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...June 1929, the Episcopal liberal weekly The Churchman published an attack on Tsar Hays, called him a "window-dresser," suggested that he was an "office-boy" rather than "tsar." Most pertinently, The Churchman made the assertion which has since been the focal point of attacks on Cinema Tsar Hays: that in effect, he acted as a smokescreen...
...Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America brought pressure to bear upon The Churchman to discontinue its attacks on Tsar Hays. Nonetheless, The Churchman continued and was presently aided by other religious publications. Most notable was the influential Christian Century which published a series of five articles by Dr. Fred Eastman of Chicago Theological 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...
Then Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland resigned from the Federal Council, after admitting that he had been paid by Tsar Hays to lecture on and recommend cinemas. Similar cases followed. Mrs. Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman...
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...
...suggested that, if Tsar Hays did function as a smokescreen, it was partly because the public had been lead to expect too much of him. Tsar Hays replied...