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...Your article on [Hollywood Censor] Joseph Breen's proposed cuts of The Bicycle Thief [TIME, March 13] disgusted me ... Such foolish and careless censorship of movies, one of our most important mediums of information, is dangerous...
...Would [Censor Breen] advocate that portions be cut out from the canvases of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian or El Greco because they depict certain parts of human anatomy...
...Censor Sees. Last week Da Quinto & Co. put on their most daring show-The House of Bernardo, Alba, by Spain's late great Federico Garcia Lorca. The Andalusian poet, a symbol of intellectual opposition to Francisco Franco's regime, had written the play a few months before his murder in 1936 by Falangist gunmen...
...Sporting News (circ. 219,545), the baseball fan's bible, took a mighty cut at the ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...
Italy's prizewinning The Bicycle Thief (TIME, Dec. 12), one of the screen's most widely acclaimed films, has been called honest, moving and classic. It remained for sharp-eyed Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen, who administers the industry's production code, to call it indecent and unacceptable for the bulk of U.S. moviegoers. Last week the picture's sponsors were fighting Breen's edict that the movie must be cut before it can go from the art theaters into most U.S. cinemansions...