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...Crom met and passed two fateful resolutions. The first gave notice to Mexico's new President, Señor Emilio Fortes Gil, that provincial officials are "persecuting" members of the Crom, and asked that these persecutions be stopped. The second resolution requested President Fortes Gil to padlock the Teatro Lirico in Mexico City, where a gross buffoon has been impersonating and holding up to ridicule, night after night, the President of Crom, paunchy Luis N. Morones...
...policeman stared at a heavy padlock thrust through the nostrils of a grilled iron gate. At the sealed placard "CLOSED FOR VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT" he gazed with an expression of regret. Shaking his head, he muttered, "They hadn't ought to have done...
...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...