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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4301, 9 March 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

Mr tDlement Scott ihas an article in the latest number of the “Free Lance bondon) on the speech of Mr Tree at the recent professional matinee. Mr Scott writes: “Have we arrived at this point, that an actor who is the servant and not the master of the public, or the Press, is to he permitted to tell a great newspaper that its critic is unworthy of it? If I do not necessarily agree with all that was written on the drama, of the last century by the capable writer in the ‘Daily Mail,’ I no less maintain that he has as much right to his .'opinions as his brother journalists, who, swayed by a popular and unfortu. nate craze of irresponsible society, think that the whole atmosphere of the stage is coleur do rose, and that all self-ad-vertising actors and actresses are miracles of art!''