Moving Picture News (1911) . aching the moral lessonthat the promoters talk about, this is called the Wages ofSin. The censors made the following statement. The Board of Censorship has carefully viewed and dis-cussed the Beulah Binford motion picture. The picture iscondemned because of the feeling that the sole and only ap-peal is directed to morbid curiosity, this being true regard-less of the merits and demerits of the actual picture. Thepicture intrinsically fails to teach any lesson except one ofsentimental toleration for the girl who takes easy opportu-nities to go wrong. We consider that
Moving Picture News (1911) . aching the moral lessonthat the promoters talk about, this is called the Wages ofSin. The censors made the following statement. The Board of Censorship has carefully viewed and dis-cussed the Beulah Binford motion picture. The picture iscondemned because of the feeling that the sole and only ap-peal is directed to morbid curiosity, this being true regard-less of the merits and demerits of the actual picture. Thepicture intrinsically fails to teach any lesson except one ofsentimental toleration for the girl who takes easy opportu-nities to go wrong. We consider that the picture, although containing no posi-tively indecent scene, would have a demoralizing tendencyeven if it were not known as the Binford picture. When tothis fact is added the present notoriety of Miss Binford andthe way in which the picture would be advertised, it seemsto this board that the interests of the public and the interestsof the motion picture business demand the suppression of thefilm.—N. Y. World, Sept. Mr. Manager Get acquainted with our AERIALPUBLICITY NOVELTIES, catering tothe advertising of 5c theaters,The illustration shows our CIRCULARDISTRIBUTING AIRSHIP IN AC-TION. Tell us to-day, you are interested,and learn, to-morrow, of our manyinexpensive, but effective, AerialStunts, that will arouse public inter-est, draw large crowds, and gatherthe shekels. THE B. N. MFG. CO. NORTHSIDE, CINCINNATI, 0. A COMEDY FILM SUBJECTMonkey Wanders from Home and Gets Into Wrong Pew If anyone in Dallas doesnt know the meaning of the oldexpression, more fun than a barrel of monkeys, he wouldhave been enlightened had he been down to Little Jakescleaning and dyeing establishment on North Akard streetnear Pacific avenue, the other afternoon. A wild monkey from Copleys jungleland came in thealleyway, mounted to the transom window and took a flyingswing for one of the wires that holds up the pole on whichJake hangs his customers clothes. The pole broke. The clothes fell to t
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