The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-01-06
FILM NEn ASK CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO REVERSE
DECG!oA or LOWER TRIBUNAL, HOLDING
SUNDAY SHOWS ILLEGAL
MAY Lose 81 100000 A YEAR IN GOTHAM
NlOiorrapry ng Trade Paper Critcizes Untrue Types
in piCiuI rain Producers Present Working.
men rs l.. Observation-Disclosures Denounce
False CharlcterizaiOns

Now it !3 the motion picture ina"s'
try wliyh i3 being attacacl by the
prambiticnlsts ~ last, film mag.
mates realize ,lat they were being toli
,hc truth when the statement was
made somc months ago that the move
ment to close motion picture thoators
on Sunday was backed by the same
crowd ;hat ia trying to prohibit the
manufacturing OF liquor.
A special dispatch from New YORK.
city to the Baltimore Evening Sun
describes the situation in the metropo'
rs, J., says:
"Now York motion, ,lCtUro men to.
lay declared thn loss TO moying-pic'
cure Cga.Hlgrs win exceed SG5OO,oOu
annually I'm Now York CITY alone II
.no court decision prohibiting Sunia!
GIm shows rs 20 stand.
VIII Fight Decision.
"The movie men are already plan
ming leHt ggaina, tho decision be.
fore .Go Cau,, OF Appeals. An appeal
acts automatically as a stay, so that
no ms.'a Il.Ero hoEucl will be closed
On glauav uatl ttc niahest court OF
tho state a.rgoy29 or rcyerscs the low
c. c.urta Ccci1.on.'
We. oor,gln motion picture manufac
turcre continue to turn out prohibition
aims. usually depicting a workingman
irving 10 drink himaon TO death and
KIN mis- family, in three reels. Liquor
In the movies is always used to cX
cess. no scenes are screened, show
lug truc conditions, with tirstclass
Efficient, wile.boating workingmcn
enjoying hair liquor, and harming no
| body
r 'H ua, this untruth'ulncss OF the
movies which inspired an article 10y
/ 3D. r Barrett, in Motography, in an
arNe,. ontiled, Types Which Are
I 80, typical" which says:
"r.l anyone offer a logical reason
/ a. ua directors of the film compa
. Ia M... upon portraylns certain
/ las c3 &. fr1U'o ON lhn screen as car
ug..ror ,.rrl OF zeal normal be
nra! T...a ~ been great hue
m cry .r raaU.m n tho pictures
. .lr mot sn~t r.Eat CD. wirh q ittl.
. u,y e. sea- u.o ,nl real conditions
/ ,vl real ,.ag.tgr.s-!oa@
"Thrrc arc thr,a classes which are
/ osro,.ily mgNEnod IN pictures
,gga may he many moro but l thinl
hose tlgsn are tha most sinHet
/ Ag.'uat Ihey are ,lo steuographers
. ga' 'rs rad factory girls.
Ta-re Are Coed stenoss.
"Ihcrg must be thousands OF stem
/ oTrnuEcrs gttCIIing motion picture
( tEoatcgs--in fact, it might be a prett.
safe estimate TO say that a good hal
/ OK the neoutimc audiences in the mo
ton picture theatCrs are made up o
this c,as OF working girls, and why
they den rise up in open rebellion a
/ the insults cast pt them from th'
/ screen ls beyond comprehension. Tht
utgrouaphcr 90 almost invariably
ahoyn as gum chewing, frivolous
bcpowdaroi, gaudily bcleoked sir
/ who seems 10 he absolutely wlthou
moral standards OF any kind. Sh'
spends all her time in the office fiirt
ing with the men, accepting love max
ing from her employer. goes out &
lunch with any Tom, Dick and Harr!
that comes along and is o home'break k
er OF the worst kind, Cheap anc
common" would we'll describe thu
typewriter girl OF the screen. Ont
ooirs 20 wonder what kind OF sten