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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...
...statement of Mayor Quinn followed the report that Mayor Curley, Mayor Quinn, Chief Justice Wilbur Bolster, Police Commissioner Herbert Wilson, and Censor Casey had visited the second performance of "Sophie" following several complaints at city hall, and had decided that all profanity and several objectional lines must be removed. Mr. Edward Massey '15 is a prominent member of the cast of "Sophie" and is also coach of the forthcoming production of the Dramatic Club play "The Makropolus Secret." Other members of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the 47 Workshop also figure prominently in the Stage Guild production...
...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...