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...Thou Shalt Not Drink. The Code is a specific, relatively short (about 4,000 words) list of prohibitions covering Crime, Sex, Vulgarity, Obscenity, Profanity, Costume, Dances, Religion, Locations (i.e., bedrooms), National Feelings. (Sample rule, under Crime: "The use of liquor in American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.") Under its provisions, the 28 member-companies of M.P.P.D.A. consult the Hays Office on every step in the making of a picture, from the purchase of a story idea to exhibition. If critics com plain that such prohibitions result in a childishly unrealistic...
...death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt...
...Algernon Swinburne (he had been expelled from the Royal Arts Club for laying the members' silk hats on the cloakroom floor and hopping on them) "shook [a] small, trembling fist" at the man he named "the Socialist of Galilee": Wilt thou yet take all, Galilean? but these thou shalt not take...
...This is a serious matter and not easy to answer. . . . What the Bible really means is: 'Thou shalt do no murder.' A murderer . . . goes out to kill others to gain selfish ends or because of a personal injury he will not forgive. . . . You were called by your country to disarm a dangerous and skillful enemy who [conquers by] torture and murder. . . . I do not call a policeman who must shoot a gangster . . . a murderer any more than the law does. Perhaps in the terrible business of war, murderous thoughts will take possession of us. . . . God, I am sure...
...fetched a record price to splutter in Technicolor for Warner Bros. Warners will give the owners (Mrs. Clarence Day, Producer Oscar Serlin, Dramatists Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) $500,000 down and half the gross, cannot release Father before 1947, must obey the owners' Ten Commandments (sternest commandment: thou shalt not film any script of which we disapprove...