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Cyrus Harvey '47, and Bryant Halliday '49, co-proprietors of the Brattle applied in February of last year for the usual license, in order to show Miss Julie, a film based on Stindberg's play about a fallen woman. The Cambridge city manager, who issued one of the permits, gave them no trouble; but the State Commissioner of Public Safety turned their application down. He felt he could not approve the picture after just a few cuts because the central theme of the film was an illicit love affair...
...version of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, peripatetic Musi-comedienne Mary Martin flew to Jamaica to rehearse with Noel Coward for CBS's Ford Star Jubilee to be telecast next month, meanwhile telling one and all of her projected winter trip with husband Richard Halliday to the remote state of Goias, in Brazil. The spot she is dreaming about is 14° south of the equator, 600 miles from the coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full of monkeys, birds and wild flowers, where the temperature ranges from...
Defeated once in the lower courts, Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, managers of Brattle Films Inc., will continue to protest the constitutionality of the Public Safety Commissioner's banning powers. Massachusetts law permits the Commissioner to refuse Sunday licenses to films "inconsistent with the Sabbath's due observance...
...Halliday indicated yesterday that the Brattle should have no trouble winning its case on constitutional grounds. The danger, he said, is that the Massachusetts courts, which try to avoid constitutional issues, might side-track the case in questions of procedure. In the lower courts, the Brattle was defeated on procedural grounds...
...Brattle loses on the state level, Halliday plans to appeal to the Supreme Court in Washington, where he is confident of winning because of a recent court decision reversing a ban in a New York case...