Word: smut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right as far as you go, but neither of you seem to realize the full importance and scope of the problem which confronts you. It is not a question of whether this specific play is art, or even whether it is "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut." It is rather a question which strikes at the ground work of our entire social system, namely, can censorship still be imposed upon...
...rapid reading of most of the play loads one almost to agree with Mr. Mansfield that the play comes pretty close to being "a dirty book" and "full of commonplace smut," but I take it that since the epoch-making decision of Judge Woolsey in New York, this makes little difference if "art" is proven. It certainly has not been proven in the case of this play...
...judgment of the former muckraker is amply justified. His Honor the Mayor has taken it upon himself, at the urging of the Catholic Church, to brand a play termed "great" by the most experienced dramatic critics in the United States as "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut...
...season began, five shows of the 1933-34 season were still running on Broadway. Veterans of the torrid doldrums, two were smut shows for summer visitors (Are You Decent? Sailor, Beware!), one was an uproarious comedy (She Loves Me Not), one was a revue (As Thousands Cheer), one was a local color drama (Tobacco Road...
...Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired Tim's" blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael...