SCREEN KISSES GONE OUT OF FASHION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 14

SCREEN KISSES GONE OUT OF FASHION

A survey completed in Hollywood discloses that screen kisses have gone out of fashion. The latest Hollywood creations aren't using the fadeout kiss of yesteryear. Boy meets girl and boy loses girl in the approved movie fashion. but when boy gets girl after much maniy struggling, he is denied his embrace and kiss at the close of the picture. Alfred E. Green, veteran director who has put countless romantic pairs through a final kissing elose-up. declares that a new cinema trend is in the making. “Not long ago.” he said, "virtually every picture with a happy ending closed with the hero kissing his heroine. But now we nave the audience do it—in its imagination. That seems to bo what the public wants’ He pointed to the popularity f Frank Capra's latest Columbia picture, “Lost Horizon ” in which Ronaid C'olma i and Jane Wyatt do not embrace at the finish of the film. Among films following the same trend are the Columbia productions "Let's Get Married." "Venus Makes Trouble.’' "Criminals of the Air.” and "League of Frightened Men." with Ralph Bellamy. James Dunn, Charles Quigley and Allan Brook the leading and "losing” men. “Of course,” Green continued, 'we are changing the old fade-out kiss because audiences no longer demand the obvious.”