Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-18
Sunday Morning, February IS, 1917.
MOVIES, PLAYS AND SIN.

MOVIES, PLAYS AND SIN.
 There is evangelist in Phoenix. He appears to be very judging the by the Hon. William Sunday, of baseball and pulpit fame. h (for that is the of the Phoenix per former) audiences appear be growing by leaps and bounds He has taken into question nearly eveayhing or the calendar; dancing, smoking walking spooning and he rises, in his wrath and swats the movie and theatrcals
 He asserted that nineenths of the plays hinge der suicide and violation of the commandment or crime kind another He alleged that they the educators of sin and he read number of scrip ural passages showing what the effect of is quoting at odd times: "Sin like fre"; "Sin when fin shed brings forth death" He couples with this last quotation the question: f brings forth death should I wink at it.?
 Plots the worlds greatest stories of greatest poems of the greatest music of all what kind nature it may be, have been taken from either the races virtues its failings It is that the interesting stories have been built upon the worlds virtues, but upon its failures Each great story through its portrayal has made for moral and consequently it's is Even the risque plots stories the great French writer's sometimes tabooed in the United have their morals DOT virtue of the It is sometimes necessary to paint moral by extremes.
 When the evangelist takes it upon himself to act as censorship, based upon certain passages from the Bible might be timely add that every criticised failing of the secure, if it searches far enough in the holy volume, passage which will apparently, uphold that failure Unfortunately the Bible writ for the edifcation of different age from this. Its laws its rulings, if they should be applied the present time would precipitate revolution.
 Censorship motion pictures like the censorship fiction, of music of poetry No authorities any classification of art agree. That is the trait which makes life worth living which makes agreeable for all Of to get along in the worlda difference of opinion.
 If the English could have prevailed in the part of the nineteenth century Lord Byrons poetical works would have been buried under the Thames Ger vantes' famous novel, Don Quxoe" would slunl- bered deep in the Atlantic if the early day Puritans America had had their way in the matter. Wild, bar cording many critics should be ruled of the kets and art of the brush and oil come in for too many criticisms to eaborte further
 Thus the theatre has in for it's cudgeling the hands prudes Yet the theatre is one of the national institutions Of the united States and duced great artists who received and very justly the plaudits of this and other nations. Yet the theatre prospered has come down to us in a very wholesome condition It has produced great plays vch- ces which wonderful but which are well buried in interesting, human material. invite tue casual man to hear and listen
 Would Hamlet" Julius Ceasar "Othello" and Mac beth and many other the worlds greatest plays have been written and preserved us, the present time had not the great English playwright taken his plots from the sins of humanity? And is it the consesus of opin- ion that these plays carry humanity immortality? And would September Morn" have become an inter nationally-known had not some the prudisl people of Chicago taken exception to it's nudity?
 This is Of motion and it has been transferred into amusements through the medium of the screen the motion picture theatres. Their product has be The people desire to be entertained and no method, before, has been evolved whereby everyone matter how high how low their station may be- the masterpieces of fact and fiction a they in the movies The most interesting plots seized upon and built into entertainments. Some doubt, have unpleasant morals. Some few are i'm moral These happily being driven the scrcca by ths motion picture producers he,asclrc Thcec pco