Word: moss
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...implication in Theater (TIME, March 12) is that Commissioner Paul Moss served a novitiate in censorship as a member of the National Board of Review, which you call "watchdog of cinemorality." For nearly 30 years the Board has been actively and outspokenly against censorship: its reviewers classify and recommend films on the basis of entertainment, not morals...
...York License Commissioner Paul Moss had gone the victory in his arbitrary closing of the Lesbian play Trio (TIME, March 12). But it may be the last such victory he and his successors ever have. Last week, after a session with representatives of 19 protesting organizations, Mayor LaGuardia agreed to support legislation preventing any license commissioner from closing a play without a prior jury conviction of its producers...
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 was also part of a blackface vaudeville team that played clubs and bazaars. Later the Moss brothers operated a chain of movie houses, and Paul Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice...
...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 attention (see Music). Taunted Daily News Critic John Chapman in his review: "License Commissioner Paul Moss last night sponsored a dirty show which had in it bawds, a pimp and a couple of Lesbians." And Columnist Leonard Lyons recalled that Moss once co-produced Noel Coward's This...
Like many another businessman, 39-year-old Master Promoter Robert Lawver Smith scarcely knew a chrysanthemum from a moss rose. But he did know that flowers could be sold. With that information, plus $125,000 and the merchandising experience gained as general manager of the tabloid Los Angeles Daily News (a job he still holds), Smith charged last year into the flower business. It took him just seven months to become the No. 1 combination grower-wholesaler-retailer in the nation's $300,000,000 floral industry...