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Censorship files on the play Maya
- Title
- Censorship files on the play Maya, 1927-1928.
- Author
- Actor-Managers, Inc.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2001-022 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Description
- .21 lf. (1 box)
- Summary
- The Actor-Managers, Inc. files on the censorship of Simon Gantillon's play MAYA span 1927-1928, but are mostly concentrated in February and March 1928, during the height of the controversy.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Clippings.
- Petitions.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- found in cage file
- Biography (note)
- Actor-Managers, Inc., was a New York theatrical production organization which in February 1928 staged Simon Gantillon's French play MAYA (1924), in an English translation by Ernest Boyd, with Aline MacMahon in the lead role of a prostitute.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 2001-022
- OCLC
- NYPW01-A82
- Author
- Actor-Managers, Inc.
- Title
- Censorship files on the play Maya, 1927-1928.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Actor-Managers, Inc., was a New York theatrical production organization which in February 1928 staged Simon Gantillon's French play MAYA (1924), in an English translation by Ernest Boyd, with Aline MacMahon in the lead role of a prostitute. City authorities contacted the producers and demanded that the show close, lest the owners of the theater, the Shuberts, be penalized under the provisions of the 1927 "Wales Padlock Law," a morals act which gave the authorities the right to close a theater whose owners were deemed in violation of the law for up to one year. The producers of MAYA offered to make textual cuts, and received letters of support from various prominent critics, actors, and other citizens, but the play was closed.
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- *T-Mss 2001-022