The Seaforth News, 1960-12-01, Page 6Hollywood Hos
A 1< d For It
11ut n eeod leas advert for it.
And tivv,' !t looka as if Holly.
wood may be going to get it. The
United Statex motion picture in•
du:.ire has averted, by one moles
• of another, the ettonomie :'rack•
up t.11ro;,tc'ned by stiffening cont-
•petitimh from television. But the•
8on,,ittietiCtl 0 '0Oen roramit led
in the mama of box office -. the
s-hoalt, effects designed to titillate
tine public -- leave brought
United States cinema incrcas-
inly closer to some form of gob
et'ntlient control, tile dreaded
official crackdown.
The permits to which most ft-m
tucker; :.q1p .1r oblivious are
• ,rtrnuieritod is •a• succession of
Published reports and surveys.
tin Oct, 18, Variety, the snow
otliiness 'oe;1r,' headlined a
pageono .tory: AO ..ADULTS
AT "ADULT" FILMS? Sol -
.leaded, "New Themes Sieg Cen-
sorial 10011n," the story .le-
alarcd:
".lit indication.; are that the
!notion picture industry wit; fico
,nr of to most crucial legislative
se::=011s in years in the upcom.
lute tee0 6l months with film
ieesaineetion bills due to h,'
ini r-aIit :i^d i❑ '1 number of Oates,
1,1i=t year the in, 11S:1'y a"c:
,title 1,1 l' d 110'4'11 tate li:tcice,:l
la±-.iftr'wtinn
measures aimo-t at
he last .a ;n„'.. as \‚;4,el.e
-'se in N..4' York. 'i'his tear,
hew :, pug-rlassifi due r.
;.on.•, ars _ to be much bet-
ter 'rani..1 .-- having had a
:s way in r: hieli to :lancer their
:tori.
they ere goin=g to
.nave the backing fecenetimos un-
intentional. pethaps1 of many
figurt_-s from within the indus-
try
Altboo h t•iiher unaware or
unconcerned with what they
were doing. the film producers
i:ave placed themselves in the
ironical position or providing the
•iotas: ifieatinn proponents w i t It
• 'heir mot potent anununitinn,
The sharp deterioration of moral
nd ethical standards in a very
:brae number of motion pictures.
Das prompted articles with such
tido_ ;t "Hsllvwood Bypasses
he Production Code" (I.00k
n.K;aziue), "T'oe Bold and Risky
:florid of 'Adult' Movies" (Life
r..tga:<inei, `'Trash for Cash
- More Movie Junk on Our Screens
Pose:s the Question: Will Holly -
'eyed CIean It Up - or Will the
,''nblic?" (Cue magazine), and
"Dishing the Dirt -- A Blast
Mercenary Sordidness in
ithe New York Times).
- do far, Holywood dhows ao
til.position. to clean anything up.
Ti, apparent complacency was
by Erie Johnston,
Mix -Match Trio
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s, e le to sew honi, +' greet.
4441i- ! Citify "rye
president of the Motion Picture
Association of America, in the
Bourse of• a talk elven at Bev-
erly Bilis, Calif. Admitting that
.:o111' ptttil,l'es convey "a view
.,f the grosser 1111(1 sordid aspects
and values in our society;' Mr.
Johnston added: '"But balanced
off, it is• no less clear to me that
our plus marks very fax put -
weigh telt' 11041se11. And t huge
we will add more plusses and
mininhizio the 131lntae1, This nope
I assure ,you, ie. shared by every
responsible producer I knew "
It is certainly shared 113• every
responsible observer 1 know ..-
a:id by parents, teachers tend
others charSoct with helping
maintain moral stability, writes
John Beaufort in the -Christian
Science Monitor. 11est cone ern -
'd individuals would not share
1'1r. Johnston's easy optimists,
any more than they would agree
that the ignited States motion
picture is truly representing the
American 1n ti•ai3 of 1i1'e to over-
..eas audience-. Repeated testi-
molly front abroad confirms the
conviction that malty of the most
distorted views about the United
States are manufactured in els
03011 movie SIudii,s, This is
scarcely the time of the century
to be exporting self -libels.
