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Floyd Gibbons: "Take glamor out of immorality and audiences will tire of it."
Mrs. Roosevelt: "The film industry desires to use its power for the country's improvement."
John Boles: "Pictures have given the man in the street a fine, liberal education."
AT the bar of public opinion stand the movies, charged by religious leaders of all leading faiths with being a menace to the morals of the great American public — to your morals. You have heard, no doubt, the voices of the "prosecuting attorneys." You've heard, too, the voices of the "attorneys for the defense," the producers and film stars. Last month Modern Screen took up the cudgel for the defense.
But you, who are both the judge and the jury, the people in whose hands the fate of the motion picture industry lies, will not want to be guided entirely by what either the prosecution or the defense tells you. You will want to make your decision from your own experience and from the opinions of clear-thinking, unprejudiced witnesses.
Modern Screen has compiled testimony from public and exclusive statements made by such people as the First Lady of the Land, two of America's greatest lawyers, leading theatrical and radio entertainers, leading newspaper writers, and others who are pre-eminent in different fields.
You will find this testimony by no means one-sided. Fairmindedness is the password to this open forum, to which you are invited to join. Why not take this opportunity to write and tell us what you think of this tremendous problem which faces the industry.
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is one of the nation's leaders not only because of her husband's position, but through her own keen mind as well, took up the question of the movies in a recent talk over the NBC chain.
Said Mrs. Roosevelt : "Lately it has been felt that the tendency to glorify the racketeer and criminal, or at least to make him appear as a sympathetic character, was having something of a bad effect on the children of the country. Consequently, this new announcement (that Joseph Breen, assistant to Will H. Hays, had been appointed censor by the film industry itself. — Ed.) should do much to make women's organizations feel that the film industry as a whole desires to cooperate and use its tremendous power for the improvement of the country."
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