| Show inn arm nn nn Jill n nn 1St tool ABOUT I TiE THE CHORCH AND THE STAC I I n u ww Under the bonding A Deal of or Humbug a I writer In ht the lu lust t issue lf to hand bund of ot that dignified English J h weekly week weekly ly I tho the Ming King ha hUll has this to soy say on tho the theold old theme of ot church and 1 ainge e eI I am Inclined to agree for tor once with of oC The He lie e sold said on Sunday that he hue could not help thinking think thinking ing IlIg there was a good deal Mal of ot humbug In III the church anti stage O to which Sir Charles Wyndham tried trl d to 10 glue give a 1 little push Hish last lut week Ve We never hear of ot church and bur bar guilds or church and ami Solicitors and grocers and are content If they go 10 goto goto to tu church chuch to go O without waiting to hn 0 the fuel filet announced In the tho news newspapers papers It II Is I nn In Insult to the stage It II to me mil for tor std such uh to tn ranks a Il tremendous funs fuss because half a 1 I dozen doton players openly call themselves I church people As If It there thousands who ho belong to the Ihl church without making any III fuss about It iti III The whole thing Is la n 1 t method of or ad ud aid It l I nt one that people core much hutch about nl mt nut Hut David On ill a a good actor and the author of several plays of or soma merit slick Iok along very n different lines linen at the recent church service of oC the Chi Chicago hl cago chapter of oC the tho Actors Church alli alit alliance ance said When lieu I wan Willi a n young man and choos ing In a II It II happened that I numbered among my friends friend II one ont of tho the trod iron eloquent Methodist ministers on tho the Pacific coast To him him I 1 wont went for Cor Std sold nl 1 I am an undecided whether I J shall become an 1111 actor or a I apr preacher pr encher what you are best lilted tl I fur for he I 1 think you had better become un an actor He Its 11 woe was wiser wilier than L I I havn never Mr regretted my nay choice dwire Ino then I 1 have written plays Some Seine titan limn I hope hOlo to write on ono good play pIn Ono One good gond play piny Is III worth many poor Ioor sermons Every J ery sincere Inc ro effort Is III the tho brother of or another effort There Is 11 a In the tho calling of or time the actor as liB touch much ns 1111 there thero IB is In tho the calling of oC the minister Booths work lork showed shoved 1 this particularly In King ICIng I ear I 1 commend the alliance for It In is the of oC sympathy between and actor If it this thin will draw dm W the Ihl people of tho the stage toward a n higher moral and spirit spiritual ual lift life WP W 1 shall shull have better b Illas and better actors |
