Mr. J. P. McEvoy Makes an International Survey:
General Public the Best Judges Mr. J, P. McEvoy, who was the innest of honour of the Shanghai Rotary Club which held. its usual timm "meeting on Thursday atthe Metropole Hotel, gave a most interesting address (0. the members on "Censorship—from Hollywood to Shanghai."
Introduced by Mr, William Vinson Lee, Chairman of the Programme Committee, the speaker said that censorship, ko charity, covers a multitude of sins. and like charity It should begin at home. But it never: oes—-for censorship as it is practised to-day all over the world, is the art of minding the other fellow's business, 'As applied to motion pictures it is fitlier political or moral, or roth. Political censorship is fairly easy to understand, but moral censorship has everyone batted, including the censors. 'In. the United' States pictures are censored for Communism, in_ China for Imperialism, in Russia for Fascism capitalism. Pity the poor proneer who, If he straddles a political situation, winds up doing a split, "Some nations have a national censorship—Japan, for example, "where, contrary to general opinion, almost everything goes except kidding constituted authority, and kissing to ex ess. In Japanese-made films they don't allow kissing at all, but, they have given up trying to Keep it out of foreign pictures so now they limit their disapproval to snipping. To this! old Hollywood observer, it Is quite tartling to see a cutie get all set to smacked vigorously and then have her cult right off in the middle of her ecstasy. A recent report stated that the Japanese oMfcials had cut 2000 feet of kisses out of foreign pictures {in the last year. Since all censors kept ju storage—they hoarding It In Tokyo, why, TU never Yenow—some day itis all go up in spontaneous combustion,
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