MORALS OF THE STAGE
NOT LAX, SAYS PREACHER. Many well-known actors and actresses, including Miss Peggy O’Neill, Miss Mary O’Farrell, and Mass Graoie Leigh, were present at the tenth annual Actors’ Mass held at Corpus Christi, Maiden lane. The preacher was the Rev. William Orafton, who declared that the existence of the almost universal opinion as to the laxity of morals on th© part of -all those concerned in the theatrical profession was quite wrong. There were, he agreed, some men and women in the calling who, unfortunately, might, and did, justify all that was said about them by publio opinion, but of what class of society in life could the game thing not be said? He asked that all the 850 professional members of the guild should remember that not only were the public interested in them as professional artists, but as individuals in private life, and for this reason they should try to keep their lives and modes of living as far above reproach of any kind ae possible.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 10
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