342:'s Jason Joy, with the group initially stating that the movie taught "a very splendid lesson and that every girl over sixteen years of age ought to be compelled to see it." The MPPDA, surprised at the lack of a condemnation, was eventually successful in gaining the condemnations from various women's groups and succeeded in withdrawing the film from a number of theaters in the Northwestern United States, paving the way for further challenges to the genre. The success in San Diego led to the film being censored or banned in a number of other communities as time progressed, including persuading a Main Street theater chain in
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