CHARGE OF BAD ACTING.
The Chicago Courts, says an American paper, have an opportunity to immortalise themselves, and be banded down to posterity as benefactors of the race, or bitter enemies of mankind, according as they dc-. cide a case brought before them. It is a suit brought by the author of a play against an actor for £SOOO damages, the ground being that the actor “ was uupardonably ignorant of bis lines, and refused to carry out the heroic conception of bis part, but instead whined and drivelled out incongruous and meaningless phrases.” If the Chicago Judges will only lay down the doctrine that it is a punishable offence for an actor to act in this manner, they will deserve well of their fellows, and of all who shall come after them.
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Patea Mail, 18 September 1882, Page 4
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132CHARGE OF BAD ACTING. Patea Mail, 18 September 1882, Page 4
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