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...Milan last week the Fascist censor passed a despatch saying that a fourth child will be born to Donna Mussolini in late September, will be named "Romano" if a boy, "Romana" if a girl...
...impossible to set down hard and fast rules as to what is good and what is bad. Morality is wisdom, and wisdony changes with the times. The English, system, as outlined by Cosmo Hamilton in yesterday's CRIMSON by which one man censors all manuscripts before the plays are produced would not only be impractical in New York, but it is doubtful even whether it would be the most satisfactory method. In the first place, I believe it is wrong to censor a play before it is produced, for in this way, some new yet valuable idea, might be killed...
Thus far no U. S. film censor is known to have struck out "Heinie," "Squarehead," "Fritzie...
...city's morals, once tried having a citizens' play jury, but had to disband it for its failure to find dirt. The evident lack of heart in the police procedure against The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man, was doubtless due to the fact that the public censor is also a public servant requiring votes to hold office. Nevertheless, pending the hearings on these three plays, the management of a "homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City...
...Mencken may now add to his list of people who huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...