THEATRICAL BAN.
CONTROVERSY AT HOME. LONDON, January 25. London's leading showman, Mr. C. B. Cochran, has joined in the vigorous controversy occasioned by the Ministry of Labour's banning of foreign artists. He says that such a policy will provoke reprisals abroad, and will mean irreparable economic and artistic loss to Britain, especially as the aggregate annual royalties drawn by British playwrights from abroad dwarf the earnings of foreign dramatists in London. ' More than 50 of Hollywood's leading directors are Englishmen. Hundreds of artists earn on the Continent and in America sums that they could not obtain in Britain. The theatre, says Mr. Cochran, must be national, but it is necessary constantly to draw on fr&sh inspiration from abroad in order to retain its vitality. The Paris correspondent of the "NewsChronicle" denies reports that France is repatriating a thousand English artists employed in Paris as a reprisal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 7
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