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...Detroit, Police Censor Charles Snyder jailed three stripteasers of the Empress Burlesque. Said Virginia Murphy, 27, who had taken off her G-string and thrown it to the audience: "I was leaving and I wanted the boys to remember...
Bostonians who wanted to see Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh would have to see it elsewhere-maybe in suburban Quincy, where they saw his banned Strange Interlude in 1929. Boston's censor, who had demanded that some blunt words be dropped from the play, got a blunt reply from O'Neill: "Idiotic. ... I will not change, nor allow to be changed, one word. . . . Boston audiences, I am sure ... do not want plays . . . made silly by ... stupid censorship...
Hiding behind a smoky title that would send the most tolerant Boston censor racing to his alarm gong, the latest United Artist release quickly unmasks as a lukewarm comedy well grooved in the rut of its countless predecessors. For lack of a decent script, Hollywood has again fallen back on the opium of "poor girl wants rich boy," the only difference between this movie and its ancestors being in the quantity of "poor girl and the numbers of swooning suckers. Instead of the usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds...
...side of the fence for once, suggested that the Russians either fix up some Quonset huts, or let the meeting be moved elsewhere. Even if Moscow gave in to Marshall's renewed protests, there were headaches ahead. For correspondents, Moscow was short on wire facilities and English-speaking censors. And the men on the scene might find, as foreign correspondents in Moscow had found before, that the Moscow radio could tell its version all over the world, before U.S. correspondents could hurdle the first censor...
...just like old times. In Rome, one of Casanova's old pawing-grounds, police seized a new edition of his memoirs on the grounds of "obscenity and immorality." In Boston, the local censor drew up a three-page list of "obscene and profane" words that Eugene O'Neill would have to cut out of The Iceman Cometh before Bostonians could...