In his New York Tinges col-
umn, Bosley Crowther urged
"utmost yi dance end responsi-
bility on the part of those .who
are truly itltereeted in the future
of the films" with regard to
"the tendency of producers,
merle evident in any number of
.recent films, to .go• for licenti-
ous stories and/or inject et;-
trime and groso sex details in
their works . With all due
understanding of the wish of the
boys to make a buck, we can
only see ultimate disaster for
the quality and prestige of films
and, as a consequence, for their
commerce, if this sort. of thing
goes on,"
0f 26 United States films bet -
ed recently in this newspaper's
&Iovitn
Guide., 12 were marred
by sordidness, confused moral
values, as c e s s i 0 e violence
and/or suggestiveness. Six of
the stories involved illicit rola-
tanships --- employed, in most
asses, for more or less sensation-
al purposes. The incidence of.
adultery exceeded the degree of
.adultness.
Official classiticaticn of films,
at the state or municipal level,
according to their suitability is
not in itself a guarantee of bet-
ter screen entertainment, It is
not (as Mr, Johnston enjoys
pointing out) a cure for juven-
ile delinquency. However, in
the light of the almost eomplere
breakdown of Hollywood's long
vaunted self-regulation and of
the prospect that "trash for
eesh" has by no 10014015 run its
course, the need has become
increasingly great for some form
of control which will at least
keep the sc'reen's worst .excesses
trom the young and impression-
able.
'Hollywood has asked for 0.
Artificial Hearts
Coming Soon
For yen's, surgeons have been.
inserting a wide assortment of
plastic valves, Dacron anrta.s,
and electronic stimulators to
help faltering human hearts
Work better. And one day in tb e
near future. a diol, ti' may 003
out a heart altogether and
pirce it with an el,�01iic pump,
In fact. Dr. Willem J. Kotif,
dirc'r•tor of the department
artil'iciel organs at the Cleveland
Clinic. Foundation, :says :he
"would be eery di ,appointed" if
a workable artificial human
heart isn't ready in three Years.
A pioneer in developing the
temporary heart-lung machine
and the artificial kidney now
used while patients are under-
going surgery, Dr. Korff already
has tried out models of a per-
manent artificial heart in dogs,
for periods up to five hours. Re-
centiy he told a group of Mid-
west doctors meeting in Omaha
that the man -macre heart's basic
features are pretty well derided.
It would be "a small moter-
driven pump. Two wires will
rnrne nut of the cheat and neo.
p(1-l:ble battery. Tho battery
'.0i)] least long enoneh t:, 1:J:e,
trestle one r'lectri,al outlet to
:mother, or 11, the. :'1)1411?1'•
iektl'rle•r 111 ti'our lar."
The tort candidate for a'h
nrtilicial heart. Dr KIlff tar: -
dieted, will probably be a heart
patient undergoing surgery 142(1•
4'2 by a heart. -lung machine.
whose own heart clmnnt he re-
vived. in this ca>c, Dr. Kolft
"the 0118:it is .110, 1dy neon
and death would result if the
heart-lung machine is stopped."
Much further into the future,
Dr, Kolff suggests that bedrid-
den heart patient:' would gait,
new freedom -with artificial
hearts. For these people, being
plugged into ai wall outlet might
not seem a grim prospect at all.
"There are fifteen different
kinds of ruin," states Si meteor--
{ 0lo5114t Yes, itid they all find
t'ou when you're without a rain-
.
TROUBLE FOR A STRONGMAN -Gen, Rafael Trujillo, Dominican
Republic strongman, has a minor rebellion on his hands in the
person of a squirming grandson. They're together in Ciudad
Trujillo,
a. -d.oL ,-c .e P. Cla.... '
Wt' hate just got through
quite a week . , painting by
day and baby-sitting at night.
Sometimes Partner would be at
one neighbour's and I at an-
other, And what we earned dun-
lateen
uging'an entire evening would be
silent in a couple of hours next
morning. On paint, of course.
