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...Manhattan the police department supervises stage presentations, is usually content so long as the actors refrain from outright indecency, has never suppressed a big success from London. In England, official censor of the stage is the Lord Chamberlain, whose critical standards are considerably more sociological than those of the Manhattan constabulary. Last Spring The Green Pastures was denied the right of British production. Reason: since God is impersonated on the stage, the play is sacrilegious (TIME, June 30). Last week the same censor, the Earl of Cromer, announced that The Last Mile, successful death-house melodrama, might not be presented...
Another Mickey Mouse fan is Ireland's venerable sage "AE" (George Russell), who once gravely reviewed these hilarious animated cartoons in his august (now defunct) review The Irish Statesman. In Berlin last week a solemn German censor sat down to view that grand old strip of celluloid Mickey Mouse in the Trenches. Afterward, still owl-solemn, he ruled as follows: "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose a militia of mice is offensive to national dignity. Permission to exhibit this production in Germany is refused...
...lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their families. One private's words, mystic, poetical, moved him very much. When the man was killed, Carossa took his papers, read one of the poems to the company when they were under shellfire in the open. The men did not understand it but they said...
Instantly the U. S. press burst forth in angry protest. Who was Samuel Insull to "censor" the speech of an Ambassador of the nation? How dared a public utilitarian already viewed askance for dabbling deeply in national politics (large sums towards the nomination of Senator-reject Smith of Illinois in 1926-TIME, July 26, 1926 et seq.), now project himself internationally...
...London, the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain and official drama censor, politely, regretfully announced that The Green Pastures, Pulitzer-prize-winning Negro folk-play by Marc Connelly (TIME, March 10), might not be produced in London. Reason: since God is impersonated on stage, the play is sacrilegious. Playwright Connelly's comment: "I am mildly surprised to find the Lord Chamberlain's office unable to distinguish the difference between orthodox sacrilege and a simple miracle play...