The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-13
Japan Will Win Back Place as World Poluer
Another Balkans
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Latest Wrinkles in Censorship
BY DON RYAN

T oS ANGELES, Sept 12e-Dd you ever wonder why
II nothing except unaduterated praise for movie actors
and actones ever ceeps into that recent oucoppg of our
national literature known as the IAN magazneE
on sSs news ns s~ circulation larger han any s1 h
variety OF publication in America.
pans Nyae eSereta muck copoe Stag scum md froth about
la aland known Hollywood lovely
young gneS compose practically tho entire population Except for
sHpo, tho peuen pou OF former smakers model a. tho high
because se loves them sol In their recent snosaphera Who
10 tho cinema dansd admlring
Don't know 1 magazine myself
My ab need the II weren't for proibion-but meyer
As saying II why magazines
that because tho movie advertise their pictures
ss5S . ss the editors believe that tho fool fans want this kind
only part Of the truth Tho real truth am
about TO disclose ffnt allow me to recount parable
THE other day greeted newspaper friend whom had
not seen for several years. He had just come back
from chasing crises in that hotbed Of European warshe
Balkans He full of good anecdotes The best he told
were about how the American correspondents con-
trived to beat the censors.
There principal method, censorship Balkans"
he told me. 'and exactly tso Of beating them
Then he went on TO explain how tho OF bewhiefed
told how they resortsd 10 every eonys ,E from aawnyr omen
pe How they planted spies and hrbsd hotel steal
By which Tho purbna thought sy pulling the
Then he related
mo correspondents to beat this game lie told Of erbns telegraph
Of getting his brain
Tho moral Of ha stories this When the Balkan
. and that nation lost the sod @ V which
biased publication would have produced
DECENTLY the unpleasant fact has been borne in upon
IN that system of censorship similar TO that prevail
ing in the Balkans growing up in the Los Angeles empire
OF the cinema.
Io prineeInss screen arr beginning TO eneones them
selves In studios that like walled cities freedom
concerned Thy evidently think that they feed the what,
Some o them have not 30 faS These however invariably
view the mighty
Typical examples Of me two
Is lot The former illustrates thu walled city attitude
interviews se,wesn varieties
lpropaSandrlns.
lpUT the climax Of intolerance far as am concerned
IL befe yesterday. The editor of the fan magazine
write for asked me to get story about Doug Fairbanks
Accordingly got into telephone communication with Mark
pointmen,
you know" Mark. voice the
tho Same process as-cr-the other inieryews-sr-"
Wen you hnowsr@snyhinr you write wi eahass n b.
submitted to Mr. Fairbanks before pusleaion-er-"
".,yel. wouldn't exactly cali ths-er-' -
For shame MarhF cried You movie people fighting
excited" sooed ITS not only your stuff Tn.
protection He's afraid something might would give
Il should think he would be- ! snapped
But nt for you alone pleaded Mark AN 10
submit this rule Why the Evening sends
out here and his stuff has to be o. KID before
classified with correspondent, ., no
Saturday Evening os nrased me much idea Of
Needless TO the fan which employs my u. nan
will not have story next month telling fellow Doug
Fairbanks IS But tho roots Of the deeper than dis
single incident what Is going be the censorship The
and how The pecd win show M ,. . -