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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
Vol 11. No. 19.
FLAVIA ARCORA, MUSICAL COMEDY QUEEN, JOINS UNITED
Every one who has followed the history of musical comedy for the last number of years recalls with pleasure the memorable bits of comedy work and the singing hits of Flavia Arcora, who since the day when she created the role of Lady Anne in "The Student King" of Henry
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Substitute Censorship Bill Passes Ohio Senate
Penalty for Showing Uncensored Films to Fall on Exchanges Instead of Exhibitors; Censors May Delegate Powers — Governor Expected to Sign the Measure
FLAVIA ARCORA
Savage, has been one of the most popular of the comediennes of the light opera stage.
She will be remembered in De Koven's "The Snow Man," Louis Mann's "White Hen," with Eddie Foy in "The Orchid," as Zoe in "The Red Rose," with Edward Powers in "Two Little Brides."
She has now joined the Empress stock company, and will support Joseph Levering and Marian Swayne in one and two reel pictures for the United program.
Two of the splendid and unusual pictures which will appear on the United program soon, made by the Empress company, in which Miss Arcora will be seen, are "The Spender" and "The Vivissectionist" — a study in psychology written by Rev. Clarence J. Harris.
Special to Motion Picture News
Columbus, O., May 4.
OVERRIDING, under the spur of Republican Floor Leader Howard, the amendments offered by Senator Fellinger, of Cleveland, to remove from the censor board the right to delegate their authority when overworked to certain of their subordinate employes, and of Senator Myers, to create a volunteer appeal board of ten representative men and women to whom producers or exchange men dissatisfied with the decisions of the board could appeal, the Senate yesterday afternoon passed the Besow bill.
The measure as passed, in addition to the power of calling upon subordinates to censor pictures, places the responsibility for showing uncensored films or films in which changes ordered have not been made upon the exchange men instead of the exhibitors and gives final jurisdiction in cases of violations to justices of the peace, police judges and mayors of the district in which the offenses were committed. The fees for
censoring remain unchanged. It is believed Governor Willis will sign the bill.
The bill known as House Bill 450, passed the House by a safe majority and was sent up to the Senate. There it was met by the opposition, and promptly equipped with two amendments. The first of these killed the second of the above-named provisions, and made it incumbent upon the members of the board to do the reviewing of films themselves.
The second amendment, and the most important one from the manufacturers' standpoint, created an appeal board, consisting of ten men and women, to serve without salaries, upon appointment by the governor. This board would meet once, or at most twice a month, and all manufacturers and exchangemen would have the privilege of appealing from the decisions of the censor board to this higher body. Such an appeal would have automatically stayed all action by the censors until the appeal had been heard and passed upon by the new board.
Kane Offers $100 for Best Story of "Prohibition"
He Holds Showing in the Broadway Theatre at 2.00 a. m., for Contestants, Salvation Army Derelicts, Whose Experiences Seemed to Qualify Them as Judges
1i\T arranging for the descriptive matter to be contained in the literature exploiting the feature film "Prohibition," Robert T. Kane, president of the producing company handling the picture, made a novel experiment.
Seeking to get • away from the usual stereotype story covering the mere dramatic action of the plot, Mr. Kane went into several Salvation Army meetings and publicly announced that he would give a prize of one hundred dollars to the best story of the film "Prohibition" written by one of the derelicts who came to the Salvation Army meetings in hope of finding a better way.
In order to give these men the opportunity of seeing the film and thus enabling them to write intelligently about it. Mr. Kane gave a special demonstration of the picture at a Broadway theatre at 2 o'clock in the morning, to which were invited in
ebriates only. Whether they were men who went out of curiosity and by their presence tacitly admitted falsely that they were victims of the alcoholic habit could not be accurately known, but the theatre was filled. Many interesting details of the occasion could be related, did space permit of so doing.
As a result of this contest about 1,200 stories were submitted, upon which Mr. Kane personally passed together with a selected board of publicity experts. The story selected as being the best was sent in by Donald Hobert French, a one time Australian newspaper man, who had lost his grip when he found himself unable to keep his foot off the brass rail. Mr. Kane had a chat with French, who said that with the hundred dollars he would try again.
Mr. Kane added another hundred dollars to give him two tries.
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PANORAMIC VIEW OF GEORGE XLEINE'S NEW STUDIO AT GRUGLIASCO, ITALY, JUST COMPLETED