Excerpt from The Theatre, 1901, Vol. 1: Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Drama and Music The policy of the theatre will be to approve and encourage everything that tends to elevate the tone of the stage and add to the dignity of the profession of the artiste. It Will praise good work, by Whomsoever done - playwright, actor, manager, scene-painter - and censure fearlessly Where Art has been trampled upon and debased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.