Life — June 22, 1905 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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*“LIPEs forth, as your petitioner is informed and believes, the presentation of the aforementioned statement to the said members, and the fact that Metcalfe was excluded (rom several of the New Vork theatres, pro- ceedings were instituted charging that this petitioner and other mem- bers of said association were engaging in an unlawful conspiracy to prevent Metcalfe from exercising his alleged lawful calling, and in such proceeding testimony was adduced showing, as your petitioner is informed and. verily believes, that your petitioner presented the statement hereinbefore ferred to.” He next set forth in his petition that no resolution, compact or agreement was entered into by him acd the other theatrical managers for the exclusion of Metcalfe ‘nor was any coercion, intimidation, threat or violence, or persuasion exercised by any of such members to induce such exclusion,” All of which shows a remarkable and highly interesting case of thought transference or telepathy. Previous to nuary 12th, Lire’s critic to every theatre in New After the managers had assembled on that date the managers’ meeting was ad ted without York and expressed their horror of religious persecution, Lire greement on their part, he critic found that, without any ag was uniformly refused admission to every one of the theatres under their control, As the defendant puts it, further along in his petition, “ Metealfe was, by the purely voluntary action of the individuals controlling their Own theatres, in several instances excluded from such theatres, and thereupon, without any testimony showing any con- spiracy or combination to do an unlawful act or to doa lawful act by unlawful means, the Magistrate (Pool) did issue the mandate ref to." It was only seven Of course there wasn’t any conspir: curious coincidence that the managers of forty theatres should cach one“ by purely voluntary action” OTHELLO, AS INTERPRETED BY THE THEATRICAL TRUST. 739 have the same thought and do the same thing as a protest ayainst “ religious” persecution. HIS explains what they really were “Your petitioner is informed and verily be- lieves that he and the other members of said * is advised and venly eves, a Constitutional right to peaceably as- semble ‘and inquire into and discuss matters affecting, or deemed by them toaffect OF pertain to their business oF person. interests 0 any charac- ter, and to freely and peaceably give utter- ance to their sentiments and judgment thereon “Your petitioner is informed and believes the alleged crime on which he is detained consists of having exercised and engaged in the nt of such pe: ussion ef matters affecting your petition er’s interests,” It is too bad that a body of peaceable discussers like of framing up a plan to interfere with a fellow-citizen’s rights. Per this should be susp: aps they are the vic- At all events, the So- ciety for Psychical Research ought to get hold of this nd make them tell ju: that without any suggestion, or agreement, or combina- tims of unconscious cerebration bunch of mind-readers how it was tion, or conspiracy, they all went away from that mect- ing and did the same thing—a thing no one of them had ever done before. Meteatje Quite Correct. ANY editors, commenting on the fight between James S. Metcalfe, dramatic critic of Lire, and the Theatrical Syndi- cate, assume t unimus of the con- troversy is M Ife’s dislike for the Jews. “At this distance from the field of battle, such an assumption appears to be altogether wrong Mr. Metcalfe has re peatedly denied the charge, and there is no good reason why his word should not pass current at its face value. That the Theatrical Syndicate is made up largely or wholly, of Jews is true, but we have sufficient faith in Metcalfe’s honesty to be- lieve that he would have begun and prose cuted the fight just the same if the Syndi- cate had been composed of men of any other race or creed. An intelligent public can hardly do otherwise than give at least moral support to. Mr, Metealfe in his self- imposed task.—Biddejord (Me.) Journal. HE New York theatrical managers are coming in fora touch of the strenu- ous Lire.—Sioux City Journal, 4 RITIC METCALFE has put the the- atrical managers in a box.” And at the same time knocked them out of the box. Queer.—Richmond (Va.) Leader comicbooks.com