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Last spring's ban of the Swedish film "Miss Julie" from Sunday showings at the Brattle has brought court action by the theater attacking the constitutionality of the Massachusetts Sunday censorship...
Brattle Films Inc., under the management of Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, have filed suit in the Middlesex superior court testing the constitutional right of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Safety to ban "Miss Julie" last February. They expect the case to be heard within the next two weeks...
Publisher Gaines had another reason for stopping his horror comics. New York's Mayor Robert Wagner recently ordered the city's lawyers to get injunctions banning the worst books under the state's obscenity laws. But many a community has already learned that comic books cannot be easily legislated off the newsstands. Five years ago New York's Governor Dewey vetoed a bill banning them on the ground that it was unconstitutional. Los Angeles County passed a similar law, only to have it knocked out by the courts. Nevertheless, in Oklahoma City, the city council recently...
...making safari across his old Kenya hunting grounds. Papa will write no scripts, do no acting. Production will start when Hemingway's novel writing permits and "Mau Mau activity ... is at a minimum." ban on Sunday showings of Miss Julie. The film, a gloomy Swedish import dealing with sexual abnormality, approved for weekday exhibition, was turned down by Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety Otis M. Whitney and Mayor John Foley as "inconsistent with [the Sabbath's] due observance.'' In neighboring Boston...
...Annabelle grade school kept their children home in protest against the admission of 13 Negroes, said they would demand the dismissal of Principal Lloyd Seccuro. ¶ In Hutchins, Texas, four Negro pupils unsuccessfully tried to register at the "white" Linfield elementary school, learned the state would maintain a ban on desegregation for at least another year...