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Show I OMAHA PASTORJAL OF PLAYERS, DEFENDS , I FLOCK WHEN .THEATRES ARE CRITICIZED 19 "You're Human, Parson," Says Chorus Girl Met at Depot Platform N. E. A. Staff Special. OMAHA, Neb., May 15. "Some .of the finest people in Iho world aro in the theatrical profession. Yet actors are generally cither criticised or ne-j elected." j This conviction was reached by Rev. T TCdwin Brown, when he was a cub reporter in Philadelphia; it stayed with him when he became an Episcopalian Episco-palian clergyman and it is tho reason lhat The Billboard, a New York theatrical theat-rical magazine, carried a standing ad inlting all actors and nctresscs who come to Omaha, not only to attond St. Martin's Episcopal church but to come to the pastor's home and ask him for any service ho can render and he gives his telephone number, to (make sure they will do It. "Chaplain, at Large" Rev. Mr. Brown is a chaplain of tho, Actors' church alliance, the movement that originated In the "Little Church Around tho Corner," in Now York City, He believes he is the only "chaplain at large." ' During his missionary tours, Rev. Mr. Brown would ascertain what show was-coming to town, and when itj would get in. Then, after posting his invitation to church in due form, ho I got busy in other directions. And' ; when the weary actors scrambled off ! the train to begin the dally hunt for ! accommodations, they were astonished i and sometimes suspicious to find ; on the platform, waiting for them, a ! tall, active person in a clergyman's garb, armed with information as to what hotels could take them in, where the theatre was, and how to got there and anything else they needed to knowi "My Gawd, .parson!" breathed a; her gratitude, "you're human!" Aid at All Hours. St. Martin's is the "actors' church" in Omaha. Two attorney's and two physicians, memb.ers of its congregation, congrega-tion, are at the service of those who need emergency help. Clarkson Episcopal Epis-copal Hospital will receive them. Elks' lodge No. 39 of which Rev. Mr. Brown is chaplain, gives help that it will not let be made public. The Gayety theatre the leading bur- lesque house in Omaha, 1ms been placed at Rev. Mr. Brown's disposal for religious services, and both he and Bisho.p E. V. Shaylor of the diocese of Nebraska, have spoken from its stage. Rev. Brown's indignation when Rev. John Roach Straton of New York re-J fused to sit on the platform at the actors' ac-tors' benefit, boiled over in a hot letter let-ter to tho New York clergyman. |