Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-06-07
MOVIES ARE GETTING AS
PURE AS DRIVEN SNOW

Those who saw "The Page My:
Tery" at the Lyric the other nigh
mad an example of how the Kansa
public is being protected. Col. Pag
kissed his wife's houlder-that
he did it in the original film bu
the censor board cut out the kiss S
that there should be no shock t
the audience. Movies are to be muc
more diluted than ever the Topek
state Journal says Speaking of tn
new rules the Journal reports:
Kansas is to be the purest of tn
pure-in the movies. Nothing tina
us repugnant, suggestive or Leaves
the slightest thought, idea or sug
gestion of wrong doing Is to go OF
the screen in Kansas. And therein
the new movie board has giver
ahe suggestions Of the Sunday
school superintendents, the mothers
congress, the hygiene bureau, the
health board, the purity league and
the ballot box.
In keeping with the campaign
against spooning in the park, the
censor board has put ban on
spooning in the movies A horried
producer caused maiden to sit on
a mans lap in THE Love Dope
and the censors' report shows it
has been ordered removed. DeYilish
drinking scenes went under the ban
weeks ago and the new board Is
keeping up an established reputa
tion. The cigarette has gone with
abe highball, the cocktail and the
gin buck.
Now the board has stood flat
footedly against crime by eiminat-
ing from 1.-THE Undying Flame" the
scene in which the princess favorite
maid is thrown to the alligators. |
Such alligators as live in Kansas
must eat only beef steak and NUT
ton chops. There is short crop of
desirable maids.
The naughty, naughty cabaret,
the cigarette-even when smoked
in the cooks own apartments in a
Mutual firm-eannot appear on the
screen in Kansas. In Her Atone
ment" the censors have eliminated
.he close up scenes of a dance with
he further instructions to elimin-
ate man kissing Manuella on,
neck"
Then crime came in for a power
'ul blow. In Within the Law" the
;ensors directed elimination of the
bird degree scene, the chief paying {
stool pigeon and several irreyer- !
mt and hostile sub titles A card
;ame was lifted from another pic {
ure with a jerk and when a police ,
nan lost his trousers in Reckless l
Romeo" the Mortified board remov- /
d several running feet from the !
lin. An entire scene was removed /
then it showed the much embarras- t
ed lady board a man who was hav- '
ng his trousers mended. A
Purity and sanctity of the home |
'ere ably defended when the board
irected elimination of a man and
iris drinking and a picture of :
Egyptian dancing girls in Souls :
Again, in "The Silent Fl
artner, the board fights for young n
merica with the directions "Elim- -
rate little office boy smoking Gig n
ret Again, the movie board pull 81
! the watch on a tender love scene a
nd directed Shorten love scenes .
etween John and Grace" in spite q,
the fact that the scene may have y,
cen farewell parting before John
ent to war or the return of Grace II
tier a winter in horrid boarding
,hool.
In reviewing "Skirt Strategy"
'medy, the board took a short arm G
wing at tender sentiment and di- &C
scted the removal of a scene in X
hich the professor killed man m
lsguised as a girl. Deception is e
iscouraged in Kansas and kissing W
bad form and often results in W
'reading disease germs. p
kissing comes in for Its real
nockout, tho, in the boards review NJ
THE Page Mystery" There the
ate board intervenes between
licked producer and an innocent
afenseless public and demands that ii
ansas shall not see Col. Page kiss 81
Is wife on the shoulder. NJ