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Mysterious Pages Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 28, you publish a letter from Mrs. Charles H. Bassett of London, England, where she states among other things: "In our copy of this week's TIME (Aug. 31) p. 19 & 20 have been deleted by the British censor. To ensure that in future we get our TIME intact we are ordering our issue direct from your circulation office." I have for years subscribed to many foreign papers, including TIME, and never have any of them been censored or deleted. Also, it is quite obvious from Mrs. Bassett...
...grade, Especially true is this of the "Advocate", for the opportunity of writing for a particular publication is excellent training for adapting one's interests to the confines of space and public approval. The range of interests is limited only by the sensitivity of Boston's famed and narrow censor...
...Chicago's suburban Oak Park 100 American Legionaries with overseas caps and a big U. S. flag appeared at the First Congregational Church to censor an address to its young peoples' society by Illinois' Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark...
...Marlene Dietrich's forthcoming Knight Without: Armor for Alexander Korda,La Kermesse Héroïque explodes the theory that Rene Clair has a monopoly on urbane comedy in the French cinema. It is as sly a farce as any that has ever led a U. S. censor board to mistake good manners for innocent intentions. Produced at a cost of $850,000-fabulous for a French cinema-and magnificently set by Lazare Meerson, it was distinguished abroad by winning the grand Prix du Cinema Français, being banned in England and Holland. Released as Carnival...
...copy of this week's TIME (Aug. 31), p. 19 & 20 have been deleted by the British censor. To insure that in future we get our TIME intact we are ordering our issue direct from your circulation office...