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Show Objectionable Plays. Noting with approval a few months ago the action of President Taft in leaving a theatre as a protest against the questionable character of the performance, per-formance, we suggested that Catholic theatre-goers, at least, should display the same regard for elementary purity of morals. We are pleased to see, in the New World, this mention of an equally praiseworthy act on the part of a Chicago Chi-cago Catholic: It has not been so long ago When a drama was put on the boards in Chicago Chi-cago with two or three lines, in one part, very offensive to Catholics. It had several nights' run, with, presumably, the average number of Catholics in the audience, when a woman, who is a cultured, cul-tured, conscientious and a practical adherent ad-herent to. the faith, and is also fond of brightness and social functions, attended attend-ed the p'ay. The irreverent and offensive offen-sive lines came in like a blow to her senses. She wrote to the playwright, who had the good sense to see the mistake mis-take he had made; he answered with a few apologetic words; the offending lines were dropped from the act, and the play gained rather than lost. Catholic protests against offenses to their faith are possibly, and we think probably, far more effective with publishing, pub-lishing, theatrical, and mercantile companies com-panies than our coreligionists are always al-ways willing to believe. When John Boyle O'Reilly impetuously knocked down a defamer of the Blessed Virgin, he gave graphic expresssion to a sentiment senti-ment that should animate every genuinely genu-inely Catholic heart. America. |