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...victim of disunity in his own family. Dunster was sued 14 times by the ungrateful children of his first wife whom he had brought up after her death. He was also tried in court for "failing to present his infant daughter for baptism...
...first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The Ramparts We Watch (TIME, July 29). Reason: since The Ramparts was approved by Mrs. Edna Carroll and her assistant censors in early August, MOT had inserted 900 feet from Baptism of Fire, the Nazis' record of their Polish Blitzkrieg...
Declaring that Baptism of Fire sequences might frighten prospective draftees, Mrs. Carroll had dismissed the new edition because: "The Board thinks it is psychologically bad for the people . . . has a tendency to corrupt and debase morals; and is not proper." The Court, finding that the Board had failed to act "arbitrarily or capriciously," decided it had no power to reverse the ruling. It further observed...
...cities. He announced he would appeal the Philadelphia decision to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and on up if necessary. Said he: "My interpretation of the Court's decision is that the Court has not fully realized that our use of the interpolated material from the German propaganda film, Baptism of Fire, was deliberately such as to transform a piece of Nazi propaganda into American propaganda of the clearest and most definite kind. We have gone on the assumption that the American public is not likely to be deluded or affected by German propaganda once that propaganda is brought into...
...February 11, 1927, however, that the Theatre had its baptism of fire. With touching naivete the management, in collaboration with the Administration, had arranged for a "stag-smoker with eight (8) acts of vaudeville." As the time for the show drew near, denatured alcohol was flowing like water...