May 30, 1918 - Memorial Day
Mary goes to church today to "honor our boys over there" because she has part of the day off from work and it is Memorial Day. Originally known as Decoration Day, the first general observance was on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of civil war soldiers. The tradition may have started in this country early in the Civil War in the South when soldier's graves were decorated, a tradition that spread to the North by the official declaration of Decoration Day in 1868. Decoration Day gradually became known as Memorial Day and was celebrated on May 30 until the Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect in 1971, moving Memorial Day to the last Monday in May.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
May 29, 1918 - D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World
Today Mary goes with sister Marguerite and "Miss Buck" (from whom she recently received a wedding invitation) to see D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World at the Garrick Theatre.
Hearts of the World was a controversial movie and prior to Mary's attendance there were several advertisements in the local newspapers that the theaters would not be showing the movie as planned because of a pending legal battle with the censors.
In The Pennsylvania State Board of Censors: The Great War, the Movies, and D.W. Griffith [Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2008, available as a PDF through the JSTOR.org web site], Harris Ross writes that in 1911 Pennsylvania was the first state to pass a law establishing motion picture censorship. The following is from Ross' article:
A very detailed history of the movie industry's relationship with the U.S. government and World War I propaganda can be found at the World Socialist web site.
Today Mary goes with sister Marguerite and "Miss Buck" (from whom she recently received a wedding invitation) to see D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the World at the Garrick Theatre.
Hearts of the World was a controversial movie and prior to Mary's attendance there were several advertisements in the local newspapers that the theaters would not be showing the movie as planned because of a pending legal battle with the censors.
In The Pennsylvania State Board of Censors: The Great War, the Movies, and D.W. Griffith [Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2008, available as a PDF through the JSTOR.org web site], Harris Ross writes that in 1911 Pennsylvania was the first state to pass a law establishing motion picture censorship. The following is from Ross' article:
A very detailed history of the movie industry's relationship with the U.S. government and World War I propaganda can be found at the World Socialist web site.
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