Life — December 3, 1891 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: tic taste to prefer plays a a then the admirers of the Kendals must plead guilty to the lack of such taste. It is a great mistake to attribute the size and character of the audiences that Mr. and Mrs. Kendal attract to any particular fashion or moral fad. It is simply and solely’ because they present strong, clean, wholesome plays, in an entirely worthy manner, and to which ones wives, sisters and daughters may go without h cler of * La Tose: °, The Lover of Drama simply emphasizes the sentiments in Lire that called forth the letter. From his own unintentional 333 confession his moral perceptions are hopelessly entangled with his artistic sense. If his condition is such that seeing Bernhardt in “ La Tosca” produces chiefly an impression of immorality such productions are not for him. To sit through one of the most drama ever written and extract only its nastiness is, perh , though an unfortunate one. If on the other hand, the acting of Mr. and Mrs. Kendal satisfies all his artistic cravings and leaves his mind in a purer state, it is obviously his duty to patronize this worthy couple. LIFE only regrets, as heretofore, that so many of his countrymen are similarly affected. It is a condition that argues no superior moral ¢. It simply indicates a lamentable absence of artistic feeling. LIFE'S RESEARCHES IN ROMAN RAILWAYS. THE TICKET OFFICE, comicbooks.com