Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusader TIME (Jan 28) might well and justifiably have juxtaposed "Protestants & Legion" and "Boston v. O'Casey". For the encouragement given the first inevitably results in events like the second...
Well-meaning though the Legion of Decency may be, like all other prohibitive institutions it places too great a weapon in the hands of prejudice. After all that had been said of the O'Casey play it seems rather a pity that one man, and it really was one man, should have been able to prevail over the desires of a considerable, intelligent population. Boston's prohibitors permit Minsky to run without let while they ban Strange Interlude and Within the Gates. They cavil at Rabelais and Joyce while smiling tolerantly (and probably reading themselves) Smokehouse Monthly...
...escape for censor-ridden Bostonians and exam-ridden students, the producers of O'Casey's play have arranged for a $16.50 all expense trip to New York City which includes a round-trip railroad-fare, accommodations at the Hotel Lincoln for Saturday night, and an orchestra seat in the National Theatre. The streamlined "Within the Gates" Special leaves the South Stations about noon Saturday, and returns from New York about midnight Sunday. As an added inducement, a diner has been added to the train for lunch...
...Amen" went up from the Catholic Action Society and the Legion of Decency. A Methodist and a Universalist official also nodded assent. Yet the Puritanical Watch & Ward Society, which ran Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude out of Boston in 1929, coolly doubted if O'Casey's work was "bad enough to be banned...
...City Censor McNary is a successor of City Censor John Michael Casey, longtime trap drummer in Boston burlesque houses. When a railroad accident cost him his arm, Mr. Casey abandoned his career as a tympanist, became a zealous overseer of Boston's morals...