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When, in 1922, Will H. Hays was made president of a representative organization which called itself Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., the religious bodies which had previously been alarmed by the pernicious moral influences exerted by the cinema industry were vastly relieved. To them, it seemed that the scabrous ideals of the ignorant money grubbers who were producing moving pictures could be effectively counteracted by the efforts of an able, high-minded Presbyterian elder and ex-Postmaster General...
...Seminary, roundly flaying Cinema Tsar Hays. Stirred to imagine that where there was much Hays, there might really be a smokescreen, Bishop Francis John McConnell announced that the Federal Council's research department would study the activities & effects of Tsar Hays' Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc...
Last week the Federal Council v. Hays controversy was brought into the open when the Federal Council published, in 151 pages, at 50? a copy, its report on the activities of Tsar Hays and his Motion Picture Producers & Distributors, Inc. Tsar Hays simultaneously published his reply to the council's report in the form of a letter to Bishop McConnell. Just before the publication of both reports, the most painful evidence of the divergence between the Federal Council and the Hays organization was provided when Carl Elias Milliken, onetime Republican (1917-21) Governor of Maine, resigned from...
Observers felt that the Council's report at least served the purpose of calling attention to the fact that the cinema is now more influential and definitely more immoral than when Tsar Hays became President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc...
Died. Ralph Harman Booth, 57, U. S. Minister to Denmark; of heart dis ease and a kidney ailment; in Bad Gastein, Austria. An oldtime journalist, he be came editor and publisher in 1904 of the Detroit Tribune, founded Booth News papers Inc. with his brother George G. Booth. As president of the chain he con trolled eight Michigan newspapers...