Life — December 17, 1908 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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COOK & SON New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago _ San Francisco, and 140 Offices Abroad MORE “FREEDOM OF THE PRESS” From a paragraph in the department of pungent dramatic criticism in New York Lire, we learn simultaneously that Mr. Walter Prichard Eat has published a most interesting study in “ The American Stage of To-Day,”’ and that he has but recently disappeared from the columns of the New York Sun as dramatic critic. We are led to in fer, from the more than usually guarded language of Mr. Metcalfe in Lire, that Mr. Eaton has left the Sun because his criticism of plays was not palatable to the Theatrical Trust. A rumor is spread abroad by peregrinatory members of the Friars that Mr. Eaton had to “go"’ in response to certain of his animadversions on plays a number of managers got together and agreed to withdraw their theatrical advertising from the Sun. Theatrical advertising is a big item in the revenues of any New York paper. It runs somctimes to two pages on Sunday and the rate is 50 cents a line or $7 per inch, and there are two thousand one hundred lines or one hun dred and fifty inches to the page, equaling $1,050 per page. The withdrawal of such patronage, therefore, is in the nature of a sockdolager answer to criticism which finds fault with plays because of defects in ethical or xsthetic purpose Mr. Eaton is a scholarly critic because or performance and urbane. He is no slasher nor slater. His attitude toward the drama 1s not finical or cynical. But now and again as a conscientious critic who saw what was going on in the management of the American drama he condemned the principles and apparent purposes of that management. He was bold enough even to applaud that part of Wil liam Winter's last book on stage and players, in which the dean of dramatic crities condemned the spirit of theatre management to-day. When he did this, a correspondent in New York sent Mr. Eaton's comment to the editor of the Mir- ror with a memorandum containing this: “ Poor Eaton. The Syndicate will get him for this sort of thing. Watch!"" And while we watched came the strong intimation in Lire. There is enough force in this fortuitous concatenation of coincidence to justify us in adverting again to our theme of the “Myth of a Free Press.”’ Plainly there can't be a free press in a city like New York, when an honest criticism of the methods of the Theatrical Trust—criticism, mind you, and not vituperative abuse—renders the critic liable to discharge Lecause his employers cannot withstand the pressure of the withdrawal of Theatrical Trust advertising. It is enough to make one doubt whether there can be much (e Continued on pare 73 ) Perfect Xmas Gift Reautiful Angora Kittens. Specimens of highest breeding. Charming manners and dispositions. Eaguiste coloring. All ages and colors. Price, $10 to 623. 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