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P oris is going through a campaign against undress at this moment, and Mile. Macia Napierkowska, the Russian dancer, presented above, is one of the storm centers of the attack. This is the famous jewel costume which has aroused so much comment.
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RIME sentinels, busy at the perennial vacuum cleaning of the Broadway stage, have raised the dust from several questions of censorship.
Is the political supervision which makes screen material a Pollyanna perversion of the facts of life more injurious to public morals than the knowledge of realities contained in such plays as Rain and The Lullaby, recently condemned by so-called moralists, who insist on having their literary linens freshly starched fiom the hand laundries?
If knowledge is power, is the perpetual fairy tale edition of realities sponsored by
the New York 0 Rain, the much State Motion talked about Pict ure Com drama with a mission whole missionary as some? Should one of its chief all heroines — figures, is a ceivon the screen ter of discussion or stage — be in New York. At v i r g i n s, a 1 1 " the right, a scene he:-oes chaste from Rain with and every Jeanne Eagels.
flZr the film's perversion of the facts of life more injurious to public morals than the knowledge of realities contained in stage plays recently condemned by the reformers'?
villain following the one way street to perdition?
The Crime Outposts Condemn the Plays
S everal of the most popular plays of the stage this season have fallen under the eye of the crime outposts. Hamlet has been looked into by a member of the New York police force and found to be not a public menace. Gertrude, his mother, although deserving, seems likely to escape condemnation at the hands of city magistrates. Rain, the story of a minister who went wrong, is thought by some to teach a moral lesson and by others an offense against all the laws on the calendar. The Lullaby, which shows that mother love may be responsible for prostitution, has also been criticized.