The sun., 1916-03-13
FILM TRADERS JOLTED
BY 4 GUEST AT DINNER
Brisbane Invited to Denounce the Censor Refuses to
Get Excited, spills the Beans" and Releases
His Oratorca Efforts Amid Silence.

in front of a screen running his eyes.
tFidgeting.l
But IL we have l,een using speech
for only about 100000 years We have
used our eyes for 100.0o0.000 years
LobstcrS with their eyes on the ends
Of sticks were Our grandfathers back
In remote ages. We use our eyes to
select Oir wives and husbands. our pic
lures and dress and therefore We now
look at Mary Pickford In Rags and
there Is no necessity for mental effort.
AS for the movies and decency.
there's more money IN running a Childs
restaurant than In running fIaymar-
ket. SO I'm sorry can't be more en-
thusiastic about mtion picture censor.
ship. Censorship will not hurt the good
among you and II 1t harms the evil
they deserve it. Tremendous silence
"One question I should like TO ask Is.
Why have you not done anything great
There is no trouble i'm making a list OF
sixty or hundred great works in the
various art forms. but when asked the
gentleman over there, a Colonel, I be-
lteve lie is MIR. brisbane indicated the
wholly unenthusiastic face OF Commo-
dore J. stuart Blacktonl, and other gen.
tlemen Mt this table to-nyh, what were
the SIX greatest motion pictures they
agreed fairly well that The birth Of a
Nation Carmen and The Battle Cry OF
Peace were among the six, but they
couldn't agree ON the three others. In
an Industry where hundreds OF millions
has been Invested n you cannot list six
or even sixty great works YOU haven Z
gone far" prolonged gloom
Educators. some Day.
just to show them that they were
good fellows and pioneers in "a great
movement. however. Mr.. Brisbane con-
cluded by saying that although up to
date the movies don't amount to shucks
ana therefore not worth worrying about
whether they are cs nsored or not the
motIon picture In tim. Is going to play
great part IL education. In rolitlcs and
In other worth while fields The motion
picture men. he conclude d. some day will
he the educators Of the race. the editors
Of the nation"
himself for hurrying away TO catch his
train Not "A soul stood up 70 say Jaw
stick around. Arthur. and give us an
other earful"
The speeches which followed ny J
Robert Rubin. counsel for the Motion
Picture Exhibitors League: William NJ
Seahury, general counsel FOR She Motion
Picture Board OF Trad. of America
Herbert :. Houston and roastmastsr
Arthur James. all delivered after Mr.
Brisbane had gone 10 the elevator unes-
c"rted Iy aay noticeably large delcga-
tion. were along the general lines that
II was too bad Mr.. Brisbane was losing
ms pep. Mr.. Rubin especially regretted
that Mr.. Brisbane had spoken the truth
when the editor had said that he was
growing old. Also Mr. Rubin r.joiced
that h. himself was young and saw
things with the proper fresh buoy ancy
| OF youth
Blu, outside OF that the protest asairs.
movie censorship was tho liowling sue.
cess which its promoters had looked for
Censored FiIms shown,
/ Inc "Fiith Estate - the motion
/ picture world now knows Itself. threw
upon the screen during the evening ioI
the benefit OF its Fourth Estate
guests--among whom were all the lead.
ing car'oonists and many of the humor.
Gus and other feature writer's of IN,
daily and sunday n"wspapcrs--a mum.
ber OF movi, pictures known a. zen,
outs. or scenes. mostly from movie
comedies. which the censors had barred
from public exhibition
I Although the series of Censore,i cont.
outs necessarily lacked continuity %,
{ plot Terry RamSayc ~ the Mutual Film
corporation had written a title for the
series. The Hll" I'eucil-In Twenty
/ 'bN-ND Acts" Mr.. Ramsayc called tho
string OF pictures. WHinyIy Wicked
was supposed TO he the name Of the her
| IN All III" pictures and Miss NaUghtv.
Nd"1htu was IN" heroine.
BecauSo, explained cit.In. tn" scenes
I 10 Il" projected upon tn" screen mad beeu
'u' ont Tor fear tn" pictures would
/ Tempt now. fans To- commit arson. muir.
/ der ami similar highj,nks. ,he r.pra.
/ s"ntaiiN"s Of hnth ifth ana four estate.
We're cautioned 70 Restrain Themselves
! ono" they had zone under the baneful
/ spell of the cut-outs
IN" scenes that had heel ,er.ored
however, seemed depressingiy vir,uous
10 an aud!"nc" that perhaps hal Boon
/ oN'rcNpcctdnt At any rate once the
diners had Witnessed the censored sc.n,.
"i near "rimcs aud misdau.anors no.
body. 80 far as could hc noted, tried 70
STICK any Of Herr Musch.nheim's silver.
war" under h-s coat or Kill n head
waiter or hat boy OIL the way out.