anticensorship

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won__ be Joan__ [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes__o the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children.