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MOTOGRAPHY
Vol. XVII, No. 11.
son, labor organizations ; Dan W. Fry, federated colored societies.
Mrs. Crassweller is the only member of the new board that served on the censorship committee of the social service board. Three members of the board serve as inspectors.
The board was created under an ordinance revising the motion picture regulations of Tacoma. Penalties are provided for violations of the ordinance.
EXHIBITORS PASS ON FILMS
State Rights Pictures Entering Idaho Will Be Reviewed by Executive Committee or Secretary of Theater Managers' Body
The group of exhibitors in Idaho who recently organized the Idaho Theater Managers' Association have agreed upon a plan for preventing state rights productions being released in Idaho without the formality of being reviewed by an official body, just as productions of other classes are first submitted to the National Board of Review. A resolution was approved requiring that all state rights productions be first submitted to the executive committee or secretary of the association, who shall review the films and give impartial information regarding them to members of the association.
It has been urged also in a resolution that members note who those manufacturers are that are guilty of putting out objectionable films. The resolution covering the point specifies the kinds of films regarded as objectionable, as follows :
Resolved, That this association is opposed to the manufacture and exhibition of film subjects, featuring vice, sensational sex plays of an extremely sensual nature, of women in the nude, and that we condemn this tendency. And that we ask the members of this association to note those manufacturers guilty of this practice.
The convention went on record as opposed to Sunday closing and censorship. A motion was carried that a bill be' drafted and submitted to the legislature amending the Sunday amusement law to permit Sunday performances of motion pictures.
The officers and charter members of the association are the following:
H. J. Brown, Boise, president; E. E. Sharp, Nampa, vicepresident; A. Hager, Idaho Falls, second vice-president; C. C. Spencer, Wallace, third vice-president; Theodore Johnson, Boise, secretary and treasurer. Charter members : A. R. Anderson, Twin Falls ; R. D. Carrothers, Pocatello ; A. Hager, Idaho Falls ; E. E. Sharp, Nampa; F. F. Moe, Wardner; C. C. Spencer, Wallace ; H. J. Brown, Boise ; Coughanour, Payette ; W. J. Howell, Nampa ; J. H. Waters, Caldwell ; Lavering, Twin Falls ; R. T. Hurtt, Caldwell; CO. Bucknum, Emmett; A. C. Gordon, Weiser ; Johnson. Star : Walter Mendenhall, Boise ; C. Hendricks, Jr., Mountain Home ; Theodore Johnson, Boise.
Utah Women Oppose Censorship
The club women of Salt Lake City, Utah, through their committee on motion pictures, have united with the Utah Screen Club and the exhibitors in opposing the bill providing for censorship by a state board. Mrs. John Malick, spokesman for the committee, scouted the idea that a state board would improve upon the work of the National Board of Review.
The magnet for Geo. M. Cohan fans at the Actors' Fund Fair in New York will be the American Booth. He has agreed to act as one. ©f the salesmen in disposing of the Uncle Sam articles with which the booth will be stocked.
Matrimonial Clients in Films
7VO longer shall Lonesome Harry, the wealthy ranchman, subject himself to the risk of heartache and disappointment in selecting a bride by mail. No longer may authors and directors produce westerns in which the handsome cowboy writes to a matrimonial agency to obtain a wife, living thereafter in acute suspense until his eyes shall tell him what manner of woman he shall be bound to obey. Henceforth the hero shall sit expectantly watching the graces and charms of fair maidens on the screen, or viewing their pigeon toes, scrawny figures and squinting eyes, no longer fearful of marrying just "a rag, a bone and a hank o' hair." He shall see each and every candidate for his hand in motion pictures, as it is now done in the most progressive little city in the world, Tuscola, Illinois. "Brownie" Linton, who runs the Strand Theater at Tuscola, recently obtained five hundred feet of film from a matrimonial agency at Peoria, Illinois, showing some of their clients in every-day life. Both men and women, ranging in age from eighteen years to sixty-seven years, have a footage in the film.
Washington Censor Bill Killed
The censor bill introduced into the senate at Olympia, Washington, by Senator Davis, was never brought to a vote of either house of the legislature, the reason being that exchange managers of Seattle got together as soon as they heard about the introduction of the bill and put machinery in action for blocking its passage. The exchange managers' club sent Frank S. Fountain, manager of Progressive, was appointed to go down to' Olympia in the interests of the film men.
Mr. Fountain made two trips to the state capital and brought his well known powers of persuasion into play. The bill never went farther than the committee. It is rumored that Mr. Fountain even persuaded the originator of the measure that it was both impracticable and unjust.
As it was introduced into the senate the bill provided for a censorship board of three members, each to receive an annual salary of $1,800. There was to be a secretary at a salary of $2,000. But where the bill hit the producing companies hardest was in taxing them one dollar for every one thousand feet or less of film viewed by the censors.
'The Deemster" in Sing Sing
The Arrow Film Corporation's production of "The Deemster" was presented at Sing Sing prison in Ossining, Washington's birthday evening. Over 1,700 convicts witnessed the run, which was made under the direction of E. J. O'Donnell, business manager of the Arrow Film Corporation.
The various exchanges of Vitagraph-V. L. S. E.. through which "The Fall of a Nation" now is being released, report to Walter W. Irwin, general manager of the company, a widespread interest in the Thomas Dixon spectacle drama, increased, particularly, by the timeliness of the subject. Among the bookings received at the home office for confirmation last Saturday were : Grand Theater, Kinston, N. C, two days; Grand, Green Bay, Wis., five days; Three Forks, Mont., one day; Strand, Oakland, Cal., three days; Liberty, Coalingo, Cal., one day; Marque, Oakland, Cal., two days; Gen. Oldham, S. D., two clays; Jefferson, Huntsville, Ala., three days, and Colonial, Orange, Cal., one day.