In re Fox Film Corp.
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
1Opinion of the Court
McDevitt, P. J.,
This cause came before the court on appeal from the final order of disapproval of a film constituting a motion-picture play, “She’s Still My Baby.”
This appeal presents the questions (a) whether, under the Act of May 15, 1915, P. L. 534, the Board of Censors has jurisdiction to require the submission to it for approval of such language as may be used in conjunction with the exhibition of a film either by means of a mechanical device or by the use of persons; and (b) whether the board has not been guilty of an abuse of discretion in failing to approve the film “She’s Still My…
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