Word: licensees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blackface & Blacklists. A confirmed, dapper bachelor, Moss was born in Manhattan 57 years ago, of Austrian parents, quit school in the seventh grade. As a young man, he went into the wool-shrinking business with his brother Benjamin and with the future cinemagnate William Fox. As a young man he...
Since 1900, when Sapho got the hook for letting a cocotte be carried to her bedroom in a young man's arms, relatively few Broadway shows have been run off the boards. Last week, after a checkered career, another show joined the blacklist. For two months last fall Dorothy...
"Varicose Alleys." The Mayor, who would dearly love to impose his own fussy notions of morality upon all New Yorkers, stoutly defended his Commissioner, weaseled that Moss had not indulged in censorship, but had "only passed on the application for a theater license." Meanwhile Playwright Elmer Rice and Director Margaret...
*Asked by TIME: "Do you want to make a statement on why you did not hale them to court?", Commissioner Moss emphatically replied: "No ma'am!" *Last week the City Center itself put on a lusty Frankie and Johnnie ballet which might well have attracted a censor's...
Luscious License. In Springfield, Ill., State officials, proud of having saved tons of steel by making 1945 Illinois automobile licenses out of a soybean plastic, were chagrined when motorists began complaining that hungry dogs now chase their cars for blocks to get a bite of the tasty new plates.