Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss (who roared like a cracked boiler after reading Lillian Smith's best-selling story of miscegenation, Strange Fruit) directed his city commissioners to set up a five-man board to censor literature...
...wings, avoided visitors. Traubel opened the door of her dingy little dressing room to anyone who could crowd inside. Her laughter boomed so lustily that stage managers feared it could be heard in the auditorium. In the old horse-&-buggy era, Wagnerian divas like Johanna Gadski and Lillian Nordica had expected even the stagehands to wait on them. Traubel insists on putting on her own makeup, wig and costumes, because "being dependent is a luxury you shouldn't allow yourself...
...roll her political ideas off the dummy tongues of puppets masquerading as characters, Lillian Hellman has transformed her stage success of a few seasons back into an interesting as well as an intelligent movie. "The Searching Wind" is essentially a point of view rather than a story, but its propaganda is never prosaic...
Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's 1915 melodrama featuring Lillian Gish, carpetbagging and Ku Kluxing in the Old South, has been voluntarily shelved by the Museum. Film Library officials, recalling that the picture started race riots in 1915 and again in 1921, admit the "greatness of the film" and "its artistic and historic importance." But because of "the potency of its anti-Negro bias . . . exhibiting it at this time of heightened social tensions cannot be justified." Students are advised that Birth of a Nation is still in the Museum's files and gets "limited circulation...
...chief claim to fame has been his recent activity in contesting the Boston censors and the Hearst press. After Lillian Smith's novel of miscegenation, "Strange Fruit," has been declared obscene literature by the Boston Watch and Ward Society, Isenstadt was approved by Bernard De Voto and members of the Harvard faculty and asked to test the validity of the ruling by selling the book openly in Cambridge. Mr. I, equally enthusiastic about constitutional rights and publicity, gave Cambridge Police Chief Leahy advance notice and was rewarded with a court summons the next morning when he handed Author De Voto...