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...film version of La Garçone French novel by Victor Margueritte that earned its author's expulsion from the Legion of Honor for presenting " a false and slanderous picture of modern French womanhood," was completed, complained against, viewed by the police and found above reproach. It is now charged that the objectionable scenes were secretly filmed and will be interpolated in copies of the film destined for South America and Germany. The Paris press urges detection of these scenes by customs officials and their suppression as "very harmful propaganda against France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Harmful Propaganda | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Trilby. Inspection of this film makes one wonder why the movies are not convicted as a public nuisance. The producers have taken Du Maurier's story (which is not far from the fringes of the classics) and, wringing its neck, have served the dead body. The semblance of Trilby remains - but spiritless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 6, 1923 | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Roscoe C. Arbuckle, deposed cinema clown: " I engaged to act for German movies. Said ZwÖlfuhrblatt: 'The German film industry should be congratulated upon the acquisition of this great artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Aug. 6, 1923 | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Broken Engagement. Miss Pola Negri, Polish film tragedienne, from Charles Spencer Chaplin, film comedian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 6, 1923 | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...Critics. The New York Herald: "Mr. Hough's wild West is unmitigatedly the real outdoors; its wildness is that of nature rather than of the stage or the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: *North of 36 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »