Show PASTORS ATTACK ACTORS ACTOR'S STAND STANDON ON CENSORSHIP P NEW EW YORI YORK Ma May 26 AP AP- AP of at the theatre has beethe been bee n the underlying motive of the tho church churchIn h In see seeding ing stage censorship pUs Otis S well well known actor sal said yesterday yes yes- es n an address before 10 Methodist pastors Ills nis sta statement ement t drew protests from the audience Ever er since the Inception of ot of the thi drama In medieval medIe England In th the e form Corm of mystery plays plas the church h has recognized the theatre as as as' a arival I. I I rival drawing drawing power and has at attempted attempted I at-I tempted to suppress It it said Mr Skinner Jealousy Is apparent t in inthe inthe n the effort of certain churches an and d religious bodies to Impose censorship censorship censorship censor censor- ship In the theatre Denying that h he Intended to to tode defend de de- fend lend salacious pla plays s 's Mr Skinner r said It was ns impossible to combat comba t evil Il by edicts The Rev Dr John W. W Longdale chairman answered It Is news t to tome tome o me that the Methodist church i is I envious of ot the theatre The attitude attitude atti attl tude of or the Methodist church h toward the theatre Is prompted by b y two considerations First the danger dan ger of ot corrupting the morals o of ot f children who are unable to discriminate discriminate Hate between good and bad plays and second the apparent impossibility impossibility of modifying the theatre so a ato as asto asto s to exclude bad bat bad plays |