The daily sentinel., 1906-04-02
Manager Haskell
Answers DR.. Manhood !
Takes Exceptions to the Manner in
which the EVANGELIST Handled the
lheater and theatrical People.

Editor of The Sentinel
ohly a short time since REVEALS
were held in one of our churches by
Rev Mahood, who evidently "revii-
ca everything in the amusements
OF the present day. In speaking of
the stage in which he says: "Au
churches are opposed to il" and that
me theatres are opposed to the
church and jeers at temperance and
the sacred relations of life. and desc
crates the Sabbath every opportun-
ity, and that the toughest class of
people who travel over the country
are theatrical people"
rink of the above quotations be-
ing used by an ordinary man. who
believes he was ordained by our Mas
ter to preach the gospel.
Now. we desire to take exception
10 such broad statements as the rev
erend gentleman makes, believing
that he does not know what he is
talking about but desires to be talk
ed about. In other words the noted
evangelist must have taken his cue
from the instructions given to a dra-
matte reporter by the managing editor
of paper, as follows:
We don't want to praise the peo-
I pie when we can help It, l tell you
I human nature is still barbarous.
There is nothing il reads with such
eagerness as the news of a row.
nothing it laughs at like the roasl
of It's neighbors. &C.. 1t isn't the
actors we want to please. 1t is the
public and a large part of the public
never goes TO the theatre. But all Of
I the public likes to read personally
pointed stun. What it it does hurt
A N
I ! tell you, human nature is still car
nivorous, and it likes the taste OF
I flesh and the sound of groans. We are
caterers to the public taste"
Knowing this, Rev. Mahood appeals
to the public to attend his reviv-
al and donate their widows mite,
that they may hear an honorable pro
fession denounced and the men and
women following the same called
names unworthy of the servant of
God.
Statistics will undoubtedly show
that there are more eX-ministers of
the gospel doing time in our prisons
than there are eX-actors, yet this
should be no reason for us to de
nounce the church
! Flatly we wish to say that the stage
I is not against the church-but on the
other hand. believes in the church
and supports the church. and IL is
4 only a few narrow minded ministers
{ who preach against the stage and
/ its people There is not. profess
| sion more liberal. or who give as
/ liberal TO the church as the people
of the stage We know there are
people on the stage who are nnwor-
4 thy SO we will find them in the
/ church and he serv9ut of God should
/ be the person to extend the hand of
good fellowship and show them the
I error of their way instead of trying
to widen the breach.
II has been our fortune to see
many ministers, priests and Christ
( ian men and women attend the thea
/ ire and We believe they are better
/ for il, and having followed this dis
| honorable" profession for years, we
/ know the hard struggle for existence
that is being made by many honor
( able, true and upright men and
women of the stage, (away from their
/ homes and friendsD for their loved
ones.
On March 18th there We're 81 grad
/ yates from the Sergeant school of
acting in New York city and George
I Fawcett an old time actor addressed
the class in part as follows:
a diversion. The character of this di-
version presents all phases from the
vulgar and pruient to the fine and
noble. 1t Is what the public demands
/ however. the future is very hopeful.
problems close to us are arising.
I politically, socially. and there is such
l chaos among some of them that
caos among among some of them that
other nations are laughing; yet here,
where they stir. erupt and produce
much injustice, heremust they evolve,
here must they resolve themselves. 1t
is our destiny. This is the trend And
also this American public. with all its
foibles, has a contempt for the de
generate. The unclean and morbid
drama is not for us. 1t has receiv-
ed scant encouragement.
and as for your own art. the best
has been demanded and will be de
manded It is in the air of endowed
theatres. Conditions and such now
that YOU scatter your forces by travel.
Capitalization will happen and your
home life will be possible. Fine
actors will come, and you will sit in
the temple of your work, which VIII
be so sacred that only the voice OF a
master will dare arise therein. SO
much for the necessity of your call
"There was an old Scotch saying
which was Come in here, my child.
the show folks are coming.' Time
out of mind actors have felt the whip
of seorn. They are the Pariahs the
caste beneath contempt. These poor
people who dared to drift to acting
for calling only wanted to romp
close to nature-and they suffered.
Think of the great minds who were
swept into its current The mind
most godlille of all times was the
actor. So this hidden prejudice is in
berited. But let me tell you that the
man who sows. tills and reaps. the
man who heals the i'll. the man who
works for mems good in the Chris
tian world are only superior to those
who work in the life of the arts.
81 cannot call to mind anything
more pitlable than two men cunning
Nv endeavoring to destroy each other
in a barter Our barbarian ancestors
hacked each others bodies. Now IT
IL refined cruelty II is subtle poin-
ard in the heart and brain. No pro
fession is worthy which depends for
It's life upon the destruction Of It's
species o-, d,
The survival of the fttesl' Is
!