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DE VALERA AS PLAY CENSOR LONDON, 12th April. The Dublin correspondent of (lie “Manchester Guardian” discloses that Mr de Valera has turned play censor, and has informed the Abbey Theatre Company that, on its forthcoming tour of America, it must not include Sean O'Casey’s “Plough and the Stars,” and J. M. Svnge's “Playboy of the Western World.’’’ The Government has eontrilmted C7o(> annually to the Abbey Theatre and on that ground Air de Valera arrogated to himself the right to dielate its policy. He says he obtained the advice of competent representative Irish opinion in America before deciding.
W. I’. Veals, the pact, speaking on behalf of the theatre, lias informed Mr de Valera that he lias fought political societies before, and is prepared to light them again. The Abbey Theatre was not a minor branch of the Civil Service, and they would rather lose the subsidy Ilian eiib'mil to Covernmellt coni i 01.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 5
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