A PURITY CAMPAIGN
NEW YORK THEATRES CHURCHMEN FORM COMMITTEE NEW YORK, March 6. Following police raids on three allegedly most objectionable plays and the arrests and arraignment of complete casts and producers, continuous attempts have been »iade to reform the theatre from within. The latest effort just announced co sists of the formation of a Church Committee, composed of a leading Anglican bishop and minister, a Catholic priest, and Jewish rabbi, which announced that the churches must shaxe the responsibility of the present conditions, because too often they aro content to criticise the theatre wholesale instead of discriminating between the worthy plays and lending their influence and support to those which are really meritorious.
Sermons in many churches to-day dealt with th/» theatre and in several cases addresses were made ny theatrical people. _________
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19785, 8 March 1927, Page 7
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133A PURITY CAMPAIGN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19785, 8 March 1927, Page 7
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