Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Lord Chamberlain, world's strictest censor, saw no harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon...
...settle the question, Mayor Mansfield sent City Censor Herbert L. McNary to New York to see Within the Gates.* Censor McNary returned with so unfavorable a report on Within the Gates's indecencies that Mayor Mansfield last week not only forbade the performance of the drama but declared he would take steps to prevent the sale of the play in book form. "Nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut," cried...
Many an honest Communist believes the dogma that Russians attained the goals of their First Five-Year Plan (1928-32), are now attaining the goals of their Second (1933-37). Last week the Moscow censor passed certain statistics, pertinent though belated...
...Among Soviet railway men slated for shooting last week were six survivors of one of the worst major collisions in years on the Moscow-Leningrad run, crack line of the entire Soviet Union. To clear the wreckage last year took 13 hours. Few details passed the censor, except that the wreck was a rear-end collision, the dead, 23. With the thermometer at -25°, corpses hacked out of the wreckage were rigid icicles...
Earlier in the week Rumania's great peasant leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, had given fair warning that he would orate upon royal sin in the Chamber of Deputies. Promptly the censor suppressed this speech, but its contents soon leaked out. Dr. Maniu had been about to reveal that as Premier he consented to Carol's return, and to the ending of the regency for Boy King Mihai (TIME, June 16, 1930), solely on the strength of promises made by Mistress Lupescu. Read his suppressed speech in part: "She declared 'My role has been that of Carol...