Show WHO'S rr NEWS 6 THIS ye WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N MEW NEW EW YORK Just Just a year ago agoL L Will H. H noted Hays a possibly regrettable tendency of of- the movie movies toward escapism This led to tor suggestions tha that t r ii Billy idly Hays Now he ne was sucA sucA sueA suc sue A Matter of to th the Fact cn enchantments enchant enchant- 1 ments of or th the Hollywood intelligentsia That al all blew over but here is Mr Hays Hay proclaiming himself a Our somewhat conservative conservative con dictionary is a bit vague about it but in his rough outlines s. s a seems to be one who wh believes in fairies In his his' annual report as president of the Motion Picture Producers I Distributors of America Mr Hays Hay cites with s satisfaction the record record office box-office success of Snow White White Whit and the Seven Dwarfs and is happy happy hap hap- py that there are still a number o of left in the world There is no disparaging or Invidious reference to non but since Mr Hays also reports with gratification that there are n no isms and no social significance in Snow White it is perhaps a fair inference that such black witchery witchery witchery witch witch- ery is the dramatic antithesis Practicing law In Sullivan Ind the homespun sagacious Mr lUre Hays was no rising young That came later He was however a rising young Republican politician and a Presbyterian elder one of oC the deftest Inner circle technicians of the Indiana party tournaments tournaments tournaments ments where professional proCessional standards standards standards stand stand- ards and scoring are high That led him inevitably to what statesmen of his earlier day used to call political preferment preferment prefer prefer- ment and as postmaster general general gen gen- eral cral in Pr President Hardings Harding's cabinet he exercised political power of or wide range and pene pene- For seventeen years now he has headed the moving picture industry A round of eight tn I i A Czar Is Out when Prefers Bill he left his cabAs cabAs cab cab- inet met post and As His Handle J now about 28 companies putting out highly vociferous vociferous vociferous vo vo- vo- vo films films no no wonder he believes believes believes be be- in fairies He doesn't like to tobe tobe tobe be called czar preferring jus just plain Bill if there is any call for foran foran foran an informal salutation Hearing him wind up in an address or even evenin evenin evenin in casual talk one could understand how he could be a as ashe ashe ashe he invokes the founding fathers or orthe orthe orthe the palladium of our liberties against this or that but he usually coppers such oratorical bets with a remark like this And after all it probably wouldn't work Thus he heis heis heis is revealed as what might be called a pragmatic In his county seat scat town he be inherited his fathers father's law land-law business A fragile man with witha a slight limp and outstanding cars he has the mannerisms of the country lawyer and he wins over opposition as he used to win juries with a winsome and disarming smile He is at times a as well as a eu eu- demonist demonist insisting insisting for instance Instance instance In in- stance that censorship is merely merely merely mere mere- ly self sell Several years ago he was worrying because because because be be- cause the movies were going masochist Sullivan Indiana is still home base for Mr Hays and he is the towns town's favorite son in spite of his philological flare O OT TT T WOULD be fine if U we had a aL IT L cash register which would ring up a true prophecy when it was turned In About a year and a half ago George Called Hitler's assistant secre- secre Moves Earl Early tary ary of state state former consul- consul general at Berlin called Adolf AdoU Hitler's Hitler's Hitler's Hit Hit- lers ler's next moves as clearly and accurately accurately accurately ac ac- ac- ac as a for an old old fash fash coned barn dance He turned in to the state department a precise statement statement statement state state- ment of what der fuehrer had on his mind now fully validated and certified Naturally it got little attention attention attention at at- because it was obviously m in credible The Nazis cant can't say it was a prejudiced opinion When Mien Hitler was emerging Mr 1 thought evolution would follow revolution and everything would work out nicely He lie changed his mind When Dr Albert Einstein suffered certain Indignities in getting his passport pass pass- port Mr Mn was unjustly unjustly unjustly un un- justly accused of responsibility This was all straightened out and President Roosevelt upped him as minister to Austria He returned to his present post In July 1938 He was for 14 11 years superintendent of the Delaware schools before entering the consular service cD 0 Consol ird Se Service News Features |