CENSORS
Lord Cromer retires from the office of Lord Chamberlain with more bouquets than most of his predecessors as censor would have had. Certainly not Colman, who forbade words like “ heaven ” and “ angel ” “an angel,” he said, “ is a character in Scripture, and not to be profaned on the stage .as being applied ,to _a woman"; not the hero (during the war) of the blanks in Kipling’s ‘ Recessional’; “ The captains and . . . depart,” nor he who, in the same nervous days, cut out from a * Times article Browning’s lines:— Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if the other fails; nor the more recent official who scented danger in the words, “ The women do not fall for me as they used to.” But other countries have done worse. There was a Herr Hoegehn in Vienna last century - who would never permit two lovers to appear on the stage unless “ accompanied by a third person of mature years. Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23065, 17 September 1938, Page 3
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155CENSORS Evening Star, Issue 23065, 17 September 1938, Page 3
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