Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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Like all visitors, they were required to dispense with most of their clothing. "We were soon used to it and felt completely at home," Foy delared. A member of Foy's troupe of fifteen film workers was very anti-nudist at the outset. He later joined the colony! While the picture was being filmed, a business man from a California city joined the Glassey colony. He came in as a skeptic, demanding to be "shown!" In a few days he sent for his wife, sixteen-year-old daughter and his twelveyear-old son. They were all enrolled! Persons of all ages, religions, pursuits and degrees of poverty or wealth mingle in this democracy of the nudists, and everyone is addressed by his or her first name only. Class distinctions, like clothes, are discarded inside the gates of the secluded, pretty forest retreat. In this typical colony, says Foy, are week-enders, vacationers and more permanent dwellers. He calls them "Neither wild-eyed fanatics nor cultists, but very pleasant, decent, sane folks." Optimists among producers see signs of growing enlightenment and tolerance. They point out that it proved as hard to pin a charge on Sally Rand — and make it stick — as to keep her clothes on, and that the first Chicago judge to whom Reformer Mary Belle Spenser appealed against Sally, refused indignantly to act, saying: "Is nudity a crime? Some people would put pants on a horse! A half century ago they pinched Mary Walker for wearing pants. Today, any girl can wear pants and nobody arrests her!" And they cite with distinct triumph how police recently arrested four "Seven Veil" dancers because they didn't strip off the final veil, after encouraging cash customers to think they might! As a judge remarked on this case: "It's more of a crime to take money under false pretenses than to expose a perfectly well-made human body!" Some Film Authorities forsee censorship battles. The optimists overlook the fact that during one week, in gay Los Angeles, three girls were arrested for dancing in the nude. Nor did the optimists look to Europe for lessons. While many European nations are going nudist very rapidly, unabashed and unarrested, the police in wicked France are arresting folk right and left, not only for nudity, but for daringly draped dis plays of the body on Paris streets and at the French beaches. Those famous French establishments, once so popular, where tourists are shocked and one pays to see nudity, had been suffering from this wholesale free competition. Something had to be done to increase their business, so the police set about doing it. Some producers are trying for nudist effects rather than direct nudist dramas. One "independent," wishing to make a film using the psychology of a people untrained in the art of being ashamed of their bodies, plans to produce a feature with Japanese characters in Japan, where most bathing is done on one's front porch. M-G-M has announced the filming of a jungle picture dealing with the lives and loves of the Tariano Indians, a nudist tribe in the wilds of Brazil. The Marquis de la Falaise got ahead of the parade with his new film of Bali, Legong, the Dance of the Virgin. Hollywood is full of other indications of the undraped trend. Many famous artists' models have been summoned to the studios. Maria Corda, who wished to be a bit too nude for American audiences at the time she filmed The Private Life of Helen of Troy here, is said to have had an offer of stardom in America. Musicals and other films using chorus girls are getting as nude as clothes will permit. The latest dodge invented— it has not yet been used — is to film dancers nude except for costumes of cellophane, tinted so that they appear opaque to eye and camera — until colored filters are slipped in front of the camera lenses. The nude is then glimpsed fleetingly, and vanishes so magically, that even a censor might think his guilty imagination was tricking him! Whatever develops from the nudist film situation, will come about speedily. Groucho Marx Time Continued from page twenty-one that staunch little man of seven summers, six winters, and eight teeth, in an old ramshackle dictaphone, without even a pair of dice to keep him company. How many other children can say as much? How many can say anything? Don't tell me, I don't want to know. So, just picture for yourself that little man. Or picture for yourself a big man. No, forget it. Doesn't that go to prove that Amos 'n' Andy are not as black as they're painted? Now, get out of here. If you don't, I'll call Harpo and he'll steal the shirt off your back." I laughed cynically. "Ha, ha." I raised the sweat shirt I was wearing and exposed my bare back. "I know you Marx boys," I said. I'm not wearing a shirt. Any nudes is good nudes." And so we both had a good laugh over the whole affair, and parted just as good friends as we were before, me with a knife in my back. Before I left I asked Groucho why he usually sang when he was in his swimming pool. "Why," he looked at me askance, "don't you know? I'm practising to be a high diva for my next picture — Duck Soup." HOLLYWOOD