The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1914)

MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE 171 off, and sat on the chairs, stood up, sat down again and stood up just like they would on trotting horses, and I am sure that it was a miracle that the floor stood the weight of our stamping and kicking. If a man was in some terrible trouble and was about to commit "hari kari," when he saw this picture he would shriek and roar instead, and would think that life was worth living after all. I intend to become a photoplay actor as soon as possible in the Biograph or Vitagraph, but the difficulty is that I wont be able to get over there unless I join some traveling company or else work my way over to your country as a seaman. I have got a box at home in which I keep the photos of my favorites in the Motion Picture world. The topmost group is the Biograph, then Vitagraph, then Edison, etc., according to how I like them. If I had the choice as to who I liked best, American, or any other nationality, I would most certainly say that Americans beat all others into cocked-hats. I can't stand those colored French pictures, because, besides many other bad traits, such as being unnatural and exaggerating in their acting, they keep on glancing towards the camera, and, if there is anything that I can't stand, that's it. Here is luck, health, prosperity and long life to all Motion Picture actors and actresses ; also everybody else connected with Motion Pictures and your magazine, the best in the world. Wishing you every success, Marcus Tozer. • Marton, North Island, N. Z. The famous Censorship Debate between Canon Chase and President Frank Dyer has stirred up a good deal of interest among our readers, as well as among the newspapers and trade journals. Mr. Hennig's letter is a pretty strong vote for non-censorship : MOVIES OF GRAFTING OR BRUTAL COPS FORBIDDEN Chicago, Feb. 19. — Police Censor Funkhouser has forbidden the production in Chicago of Moving Pictures snowing policemen taking bribes or indulging in brutality, because he says they lessen the public's respect for the police. Editor Motiox Picture Magazine : I am greatly interested in the Great Debate now going on in your publication, and offer the foregoing clipping which shows a liberty already taken with the office of censorship, which must be particularly obnoxious to every liberalminded person. Who but a member of the police would have thought of this? Most certainly the 99.99 per cent, of the population would as soon have thought of throwing out a picture of this kind as to throw out an educational or travel picture. I say a brutal or bribe-taking police are worthy of no respect whatsoever. Are we to place the police upon a pedestal and worship them? They cannot muzzle the press when such sensations as the Becker affair in New York City come up. But they can muzzle the film, and they proceed to do so. And so when the film shows some of these instances it must be promptly suppressed. Heaven help us if an august ( ?) board of censorship such as Canon Chase advocates ever comes to pass. I dont want to take up any more of your time, but I want to congratulate you in securing this debate for your magazine. It is the best thing you have done yet in the year and a half that I have been a reader. Keep up your fight for a better Motion Picture and the rights that it ought to have. I'm sure you'll find the great mass of "Mr. Common Peepul" with you from first to last. Very truly yours, Chas. Hennig, Jr. Forty-third and Sprague Sts., Omaha, Neb. 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