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Bernarrd† MacFadden and his "PornoGraphic" at its best (or worst) which has frequently received sharp thrusts from 'Holier than Thou' TIME could not have printed a spicier morsel than the "invidious passages" from Potiphar's Wife...
Unlike Manhattan, which keeps its art respectable by means of the criminal code, London has a personal censor-the Lord Chamberlain. When Potiphar's Wife was announced for London's Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne...
...Invidious passages: GENESIS XXXIX, 12: And she [Potiphar's wife] caught him [Joseph] by his garment saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13: And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 14: That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice...
...rocky, sandy peninsula. His frequent nuptials (not counting concubinations) were usually preceded by revelations, which only one of the wives, irreverent young Ayesha, ever presumed to suspect. He consoled a dying wife with the assurance that his arrival in heaven was eagerly awaited by Moses' sister (Kulthum), Potiphar's wife and the Virgin Mary...
...bulk, nor do Og, Gog and Magog, those hairy monsters, rate more. Noah is "accredited with having discovered the process of making wine." Joseph is referred to with consummate discretion: "Presumably being attractive of person, he suffered from a malicious and entirely unfounded accusation leveled at him by Potiphar's wife -whose passion Joseph did not share." Obadiah, says Author Allen, "is a very common name in the Scriptures and none of its bearers has any claim to particular distinction." Neither, it may be added, has Author Allen's book. It is entertaining, harmless, perhaps useful...