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melodrama are being overwhelmed by orders

fl”on’l the renting agents. Not only 0
“the nickelodf”:-Ons of New York but those 1
<>f many J e ~s pretentious cities and tov.·ns o
are demanding Browning and the other .
–.high-brow effects. The clergymen 1
.-~·ho denounced the cheap tnoving picture 1
plays of the past would be surprised ‘
-and enlightened to find the Biblical teach- j
in~. elin1inated fron1 the public schools,
betng taken up in motion pictures. Im- 1.
jlressi\·e nativity plays hn-ve been given
1with excellent scenic eff<:cts. while 1\iounet-
St-llY played Judas in an Easter piay
prepared by a French firm. An Amer-
ican firm is 11ow specializing on the Old

Testament.. .. Jeptha’s Daughter and

… The Judgme-nt of Solomon H have already
been gi\·~n in excellent form, and
have proved ,-ery popular. A play of
Joseph and his brethren is being prepared.
~ A serie~ of historical plays have been
dor..e, and more ·will follow. An experin1en-,
tal afternoon ~-as given in a publlc school
9u Fifth Street, with a programme of instructional
plays for history and English
eourses. One of the district superintend-
ents gave the accompanying talk to assembletJ-
teachers and children. The result
‘\\:as regarded as satisfactory, and
more is planned along this line, though
no public announcements have been made.

It ·would be absurd to pretend that the
manufacturers had voluntarily turned
from cheap to expensive productions. The
change has been brought about Indirectly
ithrough the establishment of the Board

Of Censorship at the request of the

•·• show U}en.” Th~y were tired of being
arrested for questionable plays, which
~h~y· had orlly rented from the manufacturers.
and were individually powerles~
1o control. They presented their case to
fthe People’s Institut~. which evolved the
~E-nsorship plan .. A~~, manufacturer “~h6 f
l'”efused to submtt hls films to tlle boan!
v.·as to be b lacklisted.

In the very first month the board destroyed troyed $12,000 worth of films. Then the manufacturers began to fall in line and sent orders to their pLaywrights forbidding “murders, burglaries” and other questionable themes as subject for plays. The board now censors all the films used in New York and 55 per cent, of the output for National use, for the censorship is now maintained at the request of the censored. The European producers proved a trifle obdurate and a lengthy correspondence ensued. Pattie Fréres, the famous Paris firm, makers of some
splendid and some distinctly sophisticated films. were first indignant. then incredulous, but now have settled things by sending only plays for Puritans to their American agents.

In some ways the manufacturers have gone further than the censors in forbidding their authors to construct plots involving battle, murder, and sudden death. The law of the board is not the decalogue, According to John Collier the General Secretary, but the rules of good taste, “To eliminate all murders would be to eliminate Shakespeare and nearly all the classic drama, which would be absurd. But we object to laboratory displays of crime. We won’t have a burglar demonstrate exactly how one picks a lock or jimmies open a door. You must remember our audience consists largely of impressionable children and young people. It is not a Broadway audience. We have Miss Evangeline Whitney and Gustave Straubenmuller of the Board of Education to guide the decisions on what is harmful for children, but the rules of good taste for humor as well as plot are insisted on.

In Chicago, a Police Lieutenant has charge of the censoring, and certain acts of violence are on a described list. Some films are expurgated by merely cutting out the portion of the picture in which the proscribed act of occurs. A duel is censored, for instance, by omitting the precise moment at which one of the men is killed. This, the National Board believes, is a typical example of the workings of hard-and-fast censorship rules.

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Note: The author, Linda Arvidson, who played a Greek model in the 1909 film, Pippa Passes, was, from 1906 to 1936, married to the director, David Wark Griffith (1875–1948).

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Lloyd Pantages, whose syndicated column since 1933, “I Cover Hollywood,” had been carried the Hearst eastern newspapers, began contributing to the Los Angeles Examiner, March 5, 1934, for a three-week period. His column was used in place of one normally written by Jim Mitchell, who was ill. (“Pantages Subbing”. Variety. Vol. 113, no. 12. March 6, 1934. p. 66. )

1. “Mack Sennett, Famed Comedy Creator, Dies”. Vol. 79, no. 331. 6 November 1960. pp. 1 (section A) & 2 (section B).
1. Blog ed. via Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
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1. “Motta Joins Theater Group”. Vol. 28, no. 36. September 9, 1957. p. 123. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Internet Archive (Media History Digital Library).
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1. “Motta Joins Agency”. Vol. 2, no. 62. September 28, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Internet Archive (Media History Digital Library).

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