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After it had been in rehearsal two days, British Broadcasting Corp.'s censor banned last week a radio drama called The Krassin Saves the Italia...
This errand of succor was of course actually undertaken. Italians were actually rescued by the Reds (TIME, July 23, 1928, et ante). But to present such facts over the radio, the British censor ruled, would be pro-Red propaganda, especially as the broadcast was to close with the Italian national air and the Communist "Red Flag...
...great financier had attempted to send a telegram to Paris. It was not passed by the Government censor. When it was brought to Prime Minister George G. Mironescu he seized his hat, hopped into his limousine, dashed for the Royal Palace...
...English poet, Edward Thomas, brings back memories of some of the more glaring examples of stupidity in Boston book censorship. It is true that the words "Banned in Boston" on the jacket of a novel will boost its sales tremendously, but in most cases the Boston book censor is not worthy of this reputation for the detection of horrid words and passages. As an example of this the first part of "World Without End" appeared some years ago under the title of "As It Was." This fragment of one of the finest and tenderest love stories in recent years...
Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America last week announced that, because of complaints of many censor boards, the famed udder of the cow in the Mickey Mouse cartoons was now banned. Cows in Mickey Mouse or other cartoon pictures in the future will have small or invisible udders quite unlike the gargantuan organ whose antics of late have shocked some and convulsed other of Mickey Mouse's patrons. In a recent picture the udder, besides flying violently to left and right or stretching far out behind when the cow was in motion, heaved with its panting when...