Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-06 | Page 7 | Movie Men in Cleanup Group

I CLEANUP GROUP Four Crafts Will Boycott Those Bringing Scandal Upon Industry LQS ANGELES. Cal.. Mar. 6. 4 Placing the motion picture industry -4H upon the highest possible piano is the LLb object of the formation here of a Fed- H oration nt Art bv the Cinematograph- H ers' association, the Writers' guild and LLb Actors' Eiulty association, and the I H Motion Picture Directore' aa-nociatton st PPORT PROMISED 1 Although Its general purpose will be tM to further the good of motion pictures tM the federation plans to take vigorous ELCtlOn against the "few undesirables' . of the motion picture Industry. Act- t- ors or others connected With the in- MLH dustry who refuse to conduct their 1 private lives according to tho hlghe' H standards are "to be drummed out of JH camp," its announcement nvcrs. , H The writers .will refuse to sell them 'aLV Stories; the cinemotographcrs will re- I aH fuse to photograph them, the actors W SJJJH will refuse to appear in pictures with jH ll. ...wl lh tliroorr.l-ti will refnsf to ' H direct them, according to tho plan as given out. iaBLi Each of the four associations which H I go to make up the federation will elect three members if cent rah board of ' oBH i director.-., who will enforce the rules HlavasB 'of the organization. H I Frank Woods, a production mana- 'iH ' ger, la the leader of the new move- H ment. He said exhibitors had prom- H 1st d to support the new organization. We hi'ik that the motion picture M industry, as a whole, has maintained a standard of conduct that compare- fH well with any other industry," said Mr H 'Woods. "But we intend to clean out 4H tho few stains that have defaced It t .H "We feel that wo have the right t inquire even into private llvos, because of tho great Influence that stars have . upon the lives of the public. tH "We are firm in the determination kM that the picture business shall be ai- 1 'tflgfl solutely clean from top to bottom. All hut a very few picture people are llV- lng the right kind of lives. Those wh" kM do not will find themselves quietly ! dropped Into oblivion." i isBBsa