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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presiding Justice Stone tossed in a free lecture with the levy, telling the Armistice Day miscreants, "It is good citizenship to obey a police officer anywhere in Massachusetts, Cambridge, or Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moviegoers Fined $3 | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...Theater will present its inaugural five plays over a ten-week period. Beside "Road to Rome" which will benefit the Radcliffe Fund, they will perform George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," "Andre Obey's "Noah," George Kelly's "Showoff," and "Sunrise in My Pocket," a new play by Edwin Justus Mayor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Fund Is Still $200,000 Short; Copley Radcliffe Night Opens Drive | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Subsequent productions will be "Heart break House" by George Bernard Shaw, "Noah" by Andre Obey, "The Showoff" by George Kelly and "sunrise in My Pocket," a new play by Edwin Justus Mayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Offers 'Cliffe Concerts, New Boston Drama Players | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

Outraged by comics that piously headline their pages "Obey the Law" while dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not So Funny | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Theatrically, Washington had become the tank town of world capitals. The National Theater, the only legitimate house in town, had decided to run movies rather than obey the Actors' Equity ban on discrimination against Negroes (TIME, Aug. 9). Several willing impresarios were making no headway toward opening a playhouse. It appeared that Washington, for the first time in more than a century, would have no season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No Season in Washington | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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