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...Roach at the Reins...
...read with disgust Hal Roach Jr.'s assessment of American intelligence. He makes a bald statement that the average televiewer has an even lower I.Q. than the moviegoer [TIME, Oct. 29]. It seems to me that he indicts himself and his staff. I take it Mr. Roach and his kind will continue to press the national I.Q. still lower, to satisfy a sponsor's demand...
Although Hollywood's top moviemakers are confident that they can hold TV at least to a draw without having to join their mushrooming rival, two more independent studios last week followed the lead of the profitable Hal Roach TV film operation (TIME, Oct. 29). Republic Pictures cleared its throat, announced that it had set aside $1,000,000 to enlarge its sound stage space for TV film production and to finance its first pictures for television (one character already on tap: Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe). Next day, Monogram Pictures fell in line, announced that...
...Sept. 7, 1925, Manhattan Pastor John Roach Straton led that year's cry against youth when he told of a tour through New York dance halls. TIME quoted him: "In one dance hall. . . we saw between 5,000 and 6,000 young men and women . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace, in many cases with the cheek of the girl against the cheek...
...Roach Jr. thinks that all this activity represents only the thin edge of the TV wedge. He remembers that three years ago "Hollywood looked at us on the basis that we were almost unclean." Now: "My phone rings all the time. It looks as if half of Hollywood were secretly planning to make the jump into television...