“FOLLY AND COWARDICE”
BANNING OF FILM MR SINCLAIR LEWIS ANNOYED WASHINGTON, February 15 Mr Sinclair Lewis, the Nobel Prize winner, declared to-day that the production of the -motion picture of his latest novel, “It Can’t Happen Here,” dealing with the rise of a mythical Fascist power in America, has been banned by direct order of Mr Will Hays (Director of the Policy of the Motion Picture Industry). lie said that a large producing company was prepared to start filming v.hen Mr Hays issued his order, basing his reasons on “ a fear of international politics and fear of boycotts abroad.” Answering this, Mr Lewis declared that while his work was a propaganda book, “ it was propaganda for only one thing—American democracy.” He termed Mr Hays’s action as “ a fantastic exhibition of folly and cowardice.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 10
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