Show was church and the theatre lyman abbati in the in dealing with the tj estre the chereb and ministry brye still lid hered to the principle of to tit I 1 pro bibi tion which digs been in respect to analogous I 1 think it is a radical mistake to apply this principle to the theatre and that what people must learn to do is to discriminate be tween good and bad theartres theatres the atres and good and bad plays j ast as they do between good and bad novels and good and bad picture this is what in the chri ian union we are trying to teach its readers to do chii is abat I 1 ll 11 my own family I 1 wish to teach my children infelt in pelt there are thoroughly healthful plays and no doubt there are others that are thoroughly ful I 1 am not familiar th the drama to make imy dit 0 in detail and actors land managers think frankly to reco nize the fact that it is dif ficula for one who desires to make I 1 such discrimination to do it for hims if or his family there are very few publishers who will not refuse abany price to publish abood which I 1 panders to immoral table or low but there are very few theartres theatres the atres ill refuse to put it pay of doubtful character on the barab |