Word: ban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania's cinema censors, plump and pretty Peggy Palmer, relict of the late Red-baiting U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, last January got the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy banned. Ever since then, said she, Communists (especially "a dark, unshaven man with a short, horrible cigar in his mouth") have tracked her, muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time...
While the Musikkammer's ban on music by Jewish composers has been rigidly enforced, racial borderline cases, Jew-"Aryan" collaborations, and other knotty problems have kept Nazi theoreticians in a perpetual dither. "Aryan" Composer Richard Strauss's operas have escaped the ban, though several of his most successful (Die Schweigsame Frau, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra) have librettos by Jews. Also unbanned, and of Jewish authorship, are librettos of "Aryan" Composer Franz Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited...
...next year's work.* From China the committee received proof that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past are the ones who are articulate now in their praise of Christianity. . . . You have shown what true, practical Christianity means in its widest sense...
Pittsfield, Mass, was the first to cry havoc. Police authorities in Boston and many another New England city jumped into line. New Orleans, one of the three cities west of the Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though...
Most prominent victim of the Soviet ban was Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer-laureate, whose tricky, sensational opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, introduced to the U. S. in 1935 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935), had become the rage of Manhattan's intellectuals. Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was withdrawn from Soviet theatres.* Composer Shostakovich's subsequent ballet, The Limpid Stream, was also withdrawn after a panning by Moscow critics, and his Fourth Symphony was suppressed without a performance. For two years Shostakovich was in the doghouse...