Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1922 — Page 6

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CENSORS BELIEVE MOVIES REASON FOR BOYS 'CRIME v Critic, However, Says Home Training Lacks Are Cause of Delinquency. WHITE SUGGESTS GRADING Thinks Different Mentalities Should Be Shown Types of Pictures to Fit. By JAMES W. DEAX ' NEW YORK;. Aug. 26.—More than 300 boys have been arrested for various misdemeanors in Toronto, Canada, in the past seven months. The Ontario board of moving picture censors is held responsible for the kind of pictures shown m Toronto. It was to be expected that some members of the reform element would blame the motion pictures for the flux of juvenile delinquency. That would make it appear that the work of the picture censors had not beSTr thoroughly done. Mrs. Edmund Phillips, a Toronto member of the censor board. s*T* that no picture of recent years could have Inspired such a "crime wave” in Toronto's enthusiastic youth. Others of the reformers hold that the comic supplement of the newspapers is the cause of youthful disregard of Jaw and order. More rot! Pictures, either in motion or in implied motion, do not create criminals. The nail was hit squarely on the head by J. J. Kelso, provincial supervisor of neglected children, and Police Chief Dickson of Toronto. Lack of home training is responsible for the Juvenile crime wave, they assert. -I- -I- -!- William Allen White, the Kansas editor, in a recent article on free speech, omitted reference to the movies. A film trade paper called his attention to the omission. “It isn't that I believe the moving pictures are wicked, so much as I believe they are stupid.” White replied,, ‘ And their stupidity is largely due to the ungraded moving picture audience. "If you grade your audience ns the theater grades Its audience, putting the lowbrows in some theaters and the highbrows in other theaters you could then develop a line of intelligent pictures for the intelligent and happy endings for the morons. Then, also, much of the talk of censorship would disappear. “But when you have only one kind of house where all kinds of pictures ere shown, you are showing Intelligent pictures which in'the nature of AMUSEMENTS.

THE ACT BEAUTIFUL MLLE. VERA and COMPANY Reproducing Famous Groups of Statuary c BiLLY GASTON & CO. I TWYMAN & VJNCENT “In the Tears to Come” “Pancakes and Flapjacks” /” | * Direct From Broadway’s Biggest Revue ' • v Ts MYRON PEARL & COMPANY 7 Sensational Whirlwind Dancers j Keefe & Lillian Bovel & Baldwin Ash & Franks ' Yon Like It.” Comedy Surprise. Two Square Rounders. J PAULA ARMSTRONG AND NEVILLE I Quality Equilibrists, Featuring the Sensational Dive Over a Piano J Toonerville Comedy—“Toonerville Trials”

OPENING MONDAY 'LABOR DAY) MATINEE SEPT. 4 2:30 P. M.

f%h STATE FAIR WEEK ATTRACTION DIRECT FROM AN ALL SUMMER’S RUN AT THE ■ GARRICK THEATER, CHICAGO. * ( , TH£ PHOENIX PLAY CO. (Inc.) PRESENTS Book by Fred Jackson \ J Music by William Daly Sc Paul Lannin ? 9* m JOHN E. YOUNG AND A BRILLIANT CAST OF NEW YORK FUNMAKERS WITH A r>A vrttnn r'w-**/- H’N r I.OVEL.’NTSS

things must deal more or less frankly with sex to unintelligent people and children, who do not get the Intellectual significance out of the picture. but do get Its stinking sex smear.” ’ I- -I- 1White is sitting too far from the motion picture Industry to be entirely correct. The trouble with motion pictures Is not so much that there haven’t been different grades of houses for different grades of pictures as that producers of pictures have not yet recognized that there are different grades of mentality in the masses who see pictures. Some enthusiastic statistical fool once said that the average intelligence of the American was that of a 14-year-old child and it was repeated by others as statistically enthusiastic and the motion picture producers believed it and made "pictures for that average. When picture producers put forth photoplays that will appeal to the average adult intelligence and let the morons find what little pleasure they can in them they will have jrtit a white lily In the hands of the censors. Another fallacy in White’s reasoning is that low intelligence means low morality Many of the greatest geniuses of the various arts have been persons of low moral standards.

