TO THE "PLYMOUTH ROCKS!"

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1917, Page 7

TO THE "PLYMOUTH ROCKS!"

To the Editor. Sir—Xo .food comes out of evil, but an evil mind will find evil in wood! That I have found out in the course of my extensive travel*. A clean and most inoffensive programme submitted by my company last Sunday night to a'Xew Plymouth audience inost' certainly did not hear any evil consequences whatever, and could not do so, for music and recitations submitted provoked a healthy laughter, a good humor, and sent the crowd home with a feeling of "a'good night spent in good company;" whereas, had they heard ''The Holy City" and the rest of it that has been for years dinned into their ears, they would have gone home disappointed and weary.' Some, of course, would show appreciation, but we artists detect that hypocritical appreciation, and know well that it does not eonie from the heart. Oh, no! just from clapping of the hands only! As to the objectionable Continental Sunday—well, I leave that to those weary souls who mooch about town and their homes, frightened to move, not thinking of Sunday, but of what the neighbors might think of them Let there be a free and healthy mind, and the evil of that sort .will give place to goodness of men and eheeriness of humanity—l "am, etc., EUGENE OSSIPOFF.