Faults and Possibilities of the Screen were idle to dew that there la some foundation for the indfctment of the moving-picture industry made yester on the floor of the Senate by Senator Meyers of Montana. Without question there are faults in the management of this as well as every other industry, and not all the leaders in it are animated by the highest ideals. But where in the modern world has idealism gained complete jy the ascendant? Obviously there are all sorts and conditions of men
and staging moving pictures, an and women engaged in preparing there is nothing in the business itself that need make its prevailing tone a sordid one. An undercurrent of sordidness ran through much of twentieth-century civilization. Witness Herrin.
A more valid cri is Mr, Meyers's the movie as an inciter of crime. extravagance of the day, a great Delieve that a great deal of the
deal of -the disposition to live beyond one's means, yes, a great deal of the crime of the day, comes from moving pictures,' declared the senator from Montana. Quite possibly the moving picture is responsible for the lapse of many an individual from the strict path of virtue.
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