AMERICA'S MORALS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

AMERICA'S MORALS.

BRITAIN MUST ATTEND. Will Hays, the "Czar of Hollywood," president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors' Association of America, has notified approval of a plan which will make it easier for English film producers to avoid trouble with the "purity campaigners" who have tightened up the American film censorship. Writing to the Film Industries Department of the Federation of British Industries, Mr. Hays says that his association has agreed to the federation's suggestion that an office shall be established in New York to examine scripts and pictures submitted by British firms. This office will act as liaison fo r representatives of British producers in New York. It will thus provide in America for British producers the same service as the British < Board of Film Censors provides in England for American films.

The arrangement is a sequel to the recent visit to England of Mr. Martin Quigley and Mr. Carl Milliken, who went to enlighten British film makers about "cleavage" (low-necked dresses) an-1 other things to which the American purity campaigners had objected.