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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
programme and mode of representation.
By and by our swift people would respond
and appreciate. Before many years had
passed, we should have our own American
Theatre, evolving the material of a fine
tradition, dedicated to the best expression
of a great art; and by the time that point
was reached. Conservatories of Acting
would be clustered about the new house,
and be preparing to feed its companies
with trained actors and actresses.
Much good ought eventually to come
to the theatrical profession out of the
maintenance of such a privately endowed
theatre: first and obviously, through the
higher esteem and appreciation which ac-
tors would then receive from the public;
secondly, through the advance in means
of training which would be open to neo-
phytes. It will be a shame if we do not
develop a great race of actors in this coun-
try. The American temperament is, I be-
lieve, the best adapted of any in the world
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