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...PHILIP JOHNSTON...
Cover Up (United Artists) is a doubtful little melodrama with a doubtful moral thesis: murder is excusable when the victim is an unpopular curmudgeon. The film's makers avoid an out & out tussle with the Johnston Office by killing off the murderer, a kindly old doctor, before Insurance Investigator Dennis O'Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather...
...During the period he has been president of the Motion Picture Association of America, the public relations of the industry have declined alarmingly. Mr. Johnston's contributions to building fine relations between the public and our business have consisted mostly of turning the offices of the M.P.A.A. into a personal press bureau for Eric Johnston...
...motion-picture industry has survived many misfortunes, and I am confident that it will survive Eric Johnston...
Like all Goldwyn productions, the producer's prompt rebuttal was painstaking and wellpublicized. Said he: "Johnston's manners are as bad as his judgment . . . I had hoped to withdraw . . . without commenting on [his] leadership, but this latest effusion from his word factory impels me to state a few matters...