Show IOWA SOLON ASKS SENATE MOVIE PROBE Predicts Revelations as Startling startling Star star- tUng as Those of Teapot Dome Investigation WASHINGTON Feb 23 Striking 23 Striking out vigorously at de degrading motion motion mo mo- tion pictures Senator Brookhart of Iowa today called upon the senate to investigate the entire Industry Revelations as startling as those of I the Teapot Dome oil scandal were predicted by the senator He de denounced I de-I denounced de- de Will H. H Hays Has as a smoke smokescreen smokescreen screen creen and charged the movies had been permitted by a supine government govern Jovern- ment to be successfully monopolized CHARGES INDECENCY I I I Allegations of releasing Indecent pictures and of violating the antitrust antitrust antitrust anti anti- trust laws were contained in a resolution resolution reso reso- lution he introduced calling for or an inquiry b by the senates senate's interstate commerce committee The resolution also said it has been alleged that thai the Motion Picture Producers and andI Distributors of or America Inc of which Mr Will H. H Hays is president is primarily a political organization and has exercised undue influence with private state and f federal deral agen agen- cies deS Brookhart also introduced a bill intended to outlaw block booking by which he contended the large producers producers pro pro- arc are able to dictate what pictures pic plc- tures Lures shall be shown in the country's country's country's coun coun- try's theaters The so-called so Hays morality code ode Brookhart hart said is admitted admitted- I ly 1 a failure CHARGES DEGRADATION Since its promulgation he said movies have become even more de dc grading Last year it was the fashion to exploit 1 might say exalt the gangster gangster gang gang- ster on the screen for the entertainment entertainment enter enter- not to say edification of the impressionable young minds of ot the countr country While some gangster films are still being made the trend this thi season season sea sea- son sort is definitely toward prostitution The actors and actresses who have nave portrayed these degrading roles are the headliners of the screen The average boy or girl knows as much about these actors sometimes actors sometimes more than than they know about those who run the government The Iowan lowan described as one of the most shocking chapters in the annals of or American business the competitive methods employed to drive out the independent theaters |