Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-07 | Page 1 | Movies Ready to Quit Coast, Producer Says

M MOVIES VIES READY T TO QUIT un C COAST Ast PR PRODUCER DUCER SAYS SAN FRANCISCO Dec 7 Mo Mo Motion ro- ro tion picture plants of ot Los Log Angeles are ready to pull up stakes and go elsewhere according to Joseph Schenck motion picture producer and husband of Norma Talmadge who was vas In the city today Schenck declared the producers were not Influenced by the attitude of tho the Los Angeles city government but said Bald a great many of them had been thinking of movIng movIng moving ing for some time Already one of the largest plants In Los Angeles he tie asserted had moved 40 per cent I of ot Its production to Now New York LOS ANGELES ANGELES ANGELES- tree bee ec 7 Mem l Mem Members hers bers of the Los Is Angeles crime com corn mission today were parties to the f blue laws lawsl controversy has been In progress here since unIformed uniformed uni unI- I formed policemen halted the motion mo mo- mo-i mo tion picture directors directors' ball bail at midnight midnight midnight mid mid- night last Thanksgiving ing Yesterday they Issued a statement statement statement state state- ment wherein they called caned attention to the th alarming prevalence of ot violent violent vio yb- lent crime in the city and deplored the apparent attitude of ot the police department toward the tho t of minor Infractions of ot elating statutes The statement recommended that In pres present nt emergency the best ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts of ot the police should be directed directed direct direct- ed primarily to the apprehension of ot I dangerous criminals and the protection protection pro pro- of ot life lite and property In this community The crime commissions commission's statement statement state state- ment as the climax of a week of ot alleged puritanical activities on the part of ot the police commission which gave ear to a clergyman's objection to the granting of a cafe I dance permit on the ground that the dancing would take place only II two blocks from his church caused the motion picture directors' directors annual annual annual an- an anI I I nual ball a brilliant social event 1 to be abruptly terminated at midnight mid td night refused to grant the Western Western West West- em ern Association of Motion Picture Advertisers Ad commonly known as the Wampas a permit to prolong their annual ball until 3 S a a. a m. m and caused the the- arrest of ot nine men alleged alleged al- al to have participated In games ames of chance at the charity charlt circus held by members of Grotto a a. Ma Masonic organization to swell its I Christmas charity fund One of the alleged victims of I these police commission activities j the Warn Wampas pas retaliated yesterday esterday I by announcing that Its annual frolic frolic I this season would be held In San Francisco I At the Optimist club yesterday i i Will Rogers comedian and the I i Rev Rey James Whitcomb Brougher I pastor of ot Temple Baptist church engaged In a deba debate e on n the subject II I of blue a U Il j w Preachers Preach are ae the poorest paid x jaIl aJl professions Rogers pointed I ont ott which sh shows ws what a generous I Irace race of ot people we Americans Americana are I It will take three years for the movies mo to offset what the preachers have done with the heathen Meanwhile l Fred Niblo president of ot the Motion Picture Directors' Directors association announced that representatives representatives representatives of two twenty-two organizations organizations will meet here next Monday night to formulate plans for the I founding of a nonpartisan political league designed ed to obtain metropolitan metro Ii I politan government by metropolitan minds for tor a metropolis t