"SATAN IN KID GLOVES"
i PICTURE SHOWS ON SUNDAYS.
In the course of a sermon, entitled "Satan in Kid Gloves/' delivered in the Bendigo (Vic.) Methodist Church on Sunday week, tho Rev. T. S. Woodful strongly denounced picture entertainments on Sunday evenings. He stated that lie had visited ono entertainment, and was satisfied that it was not a proper piece to be witnessed) especially by young people. He had liearf a gentleman defend it on the ground tn» it illustrated how a . young woman c °" resist, the wiles of men of the WO , W sought to bring about her moral destruction. While the heroine was admitte J a fine character, the piece as ti. a most suggestive of evil. He had none letter in the local press in which tne writer expressed the opinion that it better for girls to be at a P ictu ™ E .., „ than walking along Pall Mall. H ( ■ preacher), however, disagreed wlUl . writer, as he would, for preference. girl in Fall Mall, which was well lit P» rather than sitting in the dark loo* 8 pictures which were decidedly sugg of evil.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14692, 29 May 1911, Page 8
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186"SATAN IN KID GLOVES" New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14692, 29 May 1911, Page 8
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