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...Hollywood a great to-do was belatedly made over last month's agreement between leaders of the Legion of Decency and representatives of the Hays organization in Cincinnati (TIME, July 2). Centre of the excitement was a tall, husky Irishman named Joseph I. Breen. Mr. Breen, onetime Associated Pressman, was about to become the cinema's chief censor. His job will be to read scripts before production, to send assistants to supervise production of dubious sequences, to preview finished films and mark those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare...
...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...
...There is no futures market in shellac or pepper in the U. S. but Ben Smith would like to see one. This was not the first time that Ben Smith had warmed up to a commodity. Early in Depression when all other prices were melting, the hard-eyed Manhattan Irishman turned to the one thing that was bound to rise-gold. In his day Ben Smith had been a gold mucker, an automobile salesman, an ambulance driver. He helped bull Alaska Juneau from $3.50 per share to $20, Pioneer from $2.25 to $7. Once he flew to Alaska to inspect...
Casts of the four one-act plays which the Dramatic Club will persent are announced. The plays to the given are: "The Reart of the Irishman." "The Horse Thieves," "Five in the Mornings," and "Death and the Dicers...
...Dramatic Club will give four one-act plays in Boston next week: "The Horse Thieves" and "Five in the Morning" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The Heart of the Irishman," and "Death and the Dicers." Robert Benchley '13, played Reverend Clinch in "The Horse Thieves" and Teague O'Regan in "The Heart of the Irishman...