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Show AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOS WEAPON OF I FILM STARS IN "BLUE SUNDAY" WAR show them, and If they can be shown in a church, surely they are fit to be seen in a theatre on Sunday. KATHCRINE MACDONALD. The effort to Impose "blue" Sunday legislation, locking the doors of the-ntres the-ntres and other places of harmless diversion di-version and recreation, Is decidedly the wish of a small minority captained by professional reformers. Yet, unless the rreat majority is awakened to its danger, stocks and pillories may be In vopne once more. There is a real sermon In nearly every screen production of toduy, and this sermon continuously Impresses upon the screen fans the relative value of good and evil. NAOMI CHILDERS. There Is nothing more restful, and at the same time instructive, thun a good motion picture. Today producer arc turning out pictures of Immense mnr.it value to the (tenoral public and forbidding for-bidding the public to see the plrluips on Sunday is robbing the people of Innocent amusement as well u.i keep-tnj? keep-tnj? "Tronnhem s''rmohTTreachedroy" good pictures. The a u rent way to keep t:hrlstianlty alive Is to perform Chr.s-tinn Chr.s-tinn doeds every day in the w?ek. 1 -3&fc- Jf )?- THEY'RE FIGHTING TO KEEP SUNDAY FROM BECOMING BLUE" Filmland ia leading the fight against "blue Sunday," and here are ahown a fsw of tha generala. In tha center Katharine MacOonald, "the American beauty," ia ahown buay at ona of tha campaign atunta. She is sending out thousanda of autographed photos and on each is written an "antiblu" appeal. Other etars are doing likewiae. Above, on the left, ia Josef Swickardi juat below, on left, is Betty Compson, while on right (upper) is the well known Mr. Fairbanks, with Nsomi Childers on lower right. They are all members of a recently organized movie committee which will head the fight against Sunday bluea. ' . solute ruination of both pictures and I the legitimate staRe. IMARY P1CKF0R0. I always trv to make mv picture , . .,. -..,.--- - - clean and wholesome, keeping upper- most in mind the fact that they are for I th entertainment of young- and old alike. Mnnv churches have seen fit to ! r- -- "--- I I LOS ANGKLKS. Feb. 1.--Those who wish to ep1ah the rulendar with bluInK are going to find tliemselvea opposed op-posed by all the fi.ures of fllmdnm. A well organised rjimpnlffn atralnnt the 'lil lawa" haa been auirted. one nf iho novel lun is be In if ued la i h e placing of no ftie "li hlllHlli'" ai il-Ins; il-Ins; on ever-. uutofrra plied phuto aent out an a film fnn. It nun been flicnrrd l hut about 25.UUU movie fans are thus daily reached. Committees have been formed to device de-vice campaiKn methoda and here la what aorne of the leadera have had to aay on the subject: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS. The moat exacting censors of motion pictures are tha people who pay their money to see them. Tbo fact that they pay more money to see them on Hundaya than on week days Indicates that they believe I'l Kunday movies. JOSEF SWICKARO. Three-fourth of the Inhabitants of this nation are enthusiastic screen fans. Box office receipts show that fully 0 per cent of the entire buslnens of motion picture theatres Is done on Monday, which shows that the public more largely attends pictures on rVin-day rVin-day than any other day In the week. Durlne; the twenty years I was on the legitimate stage ioliservedthnt Sunday audiences were the mont at-tentie at-tentie and appreciative ttnd seemed to ho more In the proper frame of mind to be able to enjiiy plays. To close t hen t res on Sunday woiild he the ah- |