SOCIETY OF AUTHORS ARCHIVE. Vol. CCIV (ff. 305). Benn Levy; 1932-1957.Benn Wolfe Levy, MP; playwright: Correspondence, etc., with League of Dramatists: 1932-1957: Partly typewritten. 1932-1957

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SOCIETY OF AUTHORS ARCHIVE. Vol. CCIV (ff. 305). Benn Levy; 1932-1957.Benn Wolfe Levy, MP; playwright: Correspondence, etc., with League of Dramatists: 1932-1957: Partly typewritten. 1932-1957

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Levy, Benn W. (Benn Wolfe), 1900-1973

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Playwright and theatre director, Benn Wolfe Levy (1900-1974) was born in London and educated at Repton School and University College, Oxford. He served in the Royal Air Force in 1918 and in the Royal Navy in the Second World War. In 1945 he was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Eton and Slough which he represented until 1950, when he returned to writing for the theatre. While in parliament he introduced a Private Member's Bill to abolish the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the theatre whi...