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Show SHAW'S BARRED PLAY IS PRIVATELY PRODUCED LONDON, July 10. Bernard Shaw's prohibited playlet, "Press Cuttings," was produced privately at a matinee yester-dav, yester-dav, which seems destined to do more toward achieving the abolition of tho censorship cen-sorship of the drama than all of the serious seri-ous agitation. Tho morning newspapers express themselves them-selves as at an utter loss to understand why tho censor put a ban upon "such an unoffenslve sketch." The play Is clever and amusing, one act being a burlequc of current political topics, especially the suffragette agitation. agita-tion. One of the most humorous situations situa-tions Is where a suffragette, who has been arrested and taken boforo the war minister, doffs the disguise of women's clothes and reveals himself as "Premier Balsqulth." and admits that this disguise is the only means of passing through the streets In safety from the suffragettes. |