The Unitarians, Congregationalists and Episcopalians own Boston, but the Irish Catholics run it. Ordinarily a man named O'Casey, be he a saloonkeeper, a fisticuffer or a bicycle racer, might expect a warm Irish welcome in the capital of Massachusetts. Yet last week Sean (pronounced Shawn) O'Casey of Dublin found to his dismay that Boston would have none of his play, Within the Gates (TIME, Nov. 5).
Britain's Lord Chamberlain, world's strictest censor, saw no harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over...
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