There are people who' insist , that it . i> wrong to bring religious .subjects upon tha stage., >yiitit a' mistake! . . The, tlicatro;.rofleets tha thoughts of a nation ; :it is incessantly striving to. embody what is'beautiful and true. Sometimes it is far in advance.o{ public opinion, and must taut'until the right moment Ims como. . This was the caaa scarcely twenty years ago in regard to the religious question in the theatre'. Many attempts i.i this direction hud : been mado, bu4 a superor nowor. cheeked the courso ,'ol events and delayed, matters.until; this, projn. dico had expired. , Now public . opinion, if moro conciliatory, and.'it is'admitted that the religious dramas, written'.,in. the last ten years ! challenge our admiration by .their grandow and beauty.—Sarah Bernhardt. "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 19 October 1907, Page 10
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