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...York License Commissioner Paul Moss had gone the victory in his arbitrary closing of the Lesbian play Trio (TIME, March 12). But it may be the last such victory he and his successors ever have. Last week, after a session with representatives of 19 protesting organizations, Mayor LaGuardia agreed to support legislation preventing any license commissioner from closing a play without a prior jury conviction of its producers...
...blackface vaudeville team that played clubs and bazaars. Later the Moss brothers operated a chain of movie houses, and Paul Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice at censorship when LaGuardia appointed him License Commissioner in 1934. For the seven preceding years he had been a member of the National Board of Review, watchdog of cinemorality...
...once a barrage of furious criticism opened up against Moss. The man who had called Trio "lewd, lascivious and immoral" was himself called "dictatorial," "bigoted," "one-man censor."* In the growing uproar, 19 organizations denounced Moss. Some demanded that Mayor LaGuardia fire...
Days of Indecision. New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia hurried off to Washing ton, D.C. to find out what it was all about. Returning, he refused at first to say whether it would be enforced in New York City or not. Manhattan's hundreds of nightclub, bar and restaurant operators who customarily stay open until 4 a.m. on week nights, 3 a.m. on Saturdays, hoped for a reprieve. Cried Billy Rose: "The Mayor doesn't like it. If he did he'd be jumping all over the lot shouting hooray for it." Said the Mayor: "Billy...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, taking exception to Winston Churchill's terming the principles of the Atlantic Charter "a guide, not a rule," gave out a scholarly admonition to his fellow statesman: "Winston, if I may use the language of, say, Shakespeare, or Shelley or Dante Gabriel Rossetti or other British classicists, please don't louse...