Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIE The play "Rain" was produced as "Sadie Thompson." The villain was a minister; in the movies he was reincarnated as a "professional reformer." Somerset Maugham, a writer and physician known and respected by intelligent people of three continents, wrote a story called "Miss Thompson." It was a story of a prostitute who was "saved" by a sexstarved evangelist, and then violated by her saviour who erased his sin by cutting his throat. The story was laid in the tropics; it was a psychological story of sex inhibition. It was no new topic, but the story was dramatized into a play called "Rain" and played for three years in the leading cities of the country. In every nation this subject has served as a dramatic theme. "The Scarlet Letter" and "An American Tragedy," two best-selling novels of two different generations, touched upon this idea. "Hell Bent for Heaven," a prize-winning play by a Columbia professor, "Salvation," "Bride of the Lamb," "Revolt" and a host of plays and novels dealing with the physical relationship of sex and religion have appeared unmolested from time to time and from year 6