p. 6 | An Actor's View

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 12, 1907

An Actor's View

THE Butte (Mont.) Inter-Mountain, in commenting upon some of the strong statements made at the sessions of the National Purity Congress recently held in Battle Creek, Mich., gives the following remarks of one of the delegates:—

John H. Roberts, an English delegate from the Alliance of Honor of London, attacked the stage, although himself a former actor. “Our young can not touch the modern drama without being infected,” he declared. “Most of our modern plays deal with the so-called love of two men for one woman, or two women for one man. The theater is a menace to the home; and if we don’t fight it, it will engulf the Anglo-Saxon race in a sea of lust and infamy.”

The one making these statements surely can not be accused of being prejudiced against a thing which he has had no chance to observe; and if his association with plays has, instead of minimizing, served only to emphasize, the attendant evils, unsuspecting parents should arouse to the dangers which confront the young. It is the part of wisdom not only to stay away from the theaters, but also from the cities among whose enticements to evil the theater is not the least.