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Mr de Valera Turns Censor of Plays. LONDON, April 12. The Dublin correspondent of the “ 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 contributed £750 annually to the Abbey Theatre, and on that ground Mr de Valera arrogated to himself the right to dictate its policy. He says he obtained the advice of competent representative Irish opinion in America before deciding.^ W. B. Yeats, the poet, speaking on behalf of the theatre, has informed Mr de Valera that he has fought political societies before, and is prepared to fight them again. The Abbey Theatre was not a minor branch of the Civil Service, and they w’ould rather lose the subsidy than submit to Government control.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 1
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