A DISCUSSION is going on in the daily press in regard to the immorality of the stage which has a peculiar interest from the fact that the participants are actors and stage managers. A leading manager recently denounced as vile and demoralizing the most popular dramatic entertainment now given in the theaters of Broadway. His verdict was confirmed in the Herald of February 4 by an interview with "an actor of the old school," a man whose name has been a familiar one in public print for many years. His opinion of the theater we cannot quote in full. Speaking of a number of popular burlesques now upon the New York stage, he says: "They are disgustingly indecent, besides being absolute trash. When I was disengaged the last time, I went to see some of them, and regretted it. To be sure I laughed when I was there. It was funny at times; but it is a very easy matter to turn things and men into ridicule, and that's all they do. . . . The degrading nature of such entertainments should be cried down. These exhibitions can have but one effect—a disastrous one to the morals of the community, an encouragement to lewdness. . . . A great many people say, 'Oh, well, we are no worse off than before; for the old comedies used to be very much broader than we would stand now.' That is not so at all. The moral tone of the modern play is as much lower as vice is than virtue. Hardly one but that . . . tells stories that, if in books, we would not let our daughters read. They may point a moral lesson, tell a pitying tale; but the fact remains that it is done in an immoral way. . . . From the days of the 'Black Crook' it has steadily been getting worse and worse, until a noble profession is now shamed by being a panderer to the lowest passions of men. . . . The stage to-day in general offers but little of pure drama, but many beautiful pictures and indecent pictures, many plays that are vicious and many that are mere rubbish. The general result must be evil." He says, further, that our theaters are worse than those of Paris and London; for in those cities are some theaters which will not admit the worst class of plays, while here no distinctions seem to be made. "Here it is all mixed up." We have not been sparing in our condemnation of the theater as an agency for the promotion of vice and immorality; but we have never arraigned it more severely than does this "veteran actor." When the morals of the stage have sunk to that degree that men who have "trod the boards" for years revolt against them, and declare the modern drama to be an unmitigated evil, what more need be said? As to the London stage, one of the latest numbers of The Athenaeum reviews a play now on the boards of one of the leading fashionable theaters, and describes it as surpassing the worst realism of the infamous French school of novel writers. We have never in these columns said one word in regard to the theaters more severe than has frequently been said by the most distinguished actors and actresses.—New York Observer.