Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last fortnight, an even dozen of the cinema industry's top line executives, representing all of Hollywood's eight major producing companies, gathered in the office of Tsar Will Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
Since Hollywood's eight major producing companies had only until November 1 to answer the U. S. Department of Justice indictment for monopolistic practices, ostensible purpose of the meeting was to discuss ways and means of meeting this and other major crises, such as restrictions on cinema distribution in Italy and Germany, labor troubles on the West Coast, conduct of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year campaign. Actually, word leaked from Hollywood that the real purpose of the meeting was something else entirely: to consider ways and means of checking anti-Semitism in so far as it affects movie...
...Cinema producers, as a class, rightly or wrongly have the reputation of being uncultured, brash and boorish. On the theory that this reputation is a liability, the producers agreed that one means of combatting anti-Semitism would be to render themselves less vulnerable to unfavorable publicity, by abstaining from café society, ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization...
Father Edward J. Flanagan, who sold the cinema rights both to his name and to the name of his orphanage, Boys Town, Neb., to help raise funds, wryly revealed that since Boys Town appeared (TIME, Sept. 12), contributions have totaled $5,000 less than last year and are much slower in coming in. His explanation: The cinema makes out Boys Town to be a firmly established institution, gives the impression that Father Flanagan is the sort of financial wizard who can make shekels out of a shoestring...
...Slavic Circle presented the Soviet film "Chapayev" before a capacity crowd in the Winthrop House Common Room. Preceding the showing of the film Ernest J. Simmons of the Slavie department spoke briefly on the life of Chapayev and the significance of the movie in the development of Soviet cinema...