THE SIN OF STAGE LOVE-MAKING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 20 May 1907, Page 4

THE SIN OF STAGE LOVE-MAKING.

l'liK UAiUI A rS'iAUK .MAY DO. There can be no particular objection : to saying love, line upon lino, upon tlic stage, bm wo should draw the curium,' says tlie Independent, "upon acting love upon tile stage." STUUTLXG TllE VEIL IUIUM LOVE. "It is u sort of blasphemy against the innocency of young natures. It destroys the first illusion of love, steals ii. from people so young that they luve never enjoyed it for themselve?. And it reveals this mystery of love, vulgarises it for them to sec it dramatised by a painteil woman and a painted man before the footlights. "There is a virgin sense in hoys, ns well as In girls, that is outraged hy the embrace and kiss of lovers in a play. And that which offends them is neither the kiss nor the embrace, but it is the publicity of the act." A MOCK OF A SACRED TITTXO.

"They do not think of the art by whvb passion has been counterfeited by two persons who do not feel it, bur {hi v feel quickly and instinctively that a mockery has been made of something sacred, ami that something which is by liauire private has been degraded by the showing of it nakedly to people who had no real right to see it.' 5 'That is where the trouble conies 'n. through the betraying of lov;- to maidens and youths. They get a >eeivf, does not yet belong to them. ''Every one of them who sees V.\? physical ardour of love on the stage not been robbed of the ilea vest wonder that belongs to awakening youth. ''The vehicle of expression for what in him would have been a delicate and tiered emotion has been cheapened and evfii rendered ridiculous. After seeing love acted a Ihousand \inics love cannor seem a> important nor as pur,, as love real'lv is.

"Finally, youn;; people who sr> s0 liiiicl! love ID,'1(1,1 oil tile Ktnnr,. :ir<: nnl so apt lo enter into competition lsv illiliiii" love to oil" another. "They foci tlip amateurisimes s 0 f own oHorts !>y com|inri-on: or, worst', they try to mocH courtship inicoiisci* oii-l.v upon Hie tliontrionl irlon of love. Ami in cither case the results are not satisfaotorv."