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...song score and a showmanlike production, it should leave moviegoers feeling that they have been roundly entertained. The picture sticks close to the original musicomedy book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields, takes all its music & lyrics from the original Berlin tunes. It loses a few laughs getting by the censor, as well as five of the show's lesser songs. It gains trom jettisoning a conventional romantic subplot and from the broader canvas of the screen...
...nine letters printed yesterday was from Charles W Bailey, 2nd, '50 of Eliot House, who stated, "I believe that one of the basic tenets of academic freedom is that a University is no more obliged to support a man's personal opinions than it is expected to attempt to censor them. . . . Apparently Mr. Cunningham fails to understand that two or more men in the group may have different opinions...
...Lest the censor interfere, La Carátula did not make any public announcement of the show. But word seeped through the cafes. The club's membership quickly expanded. When the curtain rose on a simple cardboard backdrop depicting Bernarda Alba's village home, a capacity audience was on hand. In the front row sat the supreme censor himself, bespectacled Garcia Espina, Director General of the Theater and Cinema...
...Censor Says. Critics rushed out to write their reviews. They were stopped cold by an order already on their desks. It was from Censor Garcia Espina: "No reviews permitted, now or in the future, of La Carátula shows. Only short news items...
Next morning Da Quinto and Gordon pleaded with the censor. "This means." they said, "a final blow to the theater in Spain." Shamefaced Censor Garcia Espina shrugged. "I'm just as sorry as you are," he said. "But orders are orders. You think I'm the boss, but I'm just an egg between two stones." Mumbled Da Quinto: "The Bernardas of Spain have the last word. The window is closed once more...