NHESE are perplexing days for producers.
Leading men are increasing rather than diminishing their demands for pathetic roles, while the more forthright of the lady stars are Yequesting disagreeable character zations in which they can really act, writes Douglas W. Churchill to the New York "Times." The customers are displaying an alarming apathy toward sin, and refuse to be shocked by devices that once were standard and unfailing.
And the Production Code Authority, the name for the Hays office, while regarding all evil with reproving eye, is viewing the industry's quandary with understanding and is permitting a man to discard his mate and find a new alliance without any of the "compensating moral value" tommyrot.
At least, all this is the view and interpretation of Gear ge Haight, who is producing "Memory of Love' for RKO with Carole Lombard, Kay Francis
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