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Show "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Bernard Shaw's greatest play, "Mrs Warren's Profession," has successfully passed the censorship of Special Sessions, Ses-sions, and will be given at the Thatcher Opera House Wednesday, June 5th, with Rose Coghlan and an exceptional cast, including Lynn Pratt, St Claire Bayfield, Charles Pitman, Forrest Orr, Luclle Stanford, and otheis. Probably Prob-ably no olay in tiio history of the English Eng-lish .speaking stage has received so much discussion as "Mrs Warren's Profession," and the intelligent world is well agreed that it is the greatcsu drama that Bernard Shaw has ever written. Mrs. Warren defends the career of a prostltuto and procuress as better than being crushed and brutalized by the modern economic system. But no glamor Is ihrowji about this harlot'&llfe There Is not a trace of the' false appeal to sentl ment, of the emotional glorlticatloh of the courtesan that has so long been applauded in "Camllle." The spirit of sheep hard truth is over It and In It all. One of our foremest dramatists, Augustus Thomas, thinks that "Mrs. Warren's Profession" is Uhe most vfgorous and vital tiling that Shaw has ever done. Professor William Lyon Phelps, who very' ably occupies a chair of drauu and literature at Yale, thinks that It Is not only a good play, but one that teaches u much needed moral lesson. Mr. Norman napgnotl, the brilliant and sane editor of Collier's Col-lier's Weekly, Isstrpngln hlsapmovaii of botli these views. Tho management ex'tended an Invitation In-vitation to tho clergymen of New York recently to witness a performance perform-ance of "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and over three hundred accepted. |
