PLAYS AND ACTORS
A POET’S CRITICISMS. LONDON, September 15. “The level o! acting on the English stage has 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. ‘Tt is still lagging behind the 19th century,” Mr Sitwell adds, ‘‘and exhibits no new features. Except an increased Americanism duo 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 10
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