RIALTO ENTIRE NEW PRODUCTION New Chorus—New Songs—New Comedians 20—PEOPLE—20 MUSICAL COMEDY “Oh! How She Could Vamp!” EXTRA FEATURE PHOTOPLAY! OTHER WOMEN’S CLOTHES A Story of Today COMlNG—Rudolph Valentino

the light of their accomplishments dimmed by the unwholesomeness of their lives. Considered solely from the standpoint of psychology tha various stories concerning Salome, In word and picture, have furnished absorbing studies for those who please to class themselves of high intelligence. To the person of average intelligence, of normal moral standards, the story of Salome is disgusting In many of its phases. Nazimova has made one of the most artistic pictures yet produced for the screen, using Oscar Wilde’s story of Salome as the basis. The picture has not yet been released. Censorship is feared. If White’s plan were to hold, N&zimova's “Salome” would be shown only In highbrow theaters, on the assumption that the lowbrows wouldn't attend. Foolishness! The truth of the matter is that Nazimova’s “Salome” will appeal to the masses through its sheer beauty. Only the highest of highbrows will perceive the unwholesome aspects of it. Coiffure As the coiffure becomes plainer and more severe the combs become higher and more intricate. It would not be surprising if the mantilla were with us before long.

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JOHNSON IIISLLF ONLY REAL ISSUE ' IN CALIFORNIA N S Hiram’s Opposition Fails to Develop Strength in Primary Race. By FRANK J. TAYLOR. __ Timet Staff Corretpondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26.—The clouds of vituperation trailing in its wake, the bitterest senatorial contest In the country oraws to a close here next Tuesday, with Senator Hiram

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SHUBERT ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE SHUBERT-PARK FAIR WEEK ATTRACTION l. Lawrence weber and william b. freidlander’S mammoth production , LAUGHS and LADIES In TWELVE SCENES FEATURING WILL PHILLIPS, EMILY.EARL AND BOBBY BERNARD SUPPORTED BY DOROTHY RUDAC, ALVINA YATES, DERCHIN SISTERS, iETTY HALE and Others SURROUNDED BY A CHORUS OF RARE BEAUTIES LAVISH COSTUME DISPLAY AND ELECTRICAL EFFECTS RUSH LING TOY S WITH 10 ASSISTANTS—I 2 DISTINCTLY NEW AND ORIGINAL ILLUSIONS. TEX ELLIS and GLADYS TAYLOR “Who’s My Wife” The Boy From Down Home. The New Mystery Comedy. BURNS & FORAN JACK GREGORY & GO. / Laugh Maker*. In a New Novel Act. Metropolitan Orchestra of Fifteen Musicians POPULAR PRICES: 25c, 50c, 75c, SI,OO Plus War Tax

Johnson the favorite by considerable odds. C. C. Moore, Johnson’s opponent! formerly president of San Francisco exposition, has given Johnson a gopd run, but even his own supporters con* cede him only a fighting chance of nomination. This la a campaign without any real political issues. The one big issue is Hiram Johnson himself. Questions Are Framed. Johnson’s opponents, in an effort to make live issues, have framed a set of thirteen questions ranging from "Where was Hiram when the Newberry vote was taken?” to Johnson’s alleged relations with William Randolph Hearst, the publisher. Johnson has ignored these questions. The campaign ,has split the California Republican party wide open on entirely new lines. A lot of Johnson’s formerly most

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ardent supporters, are fighting him today, while a batch of former Southern Pacific machine politicians, whom Johnson used to sacrifice on bis political altar every election year, are now working devotedly for him. Success at the polls next Tuesday is virtually election *o six rv 'nre years In A® Senate, If Johnson wins. MISSING BOY FOUND Was Asleep In Store Box When Located. The parents of John Henderson, 9, of 1314 Bates St. reported to the police the boy was 'missing. Later John Brennan, 43714 Massachusetts Ave., brought a half-awake boy into police court and he was identified as the missing youngster. John, according to Brennan, was highly peeved when he disturbed him from his sleep in a store box. His parents took him home.

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-NEXT WEEK“Crimson Challenge” A Sweeping, Romantic Melodrama That Carries You Out to a Spot in the West Where Men and Women Live and Love as They Did in the Golden Days. LOUISE FAZENDA, CHESTER CONKLIN ' And an All-Star Cast of Funmakers. in “A Rural Cinderella” With “Teddy” the Canine Comedian

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FRANK FARNUM Assisted by AL HART, SHORTY HAMILTON and PEGGY O’DAY In a tale of the Rocky Mountain country by Arthur Sommers Roche In the People's Magazine, “Trail’s End” A Red-Blceded Western

Snub Pollard in “Rough on Romeo”

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RUTH ROLAND In Episode Seven of “The Timber Queen” Showing a fire at sea and sink, ing ship and marvelous escape. “MUTINY” A Whirlwind for Action