Show RACIAL PLAY RAISES STORM I Marriage of White Girl Gir With Negro Banned as Drama Theme By BJ MALCOLM II ELLIS ULLIS LLIS Copyright 1924 b by the Consoli dated Press Association NEW rW YORK March 17 17 Al l God s got oi wings stings accord Ing to Eugene O III the pla- pla play playwright ht wright but his brain child s a w n Ing Ing s hate hae been clipped After flap flap- flapping lapping ping feebly for tor a few ew times hi his play lla on miscegenation has lias sub sub- subsided subsided sub sided for the time being and al ap- ap pears appears to be doomed loomed for or the ash Osh or the waste basket aste or any place Sir Mr Ir 0 NeIll Nelll wants stants to send It ex cx- cx except C t to the stage I T GRI GRE IT OPPOSITION The little band of liberal think think- era rs that about tho Ti-or- Ti Inee Province ince Town theatre down In tho th tb e hel e ball bali Is short and al ait t is long long- still protests protest tin play win mill II see the light of day as It as 5 as ss written ritten but the I mers 5 led led by Dr John Roach Stratton hase ha their es a sharpened and poIsed the conservative has thun thun- thundered dered it must not be bo done and I If an investigation gation When hell Mayor Hylan II Ian inse- inse e something something- happens e es on en It if enIt It Is nothing more serious than his being bemS nominated lot fOI j the Ananias club So great grent has been the suro I brought to bear upon 0 Neill Nelll since Ince I he be announced that the play would to 10 open April 15 16 that he has now j I sent out 1 word nord ord that the tho production of All An Gods God's got wings baa haa been postponed a n month I I J SS NEGRO NEGROS NEGRO'S IL ILD D See Sec there the mana mama managers gers timers old in the business are arc I saying it can t be done dono ONeill O'Neill s splay splay splay play deals with the thc marriage b be- be be between I t tween een a a white girl anti and a 0 negroman negroman negro man The woman is called rolled on I during the tho play to kIss the negro ro s a hand hand The I of the m I Its Is being held bv proponents of the slay as one Justification lion for its pro pro- production pro production ft Th y point out that I amalgamation i Is not g that the girl consciously In 10 love lose e with I the tho man but 10 re- re reS v re-v S oiling against mixed caste goes goCs insane in the scene rE FEW rE A newspaper ne ordinarily Illy II ily the tho singes singe's most ardent defend defend- defender er Cr against and critics ha declared that the pia play tends to toward ard of at the stage tage newspapers ne contend It would mould auld aggravate the th difficulty Only two la l tw a 0 defenders among amone theat l ni al have been found and thelt th ii attitude Is If it It Its s a a a good pIa play It should be produced It if not It should not Ma Mayor or Hylan 11 Ian has announced the tho thoI I grounds or of his opposition but If he Is determined the tle play shall not nobe be produced In New York it cant can't be And Anti that It now seems con con- certain lain Is what hat the or will sa say say |