Word: censoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Film Censor Dr. Seeger officially banned All Quiet's exhibition in Germany. Despite denials from the Censor's office, correspondents immediately jumped to the conclusion that mice and snakes, and Hitlerite riots were responsible. So did most Germans. Said Heinrich Mann, brother of Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann...
Later the Prime Minister's office reprimanded correspondents for their "error in audition," declared that what had sounded to them like "dominion self-government" were the words "freedom in self-government" actually uttered by Scot MacDonald. Fortunately the British censor could prevent the Indian press from printing this slip...
...reads him privately, as a lewd fellow. Actually a plain dealer, his outspokenness on sex got this passionate preacher a bad name. This posthumous novel, his first to appear since the privately-printed Lady Chatterley's Lover, is sufficiently outspoken, but contains no Anglo-Saxonisms that would horrify a censor...
Maria Jeritza, buxom blonde Metropolitan Opera singer, instituted legal proceedings against Dr. Muller Guttenbrunn at Vienna because she thought that his book Riff Raff, which deals with a family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...
...Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted a revival of Flesh and the Devil...