Word: hamiltone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN H. HAMILTON...
...impossible to set down hard and fast rules as to what is good and what is bad. Morality is wisdom, and wisdony changes with the times. The English, system, as outlined by Cosmo Hamilton in yesterday's CRIMSON by which one man censors all manuscripts before the plays are produced would not only be impractical in New York, but it is doubtful even whether it would be the most satisfactory method. In the first place, I believe it is wrong to censor a play before it is produced, for in this way, some new yet valuable idea, might be killed...
...Plays and speakeasies are under the same form of regulation today in New York City," stated Cosmo Hamilton, in an interview following his talk on play-writing in Sever Hall yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hamilton, well known as an English playwright and novelist, is in Boston to give a series of talks before the opening next Monday of "Pickwick", a dramatization of Dickens' novel, in which Mr. Hamilton collaborated with Frank Reilly...
...show has only to offend a New York policeman in order to causes the doors of its theatre to be padlocked, and the author, producer, owner, and cast to be subject to various fines and sentences," Mr. Hamilton continued. "Yet, some form of censorship is necessary. The cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...
...Cosmo Hamilton, English novelist and dramatist, will visit Harvard tomorrow afternoon, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Hamilton, the author of many popular novels and the dramatizer of "Pickwick", which will be played in Boston next week, will talk in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock. All students of the University are invited to attend...