Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

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THE SAINTS AT WORK in furnishing an inspector to work under the direction of the board, for the board, for the greater part of the year . . . Paid inspection has shown immediate results in better enforcement of the law. The Board has been obliged to rely on volunteers in the Counties, and as this is not entirely satisfactory a request for two additional inspectors at salaries of $900 each has been submitted to the legislature." And so we find that the three politically appointed guardians of the pure have not been able to satisfactorily cover fifty-four miles of film a week and have called upon volunteer saviours in "the counties." The citizens of Maryland have had their movies cut and hacked by the type of man or woman who, either for the sheer love of purity, or $900 a year, would sit and gaze upon reel after reel of Hollywood film. As a chart for sailing the boundless seas of evil, the board has postulated its code of morals. Any movie violating these was censored. "Suggestive comedy, stories built on illicit love, over-passionate love scenes, disrespect of 41