Word: casey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unitarians, Congregationalists and Episcopalians own Boston, but the Irish Catholics run it. Ordinarily a man named O'Casey, be he a saloonkeeper, a fisticuffer or a bicycle racer, might expect a warm Irish welcome in the capital of Massachusetts. Yet last week Sean (pronounced Shawn) O'Casey of Dublin found to his dismay that Boston would have none of his play, Within the Gates (TIME...
...choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon as he heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road, was due in Boston this week, the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan, S. J., of the Boston...
Indignant advocates of freedom in art are roused by the latest ban placed upon Sean O'Casey's play by the Mayor of Boston in the role of dramatic critic. This censorship is not particularly important in itself. Only as it reflects the movement that is prevalent in some parts of the country to impose certain moral standards upon plays, movies, and books, does it merit any wrathful outburst...
Perhaps Mr. O'Casey's play is crude there will no longer be such labels as "smutty" or "immoral." As things stand it cannot be judged fairly if at all. Banning "Dead Eye Dick" did no good, but the writing of better stories on the same topic hastened his demise. Banning eventually defeats its own end, by giving a book great publicity, and by organizing its own opposition. J.A. Christenson...
...rumor also confirmed the choice of Eddie Casey resigned Varsity head coach as the new Freshman coach next fall. It is also expected that another member of the 1934 Varsity squad will be appointed in a subordinate position...