Word: curley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went there through an invitation I had received after attending a dinner in Boston, and arriving late, I did not even sit with Mayor Curley and his party. I had no voice in the decision that censored certain features in 'Sophie' as undesirable...
...given to the censorship by Boston city officials of the Stage Guild's production of 'Sophie'", said Mr. Edward Massey '15, coach of the forthcoming Dramatic Club production "The Makropoulos Secret", and prominent member of the cast of the play "Sophie" which was visited on Monday evening by Mayor Curley, Mayor Quinn, and Censor Casey as a result of complaints that the play was objectionable...
...last night's performance of the much discussed play. The little playhouse on Charles Street was filled to its capacity long before the performance began. On Monday evening there had been but a scattering audience, some 50 or more bona fide spectators, a row of newspaper reporters, and Mayor Curley's investigating party, which consisted, in addition to the mayors of Boston and Cambridge, of Chief Justice Wilbur Bolster, Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson, and John M. Casey, city censor and clerk in the mayor's office...
...production of 'Sophie' is supported largely by private subscribers," said R. S. Aldrich '24, president of the Dramatic Club. "It is more like a private showing than an public performance. The play was produced for cultivated and sophisticated audiences, not for men like Curley, Quinn and Casey...
...opening at the Shubert Theatre the "Topics of 1923" showed a varied assortment of songs, music, costumes, and stage settings, which helped to keep its audience well amused. The far-famed chorus was on hand; wearing costumes which even Mayor Curley could not object to. An orchestra leader named Alfred Goodman did a lot to interpret his own songs to the audience and to the suburban radio fans, and they must have had a gala night of it. Alice Delysia, of stage fame that has long been well established, was the last word in Parisian primal-donnas; while opposite...