A new diagnosis of a sick, sick theater

(Continued from Page 1-F) to break down our Victorian or American Puritan heritage is eminently to be desired.

Breaking down what little is left of the American Puritan ethos is one thing but substituting for it the most blatant sex is another. Advocates of this substitute the specific for the suggested.

Responsible Hollywood producers see their subtle use of suggestion, perfected over years of time, threatened by the excesses of foreign producers who may bring about a censorship which would cripple them and other arts. The aura of decay and hatred in so many of our films, books and plays has been intensified by the successful homosexual playwrights who

show that it is the women of the earth who are the destroyers and the sadists.

Oscar Wilde was a notorious homosexual, but as a great artist he never let his difference from the norm

show up in any of his works. Of course, he had, poor fellow, a sense of literary good

taste.

Recently I received a let-

people in the United States who do not accept the theory that four letter words, repetitious scenes of sex and

nudity, and incest, homosex

A number of critics in New York have aided in the national dissemination of these false doctrines. Quotes from

millions of intellectually unsubtle minds.

Their imitative conclusion

ter from the Rev. Dennis "ality, violence and sadism their truly unsophisticated certain sort of beauty and

Kuby, lately the pastor of First Unitarian Church and a member of the board of the Cleveland Civil Liberties Union.

In it he stated that in his opinion "you have been 99% on the side of the angels, especially in your strong stand against censorship. I have seen Night Games' and I agree with you.”

He further stated that it

might be strange in a member of a board of the American Civil Liberties Union, but that he was worried about producers making this sexy trash without artistic merit, only to make money.

And ladies and gentlemen, when a member of a board of the Civil Liberties Union is worried about this problem, the foreign producers

had better watch out.

There are still millions of

are either works of art or reviews, as fully documented beauty. by Krutch, have ensnared

that nauseating things which happen every day have a art on stage and screen has been taken a step further by some foreign producers. They show unnatural things on the screen which decidedly do NOT happen every day.

A case in point is the current film, "My Sister, My Love." At its end, with the sister about to give birth to a baby sired by her brother, she is shot by a woman jealous of her brother's affection. This occurs every day, even in Sweden?

Incest was a subject not unknown to the classic Greek playwrights, but they did not take the spectator to the bed or bedroom where the crime was committed. The Greeks used incest as a tragic theme. Foreign film producers use aberrant sex as a peep show.

Irresponsible sex which endangers the family unit has never been commonly glorified by repetition in any nation or civilization not about to go down the drain. The Romans learned a suicidal lesson in this from the conquering Gauls, Vandals, etc.

A story in the June 14 issue of Variety quotes a

censorship lawyer as saying that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision may be interpreted to mean that outright stag shows may be exhibited without fear of prosecution as long as they are not seen by juveniles.

If this be so, "God Bless America," and "Happy Mothers' Day."

The results of this intellectual justification for lust and cruelty could be taken care of under the U.S. Supreme Court's theory of local control based on community moral standards and definitions of obscenity.

I distinguish between control and regulation on one hand and censorship on the other. Newspapers are subject to control and regulation by local authorities. What makes the screen's capacity for evil so sacrosanct that it should not be?

No fair-minded person could deny the screen the right to deal with such unpleasant themes as incest, etc. However, he has a perfect right to object to the presentation.

jail for what he's thinking, Nobody should be sent to but it should be enunciated! by law that you can go to jail, at least on a local basis, for what you're showing.