BANNED.
It is interesting to recall the earlv hostility to Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" now Ilint the play lins been successfully revived at n West Knd London theatre by Mr. Robert Lornine. In tho States one prominent newspaper objected to "English authors who have met with little success in England drifting to the United States to find n market for .llio product of their diseased brains. ... I have in mind Bernard Shaw." And an. other stated ex cathedra that "Xo man who has a fine nature or any delicacy of thought or expression would be willing to admit that lie was Die author of 'Man and Superman.'" In New York tho printed volume of the play was at first banned and (lien placed upon a restricted list at tho forty public libraries of tho city, to bo issued to "matured persons only." The great success of the play, and tho general derision evoked by this narrow hostility soon caused the early removal of this stigma. In London the play was gjvon ntlho Court Theatre nearly 200 times, anil in tho States Mr Loraino appeared in tho part of John Tanner for two years without a break.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 10
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197BANNED. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 10
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