Show National Men and Affairs Controversy On As to to Whether Cinderella Ending or Stark Realism Shall B Be Used in Movies White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House Spokesman Treated More F Frankly News News- Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper paper Man Writes Book Bok paper By HUD ROBERT UT T SMALL S Copyright 1927 1921 Consolidated Press Association T I la is an epic baW being out In Hollywood as asto asto to whether or not moving pictures shall continue as liS a rule to have called Cinderella endings ending o or whether they th y shall proceed to iii a perhaps more logical even i If conclusion I Will vili H II Hays grand potentate ot of pictures ha has been sojourning Inthe in the colony olony and may have to cast eMt a deciding vote In th the tho war The rhe controversy really goes deeper than appears on the suri face sur The Tho Cinderella ending I 1 strictly an American Institution It I 1 hu has grown up with the pictures and they have prospered under system even It if It Is III 1 not art al au we know It i The enders are led b bli blithe the foreign directors who recently have havo been Imported to Hollywood They sneer at the happy fade outs fade outs with hero and clasped In loving embr embrace ce TheY want ant the tho hero haro killed and the hero herome h ro-Ine ro me Ine to realize she will never be the th same They want deep stuff atuU They want shockers They sa sai our Pollyanna attitude toward th pictures Is piffle The foreign dl- dl di dl directors 1 rectors want to put life lICe In the raw on the screen They wan want realism until It lt hurts burts They Then want the movie audiences to shiv shiver shiver er and shudder and gasp gup at th daring darlng of ot their conceptions an screen presentations The Americans say that suc productions might go well In tam metropolitan districts bu movies today are made for tor at 01 parts ot of the country for every vs va variety of ot audience and this fac must always be taken Into consid consideration oration It Is charged the foreIgn producers are arc trying to put into the pictures res the very things th the producers have agreed to keep ou out and which Mr Hays generally sees that they do keep out Mr Hays Bays Is an cider elder In th Presbyterian church and there Ia Ia I 1 a pretty prelly general feeling that th pictures are safe sate In his hands I Ithe the foreign producers gain th upper hand however a time I Is In store for actors and an anci patrons alike Cinderella end end- endIngs end endings ings may not be true art but the American public has shown Its liking for tor them and you can never get popular stars like Mary Pickford ford or Douglas Fairbanks to stand for anything else elso Truth virtue and honesty always alwa's must prevail There Is something clean and wholesome after all about the Cinderella stuff and tor for all the theart art and the morbid slices ot of olife life lICe the movies It they are to remain the great Institution they have become must stick to Cin Cm- Cinderella derella It Is the only way for tor them to live happily forever toro after Despite the valiant efforts to disguise and surround with mys mystery tery the famous White bite house spokesman the country at largo large seems to have a fairly good Idea as to his Identity The Rio Grande knows him as well as the I placid Potomac The sun glinted eun rollers ot of the Pacific will tell you hi lilt name nama as al well as the roaring breakers of the Atlantic Even n the vast Rocky mountains do not hide him hinl Cut It does docs seem as If It some ot of the new newspaper paper boys bOS are coming a little close to a n violation of ot the polite amenities of ot the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House system by bluntly stating that the president at his hia semi weekly semi weekly conference with the corre corre- correspondents correspondents failed tailed to answer II a dozen questions l propounded ropo led as to his Intentions In 1928 1028 It Is 1 not at atall atall atall all surprising that the president Ignored these questions lie He has been ignoring them for or months But it has haa been a part of ot the noblesse oblige Imposed upon the reporters that they thuy should never mention the fact that any such questions were asked The late President Harding aId aId- aIded aid aided ed cC and abetted by his secretary George Christian devised the newspaper conference system which has remained under the Coolidge regime At first Pre Fred President l- l dent Harding said he would an- an answer answer an answer all questions put to him and his conferences with the press were a It sort of con continuing quiz Sometimes It seemed there must bo be newspaper men native and anel foreIgn correspondents gathered In the presidents president's private office Mr Hard Hording would be bombarded with questions from all sides aides He H did Hi did his best to answer all and sun sun- sundry dry but