 Actors endured the Church’s antitheatrical attacks, which included "social humiliations, aggressive animosity toward their profession and their lowly reputation.Religious attitude toward theatre not only hampered the profession as a whole but also humiliated them as individuals which also affected their family members".In the 1860s, James H. McVicker a theatre professional in Chicago had seen “a child refused admittance to a school, for a reason that the parents were connected with a theatre."