Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Ricordi, Italian music publishers, has always zealously guarded the operas entrusted to it by the late Composer Giacomo Puccini. Feeling that radio was unqualified to do them artistic justice, the Ricordis have kept the Puccini operas off the air. Last week, however, the ban was lifted and beginning Saturday evening. Nov. 16, a series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale...
...Adopted a Cutting Amendment to eliminate from the tariff bill the ban on "obscene" books...
...lunch at the Hasty Pudding in Cambridge today," said Glenn Anders, prominent New York stage star and one of the leading players in the Theatre Guild's presentation of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude", which is now being given at the Quincy Theatre following its recent ban in Boston...
...Myerson, writing in the Boston Herald of Tuesday, commented on the recent ban of "Strange Interlude". He said: "I paraphrase a tragic sentence of one of the characters when I say that I hope that the banning of this brilliant play from the Boston stage as well as the tyrannical banning of fine books from the shops of our city will some day be a Strange Interlude between the historic and renowned Boston of the past and a gracious, tolerant, and civilized future...
Members of the French Department when interviewed last night by a CRIMSON reporter expressed some surprise at the latest prank of the customs censors but refused to make any statement either for or against the ban...