Word: censoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of Hollywood's recent Recession-prompted hunt for old stories available for revival, The Shopworn Angel illustrates one consequence: in the effort to remain consistent, the Hays organization has failed to censor material which it passed in 1929, although the characters involved scarcely meet the moral requirements of 1938's purified cinema sex life. Best sequence: Pettigrew calling on Daisy at the stage door to prove to his cynical messmates that he really knows...
...incredibly complicated radio unions are fermenting, musicians, competing with canned music, are sullen, composers are at odds about patents-but Mr. Ethridge's chief duty will be using his charming Southern accent to reason Mr. McNinch away from some of his notions. Reports that he was going to censor all radio material to prevent such celebrated slips as the affair Mae West, he implied, were ridiculous. He will take no salary. When Radio really finds a Tsar, he will gracefully step aside...
...Thou shalt not' attitude only makes things worse," he said, "and encourages the reading of pornographic matter. Feeding kids straight stuff gives them something to think about. It's good of Smith to want to censor the lewd and lascivious. but that isn't what happens. A constructive story on motherhood is banned, while sadistic and sex magazines are still allowed to lie on the stands...
Unlike Japan, censorship in the U.S.S.R. is a very real factor. The approved method of gathering news, Hindmarsh said, is for a foreign correspondent to take a brief "rumor story" relayed to him from his home office, expand it into a long "dispatch," and take it down to the censor. If he approves it, the correspondent throws it away. If he disapproves, the correspondent knows the rumor is true. If he merely mumbles, the reporter has to guess...
Forced thus to censor themselves, radiomen were placed not only in the position of having to observe a special set of taboos, but of daring to err only in one direction, by being too conservative. Frank McNinch's letter was as good as official notice to the radio industry that its future lies in entertainment and education but not in rivaling the press...