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Miss Briscoe vs. Censorship LOTTIE BRIS- cok, of the L u b i n Company, says she is opposed to censorship of pictures on many grounds: First, that no two people agree on the matter of art; second, that the police regulations are sufficient to stop and cor- rect any sug- gestion of im- morality or indecency; third, that in her life she has been brought in con- f 1 i c t with much interfering officialdom. When a little girl she was the first victim selected by Mr. Gerry, of the Gerry Society, whose ostensible ob jects are to prevent children appearing on the stage, however well they may be looked after, edu- cated or brought up, and whether it was be- cause she was the only child who appeared so stantly on Broad w a. y whether it was because Gerry Society thought chance for publicity, she was a sub- ject of constant attacks. AVhen "For Fair Virginia" was to be produced at Daly's, Mr. Gerry per- sonally interfered and tried to stop it. Miss Bi-iscoe went down to Mr. Low. then mayor of New York, and pleaded with him for a special license to ap- pear. Her mother and her tutors were with her, and her childish elo- quence so affected the mayor, that he granted her a permit against Mr. Gerry's and his Society's objections. When she was engaged to play "Puck' 84 by Augustin Daly, Mr. Gerry again interfered, and this time with better success. He tried to console her child- ish sorrow by the offer of a ten-dollar gold piece, which she threw back at him, crying:"I dont want your money, I want to play 'Puck.' " The only reason that she did not appear with Mansfield in his production of "The., First Violin," tho she was under con- tract with him, was because of the Gerry opposition. However, in another piece, "My Friend from India," she successfully defied the Gerry Society, by having her dresses made and padded in such a manner that it added at least five years to her apparent age, thus mak- ing her look like a young woman, instead of a little child. Even in Miss Bris- coe's most distressful mo- ments, her sense of humor rises triumphantly to the top. Some weeks ago she was attacked with gastritis, and her medical man, for pur- poses of diag- nosis, thought it best to make an ex-ray photo- graph of Miss Briscoe 's stomach. After facing the ex- ray camera she turned round to her physician and said: "It's always been said that we Motion Picture leading ladies are the most photographed women in the world, but now I really am the most photo- graphed woman in the world." Need- less to say this is one picture of Miss Briscoe which will not appear.