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Ruling on an appeal by Excelsior El Pais, a newspaper suppressed by President Machado's so-called "gag decree," the Cuban Supreme Court upheld the decree last week, thus reversed reports current in Havana (TIME, Feb. 2) that the Court had prepared a decision holding the President's act unconstitutional...
Mickey Mouse Features are produced by the same solemn processes as other feature pictures except that artists and an art-process take the place of actors. First, in the Walt Disney studios in Hollywood a "gag" meeting is held, ideas talked over, roughly outlined. Scenario writers compose a regulation script; adapters break it down into sequences, scenes, shots. The scenic department designs the background. Then three kinds of artists begin to work: 1) "animators" who sit at two long rows of specially made desks and work by light that streams through a central glass. They develop the gags, draw only...
...running gag"* much admired by Hollywood experts is built up in a millionaire who, when drunk, is Chaplin's dearest friend; when sober, has him thrown out of the house. A new gag: Chaplin trying to light his cigar but succeeding only in lighting the cigar which another character is waving airily before his face...
When the Minneapolis weekly, The Saturday Press, campaigned against civic corruption in 1927 it was suppressed without jury trial under the State's "gag law" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Last week the case, now a celebrated one throughout the U. S. Press, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. During the argument, Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis made an observation which made many an editorial heart leap with gratitude. Said he: "Of course there was defamation. You cannot disclose evil without naming the doers or evil. . . . [Even if the statements were not all true] a newspaper cannot always wait...
...liberalize the House rules as the price of party support. Well aware that the 12 or 15 disgruntled votes from the Northwest could wipe out their control, Messrs. Longworth, Tilson & Snell were ready to compromise. What the Insurgents were ready to fight for included: 1) elimination of the "gag" rule which cuts off debate and bars floor amendments on controversial legislation; 2) power to "discharge" a committee and bring a bill to the House floor on petition of 100 members, instead of, as now, 218 members. A Republican House caucus late next month will thresh out the rules issue...