ACTORS AS VINCENTIANS

New Zealand Tablet, 9 August 1917, Page 13

ACTORS AS VINCENTIANS

The establishment of a St. Vincent de Paul Conference among the members of the Catholic Actors’ Guild of America was passed upon and approved by the executive board of the guild at its recent meeting. Mr. William E. Cotter, 505 Fifth avenue, N.Y., was states the .1 .1 .Catholic News). Mr. William E. Cotter, 505 Filth Avenue, N.Y., was appointed chairman of the conference, and the following members made up the committee —The Hon. Victor J. Dowling, the Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, Mr. J. J. Cohan, Dr. Francis J. Quinlan, Mr. Wilton Lackaye, the Rev. John Talbot Smith, Mrs. J. Henry Haggerty, Mrs. Morgan J. O’Brien, Mrs. J. J. Cohan, Miss Bernice Golden, Mrs. Henry W. Taft. Mr. Cotter stated that the St. Vincent de Paul Society is well known in the world, where it has worked for relief among the suffering since 1850, and in this city its membership is large. Its establishment among the members of the guild, he said, will mean that Catholic actors in distress, spiritual or physical, will be provided promptly with the necessary aid. The objects of the society are to sustain its members by mutual example in the practise of a Christian life, to visit the poor in their dwellings, relieving their temporal wants and affording them religious consolation, and fostering other forms of charitable works springing from these.