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Photoplay Magazine
An
Important
Legal
Victory
WHEN Governor Whitman of New York vetoed the CristmanWheeler Censorship bill he struck a nationwide blow for the artistic freedom of the screen. He probably realized this, though his action purported to be of local interest and application.
The significant feature of his veto is that it was a voluntary expression of his disapproval. The bill was what is known in New York state as a "thirty-day" bill. Had he neglected to veto it, it would have expired automatically. But he did not so neglect it. He killed it with his pen even as it lay dying, and gave his reasons for the legal execution, chief of which are the following:
Because it denies to film men the right of appeal from the decision of the censors.
Because the proposed "fee of inspection" is a confiscatory amount, and is an item which in its final exaction would fall upon the chief diversion of persons of very limited means — probably denying this diversion to numbers through the enforced closing of many theatres of five and even ten-cent admission.
Governor Whitman's analysis is a lengthy and careful one, eminently just. When the executive of the Union's mightiest state can so thoroughly and intelligently interest himself in the status of photoplay, the regular "legal" sideshows in Ohio and Pennsylvania become medieval mountebankery.
Los Angeles' Uneasy Crown
THESE days there are other things uneasy besides heads with capital war-bonnets on them. One of them is the metaphoric caput of Los Angeles, with its golden laurel of picture supremacy.
Picture manufacturers have two complaints about Los
Angeles.
First, ingratitude. They say that a set of unwise municipal politicians
of the pork family has from time to time exacted so much in tribute of one
sort or another, and in enactment hardship, that business life has become
not worth the living.
Second, the famous "California light," during the past eighteen months, has been woefully obscured — chiefly by the " high fog " which rolls in from the Pacific, and, without precipitation, suspends itself in the air for hours and sometimes days together.
Southern California is truly an Edenic garden spot, but Los Angeles county especially should not forget its great debt to the new art, which chose it as its capital, and made its streets and environs familiar wherever men gather on the globe.
And jealous San Francisco stands winking and beckoning alluringly just over the fence of the Tehachapi.