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...London theatre, on the other hand, presents an easier problem to the wandering American. While Oh quel Nu! if transplanted to London might well be rechristened by the censor What a Fully Dressed Person!, the language at least presents fewer difficulties than French to the tourist...
...York Herald. On his own account he founded and was the first editor of The Star, The Sun, The Weekly Sun, M. A. P. and T. P.'s Weekly. He is considered to be one of the most prolific writers of modern times. He is also official film censor for Great Britain...
...Laughs." John Barrymore is at present in Morocco, perhaps preparing for Othello. Theatre tickets in Berlin now run to 39,000 marks or so. " Give us a couple of million, papa. We're taking the girls to a matinee!" The Hairy Ape has been passed by the British censor of plays for future production in England-all but one little word. The word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version when Margaret Anglin opens in San Francisco...
Bella Donna. Pola Negri's first American picture is, except for the continuously electric Pola, just another vampire-film, deodorized as much as possible to please the censor. There's a sheik and an English nobleman and a little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy...
Some of the cartoons used by the opponents are boomerangs. One of them represents the Censor as a weeping, hideous creature, defiled in political mire. Either this has no application to the question, or it attempts to describe the persons who will examine our films,--the Commissioner, Governor, and Council and Courts. If it has any effect, it will bring the fundamental institutions of government into popular contempt. Could any anarchist strike a more nasty blow at the foundations of society...