MUSIC HALL MORALITY.
EVIL SERMONS V. EVIL PLAYS.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, November 17.
Mr Bernard Shaw, replying to the Bishop of London, says that many more evil sermons than evil plays may do frightful harm, hut would the Bishop agree that no sermon should he preached unless it were first licensed by the Lord Chamberlain ?
The Times, in a leader closing the controversy, declares that too many siood people talk and write as if there was a universal declension of morals, particularly in the theatres and musichalls, and as if popular amusements everywhere were becoming coarse, loud and impure. This exaggeration may be well meant, but it was not the less unreal and unjust, because altogether the wide truth in many forms of dramatic entertainment was never more wholesome, though moral reformers were not always wrong in their facts.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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144MUSIC HALL MORALITY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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