AN INTEREST IN AFFAIRS
Dame Sybil and the FiveYear Plan. Remarks concerning the great interest taken in social progress, and especially in Empire affairs, by Dame Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Mr Lewis Casson, made at this morning’s reception by the city authorities, drew a reply from Mr Casson. “We do take a great interest in affairs, and as we have a habit of saying what we think we sometimes worry our management,” said Mr Casson. “ They fear we will say something that may turn people against the productions.” It is recalled that once when Dame Sybil was in Australia she was asked whether she thought the Soviet FiveYear Plan was an interesting development. Dame Sybil replied that she thought it a most in resting experiment and followed it clc might, she said, possibly be si Hwind might possibly be a gv.. \ for Russia—though for no one else. Her surprise when an irresponsible journal translated her words as meaning that she was a Communist agitator, under instructions from Moscow, can be left to the imagination. That was, apparently, the incident to which Mr Casson made oblique reference to-day.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 659, 12 January 1933, Page 10
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