Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty and members of the University will be given an opportunity to sign the petition both at Leavitt and Peirce's and on Harvard Square. The organizers of the movement acted with the two-fold purpose of protesting against Mayor Nichols' actions, and of endorsing the Guild in its presentation of the play in Quincy on Monday evening. They hope that the petition will offset to a large extent the attacks which have been made on the Guild and "Strange Interlude" by various members of the local clergy...
...Eaton, who addresses the Liberal Club tonight at 66 Winthrop Street is one of the organizers of the Citizen's Committee of Protest in the recent controversy over Mayor Nichols' ban on the Theatre Guild's production of "Strange Interlude" by Eugene O'Neill '15. He is a well-known New York dramatic critic and author...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
...Mayor Quinn of Cambridge has not yet made public his decision on whether he would issue a permit for the presentation of the "Strange Interlude" in Cambridge or not, but it is expected that the Cambridge authorities would be considerably more liberal-minded than the notoriously puritan officials of Boston town. When interviewed last night, Mayor Quinn declined to issue any statement...
...expected that once the proper concessions are made the Theatre Guild will be able to produce its show in Boston proper, although Mayor Nichols has thus far remained obdurate in his refusal of his permission...