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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
from a " vaudeville " bottle, nor a primary
or grammar school for small children,
but a high school or university for adults,
dedicated to the higher culture of that
great " humanity," the histrionic art. For
this house are to be engaged the best-
equipped managers, and the most highly
accomplished company of actors, artists,
and artisans that the country can furnish;
and on its stage are to be produced, with
the closest attainable approximation to
completeness, only clean plays, of real
merit. These dramas are to be in every
key and color, of any and every nation, of
any period in time. Rare inducements
will be held out for the production of new
and original works, of which the censor-
ship will be critical, yet catholic and un-
niggardly ;
but there will be no limitation
of the field to the domestic inclosure.
This theatre once open and operant, let
the dear public attend or not, as it pleases;
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