The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-01
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA SeFVICe StA1I COEEeSpOnucHV
 Hollywood = American rela- tions are still -eaking beating frCm the movie-makers here. And it isn't that the eSfenders don't know any better, eitfNr. At the beginning of every production dealing with one of the countries south of the border, the responsibility is noted with state meatS promising absolute authen- ticity, sympathetic treatment and a script dedicated to the betterment of hemisphere harmony.
 After the flicker is released, and the next news of 1t comes in brief accounts of how some South Ameri- can audience has booed it off the screen, or maybe forced it off by tearing down the screen.
 Sometimes, then, as in the case of Universal's Argentine Nights" the film is banned by the mayor, who also asks the Interior Ministry to oust 1t from the whole country. Meanwhile the State Department is petitioned to request other Latin nations to keep the insulting feature out of their theaters.
 GREAT FOR NAZIS
 Naturally the best thing that can happen to an offensive picture is its withdrawal from exhibition. The real damage is still to be done, and that comes when the South American editorialists get busy. The pro-Nazi writers have vituperative field day. All the boys have fun listing the mistakes and nnisrepresentations. Is such-and-such a picture, they in- quire sarcastically, gesture from the motion picture division of the U S. Committee for the Coordina- tiOn of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the American Re- publies? And if it isn't. why doesn't the committee keep such films north of the Rio Grande?
 Writers in Mexico, Brazil, Argen- tina and way points say that the fans down there want North Ameri- can flickers, that they are NOT en- tertained by Hollywood's notions of life and love in the southern re- publics. Neither these statements nor the srrefutable evidence of box office figures seem to have the slightest effect on Hollywood's stubborn view point.
 Many producers continue to be- Neve that they are wooing the Latin market and big -heartedly promoting inter American friendship with flic- ker locsies ranging from Juarez to Cape Horn. Right now there are 18 such pictures on studio schedules, mostly with slick haired, guitar plEnk;ng baritones winning the hearss of unchaperoned blond cuties from Los Estados Unidos.
 ANDY HARDY TO RESCUE
 Some of the typical pictures slated are .The Gentleman From Buenos Aires" @The Man From Brazil Carnival in Rio" and remake of "RiO Rita" There's even going to De an "Andy Hardy in South Ameri- ca" Among Latin players under contract here are Brazil's Carmen Miranda; Desi Arnaz from Cuba ; Mona Naris, an Argentine; Maria Montez from the Dominican Repub- lie: Esther Fernandez. Mexican star and Alberto Villa, native of Uruguay who starred in several Argentine pic lures. He will have the lead in Para mounts Gentleman From Buenos Aires" and the studio expects him Co become great attraction here.
 His first picture in Hollywood hasn't given him very suspicious start. It is RKO's current little dilly They Met in Argentina" banned in advance by Argentina-just on the strength of the New York reviews.