Word: bans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before an audience that even the ban by Miss Ada Comstock and the subsequent publicity could hardly rouse to enthusiasm, the H.D.C. put on their spring madhouse and a madhouse it was. Lacking any tangible central theme and leaving the people at the end of the first half of the play with the uncomfortable feeling that they didn't know what it was all about, the drama certainly demanded a bit of courage...
...great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...
...official statement from the University was forthcoming on the recent difficulties of the Dramatic Club and no announcement either pro or con has been made as yet. It was understood, however, from unofficial sources, that the University is not expected to ban the production...
...been assigned the duty of getting the play on the stage was upset over the action of Radcliffe in the matter but anticipated no difficulty in whipping the cast into shape in time for the opening curtain on May 2. There has been no new casting since the ban on Radcliffe girls but rumor has it that several debutantes who were in early tryouts might be recruited to fill the parts...
...club also decided to send a letter of protest to the President of Oberlin College, in Ohio, seat of the co-educational plan, in regard to his ban placed on the publication of "Progress," a journal sponsored by the Radical Club there. He objected to the magazine on the count that its general tone and methods were undesirable