WOMEN'S BAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 5 (Supplement)

WOMEN'S BAN.

QUESTIONABLE FILMS. Hollywood is alarmed at the effect of the ban laid by the National Women's Council on famous studios becauflo of the "snggestiveness of indecent pictures." Increasing rumours in Hollywood fore-

eeo tho end of the careers of Mae West and Anna Sten, if the ban extends. Samuel Goldwyn declares that Mifis Sten requires such vehicles as Zola's "Nana," which has boon banned, to display her great emotional art. Tolstoy's "Resurrection," on which the cast, headed by Mise Sten, hae been working for eeven months, is expected to be condemned by the same group. Tho studios consider that the freedom of art in the

movies is at stake, with little chance of a reconciliation of the attitude of the women critics and those delighted byMiss Sten'e portrayal. "A good woman has no history," is Mr. Goldwyn's retort to the criticism of reproducing on the, screen the lives of famous bad women. "When Australia rejected as immoral Sinclair Lewis' screen version of 'Ann Vickers,' Canada did likewise, and it met a large volume of condemnation from American sources." Mr. Goldwyn admits that numerous objectionable films are produced. "But why condemn those which are real art?" he asks. "There is not sufficient talent in Hollywood to produce 50 pictures annually, yet 500 are produced."