Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Censorship Troubles...
...production of A Bride for the Unicorn was one of the few instances where the HDC was troubled by censorship. Theoretically, all the plays which it produced, until a few years ago, had to be approved by the group's faculty advisory committee. Normally this committee would decide which of a number of plays to produce. But in 1934, President Conant requested to read A Bride for the Unicorn and decide whether or not it was too risque to produce. The play squeaked through the committee, 3 to 2, but President Ada of to appear in it. Undaunted, the Dramatic...
...censorship clause in the Club's constitution was completely removed shortly after World War II, at about the time when the Club was at the lowest ebb in its history. The decade of university apathy set had started the early '40's, and with the founding of a rival veterans' theater group--which later became the Harvard Theater Group--after the war, the Dramatic Club found itself unable to recover until the rival organization closed down in 1953 and turned its resources over to the HDC. Neil Smith, a former member of the Theater Group, became the president...
...Nasser told TIME a different story. "At the beginning," said he, "British and French citizens were completely free. Then came Port Said. We got news that French and British civilians were shooting people in the streets from windows and doors. We kept this out of the Egyptian press by censorship, for fear it would provoke popular acts against British and French citizens. We decided to tell British and French citizens they could not leave their homes . . . About 2,000 of these people have asked for exit visas, and about 1,000 of them have gone." As for the Jews, only...
Saturday morning at 9:30 a series of panel discussions on various scholastic newspaper problems will begin. Topics to be considered include photography, censorship, makeup, editorial writing, reviewing, sports writing, the use of humor, finances, features, and news writing. The students will be able to attend two of these panels, and when the second set ends about 12:30 p.m., they will return to the CRIMSON for a buffet lunch. The Conference will adjourn after lunch...