Life — May 10, 1906 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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ill Service That Deserves Recompense HE service that the dramatic critic of Lire has rendered to the theatre-going public will not be overpaid if he succeeds in collecting the fyll amount of two hundred and seventy thousand dollars for which he has just sued the members of the theatrical trust who conspired last year to exclude him from the New York theatres con- trolled by them. Mr. Metcalfe undertook to point out that this peculiarly obnoxious syndicate was engaged in selling a complaisant public gold bricks. ‘he members of the syndicate, by com- bining to silence him, themselves testified most convincingly to the truth of his charges; they admitted that their methods could not bear criticism. But Mr. Metcalfe has done more than that. By the merciless use of a biting pen he has made Jear toa large reading public that the business st was in was no more respectable than tof selling diseased meat for food, and not essentially different, and he gave effective ex- pression to the popular disgust. He thus was able to aid materially in bringing about a situa- tion that assures to mana: and actors who have some other object in life than to sell for two follars what is worth at most twen' an opportunity to have their work judged and ron its merits. Not so very long ago this. 1c had the power to forbid the vidence to see an actress of Mrs. F questioned genius without going to New York or Boston, and it used it. If this syndicate had had its way the throngs of people who recently saw Mme. Bernhardt in this city would have had to go to other cities to enjoy that privilege; and even ow the foremost actress of her time has to play tent in Texas because she will not compound this syndicate at its own usurious fee. There is competition now, and the grip of the noisome monopoly is loosened. ‘That happy con- ion is, of course, due primarily to the fact its avarice the trust overreached itself, the dramatic critic of Lire done much to simulate the public demand for a new dispensa- ion by being bold enough to “draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are.” Providence Telegram. Interested Party ‘| \M most anxious to see ze count effect ze reconciliation wiz his wife.” “You are a friend to the count?” inquired the American tourist. “Ah, would zat were all. I am his largest creditor.’ —Philadel phia Ledger. HE nages of a “reform bill”: . Introduced and sent to committee. 2. Fight to get it away from committee. 3. Amended beyond recognition Author of the bill pleads with his colleagues ‘© pass it 5. Recommitted. 6. Another fight to rescue the bill from com- mittee 7. There is just about to be action when— {Legislature adjourns.}—New York i Post. 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