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CHURCH AND STAGE, · · · NEW FORY PASTORS OUTBURST,
Au extraordinary occurrence marked the errica on February 12th at the Calvary Baptist Church, in New York.
After the Ray, John Roach Streten, befora a huge and fashionable congregat, had pi loried the theatrical stage a the most de
influence in America, Mr. Willia Bradly, the well-known theatrical Tub dramatic producer,
jumped
up from his seatin the middle of the agregation sad shouted
out
He..." Do not slander your neighbo
proceeded to n
to awer at some length
the arguments raian the pastor.
The Ray, Mr. Stratocare that the theatre-going public wa ring Cruggel with indecency girls gained promotion at the price of honour.
The slimy trail of Maumonism and doe last is over the fair face of the dramatic at Amerira," he told his fashionable congregation Much of the las can be placed on t brazen flaunting of unetul femininity for the
"Th
this at the
ke of Kate
money."
most of the presun-day theat
ical
doors of the laws whey, he said, w ward controlling production, In tau same strain the rev. gentleman por crodot
den wemers of the theatrical profession who gained notoriety by
by divorcing
ta
their matrimonial partners, pasticnlarly menco tioning sam well known film artists. The mosin colony at Hollywood and the ease of Roscoe Arbuckle was also referral to scathingly.
There was consternation amongst the men bers of the church when Mr. Brady, tushed angry, demanded of the pastor why he picked on the stage for bis denuciation. He declared hotly:
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I can prove that in the last twenty years many horrible crimes have been cominisited by ininisters of the churches. More clergy have been convicted of murders than Actors; clergy than actors in gnol.
there are m
The
atage is stage and
to a square deal. The theatre performed services the war Minittedly there are some bad
by any other var unequalled by but there are ten
ten quod vues to every bard one. If there are indecent ones, as the Rev. Mr. Straton says, then he
the law to close up those the ser
Mr. Bruly lenied that the. controlled the theatres. He Hays that the Jews own about half of them, while the authors and producers, in.
in both the legitimate theatre
the movie theatres, are 30 per cent. Christian. He ended with a dramatic per- pration: Cuperate with es of the stage. Preach Gol and Christ to them; - don's klander"
Toe chish in the chur h between Mr. Straton and Mr. Brady was cos of the most exciting ever seen in a place of worship. The place was crowded long before Mr. Straton launched his indictment again-t stage morals, wany theatrical and einen stars being present to cheer their defender. In the midst of the Cormoil there was a loud lang! Fang!" and
flash of C
enting that photo graphers were
Mr. Brady pasal mount, Cowed, and nid, "1. thank you Hiwes and cheurs a trusted in thus al fia, anal nyparently the amicace was ahont evenly disall
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EMPLOYER FINED £17.
PERSISTENT "RREACHES OF TRADES BOARD ACT.
At Tower Bridge Puice Court, on Feb. 15th, Mr. Waddy fined Thomas Frederick | Simmons, prambulater manufacturer, of Tamer Street, Berenisey. £1,007 18s.. including costs, en 87 Hammonies for fail- ing to pay the minimum rate of nges nder the Trades Board Act, and on ope summons for failing to exhibit the no- tices required under the Act.
The deinadant said he thought the trade boards wife ab unwarrantable interfer. eace with the liberty of the wabjeet and the ruin of radiı,
The Magistrate said that figures showed that on the dates nuned in the summonses the defendant and deprived his employees of Muse £50 per week, an average of £2,500 a year. He had already been sun- moned - and - hoed at that Court for similar offences, but had still persisted in this course." He (the magistrate) was convinced that the defendant had been exploiting the poverty and distress of the district to his own profit and' advantage. The defendant had further been guilty. on his own admission, of the outrage of having dismissed from his employment people who had been compelled by the trad board to Lear witness against him.
The defendant gave notice of aṛpeal"
THE CURSE OF WORK."
„Speaking on “* The Cure of Work" be fore a meting of the Industrial League and Council as Caxton Hall on Februnts, fat. Mr. Hamisten T. Smith said he be Deved work was me of the few forins of piez sure which diại not have to be paid for very dearly in the long ren. But vist numbers of our population were con dened to labur at work of a mature which rande it possible to take, ¡deasure in it. This thought was due to the attie of the metr at the top who per sist in looking on business as merely FOsthing out of which to make money. The Guild Craft men of the Middle Ages had left unmistakable marks on their creations of the pleasure they took in their labour. Sub-division of labour, how eyer, had made, the present-day worker almost into a machine, and he could not Lake any interest in the finished article because he was engaged on the produc tion of only a small part of it. In his opinion the disgust ongoidered by this mechanical work was one of the chief causes of industrial unrest,
While the death-rate in England and Wales during 1921 wes the lowest on re cord for the country ጊዜ wile, the birth-rate was, save for the yours, 1815- 1919, the smallest recorded for the whole country. The figures were 12.1 and 224 respectively.
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