Word: fiestas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placing the rubber stamp of official censorship on the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, "Fiesta", the Boston city authorities have adduced evidence to bolster the suspicion of their fair-minded intelligence in matters which they say affect public morality. Their action clicked with that quick efficiency which is prompted by eagerness, or at least by a thorough relish...
...theatre-goers are less impressionable than they were, and the effective powers of a play have been exaggerated. Where possibility of offense is confined to isolated lines of dialogue, sweeping censorship argues high susceptibility on the part of the audience which would view the performance. Why the audiences of "Fiesta" should be more receptive than those which attend shows in other parts of the city is problematical...
...Dramatic Club has had its "Fiesta" butchered to make a holiday for the newspapers. The fact depends from a habit of policy whose ultimate conclusion has long been obvious. When the advantages of sinning in the eyes of official Boston have so often been demonstrated, imitation is not far behind...
Protests as to the action of city officials in closing "Fiesta" the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, were voiced by Miss Gloria Braggiotti, C. C. Leatherbee '29, and others of the players yesterday...
...also said that each play, before rehearsals even have started, is first passed by a graduate board, among whom are: Professor F. C. Packard '20, Winthrop Ames '95, Professor J. S. P. Tatlock '96, Walter Prichard Eaton '90, Professor G. P. Baker '87, and others. Further, Leatherbee added that "Fiesta" had been gone over thoroughly several times and that all such lines as might, through misinterpretation or otherwise, be offensive to good taste had been...