Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breen is a tall, husky Irishman, good Catholic and father of six. A one-time Associated Pressman, he has for four years been executive assistant in the Will H. Hays office and No. 1 cinema censor. His job has been to supervise the reading of scripts, watch for dirty spots, attempt to eliminate them during conferences with producers. But a producers' jury has existed which as a lenient court of appeals could undo Mr. Breen's best work...
What Archbishop McNicholas was able to announce on his porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...
...following additional news in church and cinema worlds: Reported Variety: "The agents no longer know just what to consider dirty any more. . . . In contrast to the slow market for spicy stuff, there is a boom in interest in outdoor plots and other yarns that are spotless from a censor's view...
There his son runs a press bureau, is engaged to the daughter of the dour government censor. At a testimonial dinner, Farnum flays the government for its bigotry and intolerance. At once he and his son are ordered to leave. The press bureau is raided, the son's library stripped. Farnum buttonholes his persecutors long enough to harangue them on freedom, progress, humanity, before he is fatally hit In the head with a brick. His speech, however, seems to have led his listeners to plan a more kindly government...
Parts of the letter are unprintable but the following are excepts which could get by the censor: 551 Fifth Avenue, Room 720, New York City, June 14th...