'IS SIR LARRY'S PLAY OBSCENE?' the Star asked its readers,
in heavy front-page headlines last Friday : and it went on to say that the author, Mr. John Osborne, was surprised at how much the censor had passed. So—seeing The Enter- tainer for the first time last week—was I. The staff of the censor's office, I assumed, were not aware of many of the innuendoes; my reasoning being that, to judge by some of their recent efforts, they must be remarkably well insulated from reality. But I am assured that this is not so; that the obscenities in The Entertainer, deliberately written in by the author, were as deliberately left in by the censors, who have come to the con- clusion that their code needs to be brought into line with the relaxations in the code that the public now accepts. If this is so, I am sorry to hear it. I would have preferred that the censor- ship should have continued •to invite ridicule, until it invited abolition.
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