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Show Morie Industry Bitterly Scored By Film Leader Wall-Known ( Product Dubs 8c raan Art 'Plaything of Wslt Straaf as Ho Quits Acsdtmy t ' lttMtr4) PvatT4 HOLLYWOOD. March J Making of the motion picture Industry a "Wall street pleythlng" he caused M. C.I Levee, well know motion picture pre-) ducer to resign from the board of. director of the Academy of Motion! Picture Art and Sciences. A scathing statement that the film! Industry ba been "milked dry" by! parasite and Incompetent, waa given I out by Leva last night as he quit I the directorate of tha colony' moat noted organisation. The stockholders, as Id Levee, have been left "holding the sack." The depression I only an Incident usl a convenient aliM for those responsible re-sponsible tor sending on of America Ameri-ca s free test Industrie Into whole-tele whole-tele bankruptcy, declared the producer, pro-ducer, who formerly was president of the academy. He charged that hundreds of Holy-I wood' finest creative worker had1 been deprived of their Job through the "sheer Incompetence" ef those In control who made a "Wall street plaything" play-thing" of tha Industry. "There la not enough money In the country to save an Industry which Is mentally and morally bankrupt." said Levee. "The New York banker can pour million Into Hollywood from now on and the Industry will continue con-tinue to stagnate unless the brain and personalities actually responaible for the successful pictures of the past are given honest opportunities to perform per-form their task an tha future." Levee denounced a "growing practice" prac-tice" of glorifying tmut and immorality immor-ality on the screen. "We mud either disinfect the mester minds' who ee-lertour ee-lertour film theme, or displace them entirely," ha said. Levee It now an associate producer for Mary Pick ford. |