular verdict of the audience last evening's performance made very apparent that they found the play thoroughly adequate and highly entertaining. 'Therefore T- suggest hat, in so far a2 it is possible, you throw the support of your infuental paper in the right diveetion by ug' attention" in your reviews of focal dramatics "to. the creditable features of a performance rather than {othe weak ones, partiewiarly' in Such "cases as. this in which the creditable features give such ample opportunity for praise "and com /Shanghai, Dee. 1 seethe eriticlem of "Lysistrata" was written "after the first" performance, Enthusiast saw' the second. He 18, therefore hardly Ina position to Judge the merits of the former presentation. 'And in any' event it fw contended that Shanghai does not stand in any need of plays of this particular type.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.