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The Strange Case of "The Miracle"
To what extant shall books, plays, and films be restricted in this country by what one or another religious group believes to be sacrilegious?The question has been posed directlv by the recent efforts of Catholic authorities in New York City to cause the withdrawal of an Italian film and to achieve a boycott of the theatre which, under a court injunction, persisted in showing it. BOSLEY CROWTHER, screen editor and critic of the New York Times since 1940 and a past chairman of the New York Film Critics,reports on a case which sets an important precedent involving censorship for theological reasons.