Word: censor
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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...
...illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
...little learning has King Alexander of Jugoslavia as to what the rest of the world thinks of assassins. Shrewd, His Majesty ordered news of the Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons...
...confidence" of Captains General. Attempts at explanation by the dizzy Dictator are royally ignored. The Dictator leaves the Palace with his fate already sealed?unless he should decide to defy the King. Despatches covering all this are filed by Scooper de Gandt and pass the Spanish censor who will later deny their truth. Fearing that they will not pass, the Scooper dashes to a telephone, talks the scoop to Paris for relay to New York...