AMERICAN STAGE
PURITY CAMPAIGN
PULPIT AND THEATRE
(United Preu Association.—Copyright)'
(Received 7th March, noon.)
. NEW YORK, 6th March. Following police raids: on three allegedly most objectionable plays and tho arrests and arraignment of » the complete casts and the producers, continuous attempts have besn made to reform the theatre from" within. The latest effort, just announced, consists of the formation of a church committee, composed of the leading Anglican Bishop and minister, a Catholic jriest, and a Jewish rabbi, which has announced that churches must share the responsibility for present conditions, because too often they are content to criticise the theatre wholesale instead of discriminating between worthy and unworthy plays and'lending their influence to support those really meritorious. Sermons in many churches to-day dealt with the theatre, and in several cases addresses were made' by theatrical people. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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