Anything which excites mirth and laughter is always welcomed by an audience.

But a serious piece from which humor has been excluded, is calculated, even when played with sympathetic feeling and skill, to create a sense of gravity among the spectators, which, to say the least, can hardly be restful to jaded nerves.

Yet when composing his plays the playwright should never lose sight of the moral.

Of course he has to pay attention to the arrangement of the different parts of the plot and the characters represented, but while it is important that each act and every scene should be harmoniously and properly set, and that the characters should be adapted to the piece as a whole, it is none the less important that a moral should be enforced by it.

The practical lesson to be learned from the play should never be lost sight of.