True No Longer | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 29.

True No Longer.

It used to be said a few years ago that ordinary life was too humdrum and needed the tragedy and pathos of the stage as a counterpoise. But that can be said no longer. As a New York paper expresses it: “In their most splendidly-awful scenes John Webster and John Ford never mirrored the play of human passions with more vivid intensity than have the newspapers of the last week. It is in the daily papers rather than in fiction that real tragedy and real humor are to be found to-day, for the imaginings of the novelist and the dramatist have become milk and water—or mere mud—while human nature is the same as it has ever been.” And this was printed a week before the awful, horrible tragedy of the excursion steamer, the General Slocum.