Life — December 17, 1908 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Send $1.25 for uew stort s of vaudeville folk by Helen Green, Acon™ f{ laughs—" you can’t help It, you M. JOHNSON-BROWN & CO. ‘NEW CONSIGNMENT OF OBJECTS OF ART No. 17 West 31st Street, New. York (Continued from page 711) wholly fearless criticism of the drama in New York city. It is as dangerous to write against the merits of a play as it is to write something about a bond issue that the Wall Street magnates do not like. The Theatrical Trust can shut the critic out of its theatres, as it did in the case of Mr. Metcalfe, of Lire, or it can have the critic “fired "’ off his paper, as it has done often, if common report among the newspaper people of New York city is to be credited. The Theatrical Trust not only monopolizes the dramaturgic out- put—with the exception of the Belasco-Fiske per centage—but it terrorizes actors by blacklisting them if they don't accede to its terms, and it coerces publishers into discharging critics who do not write of new plays in the strain and vein of The press is not free to discuss the drama, except as the Trust would have it discussed, to help business. One wonders what the press is left free to do, without id puffers or press agents. fear of punishment or hope of reward. One wonders if such Trust action as that against Mr. Metcalfe, of Lire, and that suspected of en against Mr. E pination in restraint of trade." Is it ton, of the Sun, is critic off from his means of a boycott to cut livelihood, to have to deny him entrance to the theatres because h doesn’t write about plays just what the Theatrical Trust would have him write?—St, L “bounced from his jo 3 Mirror HE KNEW HIS LIMITATIONS When any one asked Mr. Hobart about the New York painter who spent one summer at the Hill. Crest 1, Mr. Hobart's reply always held a mixture of liking and contempt “I proph’sied he'd make a living,"’ Mr. Ho- art would say, “ because ne knew what he cow do, little as ‘twas, and didn’t try to fly too high Hobart would continue, with a “you couldn't get him to at pt any foolish flights, Al that summer he set out in the hen-yard, painting hens, or else out back o° th And when I said to him, ‘1 Abe Fowler barn, painting pigs. ook a-here, when comes to paint the house, I'll get him to. show you how, and let you take a hack at the side end, where ‘twon’t show so much, and allow it his head and smiled that kind 0° gentle, sorrowful smile o° his, and says he, ‘I couldn't think of it, Mr Hobart. I should just ruin the looks o° the on your board,’ he just shook house,” he said. ‘11M! keep to the pigs and the hens, f “Well, ‘twas a real relief to [ know my limitations.” for 1 suppose likely he would have botched the job consid’able and I said to him the you'll earn your living ye up with pride and ambition by what I hear.’ real hearty, * Young man, for you ain't all et and my words have come true, Youth's Companion. MORE. 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