Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-02 | Page 8 | Women Have Much to Say About Movies

f HOLLYWOOD Women Have M Much uch to Say About Movies es 5 By MARY MARl KNIGHT Copyright 1936 by United Press HOLLYWOOD UP Most UP-Most Most people people peo peo- eo- eo Isle think and think and so 50 did I l' l until I came camo to the screen colony that colony that the Will Hays Has organization and the League of of- Decency and a a. few uch organizations are tho the only check on the morals of the movies But that isn't truo true The truth is that women's clubs play playa a most important if unofficial part in m making the celluloid magnates produce produce produce pro pro- duce films that stay on the straight and narrow a aNine aS S Nine Nino Groups Watch Vatch I found there were nine Important important important tant women's organizations judgIng judging judg judg- ing trig films in Hollywood These units S. S brand trend the pictures fit for family general adult un unfit lt or place upon them some somo other ollier a- a lions Tho The organizations and their pre- pre Viewers 1 National Society of ot Daughters of sf the American Revolution Revolution Mrs Richard R. R RusselL 2 National Society of New England England England Eng Eng- land Women Women Mrs Mrs David H. H Ray 3 General Federation of Women's Wo We- mens men's Clubs Clubs Mrs William A. A Burk 4 California Congress of Parents Par Par- S. S eats and Teachers Inc Mrs Leo B. B Hedges and Mrs Thomas Mor- Mor 5 National Council of oC Jewish Women Women Mrs Mrs Florine 6 The Tho Yom Women's ens en's University club Mrs John and Mrs Palmer Cook 7 Southern California Council S bf of Federated Church Women Women- Mrs rs M M. F. F Thomson 8 a The California Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Clubs Mrs Odessa Davis 9 American Legion auxiliary auxiliary- Mrs Max Ellison There is nothing commercial in inthe inthe the work of or these organizations as asS S regards their interest in Hollywood and the motion picture industry They work without pay and have no direct connection with any studio stu stu- stu- stu dio They keep a close watch over overall overall overall all pictures The organizations organizatIon wield a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre influence unofficially and indirectly because in the event they chose to lobby against a picture picture pic plc- ture or a studio their voice would be heard and heeded Studio are ure severe in individually individually in- in but should one ch chance nce to relax it would be called to reckoning reck reck- not only b by the Hays organIzation organIzation organ- organ which keeps an eagle eye over the the- industry at large but also alsoS S by any one or all of the nine unofficial unofficial unofficial un un- un- un official organizations which take It upon themselves s' s to keep motion S pictures es pure f 5 5 Unofficial Ambassador The Th nine also have named Mrs L v- v Nathalie Nathalle Bucknell a unofficial mo- mo 5 ambassador in Holly Holly- tion ion tion pic picture ure wood When problems concerning other governments governments' arise she contacts their local representatives or cabes their capitals S Mrs Bucknell frequently is called upon to address women's clubs and organizations throughout the country coun coun- try try She said that all aU religious groups were cooperating ng with the studios in attempting to bring about a S 'S better and more comprehensive Understanding understanding un un- of the aims and ambitions ambitions ambi ambi- of picture producers aside from the purely commercial angle i Mrs Bucknell mell revealed that 2 France once sent Baron Valentin to Hollywood to labor against pictures which might re reflect re- re fleet discredit on his country There S. S was vas so little to do that ho was WM wasi i re recalled and since then no foreign I nation has had such a represents represents- f tive