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...signer" clause forces all retailers to adhere to a price fixed by a distributor, once the distributor has signed a price fixing contract with any retailer...
...began when the chief of police scooped up a lot of 25? reprints off newsstands, surveyed a collection of busty, flamboyant dames on the book jackets, and accused a distributor of peddling obscene literature. Then County Attorney John Duffy, a Notre Dame graduate who takes his knowledge of literature seriously looked over the evidence. The obscene books turned out to include bestsellers by Somerset Maugham, MacKinlay Kantor and John Steinbeck, and a collection of art masterpieces which had in it nudes by Velasquez and Titian. He dismissed the charge and for doing so forthwith got the clubwomen on his neck...
...picture's distributor, Joseph Burstyn, unable to get a stay of enforcement, brought action in the appellate division of the state supreme court, where he will probably get a hearing early next month. Conceding the right of Catholics to object to The Miracle, Burstyn protested that "an organized minority is dictating through various pressure tactics to the entire citizenry of the state what it may or may not see in the movies...
Right now, war movies are in demand, and studies are happy to meet the demand by producing low-cost, easily-slapped-together films. According to one Boston film distributor, "for awhile the industry couldn't make them fast enough; we had to reissue or reprint old films. When the public wants war movies, they're willing to take almost anything. You can't spend too much time making them; you have to satisfy the market immediately...
Indignant New Yorkers pelted Mayor Impellitteri with telegrams of protest. Critics who had panned the movie spoke up for anybody's right to see it. Joseph Burstyn, distributor of Ways of Love, pointed out that after The Miracle was shown in Italy, the Vatican approved Rossellini's plan to do a movie about Saint Francis of Assisi. If the Vatican was not offended by The Miracle, Burstyn implied, who was a mere license commissioner to object? Furthermore, although the film had been "condemned" by the Catholic Legion of Decency as "sacrilegious and blasphemous," it had been passed...