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I Hill* Ul Illl MUIV* Vllthe Pacific Coast.Tastes and JIabits of the Romans.Anne Hampton Brewster writes from Rome to the Philadelphia Telegraph as follows upon some of tlic characteristics of the people of the Eternal City: “The Romans arc rude and haughty, and do not like to work, but thev seldom commit acts of violence or murder. Throughout Italy the race stamp is very strong. The Roman has the same rudeness that belonged to the ancestral stock; the Neapolitan is as c nifty and wily as his Greek ancestors: the Sicilian lawless and barbarous as were his African progenitors; the Tuscan retains the old Etruscan characteristics of intellect, imagination, and tastes. The Romans are easily shocked with horrors and huvc'no taste for the representation of crimes and brutal vices, which please a French audience. ‘I/Assommoir/ of Zola, was played at the two summer theatres. Corea and Quirino, and was received not only with disgust, but rage. The audience at the Corea even broke the chairs and benches in their anger. It was not because the translation was poor, but because the people considered the story an insult to the public; it was an open protest against the brutality of the scenes, and the great scene of the French stage, the delirium tremens, was not given either; if it had been, the audience would probably have attacked the stage in thciruu-i'cr. The Roman is no drunkard: he urinks his foglietta and gets sleepy and lazy, but lie is utterly ignorant of the low, debased condition to which ruin reduces the Frenchman, Englishman, and American.1 —Pork Eating;.The most sensible thing the Anieri-■ • . 1 /% ** 4*1 a 1 Itfl.Vlkl t 1 t.t I’ll 1*1%
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Lawrenceburgh Register
Lawrenceburg, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 04, 1879
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