SERMONS AND PLAYS.
MR G. B. SHAW'S REPLY TO DR. INGRAM THE EDITORIAL "CLOSURE.". ' By Telegraph—Press Association—OoDyrieht "Times" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. November 17, 6.30 p.m.) \ London, November 16. Mr. Bernard Shaw, replying to the Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram), says that "there are many more evil sermons than evil plays, and they may do frightful harm." Would the bishop agree, he asks, that no sermon should bo preached unless first licensed by the Lord Chamberlain? The "Times," in a leading article closing the controversy, declares that too many good people talk and write as if there were in universal declension in morals, particularly in the theatres and music-tails; as if popular amusements everywhere were becoming coarse, loud, and impure. "This exaggeration may be well meant, but it is not less unreal and unjust, because it is altogether wide of the truth. Many forms of dramatic entertainment have never been more wholesome. Moral reformers are not always wrong in their facts."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 7
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162SERMONS AND PLAYS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 7
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