AN AUTHOR'S ROYALTIES
Sir,-Dorothy Sayers did not write her plays as a result of any wish to do either good or evil. She was asked by the Committee of Religious Broadcasting to write them and accepted the commission in the same way that any craftsman or craftswoman will accept a job, She carried out her commission tothe best of her ability-and anything she earns is the reward of her conscientious work and skill. The fact that the plays have religious value was not of her, choosing. We do not condemn successful. Ministers of religion who attain preferments in their professions because of their skill in preaching; nor successful church architects; nor those who make profits from writing tracts and religious books; nor publishers of Bibles. Why then, should profits from plays be in a different catevorv?
E.T.
W.
(Havelock North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 278, 20 October 1944, Page 5
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140AN AUTHOR'S ROYALTIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 278, 20 October 1944, Page 5
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