MUSIC HALL MORALS.
MR. H. B. IRVING COMBATS THE SHAVIAN VIEW. By Teloaraph—Press Association—Copyright "Times' I —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, November 11. Mr. H. B. Irving, tho actor-manager, in a letter to the press, combats Mr. Boniard Shaw's contentions regarding music-hall morals.
Mr. Irving says: ''Nothing can persuade me that it is wholesome for theatrical aft, morally or commercially, in the long run, that entertainments should bo given which raise acute questions of propriety or impropriety."
Replying to an indictment of musichall, morals by the Bishop of Kensington, Mr. Shaw said that if he had a neurotic daughter, he would much rather risk taking her to tho Palace Tlieatro than to a revival meeting. "No one," he said, "as yet has counted tho homes and the characters which have been wrecked by the intemperance of religious emotion. When we begin to keep such statistics, the Chapel may find its attitude of moral superiority to the Theatro —and even to the public-house—hard to maintain, and may learn, a little needed charity.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 7
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171MUSIC HALL MORALS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1905, 13 November 1913, Page 7
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