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Photographic reproduction of the special charter issued to the Cinema Club of Columbia University, now associated with the Better Photoplay League
of America in that organization's constructive work.
Better Photoplay League Gains Support
of New Allies!
Organized movement for better pictures receives response from J^lew Jersey to Los Angeles — progress of the month
By Myra Kingman Miller
THE West! — the energetic West, — is ever to the front in movements that require enthusiasm, cooperation and energy, and Los Angeles, the Golden Key city, with ner usual foresight has seemingly anticipated the Better Photoplay league of America. Our hats are jft to Los Angeles!
Mrs. Janetta B. Wright, Chairman of the Los Angeles, California. League of Good Films, writes a most interesting letter in which she says that, in reading Photoplay, she discovered that the Better '.'hotoplay League of America was doing along national lines what the citizens of Los Angeles had been doing for several years along local She congratulates the Better
Photoplay League of America on their work, stating at the same time that the Los Angeles League is not
THE Photoplay League of America is an organization of intelligent people who, realizing the tremendous influence that the screen now exerts and the great force that it is to be in the future, have interested themselves in an effort to aid in a constructive manner in the development of the new art and industry.
IT is not enough to criticise and discourage your exhibitor when he shows inferior pictures. You must prove to him that good pictures will increase his attendance. You must give him organized encouragement, real encouragement, in the shape of increased attendance. If you do not do this, you have failed.
JAMES R. QUIRK, Pres. Better Photoplay League of America.
now holding meetings regularly inasmuch as the workers are all busy in war activities, Mrs. Wright herself being in Washington. D. C.
Now here is one point and the only one in which we differ from Mrs. Wright and the Los Angeles League. Better Films are not only considered by the National League but also by our Government war time activity and a most important one. Think of the atrocious, insidious, under-mining proGerman, anti-Ally thoughts that have been subtly presented through the motion picture to an unsuspecting public during the first year of our participation in the war! One producer now is a gue-t of the nation in a small room where the draperies at the window are one and a half inch iron bars — all because of his special activities along