AWARDED FIRST PRIZE
MUCH CRITICISED ONE-ACT PLAY SYDNEY, Aug. 26. The New Theatre League, which presented “Waiting for Lefty,” a oneact play by Clifford Odets, which was criticised because it was claimed it contained improper passages, was awarded first prize at the City of Sydney Eisteddfod in a one-act play contest. In announcing the result. Mr. J. F. Montague (New Zealand), who acted as adjudicator with Miss Betty Shaw, said he had seen nothing to find fault with in the dialogue of the play, which had impressed the adjudicators with its quick-fire action and excellent presentation. The secretary of the New Theatre League, Mr. V. Arnold, said certain passages had been deleted voluntarily from the play with a view to its presentation before an Eisteddfod audience, which was not an audience of children. “If we offend elderly ladies in lace collars it is not, our fault.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 202, 27 August 1936, Page 7
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146AWARDED FIRST PRIZE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 202, 27 August 1936, Page 7
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