The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-14
FLASHES and
CLOSE-UPS
By LENS

I through blllb EDluuAls Will give AAA1
ideas on the film Monday night at
the Film and Photo League, IL E.
nth st.
"W. X" sends us the following
minute-review:
"AlI reference to the Communist
who organizes the student dem
OnStration has been eliminated
from the screen version Of She
Loves Me Not Instead the mo-
ton picture company sponsors the
demonstration for publicity pur-
poses. Apparently Hollywood
realizes that it was tinkering with
dynamite, when IL showed what
mass action can do"
!
ONLY a few days after the recent
v series Of executions and their ac-
companying revelations of sexual
perversions and orgies among the
Nazi leaders had officially con-
firrned what until then had been
vehemently denied by Hitler-Goer
ing Goebbels and Co., the York
vile Theatre in New York pre-
scented a film in which the clean
illness and discipline of the Hitler
youth are sharply contrasted with
the Slovenliness and vice obtaining
in the ranks Of the Red Front
youngsters" CTimes).
Words fail us to characterize this
monstrous piece of impudence
thrust in the face of New York
audiences by Hitler's American
agents The film is still running
and awaits our pleasure
As to the Congressional Com
mittee Investigating un-American
Activities guess it just
doesn't care for movies After
all, it's Communists that are be-
ing slandered and attacked, and
why should they kick?
/ PARAMOUNT has inserted a we'd
ding sequence in 1T Amt No
Sin" Picture is being respec-
tabilized after rejection by censors.
Let those who want their Mae
West straight do the kicking
Wedding or no wedding, I don't like
the lady -.
Will Rogers going to the Soviet
Union again
And so they took Henry Hull out
Of Tobacco Road" to make him
do Robinson Crusoe" in Holly
woodl =.
CANDID Spells No. 500:
y us there any question that
the picture business is basically a
national asset and, from the COM
mercial angle, can 1t not be said
that the American business man
owes debt to American pictures?
For the screen has been his silent
salesman in many things"
From an editorial in Variety.
DOCTOR ROBERT P. FRAY, a
" professor at Pennsylvania State
College, has made a profound in
vestigation of Hollywood films and
concludes very lesrnedly that Gag
gressiveness, of a girl in lovemaking
is the phase of morality in which
motion pictures most often conflict
with present standards"
1t would be not little futile to
inquire of the savant as to what
he means by present standards, -
but if they are the standards of
the class for whom he researches"
and speaks, then I can understand
his objection to "aggressiveness of
a girl in lovemaking" Any kind
of militancy scares those gentle
men to death >.
sUERE Comes the Navy" opens at
Ia the Strand Theatre on the
18th :. f. James Cagney is the star
and I'm all atremble, comrades
Ernst Lubitsch wants to direct
Carmen" Bah! -. George
ArliSs, Mae West and la Hepburn
are unpopular in Buenos Aires
The Nazis have banned "Tarzan"
j.. &. Reason? Hitler likes EN-
/ WILL IlObtlGo OIl
Newsreels of the sinking of the
liner Dresden" with LOO workers
and their families during pleasure
/ trip have been banned by the
/ Nazis
DROOF that the newsreel COM
l panies work hand in hand with
the bosses during strikes is found
in the fact that during the Har-
riman, Tenn hosiery strike a COM
pany-supplied stool-pigeon was
filmed by Paramount i. This stool
supporters the company's exploita-
ton off the mill workers stating
that he is speaking for several hun
dred workers" % -.
THE high powers of the Catholic
Church in Chicago have en-
/ dorsed mo Greater Glory as a
splendid example of the kind of film
they think Hollywood ought to
produce There's the gat under
the silk glove that we've been talk
ing about
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