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Show Say American Movie Corrupt Foreign Moral PHTLJPPOPOI-I8. Bulgaria, Ana;. 1 li By A. R "American film pr-a- ntattons vrhlrh would not b tol- c aratsxl In Amrrlca ara dolnc thflr a tTonsplcuous shara In ruining tha morals of tha Near Eaat." aald Ir. , T. T. Wolloway, American mission- ary and educator In Bulgaria, In I spaklnr recently with a Tnresen ( taMva of tha Asaoriated Pre. "In threa recent crimes which f have atlrrad tha public. ollca In J veatlaratloB haa dleclosed that tna Inspiration of the crime, and the suKAteatlon of the method hy whlrft It waa attempted came from an American film recently shown in ' tb community. j "In one criminal attempt a rroml nnt cttixen waa Instructed hy tha j 'Hlack Hand' to deposit a largo sum of rnony In the corridor of a rsll-rosd rsll-rosd car. The aent or the 'fllack Hand' appeared to coliact. and tha Investlaatloa that followed hla ar-ret ar-ret proved conclusively that his in- spiratlon came from an American ' film called 'Tho Secrete of Kew i York l -In a eas of bey banditry ft waa ( proved that tha eua-vestton tt thai crime came from an)thr American film. In still anothar caae. whir a robbery by adult bandits waa com- I mttted. It waa also discovered that ! the stirvestloa aa to both crime snd method came from aa American film I then running; locally. I "A doubly rerttahla feature of . S3rh preaentatlona la that they ut- t terly miareprrsant America and show It to tha credulous In the haht of a country where tha cr Lin laal la kmc." |