Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 7 | Doug Fairbanks Plans Defiance of Will H. Hays

DOUG PlAN PLAS DEFiANCE Of WilL H. H 1 HAYS Former Cabinet Member Is Mere Fixer of Movie World and Is Not Moral Star Asserts c. c ally I GROUP CROUP OF ARTISTS pro PRODUCE FILMS i 1 J Parasites in Ind Industry stry Cont Con Con- on t as Responsible y i j t for Poor Pictures Players ito to Give Patrons Art Art I f LOS ANGELES Jan Will 26 26 Will II H Mays Hays s 's titular h head ad of ot the motion motton pie plc- turn turo tur Industry y Is the official fixer o 01 of f the tho films and and draws his yearly salary salar Y oL of 60 that capacity and antl Is no nohe not t he u lifter of ot the movies s Douglas Dougl I motion picture star ds d dei de- de i 1 i the e Los ros Los Angeles T Times mes states state s today joday oda i ii 1 i k dr r. r Fairbanks ade the declaration c the he Times TImes s sad td d. d in on an an Interview In which he commented commented upon his hope of ot Banding Danding together the stars of filmdom render under lea a S agreement r which would give photoplay patrons art Instead of what the parasites of the the Industry as he termed them think Is art Ho Io made public several weeks agol ago his l plans for tOr grouping the leading ac acra ac- ac act act- bra ra and actresses of the screen In a combination designed to assure the them thema I a p. p free hand In making and distributing products 1 f Y y PROSPECTIVE GROUP I i i The group Includes himself his wife Mary Nary PIckford Charlie Chaplin Pola NegrI to whom Chaplin Is said to bo engaged to marry and Harold Lloyd It plans to deal with no huge cinema i f corporation in the production or dis distribution of ot Its films but to transact too transact Its affairs more directly With the exhibitors ex exhibitors exhIbItors ex- ex throughout the country A direct and flatfooted defiance of Hays and the motion motton picture producers ers era and distributors was said by the times to be Fairbanks Fairbanks' plan t f- f fIt It was when asked about this that h he declared Hays Bays was not the moral of the movies as he was termed some time ago Mr Hays has nothing whatever to todo todo do with the art or morals of the mo mo- tion picture Industry asserted Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks He is simply the hired IntermedIary Intermediary Inter Inter- intermediary or fixer He Ho has done wonderful wonderful won won- on- on work in n straightening out th the e censorship tangle but that and only y that Is his function MORAL UPLIFT NOT ROLE When Hays was here last month I 1 told him the public ought to be In Informed Informed In- In Informed formed that moral uplift was not his true role I 1 admire his ability and admire him as a n man but I believe his true status should be made known no He was quoted as condemning the film faction he described as parasites parasites parasites para sites as being men without vision thoughtful not of ot the future of ot motion pictures but only of ot the money to bo ho homade made from them