38-YEAR-OLD BAN LIFTED.
OSCAR WILDE'S PLAY. •'Salome," Oscar Wilde's famous plav. which was originally written in French, is shortly to be seen by British audiences. The censor has lifted the ban which was placed on the piece thirty-eight rears ago, and the Masque Theatre Company will present it, later in the month, at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. This will be the first occasion that the plav has been performed without restriction, but the keener members of London's theatre-going public will have seen the play already at the Gate Theatre Studio, where the audiences are limited to members only. it has been an outstanding success during the recent summer season there. The play, which was produced by Sarah Bernhardt in Paris in 1594, Las hitherto been refused admittance, in translations, to the English stage. The "Dam- of the Seven Veils," by which Salome bewitches Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist as a reward, iias hitherto constituted the main grounds for the refusal of a genera,! license, but this verdict has now been reconsidered.
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Otaki Mail, 18 September 1931, Page 4
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