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...motion picture is primarily interested in entertaining. Its field is the drama of life. It is a mirror held up to nature. It presents the evil with the good, but goes farther than real life by showing the triumph of right over wrong. The motion picture as a medium of entertainment and in presenting the drama of life does not knowingly misrepresent American life, as your correspondent charges, any more than the newspapers in printing the news of everyday life...
American and Mirror...
...Lindbergh and wife denied pictures of their baby to New York American. Journal ("Hearst); News, Mirror. Graphic (Tabloids): described practices of such papers as "disgusting . . . contemptible ... a social drag . . . non-constructive ... a waste of time...
...faced the first one, empty handed. "Good afternoon," said he, politely, innocently. "What can I do for you this afternoon?" Vainly each man pleaded, reasoned, expostulated, protested ; begged to know why his paper was being excluded from this, the picture of pictures! Most vehement was the reporter from the Mirror, which had heralded the advance of Baby Lindbergh for some six months and had printed a large "artist's conception" of the mother & child on the birthday. To all questions Col. Lindbergh returned a smile of increasing breadth and the reply: "Sorry, I can't answer that today...
...News appeared with a full front-page picture of Baby Lindbergh (and with the comment that the baby looked less like its father than like its mother). This News picture looked exactly like the pose given the A. P. It bore no credit line. A few hours afterward the Mirror, American, Journal and Graphic were on the streets, each flaunting a front-page picture apparently identical to the one in the News. The four papers quoted no source, but one way of obtaining the picture would have been to photograph the front-page of the News...