The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-17
Morality Clause Limits
Gay Life of Movie Stars
Contracts, Ridded With Prohibitions Protect Producers
Against Player s. Depreciation.

stardom and sell their services for
fat sums on a contract basis. They
riddle the contracts with trick"
clauses and prohibitions to insure
against depreciations in the stars
box-ofice pull with the public.
There Is a famous morality
clause which appears in nearly
every agreement between producers
and their contract players. 1t pro
vides penalties for the actor or
actress who comes into public dis
repute through some scandal or mis-.
conduct.
After Rape Case
The morality clause was adopted
generally by producers after Fatty
Arbuckle's scandal Famous Players
Lasky are still holding two Ar
buckle films which cost thousands
of dollars to produce, but probably
will never be marketed. The film
makers had no way to retrieve their
losses had they desired to do so
under their contracts with the com
edian.
their hair, get fat, drink gin, ride
airplanes, appear in public bare-leg.
ged, and in many other ways are
restricted in their activities and
held to a strict behavior in private
life.
An "Old-FaslliOned Girl'
One of the most exacting contracts
Is that which Samuel Goldwyn has
just drawn with Lois Moran, t.
year-old film beauty. 1t literally re-
quires that the little actress remain
an "old-fashioned girl for three
years at least.
Goldwyn discovered Miss Moran j
Paris, where her Pittsburgh PARENTS
had sent her to be educated. He
was impressed with her naive charm
and beauty-a sort of wistful, old
fashioned girlishness.
The producer brought his find"
to Hollywood and gave her rich
contract. But to insure her girlish
assets from the whitening blasts of
modern life, he bound her to the
following provisions:
1. She must not bob her hair.
2. She must not use lipstick or
rouge.
8. She cannot go barelegged or
roll her stockings.
4. She must not smoke cigarets.
Reducing Required
The same business-like methods
were used by the cautious producer
when he imported Wilma Banky, the
Hungarian star, known in con,
tinental countries as "Europe's Mary
Pickford." Miss Banky is required
to reduce fifteen pounds before her
contract becomes effective, and
whenever she scales more than the
allotted poundage, her contract be-
comes null and void.
Victor Fleming is-forbidden to ride
in an airplane while he is under con-
tract with Paramount, and Shirley
Mason must keep off the automobile
race-tracks under terms Of her Fox
contract.
Lon CLANCY signed a one.picture
agreement which restricted the
showing of his face in any STILLS"
under the theory it might ruin
exploitation of the character he was
portraying on the screen.
Huntley Gordon has CONTRACT
with o-Goldwyn-M Mayer whereby
he can be EARNED out" to other
studios.
Keeps Her CurIs
Jobyna Ralston must retain her
long curls as long as she remains
Harold Lloyd's leading lady. Mary
Philbin has also agreed not to bob
her curly >tresses while she remains
| a Universal star.
Producers claim that carefully
worded contract is more effective in
governing the department of their
stars than any rulings or bans
which may come from the office of
Will Hays, the censor king of films.