Washington, March 3.—The newspapers and public officials of New York are being bombarded with letters protesting against the presentation of Eugene O'Neill's play "All God's Chillun got Wing," which will soon be given its first performance in that city. The play deals with the tragic love of 8 full-blooded negro and a white refinement risen The great scene in the drama is when the wife falls al band's feet impressed by his nobility of charaeter, and kisses his hand.
The protests are based partly on the danger of - arousing racial antagonism la New York, with its huge negro population, which, to say the least, is arrogant, always insisting upon its rights, and protesting against white discrimination, and partly on the feeling of intense disgust that mixture of yrouses in America. one of the leading isto, the author of "The Emperor Jones". and "Anna Christie," the latter seen recently factor jental, and the play is London. He says the racial
a character study of two human beings.
The authorities are powerless to prevent the new play's production, as there is no censorship of the Legal action producer is only possible on the ground that the play is obscene or detrimental to public morals or a
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