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Authors Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board. Official state censorship boards exist in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Virginia, Ohio; the Pennsylvania board is the most severe, the Virginia most lenient...
Authors Ernst & Lorentz list shots and captions liable to be cut: portrayal of crime or suicide; display of dangerous weapons; cruelty, mean or mischievous; capital punishment; gambling; profanity, lip or title; drinking; narcotics; sex, suggestiveness or overpassionate love making; nudity and indecent exposure; vulgar dancing; improper reference to women...
...however, with inner reluctance, because the hope had not quite died in me that into this shell of a League of Nations a better content might yet grow in time. I am comforted by the thought that in my place one of the cleanest, finest men was elected, Professor Lorentz of Haarlem, whereat nobody could be happier than I. May the League in the future prove my harsh words to have been false...
Professor Hendrik A. Lorentz, of the University of Leiden, Holland, will lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Large Lecture Room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The subject of the lecture, which will be open to the public, is "The Quantum Theory...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Review of a Paper by H. A. Lorentz on the Theory of Electrons." Professor Hall. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...