WARNING TO A THEATRE MANAGEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 7

WARNING TO A THEATRE MANAGEMENT.

CLERGY'S PROTEST AGAINST TEE SKETCH "A LA CARTE." Br Telosriph—Pros'! AosopJ&tlon—Copy+lsht London, October 22. The clergy .have appealed to the Lord. Chamberlain for tho suppression, 011 the ground of indecency, of the performance of tho sketch "A la Carte," at the Palace Theatre, in which Mile. Gaby Deslys appears. The Lord Chamberlain has warned tlio {Management that if public morality is further outraged the license for stflgo plays at the Palace Tlieatro will be cancelled. PRESS APPROVAL OF THE SKETCH. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. {Rec. October 23, 7.10 p.m.) London, October 23. Representatives of the London press witnessed tho performance of "A la Carte," and unanimously approved of it. 11l a recent article in the "Royal Magazine," Mdlle Gaby Ddlys addresses tho British public in the following strain:—"All'my life I have taken my profession with the utmost seriousness, atul yet when I was appearing in the part of Mile Chic in London not very long ago, a part which certainly did suggest frivolity of mind, I received lots of letters —I might almost- write tons of letters—from members of the audience, many of whom, judging by the spirit of their letters, seemed to be labouring under the curious impression that bccauso I happened to bo playing a frivolous part I must necessarily be of a frivolous disposition. Couid anything be moro absurd? Becauso an actor in melodrama happens to play tho part of a murderer, aro wo to suppose that in private life ho stealthily plunges a dagger into the ribs of his fellow countryman? Because an actress happens to be called upon 'to play, tho part of a thief, and steal the jewels of —shall wo say, her worst ener.vf —aro wo to suppose that when she leaves tho theatre, that actress makes a bobby of rummaging about in and extracting jewels from jewel-boxes which do not bolong to her? _ No, lio, mv friends in tho audience, it is not fair to think seriously that because an artist plays light parts that she must do so because prompted by inclination.