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Screen IMMORAL?
Sexton
QWill the campaign against stage morals force the footlights to sugar-coat the realties of life after the fashion of the screen held in the grip of censors ?
Unwise restraints upon the modern motion picture â– which tend to give a Pollyanna twist to every picture passed by the state board of censors are condemned by Wilton A. Barrett, executive secretary of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, as perverting life.
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Pollyannaism a Menace
'cgar-coatixg the realities of life in the manner which prevails under censorship is a decided menace," said Mr. Barrett. ''That is my opinion and I feel that it is the opinion of the entire board.
"Screen censorship insists on the heroine, who is a virgin, the hero, who is chaste, and the villain, who is solid black. Everything and everybod}', under the censors,
DE MIBJIAN STUDIOS
0 Artists and Models, the very much undressed revue, was a sensation on the New York stage this year. Above. Kyra, the chief dancer of Artists and Models. At the left, a scene from the motion picture, The Temple of Venus, which displeased John S. Sumner so much.
must be black or white. There is no middle course. It completely overlooks the fact that no one in the world is ever all black or all white. As Thackeray once said all of us are 'tabby.' Censorship will never admit that human beings are 'tabby.' It insists on characters that are the color of snow-white and on themes that are the color of mush.
"Censorship will always fail for this very reason. Because after all in morality it is character which decides the issue and the censors ignore character entirely in the Pollyanna creed.