Chicago's Pink Permits
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Source: Variety, 29 October 1915, pg. 14.
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From time to time outside the fronts of the Chicago picture houses appears the sign "Children Not Admitted Today" or words to that effect. To the easterner this appears unusual, as one does not see any such sign on any of the New York photoplay fronts. Here this "nothing doing for the children" gag means that the house is showing a picture that has a "pink permit," the censors having decreed that the film is not fit for the boys and girls under 21 to see. There are houses here which pass up such a censored picture altogether rather than monkey with the "pink permit" preliminaries and fol de rol.
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Page compiled: 18 February 2000
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