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Show ' : DRIVING OUT PEGGY JOYCE, j Motion picture theater owners, in I convention In Washington, have j passed resolutions, prohibiting the ex- I -hlbltlon of pictures featuring Peggy I Hopkins Joyce. The Standard Exam- I iner condemned the conduct of the j iinovie star when news of her esca pades in Paris was received and now congratulates the picture theater men -on excluding the films of the star, f In their resolutions, the theater own f era declare: "Wlhereas, The Motion Picture Thea 1 ters Owners of America have always I been opposed to the exploitation on pHT screens of all such objectionable I j j lines of conduct as that of Peggy; H WilllPI I Joyce, j "Resolved, By the delegates to the 1 I aanual convention of the Motion Pic-! lure Theater Owners of America, as-1 ; j sembled in Washington, Thursday,' I H May 11, that we protest against the H exhibition of all such pictures In the ! I fj Interest of a clean screen and whole I some entertainment, and that we do! I H hereby declare to the American public I i-y -J. that we will not perrnif the preseuta- Hon of such pictures in our theaters" A few moves of this kind and lher will he fewer Peggy Joyces in the movies. A little disciplining of the kind which will exclude the coarse and vulgar in the lives of the movies, will clear the whole atmosphere. |