Rough on Chadband and Co.

Evening Star, Issue 8770, 10 March 1892, Page 2

Rough on Chadband and Co.

At the Manchester Arts Club, in the course of a recent speech, Mr Irving said: —" There is a whole class of persons who spend a considerable amount of their time in predicting, both in speech and writing, the pains and-penalties of our future state. Now, I do not know that we ought to complain of this, but, so far as I know, actors are the only members of the artistic fraternity who are singled out for this sort of warning. I think it is high time the painters and musicians had a turn. There are some members of this club, I daresay, who would be all the better for a little friendly prophecy. I have my eye on certain architects who build theatres and plaoes of varieties, and other shocking places. How is it they escape ? I don't object, provided that eternal destruction is impartially distributed all round. I see that a great painter, no leu a personage than tbe president of the Royal Academy, has got into the black books'of these amiable beings who superintend our morals and thoughtfully provide us with little tropical nooks in the next world. They object to the exhibition on book-stalls of an engraving from some picture of Sir Frederick Leigh - ton's. This looks like fair play. When we are all put on the same level of irrecWmabie turpitude, then I shall sit at your hospitable board with a really sociable feeling."