gradually some of the enemy correspondents growinG bolder put some embarrassing not to say Impertinent Inquiries to the president A I private conference ensued and at this his It was agreed that all ques ques- questions questions must be bo submitted to the presIdent In writing somewhat after aCter the English fashion of Inter Inter- the premier In the bou house e of commons As part of ot this scheme it was further agreed that no mention should be bo made ot of written questions which the tho president president dent Ignored The fairness of ot such sucha sucha A rule was apparent to all Other Other- Otherwise Otherwise wise all sorts of ot questions might have been submitted just for the tho sake ot of o writing that the president refused to affirm or deny a certain certain tam tain proposition In the growing looseness with wilh which the White House spokesman I has lIas been treated In recent days das both both In new news dispatches and In the ho deba debales es of the senate th the rule about not mentioning ignored questions appears also to have gone gono somewhat by the board This correspondent sojourning on the Pacific slope wu iks amazed the past week at the bluntness with which dispatches told of the refusal of the president to take up the third term question put to him In the written slips These slips like the spokesman himself were sup sup- supposed sup supposed posed to be held In confIdence and never novel released f There are a few tew newspaper men who do not vow at some time In their lives that they are going to write a book There are aro even fewer who get around to keeping ot of the vow And the number Is entirely too small If It the volume just published by E J Stackpole Is a a fair sample of ot the censes censes and observations that are arc tucked away aay In the brains of the tho nations nation's army of unsung Journal journal- journalists Journalists But then Mr lr Stackpole Is fa rs more than a newspaper man He lIe Is a practical politician and ana In his 4 40 u years of In Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania vl he has had acquired some somo very definite Ideas of ot the political game as she Is played In the old Key Key- Keystone Keystone Keystone stone sUite state all of ot which he lie sets down with engaging frankness In his new volume Behind the With a 0 Newspaper Man bIan Mr Stackpole Is editor and pub pub- publisher publisher lisher of ot the harrisburg graph rele ele graph IlLs HLa narrative genial and but always Interesting touches up with a new v light such Homeric figures of ot past last and pres- pres prescot pres present ent cot In Pennsylvania as lenrose Qua Quay John Wanamaker Cyrus Ii E Woods and William lensel Hensel all of ot whom he ho Ime knew Intimately Unless all signs fall fail says the theauthor theauthor theauthor author a II big light looms ahead on the direct primary system as oppose opposed to the tho old convention plan plano oX of nominations ons All over the coun coun- country country try there are evidences of revolt but on every band the champions ot of the direct primary are stand standing ing up to bo be counted Only after long and bitter dis- dis discussion die dis discussion In iii political and reform circles did the leaders of ot the ma majority party finally assent assent to the from the long long- time long time convention convention plan to the uni- uni uniform uni uniform form or direct primary system of nominations People do not change much and while electIon laws maybe may be be mangled and revised to suit the whims 01 of those who Imagine the voters can be trans transformed formed by legislation the results are practically the same after atter the fanfare and the tumult have ceas ceu- ceas- ceas ceased ed cd Newspaper statements by candidates and assaults upon their opponents do not appeal to the voter otero Of ot course the so- so so called so-called called political reformer Imagined imagined ed they were having a real opportunity opportunity to declare their wishes with re respect to nominations but as It turned out the regular party or- or or organisations selections selection were gen gen- gen Sen generally found to be on top when the votes were counted Stackpole takes legitimate pride In his Identification with historical political developments and his book I Is a II valuable contribution to toI I the annals of ot three throe great epochs epochs- epochs I the reconstruction period the era ot of the beginnings of ot American ex expansion Including the tho Spanish Spanish- Spanish American American war and the chaotic war war postwar period The book Is easy easygoing easygoing easygoing going and Intimate and the auth auth- author auth- auth author author or maintains tI ft a nice balance be- be between be between tween Important events and illuminating illuminating Illuminating personal disclosures re- re regarding re regarding garding the actors In his drama ot of a halt half century |