Secondly, none of the characters should be mao up to represent living personages. This was understood as referring particularly to the parts of Mr. Joyce Burgen and. Mr. Lubin caricatures of Mr, Lloyd George and Mr. Asquith, which no audience would mistake.
Thirdly, the Lord Chamberlain stipulated for the: deletion of few lines.in Part 5 about ''the creed of the mechanicals," which was apparently regarded as an irreverent allusion to the Athansian Creed.
When Mr. Shaw was told the Lord Chamberlain required assurances, he wrote assenting to the production subject to the conditions:
With regard to the first he airily observed that even if one could get any actor or. actress to represent Adam and Eve in the proper undress of their period the "police would object.
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