The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-02-13
MOVIE FAM WANTS TO KNOW
ABOUT DEVILS WORKSHOP"
Paris, Ky, Feb'y -.
Ed. BOURBON NEWS:

I'd. BOURBON NEWS:
Please inform an anxious public.
and especially a poor movie fan, if
you will, what is the difference be-
tween the two forms of entertain
ment movie picture show on Sun
day afternoon and Chautau-
qua band concert on the same
afternoon? l have attended and en-
! joyed both forms of entertainment.
| They are certainly both for gain,
and the Chautauqua vaudeville was
endorsed and the public asked by
some of the preachers to buy season
tickets, and attend these elevating
| performances. The "Kilties' had
on short skirts, and exhibited their
/ bare legs, covered with hair to the
knees. What is the difference,
would like to know?
A MOVIE FAN.
We are not an authority on the
above subjects and dare not commit
ourselves for fear of being made
subject for the tortures of the here
after for expressing a liberal Opin-
| ion. But we quote below a few pas
sages from local minister's sermon,
which appeared in the Lexington
! Herald on Wednesday:
"A picture show is the DEVILS
work shop THE picture show is
destructive of our best womanhood
and of the Christian influence.
''The trouble is that man is trying
to fashion a Sabbath day to suit his
own likes and fancies, and to graf
! ify his own pleasures, both measur-
ed in dollars. " Right here in our
| &c Do ,infrr
displayed in front of moving pict-
IRE house too indecent and vulgar
to be exhibited in red light dis
trict.'' mo man or woman who at
tends church twice on the Lord S
Day can conscientiously go to a
moving picture show on the same
day. l question their religious con-
victions'' THE moving picture
show is breeding constantly in
creasing cause for divorce, and the
courts are burdened with the pleas
of husband and wife for separation"
"Our young girls wear dresses
without necks, and where did the
taste come from? From the screen
4, artists" Advocates will tell you
pictures could be censored, but the
censor is usually paid by the picture
management, and there you are.
In contradistinction to all of the
above, Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney
Grant, Rector of the Church Of the
Ascension. Fifth Avenue. New York
City, in an article recently publish
4: ed under the caption of IF Christ
! Went To- The Movies" said in part:
1.-The. movies of today are our
cIeanest form of entertainment.
They are we'll censored, and moral
ity and right prevail. Pen anc
word pictures are going out. The
movies are supplanting them. Pict-
ures are the supreme thing that the
mind can see. Education by means
of visual impressions is of the first
importance. Motion pictures COM
bine amusement, entertainment and
education. Pictorial education is OF
extreme value 1t establishes a
uuickening of the imagination
These pictures put us in contact
! with new scenes. give us new ideas,
make us better acquainted with new
personalities and belong in Gods
church as we'll as in the theatre.
! would rather have boys and girls
GO to the movies than to sit at home
IWlTllHS lncII tluiiipo III "
imagining discordant, unruly, alb.
normal thoughts and brooding over
budding and badly understood sex
ideas. The movies furnish a clarifl-
cation of youthful home-bred fan
cies. My friend, Cleveland Moi
! tett. a brilliant-minded author. sug-
gested some years ago that the new
! York churches provide free moving
picture entertainments. Money was
! subscribed to carry out this plan,
several picture producers became
nhilanthropicslly interested. and
evenings were devoted TO delightful
programs in many churches. the
pictures being carefully selected"
Now, dear, Movie Fam" we will
Just let you draw your own conclu-
sions i'm regard to the movies. If
YOU want to continue as worker
in The Devils Workshop" go to
it. Don't consult your own 1ntelil-
gence. Better take the ministers
advice. We understand that the
chances for Sunday movies for
Paris are very slim. in fact, the
management of the local theatres
has not asked to open here. Some
iiberal-minded fellow merely sug
gested one day that it would be
nice thing for the wOrkingman, and
keen him from spending his money
at the Sunday shows in Lexington
What's all the racket about anyway