Bob said, and quite rightly: ... and probably on the grounds that someone might have a good time for a couple hours.

Yes under the Commonwealth pleasure was not for the lower classes. Even Ollie himself was a little ambivalent about the upper classes, since, on the surface their "fun" tended to be a little more outwardly decorous. I remember reading somewhere that he approved of one particular entertainment event on the grounds that it would do "no harm to the Godly". Arrogant prat, really!

And, yes, being an "actress" in that period generally meant prostitution as a means of making ends meet between gigs on stage.

Hypocrisy was alive and well in those days (and before them, I guess), and that appears to have remained the case ever since. Hark to the British Conservative governments of the 80s and 90s ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...