"FRESH FIELDS"
VICAR REFUSES PROCEEDS
BISHOP'S STRONG SUPPORT
(Received April 1, I'p.m.)
LONDON, March 31,
Bishop Headlam, of Gloucester, has approved of the action of the Rev. T. H. Jupp, vicar of Churchdown, in declining to accept the proceeds of an amateur performance of Ivor Novello's "Fresh Fields," because it contained undesirable innuendoes subversive to Christian morals and decency.
Mr. Harold Sydney, the producer, defended the play but the parish council supported the vicar.
The bishop says that he was shocked to think that most of the parishioners were prepared to defend the play. Risky conversations and situations in the play, he adds, testify to the dramatic incapacity of bad art. A capable dramatist could make productions interesting and amusing without recourse to such methods.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 11
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