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...Chamberlain, whose critical standards are considerably more sociological than those of the Manhattan constabulary. Last Spring The Green Pastures was denied the right of British production. Reason: since God is impersonated on the stage, the play is sacrilegious (TIME, June 30). Last week the same censor, the Earl of Cromer, announced that The Last Mile, successful death-house melodrama, might not be presented in Great Britain. Reason: it was "too tense," it was "such an indictment against capital punishment...
...London, the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain and official drama censor, politely, regretfully announced that The Green Pastures, Pulitzer-prize-winning Negro folk-play by Marc Connelly (TIME, March 10), might not be produced in London. Reason: since God is impersonated on stage, the play is sacrilegious. Playwright Connelly's comment: "I am mildly surprised to find the Lord Chamberlain's office unable to distinguish the difference between orthodox sacrilege and a simple miracle play...
...dislike very much the speakeasy-padlock method. Far better is the English system, under which the plays are censored before they are produced, not afterwards. The Crown appoints a Lord Chamberlain, and all prospective productions are submitted to him. Lord Cromer now holds the position. He reads all the plays and censors them not only from a moral, but from an artistic point of view. No free publicity is given to shows which have parts expurgated nor to those from which the permission of production is withheld. True, the position is a difficult one, and the man who holds...
...Earl of Scarbrough set out to lead a "Crusaders' Pilgrimage" to the Holy Land last week. He led the Earl of Galloway, the Countess Haig, the Countess Cromer, Baron Lamington and an odd hundred of almost equally distinguished pilgrims. He led them as Subprior of the English Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (TIME, Jan. 4). He will lead them on a month's journey to the ancient crusading strongholds of the order-to Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, to Jericho...
...Ladies decided to charter a special steam yacht and cruise to the Mediterranean?there to visit the ancient strongholds of the order at Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...