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Show CLEANER FILMS FOR THE BRITISH AitfiCH Mikirs Must Ob-'wn Ob-'wn Strict Rutos la Movlis. HELEN HOLMES' DARING LEAP & J Drove an Auto Pour Tim Off a Oeok & In Attempt to Make Thirty Foot Loap eh to a largo Vivian Hood Likes Surf Bathing Juno Caprlco and Mao l Murray to Nurao Woundod 8oldlers. IF Americans arc going to coutlnuo and develop their monopoly of tho flint mnrket in Great Britain, , which is Just now giving some folks more worry than anything cx cept maybe tho submarines, they will have to begin producing tho kind of films England Is willing to stand for. If recollection serves it was n Kansas censor who ruled that a movie kiss mustn't bo over soven feet long or was it soven yards? At any rate the British are getting increasingly particular about what shall be ground through the moving machines in that country, but they seem raoro afraid that the ptc. tures are going to corrupt tho grown-up grown-up than they will demoralize the chll. dren. Here is a list of the reasons urged within tho last year for suppressing sup-pressing several films. In some cases the objections wcro overruled by the board of censors, but in n considerable number they were sustained, and tho objectlonablo pictures wcro not U lowed to bo shown: Impersonation of tho kins. The repudiation of the accepted conven-1 conven-1 tlons of morality. Irreverent treatment of death. Medical agreement to allow the death of Infants. Improper exhibition of feminine underclothing. under-clothing. Excessively ardent love scenes. Bccncs purporting to llluatrato "night to controversial or International Interna-tional politics and antagonistic relations of capital and labor. Scenes tending to disparage public characters char-acters and create public alarm. Vamplro women. White slave tradlc. Scenes depicting the realistic horrors of War. Incidents calculated to afford Information Informa-tion to tho enemy. Scenes holding up the king's uniform 'to contempt or ridicule. Subjects which might wound the religious re-ligious feoltngs of eastern peoples. Scenes calculated to Inflame racial hatred. .Propaganda films of German origin. Drlvos Auto Off Dock Four Times. Helen Ilolmes, daring motion picture actress, drove an automobllo at top B4 speed off tho dock at San Fedro, Cal., - 'our times in ah attempt to mako n T thirty foot leap on to a barge, and tho fourth tlmo sho did It Tho "stunt" was staged for the ninth chapter of "The Ilallroad Raiders." Her hair raising rais-ing rldo Is one of tho most sensational performances of tho yea'r in motion picture pic-ture adventure drnmit. Tho script of tho ninth episode, of tho photoplay serial seri-al presented tho most difficult and most dangerous Incident of tho fifteen Installments, In-stallments, and John P. McGownn, director di-rector of the picture, and his fearless star spent hours together figuring out tho best wny and tho best placo to stago tho stunt. From the 8tudio to the Sea. ' BBaaBal aBaaafc BH ammmmmmm'K ?flBBBBBv v w ?$ afajafafafaV Bfl " BBBBMO.H "A ' BEEEEmH v BaBBrBBBsof & w i aTsBBBBBBBBBBaW VIVIAN SEED BEADY fOll A FLUKOE. From tho plcturcsquo garb of the Arabian girl to tho Blmplo raiment of f , . tlio girl of the woods and from the I" J ,. burning sands of tho Sahara desert to the Canadian northwest was tho far t swing of Vivian Ilced within a week's .' time". Vivian recently completed her rol6 In "Tho Lad and tho Lion," whose locale was Africa, then eiiguged In acting act-ing tho role of tho young French Co-uadtan Co-uadtan hcrolno of tho northwest in the two reel picture mado In Los Angeles, "Tho Heart of Beaupere." But none oJ thc8o docs b1)i enjoy as sho docs a dip in tho ocean away from tho camera, which sho taken whenever sho is released re-leased from n Bccno, when tho weather , ' permits. "Only then," sho says, "canl fr;' bo my natuial self without a dircctoi t ,tn toll mo what I should do." j. . 1 . - .'. |