The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
HOLLYwOOD'S ROLE IN THE
 BIG SHOW

HOLLYwOOD'S ROLE IN THE
 BIG SHOW
 To most of the world, because of aitro-cellulose, California means Hollywood, but April and May of .945 will be remembered as the months when Golden State means Golden Gate As it swings wiae 70 admit delegations from 46 na- tions there is wry smile for the nouveau riche upstart in Southern California San Francisco which has taken the bottom spot on a double bill in census sense. reminds itself that it was a cosmopolitan city for almost century before Hollywood crossed Vine This is not Hollywood production, or San Francisco's either, but the worlds and, specifically, the State Departments.
 Even before the death of the President, Secretary Stettinius de- creed thatt here should be no gla- nor or fiesta in this serious archi- tecting of better world, so Holly wood personalities are not con- Spicuous at the Security Conference OrSon Welles is here, not as a screen actor, but as radio com mentator and newspaper columnist . Ben Hecht is here, not as a screen writer, but as spokesman for Free Palestine Howard Dietz 3 here, not as M-G-M vice-preSi- dent but as chairman of the plan ming committee for films for the delegates Claude Lee is here, not as Paramount executive but as motion picture Jason with the State Department Our Government has it's own 150-seat projection room in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel for the screening of documentaries of all nations, with Miss Mary Losey of the Canadian Film Board desig- mated by our State Department as film officer in charge of booking these shorts.
 What used to be the AlcaZar Theater on O'Farrell Street is now the United Nations Theater, thanks to Charles Skouras, president of Fox West Coast Theaters, who has turned it over to the motion picture industry for the official visitors It is the worlds most exclusive movie house-nobody can get i'll without official credentials to tlle Conference. F. B. l. men look you over carefully as you enter for your security at the Security Conference Fay Reeder is operating the theater for the Brothers Skouras, and the daily changed programs are selected by an impartial commit tee working with Glenn Allvine Of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of New York The British won the toss on the open- ing day with their submarine pic ture, The Silver Fleet" The Russians followed with their So- viet feature, '"The Rainbow The French nominated Harvest" as their top United Nations film.
 Not until these Allied productions had been screened did Hollywood show its first picture, the Academy Award winner, Going My Way" But the serious business of the Conference has first call and the delegates theater does not open un- til 5 p. m. for two three-hour pro- grams No stage show, no per- sonal appearances, no glamor in the fleSh-just the film that B. A. Aug inbaugh of the Ohio State Depart ment of Education has called the only qualitative gain to communi- cation since the alphabet was in- vented" Just 35 milllmeters of the same stuff that makes explo- Sives, but it is entertainment, edu- cation and international understand ing when duPont squeezes it out as negative-and it is bombed out and burning Tokyo when Will : mington makes it as nitro-glycerine.
 Film is right in here fighting Tn the batle for the minds of men :. For the Latins (through the CO.,