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Three months ago, as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard signed a petition to President Roosevelt asking that the cinema code include restrictions on block booking. President Roosevelt signed the code without such restrictions and appointed Dr. Lowell. Eddie Cantor and Marie Dressier as Government representatives to the Code Authority. Last week Dr. Lowell refused the appointment. His reasons, explained in letters to General Johnson, showed a remarkably sound knowledge of the cinema industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

Roman Scandals (Samuel Goldwyn). When Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor, his comedy routine consisted of a song or two and a few jokes, original or stolen. Now that he is the highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 25, 1933 | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Last week Harvard's famed President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell found himself flanked in the news by Comedians Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor. All three had been added to the board of ten producers and distributors whose duty it is to enforce the cinema code when it goes into effect this week. The choice of Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor to represent the industry's performers was easy to understand. Comedian Dressier is a White House intimate of the Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Codist Lowell | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Eddie Cantor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CENSORSHIP CODE | 12/1/1933 | See Source »

...Eddie Cantor: Sure, you write the report. And don't forget that a good gag is a good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CENSORSHIP CODE | 12/1/1933 | See Source »

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