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STANLEY HOUGHTON
KINDLE WAKES
IN
Stanley Houghton, who died last year, the
drama lost a talented and brave artist.
Brave, because he had the courage to touch
one of the most sensitive spots of Puritanism
woman s virtue. Whatever else one may criti
cise or attack, the sacredness of virtue must re
main untouched. It is the last fetich which even
so-called liberal-minded people refuse to destroy.
To be sure, the attitude towards this holy of
holies has of late years undergone a considerable
change. It is beginning to be felt in ever-growing
circles that love is its own justification, requiring
no sanction of either religion or law. The revolu
tionary idea, however, that woman may, even as
man, follow the urge of her nature, has never be
fore been so sincerely and radically expressed.
The message of
"
Hindle Wakes "
is therefore
of inestimable value, inasmuch as it dispels the fog
of the silly sentimentalism and disgusting bombast
that declares woman a thing apart from nature
one who neither does nor must crave the joys of
life permissible to man.
Hindle is a small weaving town, symbolically
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