Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mais certainment! But nothing controversial," with a smile, "And now, gentlemen, please, no more questions. I do not excite myself. I take precautions. I find at seventy-six that I must be careful. So I play backgammon...
Last week Madrid's dramatic censor forbade production of a new. play by Spain's leading dramatist, Jacinto Benavente, in which were to have appeared a fictional Prime Minister, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince. The stage King and Queen were to have quarreled with their Prime Minister over whether religious or medical agencies should be invoked to cure the Crown Prince...
Therefore the Madrid censor was unquestionably justified in quashing Jacinto Benavente's play and issuing the following communique: "The dramatist has been authorized to issue his work only in a revised book form. It is believed that the public, when it knows the work, will realize it would be dangerous to the people's spiritual tranquillity and peace of mind to allow it to be performed...
Congai. Civilization wins in this play...
...educate Indo-China, using the maxim that the congai is more pleasant than the sword. Congai means something just above a prostitute, one is led to believe, a native "wife" taken by a French colonist for a period of time subject to change without notice. Every bellylaugh in the play is an attempt to explain these meanings; but, of course, grown-up children like to be told all about such things, while off-stage instruments go thumpety-thumpety-thump (atmosphere...