Essays, Sketches And Stories, Selected From the Writings of George Bryant Woods. With a Biographical Memoir
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If the drama decays and good acting becomes rare in America, no small share of the blame must lie with that cultivation of amenity which has abolished the hiss as a method of criticism. We have mended our manners at the expense of our enjoyment. The hiss is as obsolete in our theatres as the rushlight and the epilogue ; and we doubt if any badness in a play short of absolute indecency, any shortcoming of an actor less flagrant than manifest drunkenness on the boards, HISSING IN THE THEATRE. 107... would call forth a sibilant rejDi'oof fi*om the audience ; and even then the first spectator to venture upon such an expression of rebuke would be very likely to be made to feel, by the interference of a policeman or the dismay of his neighbors, that he was almost as much in fault as the offending artist. They manage these matters, as they do so many others, much better in France. There the hiss is rec- ognized, systematized. At the October 023ening of the year's season in the provincial cities, several nights are set apart expressly to obtain the exj^ression of public opinion.
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