BANNED PLAY
MADE AUTHOR A FORTUNE LONDON, April lU—Mr. Edgar Mididleton, author of “Potiphar’s Wife,” .one of they most controversial plays of recent years, died in a- London nursing home yesterday. He was aged 44. Mr. Middleton was airmail, soldier and journalist before he turned dramatist. “Potiphar’s Wife,” produced in 1927, won him Ids first big success. The play was a modern paraphrase of the old. Biblical story. Critics described it as crude, repellent and vulgar. One \or twp provincial towns banned performance by touring companies. In London it ran fer months and brought Mr. Middleton a lot of money. He lost it all in his" next play, “Tin Clods,“ which was a failure.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 189, 31 May 1939, Page 4
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114BANNED PLAY Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 189, 31 May 1939, Page 4
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