Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent banning of "The Children's Hour" from Boston theatres by an arbitrary triumvirate known as the Censorship Board has at last produced a solid opposition to the autocratic method of deciding what the Hub citizenry shall or shall not see on the stage. Yesterday the Massachusetts Theatre Alliance sponsored a bill before the Committee on Mercantile Affairs to climinate the "at their pleasure" clause from the powers granted to the Board in the censorship...
Representing the actor's point of view, Brandon Tynan soundly asserted that the theatre "was not essentially to blame for the life it portrays." Since the drama "expresses the life of the nation .... it is ineffectual to throw stones at the mirror." He justly called Boston's censorship system "condemnation without representation", for, at present theatres may have their licenses revoked as well as their plays banned without even the pretense of a hearing. It is remarkable that such undemocratic treatment should have continued almost undisputed for twenty-one years...
With iron censorship fettering the Press last week, shocking reports circulated by word of mouth throughout the Peninsula and the Isles of Greece. On the Island of Crete, stronghold of foxy onetime Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, a holiday was declared, bonfires were lighted and there was dancing in the streets...
...attitude you have taken is affected and perhaps involuntarily controlled by the political party in power which regulates the issuance of your licenses. I believe your policy . . . will leave in the minds of the American public the distinct impression that you are either exercising an unwarranted degree of censorship or that you fear punitive action by the Federal Communications Commission...
Mayor Mansfield's action in banning the "Children's Hour" would be laughable if it were not so astoundingly narrow-minded and tyrannical. Mayor Mansfield posing as a dramatic critic, of course, cuts an absurd figure. But when censorship of a play like the "Children's Hour" is the result, amusement gives place to disgust. Possibly the Mayor, being an elected official, has vaguely heard of something called democracy, and its implication of free choice, particularly in intellectual matters. Seemingly, however, the idea would be strikingly novel...