Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power companies. Testifying before the commission, Mrs. Sherman said that from 1924 to 1928 the N. E. L. A. had contributed $80,000 to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Last week the Federation Directors de cided that hereafter articles written by members must pass a price censorship committee...
Though drastic censorship precluded exact knowledge of what was taking place, a symposium of rumors confirmed reports that His Majesty had proclaimed the termination of all "reforms"-such as the edict requiring men to wear pants (TIME, Sept. 10)-and was making desperate efforts to rally his troops and recover the loyalty of his people as a whole...
Lucrecia Borgia. The incestuous love imputed by historians to Cesare Borgia for his sister, Lucrecia, is perfumed to meet censorship requirements by making him her cousin. This change and the reason for it are naively explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...rapid was the movement in official circles that officers of the Dramatic Club, consulting with counsel, had no opportunity to offer the book of the play to the authorities for discussion. Newspaper extras announcing the censorship of the production were on the streets before counsel for the club had approached the city fathers...
...morality in the drama can be referred. Overacting joined to broad dialogue may be offensive to public taste, but theatre-goers are less impressionable than they were, and the effective powers of a play have been exaggerated. Where possibility of offense is confined to isolated lines of dialogue, sweeping censorship argues high susceptibility on the part of the audience which would view the performance. Why the audiences of "Fiesta" should be more receptive than those which attend shows in other parts of the city is problematical...