Word: breen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan, were pleased to sit in at the Cincinnati porch conference in the hope of working out some sort of truce with the bishops...
...Breen is a tall, husky Irishman, good Catholic and father of six. A one-time Associated Pressman, he has for four years been executive assistant in the Will H. Hays office and No. 1 cinema censor. His job has been to supervise the reading of scripts, watch for dirty spots, attempt to eliminate them during conferences with producers. But a producers' jury has existed which as a lenient court of appeals could undo Mr. Breen's best work...
What Archbishop McNicholas was able to announce on his porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...
...Major (Walter Connolly), who has succeeded in arranging a betrothal between his eldest daughter Eileen (Margaret Lindsay) and handsome Larry Blake (Warner Baxter), who has a Rolls Royce and a yacht. When she learns that Eileen loves not Larry Blake, but a poor boy of the village named Jack Breen, Paddy does her loveable best to break the engagement. She snubs Blake, then flirts with him, finally tells him in plain terms why her sister is marrying him. All this has a good effect. After her father has been kicked to death by one of his horses, Eileen marries Jack...
...Provincial Minister of Mines, said that this year's gold mining activities in Ontario alone will split $45,000,000 between wages, supplies, taxes & dividends. Gold shares have soared in Toronto and Montreal. A further whet to speculation was news last week that famed Manhattan Speculator George Forsythe Breen and Sisto & Co. planned to invest $250,000 new capital in Barry-Hollinger Mines, a hitherto only fairly successful company whose shares sold at 3½? last month; 9? last week...