STATEMENT ON THE OTEHR SIDE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12214, 2 August 1910, Page 5

STATEMENT ON THE OTEHR SIDE.

{Special to : Herald.) /WELLINGTON, this day. ■ Reviewing last night's production of tho comedy, the Dominion states : "The piece did not warrant the strong strfc : tur.es piswrd rpon it. ., It'Svoiild be difficult to find a word or phrase to which exception caii be .taken on; the ground of propriety. The .only possible objection is the fact that's it ariseH out of,, quasiinfidelity. No doubt, as originally played'in Ainevicsjij.it was an offensive -thing, but for Australian audiences it /has been purged of offence ' m phrase or situation." Some of the clergy of Wellington have interviewed; .the.j.Primc Minister on the .subject of the production of "The Girl from Rector's" m that city. What transpired has not been. made, public, but it is understood that a, protesting deputation will later bring .the matter . before Ministers. , The deputation (states the Manawatu Times), is probahly the outcome of the attitude, taken ,up m Christchurch m respect to the Johnson-Jeffries fight. The Evening News m that city suggested to the Presbytery that its censorship of public amusement m the interests of morals is reduced ti> a laughable absurdity wheu it makes a fuss about the Johnson-Jeffries pictures, and , shuts its eyes to-, things*' tiuit are ten times more objectionable from a. moral standpoint. . And then, by way of clinching the argument, the paper, introduced "The Girl- from. Rector's," saying: "If the Presbytery is so anxious. about the morals of patrons of entertainments, , why doesn't it protest against the class of play which has-been running, successfully at the Theatre Royal for -the .past fortnight? "Here :is a .piece billed by the management as '« snipper,' and which proves to be fully characteristic of modern French comedies m so far as it relies on its suggestiveness and thinlyveiled allusions to* improprieties for i|s success as a dramatic production." • " ' : ' • '■■* . -V'