Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-25 | Page 10 | Ask the Man on the Street for the Has Innocence of Eye

Ask the Man on the Street For He Has Innocence of Eye By PATRICIA CLARY HOLL HOLLYWOOD The The The only pollster pollster pollster poll poll- ster who vho as far as movie producer producer producer pro pro- ducer Maxwell Shane knows was waI right on the election was one who did his questioning dressed as a chicken buyer That is the principle Shane now is applying to the question of who likes what movie how much People In Hollywood have no perspective on movies Shane said Baid f I prefer to ask the man on the street He has innocence of eye Innocence of oC eye Shane ex ex- means that you haven't seen so many movies that you know what cliche is coming next Shane just finished a movie called but not for long The Amboy Dukes Most movie producers thereupon hie themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to Palm Springs Spring's Shane garbed himself as Hollywoods Hollywood's approximation of oC a chicken buyer and hit the thc road I wanted to find out how people liked the title The Amboy Dukes' Dukes he said They dont Title Undecided He hasn't decided yet just what they will like so he cant can't give you the new title He also wanted to find out how to sell the picture which is about juvenile gangs in m Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn I think enough of or my find find- ings he said mysteriously to slant our campaign along the lines which my barnyard poll indicated Too many Important movie decisions are based on the reactions of or characters around Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood who have lived and talked movies for years Id I'd rather have the opinion of a man who goes and pays 50 cents at the neighborhood theater the ate rand and doesn't know anything about how pictures are madeI made I hope I never fall Into the trap of basing my picture judgment judg judg- iJ I ment on what people in Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood say about pictures No matter how well they l r r mean they are so conditioned by merely living in Hollywood j that they Uley just arent aren't normal