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...pert buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull and audaciously brilliant by turns...
...reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage of the Greeks we might as well give...
...Banton, privileged to guard the city's morals, once tried having a citizens' play jury, but had to disband it for its failure to find dirt. The evident lack of heart in the police procedure against The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man, was doubtless due to the fact that the public censor is also a public servant requiring votes to hold office. Nevertheless, pending the hearings on these three plays, the management of a "homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring...
Authorities throughout the country tried hard last week to end the animosity of the two great Tongs-the On Leong and the Hip Sing-which broke out two weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 7). In Manhattan, the District Attorney (one Banton) managed to bring together high officials of the Tongs...
...have seen very few of the plays under condemnation by District attorney Banton. I have not seen O'Nell's 'Desire Under the Elms,' rated as the most serious of all the plays under this ban, but I know O'Neil's work well. I recognize his extraordinary ability, but I feel it is misdirected...