Judge — July 10, 1920 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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you?” “Cer € Washin and influe “Who isthe — artist The Secret of Success suranger? “A° man who tempers justice with mercy.” A judge?” “No. a photographer.” —Birm Age- Herald, ham Her Way—"An ac.ress in preparing If for the stage reverses all the usual h rules of art “How so?” “She paints first and draws afterward.” Baltimore American ! Making the Most of It—"A humorist died the other day.” “Did he leave an estate?” “Only one joke, which he bequeathed to his son.” Not much of an inheritance.” . “But he explained in his will that if the joke were expanded into a musical a Chautauqua «ly, made the theme as a Foresight—"Did you punish the lid who drew the disrespectful picture of inly not,” replied: the teacker “Why should I delibe young man who is likely to « om Star Well Weighted lend a ain wealth wtely omic supplement Defined—"Pa, w meant by ‘gay insouciance’?” “Did y car nearly run vu ever see a Man in a motor wn a pedestrian in the street?” “Yes, pa.” “And did you r acted when the pedestrian shook his fist at him?” “Oh, yes. pa.” “Well, that, my son, is a vei ¢ how the motorist common —Birming- example of gay insouciance ham Age- Herald. A Good One—Bucon—Why, that fel- low never has a good word for any one. Egbert—Oh, 1 don’t know about that. He said today you were cleemosynary. tty good word, I think. Ww. that’s a pi Vonkers States nan Discharged—“‘It’s too bad.’ said a condoling fric “T thou right in line for promotion 1 you were lecture and worked over from time to new maid)—Are you ace “No,” mournfully replied the other time and sold to the magazines, it would tomed to wa a able! rola L was right in the firing line.” —Boston provide his heir with a comfortable ine of teclee and alw Se gered” I Transcript. come.”’— Birmingham Age- Herald. london Mail (Continued on page 20) been vaunting the superior — censorship. They deride and revile outside interference with O' late the movie people hav publicity value of their medium over newspapers. period- icals, books, and particularly the sposen drama. They claim—-perhaps truly—that anything they show, instead of being confined to a more or less protonged distribution through a limited public, goes almost immediately to a vast and widely scattered audience of eight million or more persons. All the more reason then why the men of intluence in the movie industry should bend their every ergy to the climina- tion of the indecent film and the indecent advertising used as a lure by unscrupulous producers and exhibitors. The matter has been strongly called to the attention of Jupcr, and fresh instances of the practice are cropping up every day Movie people get red-headed at the merest suggestion of W They have in many c: ud good reason Many local boards of censors have been their business. e3 for their indignation ncompetent and their action has been governed. absolutely As a national censor- by unintelligent narrow-mindedness ible, this injustice could be moditied to State boards who would respect ship is virtually impo: censorshi by confinin; one another's de In the cases ¢ work their own salvation producers can read the riot their voice is bound to be heard. promptly, they are likely to come up will cause them something far more serious than inconvenience. ions. obvious indecency the movie people can The better clement among the big t to their small trade and If they don’t do it, and do it rinst a censorship that comichooks,