Life — February 2, 1905 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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The Shaver: vou sex KIN’ FOLKS THE OLD-FASHIONED. THEORY OF FUTURE F NT 1S ALL BOSH. NOW, 1 BELIEVE THAT A MAN GETS ALL THE HELL 108 EVER CAN Y HERE trating enough to get under the hide, He could Lawsonize the theatrical world with some very diverting ‘frenzied drama,’ no doubt Better not m ics, Mr. Theatrical Man. The people ond of fair p crete situation, it does seem pkey with th are getting tre endously ay “Get fd that the h to sue for libel on nig back to the cc managerial magnates would have nerve enoug is disaster, Beaten in the libel account of a cartoon on the Iroqu suit, they don’t accept the licking in a proper Ame: can spirit, but show their teeth."—9/, Louts Republic A FELLOW PEELING, “Thrice lucky Jim, [envy him, H » greater bliss could be thay smile expansive grows, To view no first night shows Of verbal stunt I'd bear the brunt, To Hebrew blows submit, I say to me to«lay *You are not wa d, quit.” —The Diamatic Critte A CONNRCTICUT VIEW blished that a “Tt will be a dangerous precedent if it can be ¢ manager can exclude any person from a public theatre simply because he is persova non grata, It isproverbial that managers dislike critics who tell the whole truth about perf th muzzled with czarlike arregance. “ia a guest who criticises its bill of fare or a railrd aks his mind abuut its faults of man mances. The public is entitled to truth, but if those who speak it are to be barr the press can be atre can eject a too-frank patron, why cannot a hotel eject d refuse to carry a commuter who sf erent ? LIFE- “The managers can refuse passes to Mr, Metcalfe, but we are in- clined to think that if he pays his way he will have a very promising damage case ag. inst any theatre which puts him ont of i physical force, as it will have to do if he has the ‘sand’ we think he has."— Waterbury Sepublican, doors by RUT THE TRUST OWNS LOSTOX, TOO, “Editor Metcalfe, if excluded in New York, will find tt service to Roston admirably suited to his needs asa dra train natic critic ime for dinner and the play : ¢ midnight gets him back to his stenographer early next m foston Transcript. The noon train brings him over here th A RUSINESS TIP, “Klaw and Enanger owe to the press whatever success they win in their business, It may sometime occur to them that the kind of sg on Mr. Metealt such a character as toenlist thy warfare they are w nis of aS a newspaper f sympath and sof the p f the Fourth Estate concludes to line up in defense of honest speech this instance it may be all over with the theatrical gentlemen who carry things with such a high hand."—2uffalo LIFE WASN'T LOOKING FOR ADVERTISEMENT “The little affair between the editor of Lire and the New York Theatrical Trust, that c ols forty-seven theatres in the th: bined. Live's ct city, is more interestin; 1 the performance seven theatres of the fort ticisms of the Trust and its theatres have blis- tered a lot of managerial backs, with the result that Editor Metcalfe was sued for dama; s by one theatrical firm, and now has been barred from all the said forty-seven theatres, It is evidently a series of triumphs for the geotle and brilliant satirist. He won his lawsuit only to be immediately threatened with a ‘licking’ in public; and now whenever he visits one of the forty-seven theatres newspaper ed f J distine- reporters by the dozen tag along the playhouse. Mr. Met tion, finally, of anno see whether he is ejec ached the unprecedent ncing for the benefit of the press what theatre Me has he intends to visit twenty-four hours ahead, He Goes not invariably in hit, but he appears to be scoring heavily this time As an advertiser of Lire the Theatrical Trust fairly out —Springfield Republican, make a cle SOME SHORT OXES Is the Theatrical Managers’ Association t Metcalfe 2° — Town Topics. ambers 21,49 ses are filled New York's theatre crowd 4; Editor Metcalfe." —Bostou Record. en the Broadway bi not coun + James S. Metcalfe, of Lire, bas got a joke on bis hands that is as ) t has appeared in LIFE for many a day "—/fo/- yoke Transcript. Mr. Erlanger’s onslaught on Mr, Metcalfe was, to some ex’ entan an inconveniently frank imidation.— & attempt by a theatrical ma ger to silenc dramatic critic by threats and i hester Democrat and Chronicle. eT get even with the editor by bay > firm lost the suit, and now it is reported that th cy propose to g him shut out of all theatres in that city, even if he buys tickets. If the editor should now bring suit ast the managers he would again win and they would lose. Spite- work will not stand in the courts,"— Exchange Jent is similar to one in Englard recently, in which the tempt to keep a (a critic from entering their theatres, and the outcome of the New York attempt will be watched with interest, Mr, Met of New York attractions are among the brightest and keenest pub- lished in that city, has already been sued for libel, and recently on: of the Sy to thrash Mr. Metcalfe soundly. theatrical managers were defeated int r alfe, whose reviews nounced that he was intend Syndicate managers solemal, —Glens Falls Times, sa comicbooks.com