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30 MOTION PICTURES of Review on information volunteered by the motion picture industry itself, the chances are in favor of any existing bias being to the credit of the industry. Only fifteen of the sixty-three owners and managers replied that they had received any complaints from their patrons con- cerning the moral tone of the pictures they exhibited. Fifty-five objections were raised by thirty-seven individuals to whom questionnaires were sent, exclusive of those objections which related to sex-suggestive titles, to serials and to bathing-girl comedies. Twenty-three of the fifty-five objections were against the so-called sex pictures. The others were against "pictures with excessive brutality and killing," the showing of the underworld and crime, "nudity, vulgarity or salaciousness," the vampire and "over-done love scenes," and a total of seven objections against propaganda, costume, highbrow society, sacrilegiousness, dope, illegitimacy and "cheap" pictures. In answer to a later question specific pictures against which objec- tions existed in the patronage of the theatres in question were mentioned. As was to be expected, no one picture was given any preponderance of votes, since there were only sixty-five mentioned at all. "Idols of Clay" was mentioned nine times, "Midnight Madness" six times, "Sex", "Prisoners of Love" and "Outside the Law" were mentioned four times. Two were mentioned three times, seven two times and forty-eight one time. It might be imagined that since such a wide range of choice existed that the objections were vague or ill-founded. This does not necessarily follow, for the total number of pictures mentioned was only a small part of the total shown during the six months covered by the investigation, and other investigations have tended to show that pictures containing objectionable features are not few. The question of objectionable titles to pictures which are possibly otherwise unobjectionable was also raised, though the practice of attaching "box office titles" to the picturizations of innocent stories is too well known to require much comment. Changing the title of Sir J. M. Barrie's "The Admirable Crich-