Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-03
The Kiss IN the Movies
Here Are Oscaory Samples the Kind They Furnish Screen
1.-THE lingering I2OfOot marathon buss to the esfetc Kiss

1T is not the duration of kiss,
Miss Bara AYERS. but the emotional
fervor that counts. The art of the
screen must reflect truth. One should
not measure a kiss but feel it. Tape
! lines and temperament don't mix"
Gladys Brockwell who recently sur
! vived film kiss from William Scott
! which is said to have dislocated her
| NTH, sixth and seventh spinal YER
| tehrae, is threatened with mandatory
| discipline from the board of censors.
1T is an Apache kiss" explains
Miss Broekwell, land the Paris
I Apache does not salute his belle mimi
by blowing it across the room to her
from the palm of his hand, nor by
tickling her cheek with the fringe
of his eyelashes. Either all photo
plays of passion must be abolished
by the censors or latitude permitted
for realism in kisses. There are kiss
es-and kisses.
The most chaste and restrained
patron of the movies will grant the
truth of Miss Brockwells last remark.
There is, for instance, the door kiss
tsee Charlie Ray and Elinor Fair
in BE a Little Sport'D. This type
of salute is highly approved by the
censors, being maintained for but
three feet of film, and at low pressure
at that, with large, cold, hard and
unyielding door almost entirely sep
arating the participants,
Likewise the synthetic OSCILLATION
performed by Pauline Frederick and
her handsome lover in a recent Gold
wynn production featuring a rose. The
rose. held interposed between the lips |
of kisser and kssee. acts as a COM |
plete non-conductor, and conforms |
with all the ideals of those who en-
joy window-shopping and marriage by |
proxy.
Geraldine Farrar has never placed |
herself on record as opposing the |
more torrid forms of OSCILLATION. The
lovely Gerry just shuts her eyes,
throws back her head and gives to
Fred Tresudell:
"All the breath and the bloom of the
year in the bag of one bee,
All the wonder and wealth of the
mine in the heart of one gem;
In the core of one pearl all the shade
and the shine of the sea-
Breath and bloom, shade and shine
wonder, wealth. and-how far
above them
Truth, that's brighter than gen.
Trust that's purer than pearl
Brightest truth, purest trust in the
universe-all were for me in
the kiss of one girl"
Likewise and moreover does Dor
othy Phillips fling ilm-economy to
the four winds of heaven when she
and William Stowell mark the climax
of the Universars great picture THE
Heart of Humanity" with what the
office boy vulgarly calls "a clinch'
lasting nearly a full minute, standard
time.
When picture with Mabel Nor
mand and Tom Moore was being pre-
sented in middle western city few
weeks ago, the film caught fire in the
midst of the twenty inch of
kiss and everything had to be stopped
The manager ca med the audience. the
projectors hustled around with Crap
ping hooks and rubber gloves or
whatever they use in repairing
blazing celluloid OSCILLATION. And
the strip being respliced
and again flashed upon the sheet, it
was found to the further excitement
Of those present that the same kiss
vas going on. The stage board of CEN
sors got wind of it and made terrible
fuss.
mo kiss" said they. "that can have
sections of it amputated by flame and
still go on as if nothing were missing
IAN be a proper kiss" In vain was it
worn that it was not a vamp kiss,
tut the perfectly legal salutation of
/ promised bride.
The theater was closed and the pic
ure forbidden in three states, or un-
il such time as 1t could be amend
d and denatured in conformity with
he censors' idea of public safety.
Corinne Griffith Of the Vitagraph
grees with Lord Tennyson that ideal :
Uses, both on and off the screen,
hould be "balmier than ha!f-opening
uds of April /
81 often think the censors are |
light" says she. Nothing vulgarizes {