“THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER”
BROUGHT INTO A PLAY CONTROVERSY AROUSED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Saturday. A controversy has arisen over the censor passing a play entitled “The Eternal Flame,” which introduces “The Unknown Soldier.” It is to be produced at Leamington before coming to the London stage. The last scene is at the graveside in Westminster Abbey. The author. Mr.
Watson C. Mill, says the characters kneel and read the inscription on the grave. Then in the darkness an invisible choir sings. As the voices fade the figure of the “Unknown Soldier/* in trench-kit and with a steel helmet, is
seen standing near the tomb, but his features are completely shrouded. Sir lan Hamilton, Sir Edwin Lutyens, and others disapprove, but the author says the incident is treated with deep reverence and that the words put into the mouth of the “Unknown Soldier” had the enthusiastic approval of the vicar of Leamington.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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