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...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Abbott & Costello, Teresa Brewer. Joyce Grenfell, Mimi Benzell...
...Harvey, Halliday, and Brewer were not defeated. They prepared to appeal the Superior Court decision before the the State Supreme Court. Brewer drew up a new brief, a 51-page document which cites over a hundred precedents and references, and on May 5, 1955, he argued his case before the full panel of the Court...
...Brewer chose to attack the Sunday censorship law on the grounds that it transgressed the right of freedom of the press, guaranteed by the First Amendment. To do so, be first had to prove that motion pictures were indeed a form of the press, but a number of decisions in courts throughout the country had indicated that such an assumption was acceptable before...
...licensed must be "in keeping with the character of the day and not inconsistent with its due observance." In the famous "Miracle" case, the United States Supreme Court condemned a New York movie censorship law which forbade the showing of "sacrilegious films, as too vague to be enforced. Brewer argued that the same judgment applied equally well to the Massachusetts...
...that Brewer pleaded the Brattle's case, the State Supreme Court also heard the arguments in a similar suit brought by the Times Film Corporation. This firm was the distribtor of the French film The Game of Love and the controversial Swedish picture One Summer of Happiness, which the Beacon Hill Theatre in Boston wanted to exhibit. The lawyers for Times Flms used some arguments similar to those Brewer had employed. But they also tried to attack the blue laws as an infringement upon freedom of religion. Chief Justice Qua ruled that such arguments were irrelevant and ordered the counsel...