Word: padlocker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull and audaciously brilliant by turns...
...dislike very much the speakeasy-padlock method. Far better is the English system, under which the plays are censored before they are produced, not afterwards. The Crown appoints a Lord Chamberlain, and all prospective productions are submitted to him. Lord Cromer now holds the position. He reads all the plays and censors them not only from a moral, but from an artistic point of view. No free publicity is given to shows which have parts expurgated nor to those from which the permission of production is withheld. True, the position is a difficult one, and the man who holds...
...open, to all appearances guarded with no extraordinary rigor. Not so the twelfth. Religiously the watchdogs of the college swing shut at stroke of six the iron portals that front the Holden Chapel between Lionel and Mower Halls, and make them fast for the night with monolithic chain and padlock...
...someone will put a padlock on the Phillips Brooks House until the money it wants to spend on a new chapel has gone into a theatre, that man will do a great service to the University...
...true that the padlock method of enforcement, by which property is literally locked up under court injunction for a six-month period, gives the enforcement officers the most effective local weapon against liquor sellers. As Mr. Buckner points out, the normal trial-by-jury method would require ten years to clear the present calendars of the courts in New York city, but judges listening to injunctions could do it in less than half a year. The use of the injunction, however, is open to grave abuses. It is judge-made law, to be used when there is clearly no redress...