Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1937, Page 31

Scandal Hint Dooms ~ Hollywood Conventions BY HAROLD OLLYWOOD, June 9 (N.A.N.A.).—Holl, erase the reputation it gained in years gone by as a wild party town is in danger of a severe setback. Frankly alarmed by the gome of the studio convention parties which have been held here this Summer fn greater numbers—and with more zest, perhaps—than ever before, the Mo- tion Picture Producers’ Association s = reported to be urging studio executives +to exercise rigid precautions hegeafter in arranging plans for the entertain- ment of salesmen delegates. Hint of a possible grand jury investi- $ation (and a million-dollar damage suit) into the charges of a young film extra that she was assigned, among 125 other girls, to entertain guests of & major studio convention and that she was mistreated during a riotous ranch party, has filled the Hays office with concern. An investigation is re- ported under way to determine details of the party, which was not an officially programmed event on the entertain- ment calendar. 0ld Reputation Dimmed. Hollywood has been doing very nicely In its organized efforts to live down the Babylonian profligacies writen into the early pages of its speckled history book. Tts traditional reputation as world headquarters for sin, revel and vasious brands of iniquity has been more or Jess successfully dimmed in the public mind through a gradual influx of a new and more substantial crop of workers, and the Hays office does not intend to permit & few thought- lessly conceived forays to undo the good work. Four large sales conventions already have been held in Hollywood this Bummer. Two more 21e scheduled for later this month. Those who have made close study of convention re- sults so far this Summer agree that one thing is almost certain. There will be few, if any, sales conventions beld in Hollywood next Summer, Too Diverting for Business. Studio executives now realize the Yown still casts a certain indefinable spell over They have discovered that the sudden transplanting of an energetic film salesman into the magic precincts of Hollywood, where glamour comes by the yard—and at the old price of ging- . Just Mal’l’ied—th_h the them! Why are divor causes? See LOOK, on & I s St AN s Y Lie Detector—do you know how it works? business-bound delegates. | ces increasing 11 newsstands—10¢. HEFFERNAN, ood's 15-year campaign to peril of scandalous repercussions from ham—is hardly conducive to thoughts of business. | They have discovered that their brilliant oratorical efforts to impress on the sales force the necessity of getting every possible dollar out of exhibitors for their product fall on preoccupied minds. The boys are in carnival mood. Further, the studio heads find their production schedules disrupted to a | very serious extent. Not all salesmen or exchange work- ers are so awed by the picture-making sights they see on studio stages as company heads would believe. To the average person, film salesmen includ- ed, a peek inside a movie set is more | | than a trifle disillusioning. The back- grounds and the general atmosphere of a movie in the making are not nearly so gorgeous, so elaborate as they appear from a theater seat. This | situation 1s no psychological lift to & | salesman who must go out and wax enthusiastic in his sales talk. On the other hand, it is a decided let-down for his selling morale. Cost Another Factor. ‘The cost of bringing 300 or more delegates from all parts of the coun- try, and even from exchange centers !in Europe, to far-off Hollywood is | another ceterring factor to heap on the other disadvantages. | But if scandal continues to rumble | in the wake of current conventions, | the Hays office is certain to forget | je(‘onunnc hindrances and concentrate | its anti-Hollywood-convention drive | lon “moral” and “industry welfare” | phases of the problem. ¥ appears safe even at this early date to advise hotel managers in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City and other Midwestern cities to concentrate now on that profitable new business that looms for | 1938—because the handwriting is on | the wall. 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