Word: censorable
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...Boston city officials of the Stage Guild's production of 'Sophie'", said Mr. Edward Massey '15, coach of the forthcoming Dramatic Club production "The Makropoulos Secret", and prominent member of the cast of the play "Sophie" which was visited on Monday evening by Mayor Curley, Mayor Quinn, and Censor Casey as a result of complaints that the play was objectionable...
...many folks, notably down East, do not think it is perfectly all right for anybody whether they like it or not. A committee of influential Negroes and others in Boston say that the local censor has agreed to suppress it. The Legislative League of New York has protested. The New York World raised the question as to whether it is legal to enact upon the stage something which is "illegal and punishable as a crime ... in all Southern and border States...
...single point where he should have stuck closer than a brother. He does not have the wastrel ex-doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady spite. The cinema producer has the arson committed purely by accident, obviously to keep the censor from snaking a reproving finger. What was good enough to win the Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus the ne'er-do-well of the play, discontented with his frigidly austere environment, is apotheosized in the films into...
...trying to emphasize is that, since the war, the United States has developed through legislation the machinery which prevents free speech. Much of the danger to free speech has been removed by a repeal of the Espion-age Act, but the power of the postmaster general to censor what passes through the mails is still great and is used freely...
Georges Clemenceau: "The film version of my novel, Les Plus Forts, passed after long delay by the national censor, was condemned by the court at La Seyne-sur-Var as 'dangerous to public order and morality and tranquillity...