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Picture Show Annual 137 Nowadays no picture-play would be considered complete without a kiss. Yet, curiously enough, it was a kiss depicted by May Irwin and John Rice in a film pro- duced in the early 'nineties that first created a demand (or censorship in the United States. In Japan, where kissing is generally regarded with disfavour, no kisses were at one time allowed to appear on the screen, though latterly a few of such scenes have been passed by the Japanese censors. Esther Ralston and Charles Farrell in "Old Ironsides." Among the things most closely watched for, however, by all film censors is the presentation of crime, because of the harmful influence likely to be promoted. No film is passed in which the methods of crime happen to be set forth in any detail. Some of the States in America will not show lynching, shooting and beating on the screen, while censors in other States subject such scenes to severe cuts. In this country the British Board of Film Censors cuts out every year hundreds of feet of film containing scenes showing actual shooting, stabbing. pocket-picking and other criminal acts, though the results may be allowed to appear. ph Schildkjaut Lya de Putti in "The Heart ief. Then there is the consumption of intoxi- cating liquors which, as everyone knows, is officially banned in America. Because of this, scenes showing the drinking of even make-believe intoxicants are looked upon by many with disapproval, while in Kansas and a few other States drinking scenes are cut out by the censors before a film is passed for exhibition.