FARCES TO RELIGIOUS PLAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 3

FARCES TO RELIGIOUS PLAY

BEN TRAVERS TELLS WHY. Mr. Ben Travers, atfthor of the famous Aldwych Theatre farces, whose new play, “Chastity, My Brother,” was produced at the Embassy last night, explained during the evening why he had written a play in a religious vein. He is a voracious reader of serious books. It was “Church and the Roman Empire” which originally inspired him to write on the subject of Saint Paul’s life, a theme • which struck him as intensely dramatic. He maintains that all the facts of his play can be verified in that part of the Apocalypse called “The Acts of Paul and Thechla.” “Although it was as a drama that this story made its chief appeal to me,” he said, “I am intensely interested in all religious questions. It is only through Christianity and the spirit of goodwill that the problems of the world can be settled.”