Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...topic of the recent censorship campaign, Miss Brady was convinced that the move was made for the sake of Publicity on the one hand, and on the other, to prevent a certain extremely salacious play from reaching New York. "The Virgin Man's one of the plays involved in the censorship, was playing to empty houses, for the very good reason that it was a very poor play. Now the enormous publicity given it, has not only kept it alive but has sent it capacity audiences...
...question arises whether the Register should be limited in scope to the college or should, as heretofore, cover the activities of the whole University. The graduate schools have never shown enough interest in the Register to subscribe. On the other hand, the Register is run more for the sake of the information it contains than for the number of subscribers it will attract...
...behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire...
Into Broadway's recent sex flurry (TIME, Feb. 21) stepped Publisher Horace B. Liveright, last week. "For Art's sake" and as a test case to determine the scope of police jurisdiction in censorship, Mr. Liveright promised soon to produce The Captive, a play dealing with one woman's abnormal fondness for another. The Captive voluntarily ceased showing, after it had been charged with being a "public nuisance...
...Mill (Marion Davies). In a Dutch inn, a scintillant slavey woos the wrong man for her girlfriend's sake, wins the right one (Owen Moore) for her own. But the really important thing about the film is that Marion Davies wears her blonde tresses in two heavy braids and discards the velvets of romantic royalty to charm in the homespuns of domestic Holland...