1¢ Editor of the Nonvi-Cuuwa Dany News"
SmI would like to add my word of support to "First-Nighter's" protest your Friday. feste against the selection of "Autumn Crocus" for presentation by the A.D.C. There is no heed to add anything to his condemn-Won of the main motif of the play snd-one can heartily agree with the imes" critic, as quoted in your subleader of Saturday, suggesting that the "magic" runs down to a very thin strain of sentimentality and disagree with him when he thinks that there is dew upon her love scenes which fsa genuine refreshment," and again disagree both with the writer of your sub-leader and the "Times" reviewer for finding "fragrance" asa characteristic of the play. 'The "sound moral service" referred to in the Sub-leader, supposed to arise from the ridiculing of the "experimenting couple, was very hard to appre' when' the sympathy of the play seemed to be all with the experimenters and against the upholders of more conventional morality.
There may be a very real difficulty in obtaining plays "on the side of the angels," but, as in the course of the play the innkeeper remarks that he thought the school-mistress would not object to what might be termed fedultery and impurity, if we used plain language, because of the actions of other English people he had met, 80 we may question the "sound moral service" of @ play that, to many at Toast, seems to pat on the back a most dangerous experiment (danger ous to society as to individuals) and to approve. of the sentiments that seemed to some to exude "fragrance" but which naturally tend to the actions referred to above that surely tend rather, if I may ye plain language again, to "stink in the rofttils" of those who believe that in building up the sanctity of the home and. of marital relations lies the hope of a worth while society.
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