The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-30
NO SPOONINC NOW
State Censor Board Bars Love-
Making in Movies.
Girl Must Not Sit on Mans Lap
and Shower Kisses.
SHOULDER, NECK DON'T COUNT
If You Kiss a Girl in Movies 1t
Must Be on Lips.
Several More Crimes Banned to
Make State Pure.

Kansas is to be the purest of the
pure-in the movies. With a new
all woman state censorship. the pur
est minded maiden, the most fin
nicky old maid and the sissy boy
whom evil companions mention in
connection with mammals apron
string-all may spend an evening in
the movie without seeing anything to
corrupt Or stint moral. An elimin-
alton report shows that after a SEES
sion of the all-ladies convention,
none of the sordid, evil influences of
worldly affairs and suggestions will
come to this state.
Nothing that is repugnant, suggest
i've, or leaves the slightest thought,
idea or suggestion of wrong doing is
70 go on the screen in Kansas AMI
therein the new movie board has Civ
en- strict heed to the Kansas statutes,
the suggestions of the Sunday schoo.
superintendent, the mothers con-
gress, the hygiene bureau, the health
board, the purity league and the bal
lot box.
In keeping with the campaign
against spOoning in the park, the
censor board has put a ban on spoon
ing in the movies. A horrid producer
caused a maiden to sit on a man
lap in The Love Dope" and the CEN
sors' report shows it has been or
dered removed. Devilish drinking
scenes went under the Dan weeks ago
and the new board is keeping up an
established reputation. The cigarette
has gone with the highball, the cock
tail and the gin buck.
AIligators Must Eat Beef.
Now the board has stood flat foot
eddy against crime by eliminating
from The Undying Flame" the
maid is thrown to the alligatorS. Such
alligator5 as live in Kansas must eat
only bees steak and mutton chops.
There is a short crop OF desirable
maids.
The naughty, naughty cabaret. the
cigarette-even when smoked in the
cooks own apartments in a Mutual
film-cannot appear on the screen i'll
Kansas. In Her AtoneMent," the
censors have eliminated the close up
scenes Of a dance with the further
instructions to eliminate man kissing
M1nuella on neck"
Then crime came in for a powerful
blow. In within the Law" the CEN
sors directed elimination of the third
degree scene, the chief paying stool
pigeon and several irreverent and
hostile sub titles. A card game was
lifted from another picture with
jerk and when a policeman lost his
trousers in Reckless Romeo the
ming feet from the film. An entire
scene was removed when it showed
the much embarrassed lady board a
man who was having his trousers
Poor John and Grace.
Purity and sanctity of the home
were ably defended when the board
directed elimination of a man and
girls drinking and a picture of
Egyptian dancing girls in Souls Tri-
umphant" Again, in The Silent
Partner" the board fights for young
America with the direction: Elm
mate little office boy smoking
cigarette" Again, the movie board
pulled the watch on a tender love
scene and directed: shorten love
scenes between John and Grace" in
spite of the fact that the scene may
have been a farewell parting before
John went to war or the return of
Grace after winter in a horrid
boarding school.
In reviewing skirt Strategy" a
comedy. the board took a short arm
swing at tender sentiment and direct
ed the removal of a scene in which
the professor kissed a man disguised
as a girl. Deception is discouraged in
Kansas and kissing is bad form and
often results in spreading disease
germs.
kissing comes in for its real knock
out, tho. in the boards review of The
Page Mystery" There the state
board intervenes between a wicked
producer and an innocent, defenseless
public ard demands that Kansas shall
not see Col. Page kiss a woman on