The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-06
There Are Six Movies In
Richmond This Week Unfit
for Production
DIR. WILBUR F. CRAFTS
WOULD UPLIFT SHOWS
Washington Man Speaks at 7.
M.C.A.-Says Mayor Of City
Has Power to Stop Immoral
Sccnes-For Clean Films


apa A. sfx picture shows In
YeaN-rnrA mi. vssk thar would not
~ sI1c~,~A in rYhicaro-" said DIR. VIII
-. C.fts ~ wsshinrton. ID. C..
.rS..r4r%erAens Internatiorai Reform
Srr~~,s \ yorid VIDE known speaker.
- : t~-t,,rn At tha v M e. A yes-
|~~A.- erVnrrco, Continuing DR.
rrnTfs y,nntiorad mnscdncaily The
&isrE rrrcr +" a NAV he said. which
-. = vtis sh.t ha sonia rot let his
IS-Ns =. -. nx ths ~traat With
: rr.r -hc rou,d 20 10 such n shov.
49,. ~ -s>srrsS to without mention
~ the names OF the shows, several
other picture shows, In which women
were displayed partly dresSed, or IN
which scenes tending TO immortality
were depicted.
DR.. Crafts pied for q national
board OF censorship He said the New
York board was an organization sup"
ported by the makers OF moving PIC
lures. who paid the salaries OF the
men who passed on the pictures. and
allowed lawyers TO appear before that
board to argue In behalf of certain
pictures. How would II do 10 let
the railroads appoint the members of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and pay their saiaries?" he asked.
Continuing Dr Crafts declared that
IL Pennsylvania. Kansas and Ohio the
ransrrsh{r had accom- plished much
under a State hoard The mayor OF
an American CIV" he continued. lis
ap,nove~aa win tho authority to CEN
sc, nf,,urcs to prevent tham being
(Ahowp II, a town. and even to prevent
,hatu from, beIne sent TO the town. In
yo3r next election / hope you will
elect n resu good man as Mayor
nm. who ain sec that vour 'red-light
ntr,,r. shows are not allowed 10 pro-
.t,,.ss f,,,,,r,,,,nr nict,tres here
Ann1at.sc foiqowea This remark
ry D,,,, t,vs,rass
~S''s"r ""'o
The argument mat ihe '.oNins w :
fure business viii ne muir by censor
snip - ansnrd, sac I ~ 800 bi,sbss
where the censor mas pseil ESQ 1850
tue rhoNs htte o.. -
CROWDS, aha pefSons 'ns. $50 49, re-
wise nav .r''"i''u
e". ..r Snr,.,var,a ar t1Instra.
-. tn s,a+e panrd ~ Csnsorrhip
49, has stonned ,he exhlhttiou OF
49,, nirt,,res tina. were uagsed by
the Roars Of Censorship of New York.
In Chicago the same thing has been
done aud In San Francisco Il is the
same. In this State and these two
cities we see the benefit of the censor.
Tha picture show FTaefs- themselves at
NIT that IL has helped business.
New York fs the most un-Ainerl-
can city IN the ha'ioH. u"er IoA
represent the people OF this c"un'ts
Why, then, shodia TINS cts
iiSn BOARD OF cehso.s paa" ~ ~
JOHANNESBURG Va .hna,,, ~ n,har
rtc.usa tt q. -, Tam
Su 80 Naw yorL in 1e0e
1910 ths eytI Of the pictures that
ssse @ ha,r,r shown rlosea I'M ali
,ssr.,,~a bouss. +, xeif-defense. the
n,rture shows created the board of
esn.ors Today many of these pic
tnres are worse than at any time in
the history OF pictures, There are
some 1a,0oo moving picture houses In
fhe Irnitad States.
Same of the morals OF the pictures
now heinr shown are like red patch
- . nair Of black pantaloons.
.~When a committee of Congress
met TO -hsar testimony on the plan TO
80. niish = national government board
a. c~r.orshin there came to Washing
ton the lea ding Aim manufacturers OF
-. u.1on vent into the camp OF
the enemy ana found six of the best
ana largest concerns anxious for
Aovernment censor. They admitted
hat IL would nut the picture business
al high plane and that 1t would be
ssser ~ Rave a national board than 20
have forty-eight boards In that many
.,s i.assirg on pictures.
some ef the other seven manu-
faetnrers OF Importance, who were
renresented there. say that the public
demands the cheap melodrama and
that inasmuch as 1t is their business to
niAase they must give the public what
Il wants
"A To Personal Privilege.
ssvrrh.. a. -, 80 ~. at,iaf rv,,,,nptx
lar the rich, to make and show these