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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 135, 7 June 1872, Page 2

The Dkama.'s Future. —The dramatic instinct will not die out of men as long as the race survives. • The dignity of the nctor's art was never more sure of a recognition from the public than it is at this moment. Make it in its practical exercise —and this is now merely a question of the internal arrangement of theatres, and of theatrical management —a vocation which men and women of education and pure habits can pursue without forfeiture of self-respect, and the ranks of the profession will speedily be recruited by persons of ability and character, who would in time drive into their fitting obscurity the incapacity and unseemly impudence which

disgrace so many of our stages. But there is, we are assured, only one way of doing this, and it is by giving our artists a fit arena for the exercise of their art in a c theatre where the artistic spirit reigns, and where intelligence and high principle are at the head of affairs. Let such a theatre be once firmly established, and there need be no fear that England will be as famous for her acted, as she is for her written drama. — The Drama in England,