Turn in his criticism of a recent article appearing in these columns, concerning the local censorship of films, appears to be raising the old, old question of whether the human form is indecent or not. He apparently disapproves of pictures of a bathing suits fashion show, contending that the camera was directed more towards the bare portions of the models' bodies than at the bathing dress itself. How he could possibly decide that it is a little difficult to understand, and it is probable that the conteption arose rather out of a forced rhetoric, than out of any close approximation to the facts. Schopenhauer in one of his essays on pessimism finds that the female form, far from being beautiful, is in fact ugly, That is an expression
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