Theatre: No Last Mile
In Manhattan the police department supervises stage presentations, is usually content so long as the actors refrain from outright indecency, has never suppressed a big success from London. In England, official censor of the stage is the Lord Chamberlain, whose critical standards are considerably more sociological than those of the Manhattan constabulary. Last Spring The Green Pastures was denied the right of British production. Reason: since God is impersonated on the stage, the play is sacrilegious (TIME, June 30). Last week the same censor, the Earl of Cromer, announced that The Last Mile, successful death-house melodrama, might not be presented in Great Britain. Reason: it was "too tense," it was "such an indictment against capital punishment."
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