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...pious Catholics pledged themselves to avoid indecent pictures, attendance at U. S. cinema theatres has been from 10% to 30% above last year's. The cause of the rise is a subject for dispute. Legion of Decency adherents hold that since midsummer, pictures have been cleaner, hence better patronized by obedient Catholics. Cynical opponents suggest that the Legion of Decency has aided indecent pictures by advertising them. To impartial observers it seemed that the increase in cinema attendance had less to do with the Legion of Decency's campaign than with the facts that producers have definitely improved...
Last week major production companies, who still believe that the demand for less sexy pictures comes from a noisy minority, were prepared to accept the fact that cleaner pictures are, at least temporarily, necessary. Columbia's Vice President Jack Cohn voiced the opinion of the industry to his salesmen in Atlantic City: "This violent burst of condemnation is directed against something greater than the motion picture. . . . The motion picture reflects the thing against which the Crusaders inveigh-the tendencies of the times...
...cleanliness of Manhattan's streets is the concern of two rival groups of society ladies. The Outdoor Cleanliness Association, headed by Mrs. Arthur B. Claflin, scored when it persuaded Mark O'Connell, a street-cleaner, to leave his beat, and make a speech ("The thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up and they dirty 'em again."-TIME, March 26). Head of the Clean City Committee is Mrs. Herbert Shipman. lively widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York. Not to be outdone by the O. C. A., Mrs. Snipman...
...Manhattan, the president of the Fifth Avenue Association, the Commissioner of Health, and the First Deputy Police Commissioner met with the Outdoor Cleanliness Association in the swank Park Avenue apartment of Mrs. Arthur B. Claflin. Straight from his beat to address them they summoned Mark O'Connell, street cleaner...
...them. We do our part, but we don't seem to get much credit. Anyway the streets always seem to be dirty. But the thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up, and they dirty 'em again. . . ." Socialites heartily applauded Street Cleaner Mark O'Connell...