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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1959
Page
17
Hollywood wrestles with self censorship after the Anatomy of a Murder case, as frank dialogue and explicit topics push boundaries. The Legion of Decency rebukes the film and Chicago police threaten licenses, signaling a shift from star power to shock value in box office strategy.
A 1929 to 1970s view of film censorship traces how lines and scenes were cut for decency from Beal, Stage Coach and A Yank At Oxford to Anatomy Of A Murder and Room At The Top. It notes Preminger’s role in challenging limits and predicts movies becoming a second art form alongside TV. Also reports Gettysburg Battlefield visitor numbers rising and Civil War Institute events at Gettysburg College with a Pipe Creek Defense Line visit.
The second annual Gettysburg College institute will tour the Shriver Homestead at Union Mills where Confederate General J B Stuart and Union General George Sykes briefly met on June 29, 1853. The Pipe Creek Defense Line was issued by Meade soon after command, shaping the Union defense.
The defense line stretched from Emmitsburg and Taneytown in the west to Union Mills and Manchester in the east with Westminster as base. Lee moved south toward Baltimore and Washington and aimed to assault the line by June 30, but the battle erupted at Gettysburg on July 1 forcing all troops to move there.
Miss Frances Collier, 16, Montgomery Blair High School senior, was elected first vice president of the Future Homemakers of America at the FHA annual convention in Chicago July 13 17. The national organization includes about 500000 high school members studying home economics.
Colker joined about 2 000 homemakers attending the annual Maryland FHA convention held at Road Silver Spring. The group emphasized improved meat processing with whale meat cited as an example of properly caught and prepared produce.
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