Motion Picture Directors Association, managed an elaborate gala production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Hollywood Bowl on October 7, 1922 as a benefit for the Actors Fund of America. The production included the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under director Frederic Richard Sullivan. Prohibition In 1926 Campbell, who was an active supporter of Prohibition, became Supervisor of the Great Lakes and North Atlantic Zones for the Bureau of Prohibition, the federal agency charged with enforcing that law. In June 1927 he was appointed the administrator for Prohibition District 2 of the state of New York, a district which included New York City – a center of opposition to Prohibition. Campbell's enthusiastic enforcement efforts, including a massive series of nightclub raids in New York City while New York state's "wet" governor, Al Smith, was being nominated at the Democratic national convention, were politically embarrassing to Republican party leaders. In July 1930 he was reassigned to upstate New York and resigned in protest. By then Campbell had concluded that enforcement was impossible and a cause of corruption and crime. Campbell accused Assistant Treasury Secretary Seymour Lowman and others of asking him to reduce Prohibition enforcement in New York City for political reasons, publishing a series of articles in the New York World about the matter and later complaining directly to President Hoover about Lowman's conduct. In 1931 Campbell became the editor of a new anti-Prohibition publication, "Repeal". Personal life Campbell and Crosman had a son, Maurice Jr., in 1897. They moved to Pelham Manor, New York in 1913 and lived there the rest of their lives, except for Campbell's war service and his time in Hollywood in the early 1920s. References External links 1870 births 1942 deaths Businesspeople from Philadelphia People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania People from Pelham Manor, New York New York University alumni 19th-century American journalists American theatre managers and producers Prohibition in New York City Film directors from Pennsylvania