“UNKNOWN SOLDIER”
CONTROVERSY OVER PLAY.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
(Recd. October 1, 9 a.m.)
, LONDON, September ?0. A controversy has arisen over the censor passing a play entitled, “Eternal Flame” introducing the Unknown Soldier. It was being produced at Leamington before coming to London. The last scene is at the graveside in Westminster Abbey. The author, Watson ’C. Mill, says the characters kneel, read the inscription, and then comes darkness, and an invisible choir sings. As the voices fade, the figure of the Unknown Soldier, in trench kit and steel helmet, is seen standing near the tomb, but his features are completely shrouded. Sirs'lan Hamilton, E. Lutyens, and others disapprove, but the author says the incident is treated with deep reverence. The words put into the mouth of the Unknown Soldier had the enthusiastic approval of the Vicar of Leamington.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1928, Page 5
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