But the end is in sight. We have
finished the living -room - that
is, as far as painting is concern-
ed. - and I know Partner is
thankful It took a day and a
half, two cricked necks and two
gallons of white paint to do the
living -dining -room and hall ceil-
ings. Plus a gallon of beige for
the walls. And what have we
got to show for it? Well, when
I was setting the liviugt'onuh to
rights Partner remarked. - "You
know, anyone could walk in
right now and never realize we
had done anything. at all,"
I agreed. "It is because there
is eo little difference in the col-
our," Partner added. "Now if
you had chosen green. or pink,
or blue instead Of using Meige.
again it would attract more at-
tention."
"Yes, but 15:11 eye didn't Stant
g1', -en, pink or blue. Beige is a
geed neutral tore. N,.XI yeah, if
we :are able to get new drapes
and a rug we can ('hoose any
colour we 111:: and be certain it
won't claeh with our nail,' and
wore or11.'' Uou et'er. s'ape's
and a rug are jnot A dreain at
gree int, Not but what rte could
do with than right now bol to
get them is something else again.
But at • least WE Dan hope, can't
we? If, as they say, anticipation
is better than r,-'alizetina we'll
keep rigid on anticipating and
he Fore of that mach ho: any-
way,
During our painting orgy we
had our molrentr, The TV g,.ve
up the ghost and we hod to have
a repair elan conte in to fix that.
And the. telephone had n tray
of ringing at the meet awkv:ird
times - generally 301111 Partner
on top of the step -.tackler and 1
pouring paint. On our messiest
shay I looked out of the window
and exclaiint c1 - ''011 -oh. 304'
have 31. 'tor: ' A ill a dupe 1
of 1%.0 bite 010 with led uphni:-
tcr'% was; coming up Ih-e drive,
„K',tu;dn't
you knew it?"
Partner.
However. it. 114111ed nut 10 be
a welcome 1.rd well-known
friend -- 1 had not recognized
her bream:0 of the new cal', We
were 145 41 to sire her even if 1
did greet her with a paint brush
in one hand and a splatter mop
in the other. "Do come in --- if
you can get in -- you are just in
time to join us in a cup of tea,"
I said. Mrs. B. got in all right
and settled herself comfortably
on one of the sheet-er,vered
chesterfields pulled across to one
end of the room. I set up a
snack table and we had a very
pleasant and unhurried visit. Itt
fact we were glad of that tea
ourselves to bridge the gap be-
tween one sketchy meal and the
next. Sketchy meals had been
Res order of the day all week.
Ilut today we are going to have
roast beef and all the trimmings,
The appetizing aroma drifting in
from the kitchen is making me
so hungry I can hardly type.
Of course one of the highlights
last week was Hallowe'en night.
And such a night as it was. I got
the usual supply of "shell -outs"
ready but it being so wet I
thought we wouldn't have many
callers. How wrong I was. The
children came in droves. Several
times there were- eight or nine
on the step at one time -- from
three -year-olds. to early teens.
The first to come were two
youngsters with a UNICEF box.
Like a good many other folk I
think UNICEF is doing a great
work and should be supported
but, also like some othel' folk,
including Joyce Davidson and
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Sir Walter Find
The Tropic isles
With big money invested in
his attempt by both the Cecils,
father and son, paying a111041ls
testimony to his enterprr10)
with the regretful memory of
Bess's brave smiles, and of the
enraged howls of little Wat at
his leaving '1101. Balogh watched
the foggy wintry world recede
behind him, and a strange, silent
world roll up before him over
111e far horizon of the bright
waters, The scene changed to one
of flying fish leaping like small
seraphs out of the foam of his
ship's prow at dawn; of dolphins
tumbling like laughing clowns
ie the clear sunlight that spark-
led over the huge sea; of alien
stars that rose each night in a
newly appointed place,. beckon
-
Mg to hint through the darkness
towards lands unknown.
The Elizabethans' ships were
as easily lost at sea as their po-
ems upon land. Out of Ralegh's
scant five, three disappeared on
that uncannily bare sweep across
the Atlantic, spanking along with
the Trade Winds, before he had
his first sight of a strange new
continent. Even today in a mod-
ern steamship, it is fully eight
clays after leaving the Canaries
before one sights the three tow-
ering forest -covered hills rising
cut of the tropic sea which 11133e
Columbus christen the new is-
land after the Trinity.
