NEW CENSOR

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 12 January 1912, Page 6

NEW CENSOR

Mr Charles E. Brookfield, well foiown as a playwright and also as an actor, has been appointed; to act as joint examiner of plays with Mr G. A. Bedford, who for a long period has discharged the duty of examiner on behalf of the Lord Chamberlain, with whom officially the responsibility of licensing new plays rests. Owing ■to the character of some of the plays for which Mr Brookfield has been responsible—in some cases as adapter from the French—his appointment as joint examiner will be regarded as evidence that for better or worse a loss restricted view of the duties of the censorship is considered to be ad--1 visable. Dealing with Mr Brooka<.ld's piny, "Dear Old Charlie/

wliich was revived three years ago, The Standard critic wrote at the time:—"lt is certainly Gallic in ilavour, and although Mr Brookfield's dialogue is probably entirely original, that, coo, was sometimes very near tho border-line wliich divides the r.nerely piquant from the suggestive."