Evening star., 1945-10-14
New Quarterly
Gives Cinema
Art Flavor
By Ralph Dighfon
HOLLYWOOD.

| 11o14L1 ffo)D.
Hollywood goes highbrow with the
publication of the first issue of the
Hollywood Quarterly, an ambitious
magazine aimed not at bobby -soxeC
| fans, but at educators, social scien.
lists and others concerned with the
| techniques and responsibilities oi
mass communication" as it's editors
| say.
The quarterly, sponsored jointly
by the University of California anG
the Hollywood Writers Mobilization
and published by the University OF
California Press, is admittedly ar
experiment. 1t may never become
widely popular; the editors doubt
that it will. 1t may never make
much money, although it will cost
$1.25 an issue, but the editors aren't
concerned about that, either. They
believe it will be welcomed ION the
professional level" by those inter.
ested in "the creative and technica,
| problems and educational poten-
tialities of motion pictures, radio
and television."
NlcnOiS writes Review.
Assuming a new social RESPONSE
bility for those three comparatively
recent media of expression, TOT
Screen Writer Dudley Nichols, re.
viewing three war films in the quar-.
terlys first issue, says perhaps the
greatest instrument to create
new conscience in man is the mo.
ton picture"
Nichols philosophers that 120 mil
lion Americans (those who did no
go to war; know whatever the,
know of the reality of war onl.
| through films" and concludes tina
already the film has beer
prodigiously effective for both wa
and peace"
The quarterly does not confine it.
self, however, to depicting a new
role for the entertainment industry
Its page of contents lists such di.
verse topics as: Are Radio Script.
| Literature?" an apparently hypo.
thetical question posed and ans.
wered by William Matthews; "Cho.
pins New Audience" a reflection
by Lawrence Morton on the condi.
ton of shock in which Hollywood
found itself after the movie "a Song
to Remember" began breaking DO,
Office records; a highly technica
discussion of 'Television and Mo.
ton Picture Processes" by William
w. Brockaway; and even a bit o.
prose by an actor, Alexander Knox
who played the title role in "Wil.
son."
| Veterans Considered.
One of the major projects of tn,
quarterly is set forth in the frs
issue by Franklin Fearing's Heroes
Return A Note to Civilians" tn,
editors note that in each issue tn,
quarterly will attempt to deal with
a specific aspect of the postwar re-
sponsibilities Of the motion pictur,
and radio. AS a first, and most ur
gent, problem the treatment of tn,
returning veterans has been Sc
lected."
Fearing urges that movies on vet
eran-civilian situations mot seem t,
be a sales talk for any particula
type OF eactlon-sentlmen 70
mantle, pathological or folksy." In
stead, he proposes "the intelligen
and imaginative use of the mas
media of communication, not fo
therapy. but for education"
II do not wish to imply" say
Fearing, that motion pictures, radi
dramas or novels can by themselve
solve these problems. But they cal
offer positive and creative interpre
tationS."
Fearing, professor of psycholog
at the University of California IL
Los Angeles, is one of the editors
Others are Franklin P. Rolfe, UCLl
associate professor of English; Sam
uel T. Farquhar, manager of tn
U. of G. Press; John Howard Law
son, screen writer, and Kennetl
MacGowan, producer.