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We think their tom-foolery more likely to induce restrictions that may prevent others from exposing their mental imbecility, than to encourage the authorities to relax the laws that might hinder them from doing so. The boasted compliance with legal requisites in the mode of preparing
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Martinuzzi for the stage is not a new idea, and we only hope it may be carried out one-half as well as in the instances of
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Romeo and Juliet as the Law directs, and
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Othello according to Act of Parliament. There is a vaster amount of humbug in the play-bill of this new concern, than in all the open puffs that have been issued for many years past from all the regular establishments. The tirade against the _law_--the announcement of alterations in conformity with _the law_--the hint that the musical introductions are such as
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Now, every one who has written for the illegitimate stage, and therefore PUNCH in particular, knows very well that the necessity for the introduction of music into a piece played at one of the smaller theatres is only nominal--that four pieces of verse are interspersed in the copy sent to the licenser, but these are such matters of utter course, that their invention or selection is generally left to the prompter's genius. The piece is, unless essentially musical, licensed with the songs and acted without--or, at least, there is no necessity whatever for retaining them. Why, therefore, should Mr. Stephens drag