The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-21
FESTUS FOSTER
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week 1000 melons were condemned
as being too green and ordered de-
stroyed. BY the argument of the
movie men they should have waited
for the results; until hundreds of lit
tie Kansas children should have suf-
fered. perhaps died, from the effects
of the green melons. No, we must
protect the morals in advance"
The Anna Held incident of last
fall was brought up again. THAT pic
ture represented that every man is
susceptible to feminine allurement 1t
was base libel on Kansas Christian
manhood. Miss Held said that such
scenes were good things in that mar
ried men witnessing them went home
and loved their wives That is a lie
1t makes for brutishness not real af-
lection.
I'VE don't want any Paris morals
in ours" he stated. And we would
soon have them if we let some of these
pictures by. Here are a few of the
titles of pictures rejected by us one
week: THE Courtesan," An Innocent
Magdalene," "a Gutter Magdalene,"
THE Eternal sappho," and so on.
Not True to Life.
THE producers say that these pic
lures are representations of real life
1t isn't so. How many vampires do
you number in your acquaintance?
'tAnd if they are part of real life
do we have to show them. 1t would
be like showing a stranger the sights
of Topeka and taking the caps off the
sewer-manholes. answering t
strangers protests with oh. but the
sewers are part of Topeka.
Film comedies are the censor's worst
problem, according to Foster. How
ever, he said that he has now a never
fail standard. If the scene would be
funny in real life to him. the Rev.
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the incident would appear vulgar to
him, the scene is rejected. Also the
vulgarity of the scenes can be removed
by cutting down the length.
Ten feet of film is enough for any
man to enter a saloon and buy a
cent production submitted the hero
stayed in the saloon 200 feet. And
when he came out
Take Charlie Chaplin m a recent
picture who does nothing but portray
the drunken antics of a man return
that Charlie cuts some funny didos.
But oh, the pathos of a mans sinking
lower than a brute under the influence
of liquor!'
Attacks Appeal Board.
And then came a roast for the ap-
peal board: And yet this very pic
ture which was unanimously rejected
right by the appeal board. It seems
! impossible to get a picture too coarse
for the appeal board to reject. Ten
out of twelve pictures rejected by us
have been approved by the appeal
1 board"
| According to Foster dancing on
tables or drinking champagne out OF
slippers are two things that are most
emphatically protested by the censors
But the appeal board seems to have
a fondness for such revelry.'' he said
land invariably sends down the COM
mand leave the scene in
Its a poor law that permits sucf
things to happen" Foster said, '.an6
( the law must be strengthened at tht
next session of the legislature. VIVA
is the use of having censorship board
| if the appeal board can muddle all oul
expert work."
He admitted the strong possibilit.
of the laws being repealed at the mex
session, and he urged all the friends
of censorship to let the state Officials
know how they feel about the matter
He urged that the righteous arise If
the temple" at the movie convention
this week and let the film men know
of the enthusiasm Topeka people fee
for the censorship,