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THE FUTURE 369
A question has been raised as to what will happen to the de luxe type of entertainment, where stage presentations have become an important part of the programme. It is safe to assume that the same patronage that made necessary a different type of entertainment for the high-priced downtown theatres as compared with those that play pictures subsequently will continue to demand it. Therefore theatres of large capacities in key points, and charging higher prices of admission, will in all likehood continue the stage type of entertainiment regardless of the success of sound motion pictures. Such stage presentations will always improve in quality and will keep pace with public expectation. The use of the ultraviolet ray for novel lighting effects on the stage will be one development in connection with stage presentations. Trained on a stage scene, these rays transform the natural colours of the objects to delicate new shades and hues.
Dialogue motion pictures have renewed the vexatious question of censorship. To begin with, censorship is against the principles of the Constitution of the United States, which specifically guarantees the freedom of expression to rostrum and press. It is fair to assume that had the authors of the Constitution foreseen the motion picture and its further development through sound, provision would have been made to allow the fullest expression. The newly acquired voice of the screen is entitled to the same consideration as that accorded other arts. Censorship is an unAmerican institution and gives bureaucratic power, in many instances, to a prejudiced minority. Yet news as heard from the screen and speeches of world-wide personalities delivered on important occasions are now subject to some of the censorship regulations.
Enforced censorship of sound motion pictures in different communities would bring to the industry serious problems in the physical handling of film. Changes required by