Dramatic Feuilleton

Quelqu'un, writing To the General Public, discusses the position of The World, a daily newspaper, on the theater. Quelqu'un discusses the paper's religious stance, its condemnation of the theater and actors, and its surprising exception for Barnum and his theater. Quelqu'un thinks this may be because Barnum is "said to have got religion," and thinks it strange that a modern "metropolitan paper" would classify the theater and actors as evil (3). Because he runs out of space, Quelqu'un gives a list of some of the people who had benefits and writes that most went well. He also gives a list of upcoming shows and a summary of some of the major theater managers' plans for the fall.