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...diversion, including, specifically, miniature golf, is forbidden by law on Sunday in Massachusetts. This same law also once closed the doors of movie theaters, unless their owners could get a city license to show a picture. But the cities of Massachusetts could not grant such a license without a censor's written approval that the film was in keeping with the character of the day. Even the State government got into the act; the Commissioner of Public Safety had to see the picture, too. All this censorship machinery, however, came to a sudden halt last summer. On July...
...great weaknesses of the law which established the censorship machinery was the vague terms which it gave as a criterion for the censor to follow. All law had to say on this subject was that entertainment to be 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...
...Indicating that his previous warnings against sadistic scenes in movies were not being heeded, British Movie Censor Arthur T. L. Watkins blasted British and American producers, announced that in the first seven months of this year 624 cuts were made in 389 movies shown in England, most of them because of excessive cruelty and violence...
...Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor also acted as censor when his department banned the French film Game of Love (TIME, Jan. 24). O'Connor testified that the movie must be immoral and obscene because it "aroused sexual feelings in me." Said he: "Feelings should come naturally. There are no stimulants necessary for nature. Nature takes care of itself...
Mayor John Hynes of Boston, one of the city's three censor board members, said that he would have to consider whether burlesque licenses could be issued again. "We'll wait until someone applies for one," he added...