PLAYS AND ACTORS.
A POET’S CRITICISMS
“STILL LAGGING BEHIND.”
LONDON, Sept. 13. “The level of acting on the English stage lias not -improved.''since the days when actors ceased to be vagabonds,” [Says Mr. Osbert Sitwell, the society poet, who recently raised a, storm of protest over his attack on actors and actresses for. their sporting proclivities.
“It is still lagging behind the 19th century,” Mr. Sitwell adds, “ and exhibits no new features, except, am increased Americanism due to the incapacity of the English' stage compared with the American, and also a steady deterioration in stage audibility.
“But considering the imbecility' of many of the plays produced, perhaps we ought to be grateful for that, because they are breaking London of the theatre-going habit.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 September 1926, Page 8
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