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Photo-Play Journal
Another technical ruse for presenting them "as they were" is the bathing suit girl. Mack Sennet has made a fortune by an investment in bathing outfits. No chance for criticism there. Bathing on the beach is a common diversion of life, and you couldn't expect to have the ladies wearing overalls or sealskin coats when reclining on the celluloid sands.
"Back to God's Country" was a clever title. You know what to expect in "God's Country" — perfection — unmarred by clothing profiteers. And the advertisements read, "Is a Nude Rude?" No better, no more significant line of poetry ever came from William Shakespeare or Ivan Abrahamson. And no better line ever came to the boxoffice. Rude or not, all the world loves a nude.
Naturally, like all great reforms, the back to Eden movement has its enemies. Anita Stewart is one. Miss Stewart positively refused to continue in "Sowing the Wind" until all the nudes had been chased out of the studio, the beds made up and the tooth marks removed from the shoulder of the vampire
where a gentleman had coyly bitten her. Miss Stewart condemned all this art as "vulgarity."
"But they is just de Mille touches," argued the producer, whose motto is "Art for Art's sake."
Miss Stewart was of the opinion that they were "smears" rather than "touches," and that de Mille is an artist while certain other gentlemen are not.
"But there is 'Sex,' " was the further argument.
"Yes, there is 'Sex,' " retorted the irate Miss Stewart. "But without me in it. If that's what the public wants, then I'm too old-fashioned to be a star."
What a pity that one so loveh as Miss Stewart will not stanc for a little nudity, a little harmless fun, such as we saw in "Sex," of which a reviewer said. "To J. Parker Read, producer of 'Sex,' goes the honor ol hanging the red-light on the drama."
Madge Kennedy is another daughter of Eve who won't behave. In "Dollars and Sense' she played a chorus girl. But the half of it you'll never know, {Continued on page 53)