A CENSORED PLAY.
ißy Teieerapb—l'resa Association—CoDyrlght I Berlin, February 21. Tho censor has prohibited the production hero of Mr. Cecil Raleigh's play, "The Great Millionaire," because of the scene in which broad rioting is depicted. "The Great Millionaire," a melodrama by Cecil Raleigh, was played in Wellington some four years ago by Mr. Bland Holt, with Mr. Arthur Styan in tho leading part.' The "bread riot" sceno was a mere incident, which no one could take seriously, and was acted very crudoly in Wellington by a crowd of well-fed "supers." ■As played hero the comic rather than the dramatic clement prevailed, though, of course the author intended the scene to be qutto a serious one. It is very difficult for one to accept a Cecil Raleigh melodrama as movingly serious, and the German censor must work on curious principles to have banned such a play.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 5
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145A CENSORED PLAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 5
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