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RISQUE PLAYS.

Sex and Censorship.

It is stated that in New York sex plays are rampant, and one actress has refused to carry on with her part until certain objec tionable lines are doloted, com ments a writer in a London paper.

One does not question the lady's sincerity, but, human nature boing what it is, she could not have done the box office a better turn. She has by her, action. definitely labelled the play as 'naughty," and thoreby piqued public curiosity, joi

What is the use of protending? The moment is leaks out that a play hasboon consored some soone changed by the intervention of the Lord Chamberlain, or that a book has been bauned by the libraries, there is a rush to see that play! and read that book.

It is not so much that the public has a taste for impropriety, but its curiosity is roused; it wants to know what all the fuss is about.

Some time ago, when a poster on the Under ground was bandod, everywhere one came across people looking out for that poster -until it was banned they had passed and repassed it without taking any particular interest in

it.

The moment it was banned it assumed a public interest. Everyone went about asking, Which one is it? What's it like ? the whole consorship business is futile as practical measure. -

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The public is 1 sort overgrown child. Tell a child that it must not touch a certain object! in a room and you immediately create in its mind a profound interest in that: the thing has a fascination for it; whereas, if the matter had not been mention- the child would probably never have taken the slightest interest la it.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1925.

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PLAY IN CHURCH.

Vicar Fined.

PLIGHT OF BRITISH SHIP. BUILDING.

Why Germany Gets our

Ordera.

The announcement that Messrs. Furness, Withy and Co., who control one of the largest floets under the British flag, havo order- od from a Hamburg shipyard five motor ships, cach of 10,000 tons deadweight, is a sad commentary upon the unhappy plight into which the British shipbuilding! industry has drifted, says a ship ¡ping correspondent of

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The news that the Germans had captured this important order. camo as no surprise to ship- builders in this country, who had been asked to tondor for the work, and bad been promised it oven though their prices were appre- otably higher. It is not dofinitely known what the differonce, bo- tween the Gorman tenders and

British the lowest amounted to, but we under atand that it worked out at some- thing like £60,000 por ship, or £300,000 on the contract. As depreciation on thoir vessela is! customarily written off by owners at the rate of 5 per cont., it will be soen that on this item alone) £15,000 a year will be saved, while thero is a further material saving in interest. It will be anderstood, there- for, that Sir Frederick Lewis, the chairman of Furness, Withy and Co., despite his well known anxiety to keep work in this country, had really no alternative! but to act as he has done, espoci- ally as the ships are intended for a service outside the United Kingdom in which freight rates leave an extremely small margin of profit.

German shipbuilders are natur- ally elated over the capture of this contract-the most important over obtained from England-bút The Vicar of St. John's Church, there is no mystery about the Hatfield Broad Oak, Rev. Douglas causes of it. The disagreeable Montagu Heath, was fined £4 48., truth is, as Sir George B. Huntor, at Harlow, Essex, recently, for head of the great shipbuilding firm Official censorship of any kind, producing a play, "The Way to of Swan, Hunter, and Wigham in any direction, defeats its own Bethlehem," in this church with- Richardson, recently pointed out, ends. The best consor of public out a license.

that our yards, burdened by high morals is the public itself. If new' The vicar, who appeared in the overhead costs and hampered by York, as it is stated, is overrun | role of angel in the play, declared restrictions imposed by the trade with sex plays, the best thing that this was the first time in unions, are quite unable to com New York can do is to let the England that it had been hold pete with those of Holland. Ger disease run its course. "Violent that a church required to be many, and Scandinavia, or even fires soon burn out themselves."licensed for the performance of a with France. In the annual re Official censorship merely serves religious mystery play: He was port of bis firm, which has just to fan the flames. Let the thing granted a fortnight in which to been issued, it is stated that three alone and stop talking about sox lodge an appeal.

of its yards bad to be closed: and the public will soon get tired It was said by the people that down during the year, and of its bedroom plays and the sex-the church was filled, that there that unless prospects improve analysis obsession of the modern was only one door, which opened it may bo necessary to drama. Koop on talking and inwards, as an exit, and that one cease operations at other of the criticising and censoring, and of the children performera was company's works.

public interest is fostered and its nearly set alight by candles used The wages of shipyard workers curiosity piqued. All the censor-on the stage.

are admittedly low at the pre- ing and criticising is merely "I wish to make it quite clear gent time, but they are far higher advertisement for the dramatic there was no intention on my part than these paid to German opera- and literary sex ramp.

to evade the law," said the vicar, tives, while; in addition, the latter

2 Daily Proof of the public's capability to

Chronicle re-work longer hours, and have no for being its own

is presentative. "The police were objection to putting in as much evidenced by the number of perfectly aware of everything overtime as is necessary to ensure risque plays which have dis- that was taking place.

the speedy completion of urgent appeared after very short runs. The play was really an act of work. It is a fact that Tho public bas a good deal more worship. It opened with prayer, majority of British shipbuilding common sense and soundness of and the congregation sang bymns firms are working at a loss, and a few weeks ago the Shipbuilding judgment than it is generally between the acts,

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given credit for. In the end a "Such plays have been per- Employers' Federations rejected play stands or falls by its own formed for centuries in English the proposals of the men for merit; censoring an unpleasant churches, and are given now all increased wages, they stated that, in the face of world-wide play merely lengthens it lease over the country, of life.

"The Catholic Play Society in competition, the industry was not London "informed me that even in a position" to bear its We are not such a sex-mad license was never required for a present burdon of wages, to say age as we are constantly being church, and that as no charge nothing of an addition to their assured. It is not that there is

more license in our lives and in was made for admission I was costs, our drama and, literatura; it is perfectly in order. Only a collec only that we talk about theaction was taken. things so much more. The best oura for a sex ramp-when there is one is not censorship, but silence.

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and employed to pull together and "I am considering the question extricate the industry from the of the appeal," added the vicar. perilous position into which it. has been allowed to drift. If this' demonstration of the ability of Germany to divert orders from our yards brings about co-oper

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-May Write More. Castor oil is a terror to most! London, March 3. "I do not valuable contract may prove a children. The very thought of it know whether I shall write any blessing in disguise. fills them with dread. Once upon more playe," said Goorgo Bernard a time there seemed to be no Shaw, when questioned today altornative for this nauseating about a report that he had decid- but highly useful medicine. But ed to abandon play writing. that time is now past; in Baby's "I have not made up my mind. Own Tablets will be found a por- Besides, I may dis. People foot substitute, and one which occasionally do at my age. the children like.

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