Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debussy--Prayer to the Virgin Mary De Falia--Canciones populares Espanolas El pano moruno Seguidilla murciana Asturiana Jota Nana Polo...
...plan proposed for New York, which is an outgrowth of the recent suppression of the plays "Sex", "The Captive" and "The Virgin Man", provides for a board of censors composed of three actors, three producers and three playwrights...
Broadway has lately blazed with headlines: "Sex Plays Raided," "Police Rout Vice Show," etc. etc. What actually occurred was more polite. By arrangement with the managements, detectives called in police limousines for the actors, actresses, producers and authors of The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man. They called after the evening performances, like well-behaved escorts. In night court, pleased judges accepted packets of bail. Then everyone posed for flashlight pictures. The hearings were vaguely postponed. Day courts furnished the theatres with injunctions against further "persecution...
...flurry saved the day for The Virgin Man, which was close to failure. After the "raid" Author-Manager William F. Dugan was obliged to seek a bigger theatre to accommodate the sympathetic public. Sex and The Captive had been running for eleven and five months, respectively. They now looked good for another season. One manager joked: "We'll fight it out on this line if it takes all Sumner...
...Banton, privileged to guard the city's morals, once tried having a citizens' play jury, but had to disband it for its failure to find dirt. The evident lack of heart in the police procedure against The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man, was doubtless due to the fact that the public censor is also a public servant requiring votes to hold office. Nevertheless, pending the hearings on these three plays, the management of a "homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring...