Honour Gains The Day

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

[The Examiner's notes for this script are missing from the file at the British Library]

Researcher's Summary:

Steve Nicholson, 'The Censorship Of British Drama 1900-1968'. Volume I: 1900-1932 (University of Exeter Press: 2014), p. 120, writes: ‘In November 1914 the Reader had reservations about "Honour Gains the Day"; “the essential idea is not different from others which have been passed,” he wrote, “but the chief character and the setting of the Play make it inadvisable in my opinion to pass it in its present form”. Though of course the right side wins in the end, the plot in this case depended on a high-ranking captain in the Intelligence Department being overheard in his office by a female German spy as he foolishly talks aloud to himself about plans and secret codes for the forthcoming naval battle … it was hardly advisable that audiences should imagine a captain in the Intelligence Department talking to himself – and certainly not making such a mistake: “The objection is that a high official in the Admiralty is made the foolish victim of a designing woman-spy, and it is undesirable to suggest the possibility of such a thing. If the play were shifted to a humbler sphere, to a coast-guard station, for instance, I think it might pass”’.