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...Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull...
...Girl from Missouri (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At the outset of this picture, Eadie (Jean Harlow) announces her ambition to stay pure and marry a millionaire. That she finally gets to the altar in that condition can be chalked up as a victory for Censor Joseph Breen, despite the fact that Eadie's character is such as to make ridiculous anything she thinks worth defending...
...Hollywood a great to-do was belatedly made over last month's agreement between leaders of the Legion of Decency and representatives of the Hays organization in Cincinnati (TIME, July 2). Centre of the excitement was a tall, husky Irishman named Joseph I. Breen. Mr. Breen, onetime Associated Pressman, was about to become the cinema's chief censor. His job will be to read scripts before production, to send assistants to supervise production of dubious sequences, to preview finished films and mark those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare...
...Breen is a tall, husky Irishman, good Catholic and father of six. A one-time Associated Pressman, he has for four years been executive assistant in the Will H. Hays office and No. 1 cinema censor. His job has been to supervise the reading of scripts, watch for dirty spots, attempt to eliminate them during conferences with producers. But a producers' jury has existed which as a lenient court of appeals could undo Mr. Breen's best work...
What Archbishop McNicholas was able to announce on his porch last week was that, as a direct result of the Legion of Decency's campaign, the producers' jury would be abolished. Henceforth Censor Breen's staff will be increased, his powers widened so that his edicts can be vetoed only by the directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. For any producer to assemble these gentlemen in executive session will be an expensive and lengthy...