Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Widely heralded as a "clean play",--perhaps too widely for its own good--"Seventh Heaven" came to the Tremont Monday night, and before two distinguished guests-of-honor, Lieutenant-Governor Allen and Mayor Curley, well-known apostles of a clean drama, achieved a very considerable triumph. Producer John Golden was there, and after his leading lady, Ann Forrest, had taken several curtain calls at the close of the second act, consented to speak. He outlined his views on stage purity, complimented Boston for its support of the cause, and ended by calling on Mayor Curley to rise and bow from...
...officially aghast at the wholesale introduction of taxi drivers' vocabulary into the theatre. Although the board of temperance, etc. as given above, quotes no examples to lend point to its protests, one can easily imagine the identity of the plays which have wrung its collective heart; particularly since Mayor Curley has recently taken it upon himself to disinfect the Boston production of "What Price Glory." The Methodist organization further makes a prediction which is gloomy or heartening, according to the hearer's previous prejudice: namely, that the coming New York theatrical season will be the most profane in American history...
...Mayor Curley has become adept in this sort of thing. An official ukase--and the deed was done! It was quite simple. Probably few men in the whole world could have done it so quickly and so easily...
...course there is J. Frank Chase of the Watch and Ward Society who can keep anyone in Boston from reading almost any book he pleases, but even Mr. Chase does not operate with the facility and dispatch of Mayor Curley. Mr. Chase has to consult the book sellers, and employ, presumably, a modicum of tact and diplomacy. The mayor need not even be polite. And while Mr. Chase's is the empire of books. Mr. Curley's is power unlimited in theatres, lecture platforms, public meetings, street parades, and almost anything else one could mention...
...Mayor Curley's action will doubtless be warmly applauded by old ladies of both sexes, and artists will learn thereby the price they must pay to exhibit to the Boston public...