Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Incorporated
Volume:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Leaf #:
000163
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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LADIES AT PLAY the support of the Methodist and Presbyterian ladies. We could agree to the theoretical advantages of the Board but common-sense and everyday occurrence deny them. Women who have nothing to do go to club meetings. Movie producers are a fearsome lot, they have banded together and given a politician almost arbitrary power, and with no feeling for real courage, taste, or dignity, he has allocated a censorship power to the ladies. Your Associated Press has no group of women sitting in the news room cutting the stories. Your publisher has no group of twelve sitting in the composing room telling the boys what they can print. True, the ladies raise hell when some of the news comes out, but we have no objection to that. We do object to the fact that, not content with state censorship, Will Hays has allowed these club women to send delegates to Hollywood to "work" with his office on movies before they leave the factory, and that he takes the opinions of the D. A. R. and the rest of the ladies before you or I or the director 113