"I'll take it," he said. "In this case a small role is better than a whole loaf."
While I was attending the theatre in my official capacity as a critic, wishing to obtain the various opinions of those patrons whose views should be valuable, I remember tackling a bald-headed man with whom I had scraped an acquaintance.
"Do you think vaudeville should be reformed?" I asked.
He grinned at me diabolically, and replied:
"No, but I'm of the positive opinion that some of these soubrettes they've been springing on us lately might be reformed all right."
Now, while dramatic editors may possibly know something of music, they don't claim to be high art critics.
The editor expects it, however.
He sent me to report a musicale once.
I dished it up to perfection I thought, with the assistance of a friend, a Bohemian who conducted an orchestra in a Broadway theatre.
