Today -100: September 13, 1925: Of assassinations, gunboats, and censors

Romanian police thwart an assassination attempt against King Ferdinand and Queen Marie in Kishinev, Bessarabia, presumably in retaliation against a mass trial of Bessarabians for a revolt against land seizures.

The US sends a gunboat and a light cruiser to Nicaragua, as was the custom, because there might be political upheaval.

The Lord Chamberlain (um, in Britain), on something of a censorship streak lately, refuses to license that musical version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin unless they alter the “semi-nude” costumes in the slave sale scene, which are definitely the most offensive thing about a musical version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  (Update: the costume was in fact copied from an 1862 print. After changes are made to it, the play is issued its license.)

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