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lHE DRAMA-PUBLIc AND PRIVATE THEArRIcAIs
The Drama is revlvlng in this country beyond any
thing known Tor many years and the probability is
that If this new and vigorous state of prosperity con-
tnue, the Augustan of the stage will be revived
all It's glory the shores of this western world.
All the great British actors are now compelled to
come hre in order to recruit their finances resusc-
tate their genius and acquire in this land fresh cap
tai for the future One of the most important and
significant indications of this dramatic revival has
been afforded in the patronage and encouragement
extended TO Mr.. Hackett and Mrs Mowatt


Another proof OF the increasing prosperity of the
drama is furnished by the attempts at private ihea,r
| GALS OF which an anonymous correspondent gives us
rather amusing description IN another column
1t is thus discovered that at fashionable hotel in
| our immediate neghborhood an effort is at this mo-
ment IN progress to revive that system of private
theatrcals which cast such halo around the
gaietes OF Versailles, before the fall of the i'll
| starred Bourbon race. However, we have word
| OF caution and admonlon to utter. We rejoice in
these signs and tokens of a restoration of the
| drama 10 Its palmy and fiourishing condition


But we would not have this improved and growing
dramatic taste of the age prosttuted to vile and
vicious purposes Care must be taken to conduct
theatrlcals, both public and private in a respectable
manner. Private theatricals can very readily be
perverted to the "base uses of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and
both before and behind the curtain, correct taste
and pure morality must preside with omnipoten,
sway, or else the whole business will be character


lied by vlleness and depravity. The drama is. Of


ITSELF pre-eminenty calculated to purify the hear
and elevate the soul, but It's handmaidens, virtue
and morality, must ever accompany il, to make it ;
minister of good.


This is curtain lecture to all whom 1t may CON
cern, but not one Of Mrs Caudlcs.