Word: moffitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Names & Numbers. As Witness Menjou stepped down, Chairman Thomas declared a two-minute recess. After that Man of Distinction, anyone else was bound to be something of an anticlimax. The next witnesses felt their fate but did their best. Esquire's Movie Critic John Charles Moffitt fired in all directions...
...JACK MOFFITT...
This exchange took place at the first hearing of a Senatorial subcommittee investigation into the motion-picture industry and the radio. What was the investigation trying to prove? Like many another U.S. citizen, Reporter Jack Moffitt, who covered the hearing for The Hollywood Reporter, could not find...
...only place he found where everybody knew what it was all about was the National Press Club, and there all was calm. "You fellows from the coast must realize," said a member grandly, "that this is but one of many investigations that continually are being held in Washington." Reporter Moffitt hotfooted it to the hearings to see for himself...
...Reporter Moffitt's Hollywood eye it seemed that the Senators were working without a script. There was Senator Tobey ("He has a nervous trick of making dainty thrusts with his cigaret ... as though he were giving the hot foot to invisible pixies"). There was Wendell Willkie, counsel for the motion-picture industry, who upset the proceedings at the start. Denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, Lawyer Willkie jumped the gun with a 2,600-word blast defending the industry, attacking the legality of the Committee, and pointing grimly at the anti-Semitism he found in the proceedings...