Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...
Every self-disrespecting U. S. city has a tattle magazine. Usually it is ambiguously guised as a compendium of smartset goings-on. In Philadelphia it is the Town Crier; in Boston the Bostonian. Indiscreet St. Louis socialites dread the Censor; incautious Kansas citizens the Independent. But the happy hunting grounds of the gossip-magazine publisher are Manhattan and Washington. With the announcement: last week that the Club Fellow & Washington Mirror had been bought by the owners of the Taller & American Sketch, it became apparent that Windsor Publishing Corp. had its field almost completely in control. Only the 52-year...
...Hungary and generally on the Continent, censorship is for political, not moral, daring. When the Wong film was submitted to the Royal Hungarian Censor last week, he was scandalized to observe that the white man who, kissed the yellow girl was a Grand Duke. He promptly suppressed the film on the ground of its ''anti-monarchical tendencies...
However, there is a middle ground on which, professional producers do not dare, rather than do not deign, to tread; and this from fear of the audience rather than from fear of the censor. Unhappily the professional stage is governed by the need of making money and the temptation to play down to the box-office. The Dramatic Club has neither to pay its actors, nor to make a profit, and so is relatively free to experiment to advance the drama. It is possible to experiment with old plays, as well as with those of other countries: but merely...
Authors Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board. Official state censorship boards exist in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Virginia, Ohio; the Pennsylvania board is the most severe, the Virginia most lenient...