2 page Typewritten letter from Will Hays to Warren Doan on July 10, 1926, on the letterhead of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.
Aphorism? included in the letter: <br /> "Liberty is fire on the hearth -- License is fire on the floor."
Interesting how he frames duty and morality as well as responsibility, but appears to be protecting the business versus using film as an art form to create discussion...
Evidence of plays featuring nudity in the mid-1920s while Hollywood endeavored not to show any nudity at all.
