Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

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LONELY. Fala. the little black dog, and the big white house, in a stiff from the Pete Smifh-MGM short subject released in April, 7943. AT a March of Dimes conference in the White House in October, 7938: Morgan, George Allen, Joseph M. Schencfc and Basif O'Connor. Wide World the fate President, Keith (.Continued from preceding page) trust case, the United States of America vs. Paramount, et. al., filed in 1938. That complaint embodies questioning and charges involving every operation of the organized industry from production, through distribution and into exhibition. It was begun under the attentions of Tburman Arnold, a Yale law professor, put into an assistant attorney generalship by President Roosevelt. Mr. Arnold, since promoted out to a judgeship, was notable for his social theories and such works as his "Folklore of Capitalism." The keynote of approach for the motion picture as an industry among industries had been sounded in NRA and continued, as it does yet today. The semi-truce of the Consent Decree is an interlude. While his attorneys general were proceeding in the courts, President Roosevelt was building and continuing a cordial relation with the motion picture as a medium. He enjoyed a highly cooperative attention from the newsreels and on occasion motion picture personages were received at the White House. Will H. Hays, as president of the industry's trade association, had established relations early and Mr. Roosevelt was in touch with the screen. Many of the more articulate figures in Hollywood began to find themselves in growing alignment with the administration and approving the social designs of the President. The highly important industry-Government relations of the War Activities Committee were originated considerably under Roosevelt auspices, when as the committee was organizing, just after the Pearl Habor attack, its chairman, George Schaefer, sent a resolution to the President asking for a coordinator of Government films and film projects. The appointment of Lowell Mellett followed. Some of Mr. Mellett's assistants became militants in behalf of their ideologies, with results more annoying than effective. Washington became well dotted with film making departments of bureaus and in behalf of bureaucrats, each with his interpretation of the New Deal and its philosophies, often at cross purposes. The most effective product came from Pare Lorenz, of the short-lived U. S. Film Service, with his "The Plough that Broke the Plains," dustbowl message, and "The River," which was calculated to support the policy put into execution with the vast Tennessee Valley Authority. Congress did not care for U. S. Film Service and cut off the money. The president's son James had rather a career in the pictures. In 1938 he resigned as a White House secretary and went to Holly (Continued on page 14, column 3) Tributes WILL H. HAYS: "The industry salutes th memory of President Roosevelt . . . rededicafe its aff for winning the war . . . and peace. FRANK C. WALKER: "A tragic thing. . . He was my chief and my friend." N. PETER RATHVON: "Our leader knew vi« tory ... is assured." NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK: "The greate shock of my fife. ..." BARNEY BALA BAN: "A world bereaved. . . HARRY M. WARNER: "I share the feeling • personal grief of aff Americans." NATE J. BLUMBERG: "... such a foss ca not be expressed in words." JACK COHN: "... staggering bfow . . irretrievable loss." EDWARD RAFTERY: "Real international foss WILLIAM C. MICHEL: "Overwhelming grief GEORGE J. SCHAEFER: "... too earfy appreciate fully the significance. ..." Cosmo & S SPYROS SKOURAS, president of 20th Centu Fox, escorts Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at an exhii Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt and f\ bride, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, Warner sill. 12 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, APRIL 21, I f