MISS STEPHENSON AS IXION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 310, 6 December 1873, Page 3

MISS STEPHENSON AS IXION.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — I am surprised at the tone of your report of Miss Stephensen's playing of Ixion. Yoiir description of the costume is correct; and the fact of your describing it shows me at least that you approve the tostume. Ido not approve of a lady appearing anywhere, but especially in public, unaccompanied, by the ordinary eoatuiro worn by -women. There shqfcld bo a law for its prohibition, which law should not.be a dead letter. Bad example has a powerful influence, and imitation is the commonest faculty of the mind. I could see no sense in Ixion. It is a burlesque, and that fact of course takes it without the range of civilisa-tion. But "want of taste admits no defence," and Ixion could have been dressod in a costume whuh would come a little above the ankles. Assuming that he ever existed, he would never havo worn the dro 3 worn by Sl'ss Stej h >nson, tvLo, \y the way, in one paragraph jou rail Clara— another way, I suppose, of intimating that sho is approved by you. Now, sir, one should not, I think, approve of such costume, even inferentially. Bo that as it may, lam not alone in my opinion. — I am, &c, A Citizex op Lawbekce.