Here was Trinidad, the land-
ing -stage for Relegh's first ad-
vance in person on his long
dreamed o. New World of Ant -
Maggie Grant, I don't think
UNICEF and Hallowe'en should
be coupled together. Might as
well have a circus mixed up
with a 0500011 parade. So often
these days we seem to be losing
our sense of what is fitting and
right. Like sacred music being
played all day in supermarkets
during the Christmas season,
How much better is the tradi-
tional carol singing that has
been a feature of Simpson's
down -town store for quite a
number of years. By separating
shopping and carol singing far a
brief period, sacred music is giv-
en the respect and dignity it
deserves. It is enjoyed by staff
and customers alike - and also
by a large radio audience.
UNICEF deserves to be treated
with equal respect which, in my
opiulon, isn't possible, if it is
coupled with witches, black cats,
hobgoblins and cries of "trick or
treat". I hope it is one form of
collecting that will not be re-
peated a second time, That, of
course, is just illy own personal
opinion, which may, or may not,
be endorsed by the policy of this
paper.
Now I must go. and prepare
for another busy week. U.S.
election -- and won't we be glad
when it's over? A trip to Milton
and another to Hespeler, a W.I.
meeting and a half-day shopping.
And, of course, the inevitable
painting. The cast, I hope. Yes-
terday the Junior branch of the
family was here so the first
thing I must do now is remove
finger marks from the windows
and woodwork. Sometimes I
wonder how young mothers ever
keep the house clean at a11.
00511) guarded, it aptu'lirect like
the tubae'' of Halupluu Court, by
1•c t ddic stone monster , for tet'
f
inteatically. carved 1icapee 4i!
p, ,ictus still sit today imutubil0
ort the mooring - posts of 1111-1a!l
fishingboats, as they dirt foe re1l-
melee before Coititnbua came . , ,
Itis own hook oil "The 1)i,.
cowrie of the Large, Riot), anti
Ilewtiful Empire of Guiana" re-
emir•s the most vivid and excite
ing aee01(111 of that legendary
country, One 11111Y get a glimpse
of it by drifting thriett;ll the
flooded jungles in canoes, safety
paddled by Indian g u I ;1 e
through the Clark tangle of huge
trees that drip their long slim.
oils lianas litre serpc'ut3 into the
water, incl suddenly reveal the
starry shape of an orchid am-
ong their branches. His book is
about the best trice adve.rtier.e
story ever written in the Ires11-
ness of its wonder and sense oil
beauty and terror. He and ilia
-meet .faced starvation at titnei,
1:1e fear of getting lest, of at-
tacks by unknow» savages, the
dank wretchedness of gestin;'
drenched through by sudden 14)0 -
rental rains, Sometimes ten
tinges in a day, and unable to
change their clothes.
Yet far and :mu the chief`.
impression left by the book is
sheer joy, and not only his own.
He still gives it to us today. as
strongly and brilliantly as he
did to his own followers, whom
he was alt hvs able to che'•e
when they Were desert, Once
when they had despaired of got -
ting food, and then had the un,
expected chance of a loaf of
bread, their spirits rose to a
pitch that equalled his, and silt
cried aloud: "Lel us go on, t•1:)
care not how far)" He knew, then
the reward of acttv'ntttee. -F'ros't
"That Great Lucifer: A Portrait
at Sir Walter Ralogh," by Mat e-
a.ret Irwin.
BU5Y, BUSY -Singer Pat Boon/
has expanded his career to
include acting, writing and
promotion of business interests
(records, clothing, etc.), All his
activities are incorporated un-
der the unlikely name of Cooga
Mooga Inc. First movie of sever,.
he will star in as "All Hands
on Deck" with Buddy Racket`
as foil.
ISSUE 48 - 19110
HIGH COST OF LOVING -• Carol Rogers slips a $100 Valentine
into its envelope. A greeting card company 1s marketing a
limited number of the expensive cards, each on ariginol water-
color by a nationally known artist. A love message is hand
lettered inside.
It