BERNARD SHAW AND THE BISHOP
MORE SHAVIAN LOGIC. London Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.— Copyright. LONDON. November 16. Replying to tho Bishop of London, Mr George Bernard. .Shaw rays there, are mora evil sermons than there are evil plays. 'Hera might do a frightful amount 'of harm, but would the Bishop of London agree that no senium should bo preached unless it had first been licensed by tho Lord Ohnmbevlaim? ' The Times.' in a. leading article closing the controveif-y,. thinks that too manygood people- talk and write as if there were. a universal declension of morals, particularly in the. theatres and music hails, and as if popular amusements were everywhere becoming coaifie, loud, and impure, Tlim exaggeration mifihl. be well meant, but it was not the less unreal and unjust, because it- was altogether wide of the truth. Many of tho forms of dramatic entertainment wero never more wholesome. The. moral reformers were not always strong as regarded their tacts.
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Evening Star, Issue 15343, 18 November 1913, Page 6
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