Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1919)

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Not only should you wish to appear as attractive as possible for your own selfsatisfaction, which is alone well worth your efforts, but you will find the world in general judging you greatly, if not wholly, by your "looks," therefore it pays to "look your best" at all times. Permit no one to see you looking otherwise; it will injure your welfare! Upon the impression you constantly make rests the failure or success of your life — which is to be your ultimate destiny? My new NoseShaper "Trados" (Model 24) corrects now ill-shaped noses without operation quickly, safely and permanently. Is pleasant and does not interfere with one's daily occupation, being worn at night. Write today for free booklet, which tells you how lo correct Ill-Shaped Noses without cost if not satisfactory. M. TRILETY, Face Specialist, 1039 Ackerman Bldg., BINGHAMTON, N. Y Exhibitors vs. Producers {Continued from page 39) audience would be interested, is considered an impossible feat. The established producers can govern their own wares but they cannot prevent other producers making sensational or immoral photoplays and selling them to the ignorant exhibitor to catch the particular element of the public that enjoys that type of entertainment. Unfortunately by these motion pictures is the whole photoplay field judged. Pictures of this ilk are generally handled by what is known as "state rights." Some concern operating in a certain territory will buy a certain number of prints from the producer and then send them to the exhibitors in his district to exploit in his own fashion. A story is told of a certain producer for the "state rights" market, directing a scene in which a lightly clad star is discovered reclining in her boudoir. Noticing her position the producer called, "Show a little more leg, Gertrude, this is a 'state rights' picture." This statement is by no means intended to condemn the state rights method of marketing, as a number of excellent pictures are handled that way — but to show that the state rights method is now the only available way for unclean pictures to be offered to the public. With the ending of the war, the activities of a number of industrious persons who roust force their ideas and opinions on others have been transferred from trying to keep the soldiers from • smoking cigarets and staying out nights, to^ picking on the motion picture and the triumph of prohibition has left scores of other reformers casting about for new pastures. The motion picture is their shining target. The producers know that for the want of other activities on the part of the professional reformers, the motion picture is in for its attack, and already whispers of censorship are heard over the land. The public generally is too interested in their own private affairs to make any effort to protest against a few people deciding the likes and dislikes of the balance of the population, but the reported action of the distributors in refusing to ship film into the states or communities which have a censorship board over and above the National Board of Review is a long step toward confining the film censorship to one national committee. For when the cities and property owners are confronted by dark, unoccupied theaters, and when it is discovered that a few people have by their actions denied them their national evening amusement, the longsuffering public is going to rise in its wrath and decide to select its own line of thought and choose what it shall see and enjoy. Several exhibitors, who could better devote their time to trying to present entertainments that would attract people to their theaters, have admitted to the industry that they know more about producing a picture than anyone yet living. They demand that they should have a committee present in the different studios to tell the director just how the picture should be done. A short walk around a studio with one of these worthies shows that they are entirely devoid of any knowledge of the limitations of a camera, the essential points of dramatic construction, or even the details necessary to make a story comprehensive to an audience. An inspired orchestra leader came out with the scheme that a musician should stand by the side of a director and tell ** V