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Profanity on the Stage

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 17.

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Profanity on the Stage

A BILL was recently offered in the New York City council, making profanity on the stage a misdemeanor. The board of aldermen refused to pass it, on the ground that the public could be depended upon to discourage anything that borders on blasphemy. The Washington Post of March 16, commenting on this, says: “It has been the occasion of comment lately that virtue is no longer persistently triumphant on the stage, since villains have become heroes, and heroes villains. The popularity of this change may be taken to indicate a loosening sense of the proprieties on the part of the public.”