Correspondence. "SCHOOL."

Evening Star, Issue 3784, 10 April 1875, Page 3

Correspondence.

"SCHOOL."

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To the Editor . Siil—ln a criticism on my performance of Jack royntz at the Princess’s Theatre last eveing, the sapient critic (save the mark) of the * Guardian ’ protests against “ the gag” I introduced in the piece, “in the shape of stupid and would-be witticism that found no favor with the audience.’* In reply I can only say that every one of my scenes went well, and that, with the exception of two lines, I did not speak one word that was not written by Mr Robertson. I do not often rush into print, nor would I have done so now, but that on other occasions the same unjust censure was passed. When inexperienced boys, critics who never beard of Hazlett, crush amateur actors, and to gratify personal spite, are allowed to put in print effusions concocted in bar parlors, inspired by whisky hot and bad tobacco, from which tbeir weak intellects become deranged, it is time the proprietors of our leading journals were made aware of the fact, and that they appointed intelligent and conscientious men to the positions now occupied by youths totally unfitted for them.—l am, &c., I. F. Keogh, Dunedin, April 10.