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Broadway and Hollywood "Movies" (Jan - Dec 1932)

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HOLLYWOOD MOVIES 15 Censoring the TWO HOWARDS, Mr. Hawks, director, and Mr Hughes, producer, must receive the glory for July’s “Picture of the Month.” It is no less a film than “Scarface: the Shame of a Nation.” Paul Muni, whose unsuccessful film appearances before did nothing to herald this sensation, has made a niche for himself in filmdom’s Hall of Fame which naught but time can erase. It is to the shame of the nation that the censors held up the production so long and delayed the issuance of the film. Certainly we don’t suspect them of being bribed or threatened by other film companies, but we are wondering who was censoring their actions. Were they being censored by A1 Capone, old “Scarface” himself? Was the Atlanta resident’s hand reaching out to the various State Board of Censorships and menacing them? Or was Muni and Karen M orely in “Scarface the Antinonp SO) n ii