Lost Art of Kissing
J/TSSING is becoming a lost nil in the movies. Nowadays, even tlie longest and most lyrical cinema love story has an irreducible minimum of kisses in the total footage, seldom more than four, usually . less. This contrasts sharply with the adolescent age of Hollywood when a picture that came along with- fewer than 15 epidermal collisions was considered practically a travelogue. Oid-timo directors contrived to have the heroine's make-up dismantled about three times per reel. Directors have two answers for the decline and fall of osculation. "In the old days, the only way they had of showing that a. man and a woman were sizzling with attraction was to throw them into a clinch," a. Hollywood director said. "But with the passage of the years, a. whole list of different ways to get over the same thought has accumulated. That's one I thing. I "The other is the censor."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 13
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