STAGE PURITY
CAMPAIGN IN LONDON
COARSENESS AND VULGARITY
By Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn. LONDON, Nov. 22.
Declaring that a wave of coarseness and vulgarity in West End theatres is driving audiences away, British Equity, a theatrical organisation, has started a stage purity campaign and is seeking the support of the London County Council. HOW TO BE POPULAR By Telegraph—Copyright —Press As. LONDON, Nov. 21. “The proverbial bargee speaks pulpit prose in comparison with the casual conversation of modern under graduates,” declares the Cambridge University magazine in an article headed “Mouths of Sucklings.”
It says: “The success of undergraduate gatherings depends largely upon obscenity passing for wit. You implant the seeds of knowledge, reasonably expecting to get the fairest flowers of speech; instead, the result is rank, red blasphemy and filth.
“A raconteur wishing to divert his friends must apologise if the story might appear delicate; otherwise the end is received in silence by an audience expecting a salacious denouement. To be funny in Cambridge it is essential to be indecent.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 273, 23 November 1935, Page 5
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