“INDECENT”
DO NOT DANCE CELEBRATING ARMISTICE LONDON, Oct. 21. Confessing that, he may bo dreadfully old-fashioned, the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, Vicar of St. Martin in the Field, and Honarary Chaplain to tho ; King, in a letter to “The Times,” says he is shocked to find that the Albert Hall will be again the scene of n great Victory Bali on Armistice night. 7 “Dancing is frequently a fitting form of commemorating a glad event,” I he says, “but a vast fancy dress ball, las a tribute to the great deliverance which followed the unspeakable agony ' of 1914-1918, seems to me to be not so j much irreligious as indecent.” He declares that all such ill-conceiv-ed celebrations, whether in hotels, restaurants, or elsewhere, should be discouraged, and a real effort made to retain for Armistice Day its setting of solemn reverence and gratitude.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19447, 5 November 1925, Page 8
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