Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1919)

THK WORI.irS l.ICADING MOVING PUTURi: MAGAZINE PHOTOPLAY Vol. X^'l JILY, 1919 No. 2 The League of Sunshine CT' I 'HE Smiths, in the next apartment, are strangers. Tou have no panic ular thought as to how late you ought to play the piano. Tou ta\e as much of the common basement space as you can get away with. But to }{now the Smiths is to regret nervous little Mrs. Smith's sleepless nights, which retire your piano not long after dinner. And, feeling a shy comradeship with the pale, sweet'faced little Smith hoy, you pile your stuff high in one comer of the basement, and perhaps you help him build a big fort in the rest of the space, from which, on stormy days, he can shoot Indians or defy the world. Before any two peoples can realize the brotherhood idea of The League of T^ations, all peoples must get acquainted. Getting acquainted — a commonplace, gossipy, everyday thing, yet it is at once the mightiest tas}{ and the gravest problem of The Twentieth Ceiitury. There is only one force that will tie country to country, continent to continent, in the bonds of understanding : The Motion Picture. Tou cant interest a warm human being in cold things li\e editorial argu' ments, lectures, or the gales of the spellbinder, where this matter is concerned. Touve got to show him other human beings of li\e mind. We are mteresteci in the commonest business of everyday living. "Ave/" "Haill" and "Hochr have been drowned m the universal cry, "When do we eat?" The ideal condition would be everybody going an a personal visit to everybody else, hut since such a transit is as impractical as Bolshevism, we must seek, a substitute, a Universal Visitor. The Motion Picture is the only Universal Visitor. We must bac}{ up The League of T^ations with a League of Sunshine.