Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1919)

Photoplay Magazine Advertising Se< m<>\ i i Dear 1) w LiorotJ ( Concluded) iy subject matter. The thousand letters arc da isified in the bos on page So, in s|iiit oi the fact that .1 quarter of a million dollars i> being spent annually in correspondence between star and fan, it is Dot likely that any measures of curtailment will hi inaugurated Ami from the present outlook. Minnie Wilkins, of Poughkeepsie, will have the real signature ol her favorite, v ill lie informed when that favorite is married, will receive the sympathy ol the same favorite during her time ol trials and tribulations, ami the picture of the favorite will adorn tin walls of Minnie Wilkins' home. "Clean Pictures! l.\i'i> Manufacturer a Pledge (Continued from page 47 1 and talent. They use appeals to morbidness a- a final effort to gain tin footing they fail to win by interior effort along respectable lines. They represent a minor element among producers and distributors which censorship encourages by recognition. This recognition works a hardship on decent producing and distributing interests by focussing public at tent ion on objectionable attractions through censor board efforts for publicity in newspapers. As an exhibitor organization First National i> striving for elimination of the necessity of censorship by placing every difficulty possible in the paths of producers of immoral subjects to the screens of theatres which its members can influence apart from those they own. All of our theatres arc devoted to clean pictures only.'' R. A. Rowland, President of Metro, believes: "There is no more reason for censorship on motion pictures than there is for censorship of the press. The newspapers aim to be clean in their news sheets, and if anv one newspaper attempted to get away with unclean news it would soon be stopped by j the public or the police. This same principle applies to motion pictures. Every reputable manufacturer is earnest in his desire to make clean pictures. The Metro company is already on record that it will not countenance anything but the cleanest pictures possible, and as evidence of this I submit that the Pennsylvania censor board, which is one of the strictest in the United States, has not turned a Metro picture down in the last three years. The police and the public would soon stop any fly-by-night producer who attempted to make unclean pictures. Plans are now being laid by the national association which includes all reputable film manufacturers to prevent any unscrupulous producer offering any unclean subject on the market." And from that famous champion of liberty in art, David Wark Griffith: "Unless theatres, both legitimate and vaudeville; unless newspapers, churches, public lectures and looks are also censored, it is both futile and unjust to attempt to censor motion pictures. When you can buy a complete history of the tragedies of any great city in a newspaper for a penny it is absurd to pretend to protect the public by forbidding the representation of crime on the screen. Had modern censors existed in past ages and followed out their present theories to a logical conclusion we would have no Homer's Iliad. no Bible, and none of the beautiful dramas given us as the grandest heritage of the human race — the plays of Shakespeare. The right of free speech has cost untold agonies and rivers of blood. It is not to be thrown away. 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