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Show MOVIE CENSOR Will Director and Star Now Need Little Supervision a ' CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (By A. P.) Another ten yean will see the patting patt-ing of the movie censor, declares Mrs. A. L. Adams, chairman of the Chicago board of motion picture ' censorship, who aaya the present day stars need little supervision In their art. "It will not be long until such supervision Is entirely superfluous," Mrs. Adams asserts. "Dlrectora do not want to offend the publlo and they have learned that the public wants clean pictures. Censors, however, how-ever, ran make few hard and fast rules, hut have to Judge each picture Individually. . "Censorship, like the movies themselves. Is undergoing an evolution. evo-lution. But it cannot be abolished for aome time yet. because people sometimes read Into s picture -what la not there." , There are some rules, Mrs. Adams says, which she alwsya observes. ob-serves. In a flslln encounter, hitting hit-ting a man when he is down Is taboo, ta-boo, because It is unsportsmanlike. A crook cannot shoot at an officer pursuing him, lest that encourage lawlessness. Single piece bathing suits are all right, but a bathing beauty le not permitted to parade acrosa many feet of screen. "Virtue does not need to triumph over all difficulties but pictures glorifying unscrupulous deallngeare cut,'' Mra. Adams continues, "rlhoot- Ing. too. Is censored clossly. In this respect It Is believed that the movie director le Improving. "We canont make hard and fast rules about vary many things, because be-cause a great deal depends on how the subject Is handled," adds Mrs. Adams, "and because public morals mor-als also undergo changea. Every dav we get objectlona from somebody some-body who has been IcandallxasVby a picture. Generally, however, wre find, on examination, that these people peo-ple have read something Into the picture that le not there." |