Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 9 | Church, Stage Closely Linked

CHURCH STAGE I CLOSElY LINKED i I I i Pulpit and Footlights Get Together in London i I I LONDON Nov 22 N Never 2 Never ver before in London have church and stage been j so eo closely linked together i I While most of the plays now ronning running running run ron ning in London are are of a sermonizing disposition prea preachers hers are are taking advantage ad ad- i vantage of ot this to attract attra large congregations con- con to their thelI churches by bye i preaching sermons sermons' on the subjects subjects' i which hold footlight sway I In the little church of St St. Thomas 1 the Rev Clarence Clarenc May has started a series of sermons each one dealing with a moral as out by the stage His first sermon was on the Unknown a a. play by by- by Somerset Maugham which has for foundation th the Has the war killed faith faint tai th 1 The next sermon dealt with The Wandering Jew a play in which Matheson Lang is showing the suf sufferings suf- suf of the Je Jews s through ugh the ages Another s sermon rmon ha has for its basis The Crossing a play dealing with an earthbound soul in which the dead appear in spirit form fonn o on the stage and converse with the living The Right to Strike a play which I is drawing multitudes to the Lyric theatre also drew multitudes to the s Rev Mays May's church when he announced an an- 1 it as his text for the next sermon on his list May intends next to discuss discuss the problem of human hy hypocrisy as it reveals re- re wo itself in The Prudes Prude's Fall lall now w being played at s theatre