The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1916-12-30
FILM MEN ASK CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO REVERSE
DECISION OF LOWER TRIBUNAL, HOLDING
SUNDAY SHOWS ILLEGAL
MAY LOSE 81, 100000 A YEAR IN GOTHAM
CtOgraphy u ag Trade Paper, Crczes Untrue Types
in Picturcj- Certain Producers Present Working.
men AS g. Observation-Disclosures Denounce
False CharacterizatiOns

Now it is the motion picture indus
try which Is being attacked by the
prohlb,;icnists. Al last film mag
mates realize that they were being told
tho truth when the statement was
maLo souo months ago that the move.
mept - close motion picture theaters
on Sunday was backed by the same
crowd that H. trying TO prohibit the
manufacturing of liquor.
A special dispatch from New York
City 20 tic Baltimore Evening Sun
describes the situation in the metropo.
ia. 1t says:
"Ncw York motion-picture men to.
l2y declared the loss TO moving.pic.
.uro exhibitors win exceed sI,500,00U
annually In New York City alone If
lie court decision prohibiting Sunday
llm shows Is to stand
WIN Fight Cccision.
THE movie men are already plan.
ming night against the decision be.
lore the Court OF Appeals. An appeal
acts automatically as a stay, so that
no moyi1 picture houses viii be closed
~ Sunday until the highest court of
,hc state approves or rcyerses the low.
en- courts decision"
Yet certain motion picture manufac
tU,crs continue 20 turn out prohibition
ulDs, usually depicting workingman
trying 10 drink himself to death and
ai.i m' family, in three reels. Liquor
IN tho movies Is always used to cX-
cess; no scenes are screened, show.
lug true conditions, with first class,
eh.Cieut, nouwife-beating worlkingmen
enjoying their liquor, and harming no.
body
10 be- just this untruthfulness of the
movies which inspired an article by
b. IT, Barrett, in photography, in an
article entitled, Types Which Are
so, Typical which says:
Can anyone ofier logical reason
hy &c directors of the film compa
.e Insist upon portraying certain
Ia. cH OF people on the screen as car
Dllrea instead Of real normal be.
g,o9 There has been great hue
ul Cfy Tor realism In the pictures
Why net start right out with little
"yy O., real lie and real conditions
,aI real characteristics?
"rNcrc are three classos which are
-s.caially ma.iGn2d In pictures
Ie.1 may lo many more but think
.-5c three are the most sinned
-Eairs., They are the stenographers,
ba"-'.s and factory girls.
Tacre Are Good stenoss.
"1hcrc must be thousands OF stem.
cGrguhcgs attending motion picture
thcltors fact, it might be q pretty
satG estimate to say that good half
OF tho nooutime audiences in the mo.
tior picture theaters are made up OF
this class OF working girls, and why
thoy don't rise Mp IN open rebellion at
the insults cast az them from the
screen Is beyond comprehension. The
stenosrgphcr Is almost invariably
Shown rs gum chewing, frivolous,
bcpowG ered, gGudlly bedecked girl
who seems TO be absolutely without
moral standards OF any kind. She
spends all her time ia the Office firt.
ing with The men, accepting love max.
ing from her employer. goes ost TO
lunch with any Tom, Dick and Harry
that comes along and is a home-break.
er OF the worst kind. Cheap and
common" would wen describe the
typewriter girl OF the screen. One
begins to wonder what kind Of sten.
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