Word: mansfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road, was due in Boston this week, the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan, S. J., of the Boston College Council of Catholic Organizations, scuttled over to the City Hall. There he lodged a loud protest with Mayor Frederick William Mansfield, a devout Catholic like Massachusetts' new Governor James Michael Curley...
...settle the question, Mayor Mansfield sent City Censor Herbert L. McNary to New York to see Within the Gates.* Censor McNary returned with so unfavorable a report on Within the Gates's indecencies that Mayor Mansfield last week not only forbade the performance of the drama but declared he would take steps to prevent the sale of the play in book form. "Nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut," cried...
...rapid reading of most of the play loads one almost to agree with Mr. Mansfield that the play comes pretty close to being "a dirty book" and "full of commonplace smut," but I take it that since the epoch-making decision of Judge Woolsey in New York, this makes little difference if "art" is proven. It certainly has not been proven in the case of this play...
...reports are true that Mayor Mansfield saw no objections to "Within the Gates" when he first read it some time ago, and took the stand quoted above only after visitations from the Catholic clergy, his position appears in a still more unfortunate light. But all such considerations aside, the fact remains that Bostonians have been deprived of one of the most important plays of the current season from both a technical and artistic standpoint. One of the functions of any government, whether federal or municipal, is the positive encouragement of all forms of art. What is remembered in the history...
...group of Harvard students led by Richard C. Boys '35, captain of the basketball team, and John C. Haggott '35, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club have petitioned Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston to reconsider his banning of Sean O'Casey's "Within the Gates...