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Scrapbooks containing press cuttings, articles, programmes, etc., relating to Welsh dramatists, Welsh drama, drama in Wales, and Welsh drama in England.

Contains programmes of plays and drama festivals, and newspaper cuttings on the scarcity of good Welsh plays in the 1930s, the various small amateur companies, the uncertainty about the future of Welsh drama and the promotion of a National Theatre for Wales.

Contains articles on drama and the theatre and several items on subjects such as Twm o'r Nant, the Llanover family and the old Welsh custom of 'Mari Lwyd'.

Includes articles on Ethel Maude, Maudie Edwards, Marjorie Williamson, Richard Hughes (author of 'A High Wind in Jamaica') and others.

Contains articles on Edmund Kean (1929), Sarah Siddons (1932), Dame Ellen Terry (1928), Gracie Fields (1932), Sir Gerald du Maurier (1934), Lilie Langtry (1929), Sir J. M. Barrie, an account of the story of Peter Pan, etc.

Newsletters of the British Children's Association,.

Contains articles on the theatre's opening in 1935, on performances of Emlyn Williams' play 'A Murder has been Arranged' and Paul Godfrey's play 'Hath no Woman' in 1936, on 'The Lilies of the Field' (1938), 'House by the Lake' (1960) and 'The Gayebo' (1967), on other plays performed, and on the theatre's thirty years of production (1966).

Scrapbooks containing articles on, and programmes of, Cymdeithas Ddrama Abertawe (Society of Welsh Drama, Swansea).

Scrapbooks containing articles on The National Pageant of Wales and local pageants in Wales.

Scrapbooks containing articles on censorship of films, plays, the press, broadcasts, etc.

Contains articles on Welsh plays banned by the Censor, on unsuitable library books and obscene books in shops, on the 'Modern Venus' prosecution at Newport, and on 'Y Crocbren', the Welsh play which was performed at Deiniolen in 1931 without the Censor's certificate. The ensuing trial led to Cynan's appointment as Welsh Censor.

Contains articles about a Welsh play, 'Yr Arch Olaf', which was to be performed at Aberdare in 1934. Hundreds of people turned up for the performance only to find that a telegram had arrived from the Censor banning Act III, Scene I. It was subsequently amended by the author, J. D. Howells, and passed for production two days later.

Scrapbooks containing articles by D. R. Davies under the pseudonym Twm o'r Nant to the Western Mail on a broad range of subjects relating to drama, the theatre, plays, playwrights, etc., in Wales.

Contains articles on amateur companies, praise for Welsh audiences, new playwrights, amateur actors, T. Rowland Hughes, Dan Mathews, a Welsh theatre centre at Swansea, Carmarthen Library's drama section, Cardiff College of Music and Drama, Swansea drama week, and the Brecknock Little Theatre.

Contains articles on a National Theatre for Wales, the National Eisteddfod at Caerffili, Garthewin Drama Festival, various playwrights, the scarcity of Welsh plays, a producer's view of Welsh acting, the Welsh spectacle for the Festival of Britain year, Ivor Novello, The British Drama League Festival, and Monmouthshire's desire for a real theatre.

Contains articles on the need for a National Eisteddfod drama committee, a tour by the Welsh Children's theatre Co., the first children's theatre at Rhyl, an award for J. R. Evans' play 'Wrth Fynd Heibio', financial problems of small drama companies, the closure of the Lyceum theatre, Newport, councils asked to spend £110,000 on the arts, University plays.

Contains weekly articles by D. R. Davies under the pseudonym Gwyliwr on drama competitions, all Welsh drama, a Welsh National Theatre, new plays, steps to save the Grand Theatre, Swansea, The Welsh National Theatre Co., J. O. Francis, Emlyn Williams, Lord Howard de Walden, Prof. W. J. Gruffydd, Dan Mathews, Sarah Siddons.

Contains articles by D. R. Davies under the pseudonym Y Cymro on the financial difficulties of drama companies, Kitchener Davies' play 'Cwmglo', drama in schools, the Urdd festival, the Daniel Owen centenary, the Sarah Siddons Festival, raising funds for unemployed miners, a plea for standard Welsh, a Nationalist scene at the Gorsedd (1937), a performance of Macbeth in Welsh.