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Show MPROPER EXHIBITIONS. In their social recreations, amusements, theatrical performances, &c., the Latter-day Saints have ever sought to shun and avoid anything of a character tending to immodesty, indecency or immorality. Especially have they condemned public exhibitions of any kind that tended to the gratification of a depraved or prurient taste. The overwhelming majority of the public of Logan who attend amusements entertain these sentiments, and it is highly desirable that this elevated taste be preserved. It is very true that in circuses, theatres, and other amusements, as they are commonly conducted throughout the civilized world, exhibitions of an immodest or immoral character are passed by without condemnation or even unfavorable comment. But this fact is no justification for introducing such features into performances to be witnessed by the youth and general public of our community. The occasion that has called forth these remarks was the recent performance of "Evadne" in Logan Theatre. This play is of a semi-classic character, and on the whole inculcates an excellent moral. The dialogue, however, is at times, indelicately plain and broadly suggestive. No play that is desirable to be presented before our public requires any of the characters to be dressed in a manner that need be objected to by the most refined and delicate, and we trust that the managers of local theatricals will avoid occasion for such objection as have been made in some of the costumes worn in "Evadne." |