THE WILL HAYS PAPERS

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1 A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of CINEMA HISTORY MICROFILM SERIES THE WILL HAYS PAPERS UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA

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3 A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of CINEMA HISTORY MICROFILM SERIES Series Editor: Ann Martin THE WILL HAYS PAPERS Parti: December 1921-March 1929 Part II: April 1929-September 1945 Edited by Douglas Gomery A microfilm project of UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA 44 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701

4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), The Will Hays Papers [microform]. (Cinema history microfilm series) Held by Indiana State Library. Includes index. Contents: pt. 1. December 1921-March pt. 2. April 1929-September Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), Archives. 2. Motion pictures-censorship-.-united States. 3. Motion pictures-united States-Distribution. 4. Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America-History-Sources. 5. Motion picture industry- United States-History-Sources. I. Gomery, Douglas. II. Hydrick, Blair. III. Indiana State Library. IV. Title. V. Series. [PN ] 384'.8' ISBN (microfilm : pt. 1) ISBN (microfilm : pt. 2) Copyright 1986 by Indiana State Library. All rights reserved. ISBN

5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments iv Introduction v Scope and Content Note xv Editorial Note xvii Source Note xviii Initialisms xix Reel Index Part I: December 1921-March Part II: April 1929-September Subject Index 65 Appendix 75

6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS University Publications of America (UPA) wishes to express thanks to all those whose efforts made this microfilm edition of The Will Hays Papers possible: Charles Ray Ewick, director, Indiana State Library; Byron Swanson, head, Indiana Division, and Marybelle Burch, manuscript librarian, Indiana Division, Indiana State Library; and renewed thanks to Will H. Hays, Jr., for his generosity. IV

7 INTRODUCTION Hàys, William Harrison, 5 November March 1954 Will Hays was one of the most famous public figures of his day. In 1920 he was widely heralded as a member of the "Ohio Gang," which elected Warren G. Harding president of the United States in the greatest landslide to that point in American political history. As his reward, Hays served for the first year of the hugely popular Harding administration as one of the more visible and respected postmaster generals. But far more people on the street knew Will Hays after he left the Harding administration and became the first "Czar of the Movies." Movie fans throughout the world knew Hays held the last word on movie content in his position as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. henceforth MPPDA, and known to all as the Hays Office. The MPPDA functioned as an association representing the major Hollywood studios in matters of censorship, international trade, and relations with the U.S. government. Hays himself made no films, but informally in the 1920s and formally from 1934 to the day of his resignation in 1945, Will Hays could prevent a Hollywood movie from being released until it met with the approval of the MPPDA. Few Americans of the era between the two world wars did not have an opinion about the "Movie Czar." Intellectuals hated him for "censoring" creative talents in Hollywood who tried to make movies into an art form. Moral reformers and religious leaders applauded Hays for standing between moviegoers and the sex and violence that Hollywood tried to unleash on an unsuspecting world. And most Americans cynically saw Hays as a small man with very large ears who was a bit of a prude but basically harmless. Who could take seriously somebody who thought hearing words such as fanny or louse in a movie would damage anyone's sensibilities? Will Hays clearly understood his tasks. He strove to be seen as an important public servant, be he postmaster general or president of the MPPDA. Hays sought to be remembered as a man who used his energies to promote the public welfare. And that welfare was best defined as classic, midwestern, conservative republicanism. Whenever he was asked why he took the movie job, Hays invariably told the following story: as he was considering the offer, he saw his son and nephews pretending to be the actor William S. Hart not Buffalo Bill or some other traditional storybook figure. Hays recognized through their game the power of this new medium. (At this point he also might have told how his effective use of movie newsreels had helped elect Harding president. ) Hays saw his work with the movies as a simple extension of a career that had begun with the Indiana Republican party upon graduation from college. William Harrison Hays was born 5 November 1879 in Sullivan, Indiana, the son of John Tennyson and Mary (Cain) Hays. His family was among the many new settlers of Indiana in that era. His father, John T. Hays, was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on 11 November 1846, and moved to Ohio at age twelve. He graduated from Mount Union

8 College of Alliance, Ohio, in 1869, and then moved to Indiana to teach school. He eventually became head of the public schools in Sullivan. Next, he turned to the study of law, and in the 1870s established the law firm which his son would later join. Will Hays's mother Mary, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Cain of Sullivan, Indiana, was born on 10 June Her father had journeyed from the East to Sullivan, to accept a teaching position. Mary Cain, after a limited formal education, also took a job teaching in the local public schools. She married John T. Hays on 9 December It was her first marriage and his second (Will Hays had two stepsisters from his father's first marriage). After her marriage, Mary stayed home in the traditional mother/ housekeeper role; like her husband and later her son, she was active in the social life of this Indiana community of some two thousand persons, especially in the affairs of the Presbyterian church. Will Hays's childhood led him almost inevitably into a career in politics. He learned his staunch Indiana republicanism at his father's knee. To understand Will Hays, one must remember that although he spent his famous years in New York and Washington, he was raised in Indiana, and he constantly boasted the virtues of this heritage. This was the Indiana fresh from the era of pioneer adventure when the Wabash River served as the gateway to the West and wagon trails had just turned into railroad links. To its sons and daughters, Indiana represented the time and country of the nostalgic memory of James Whitcomb Riley. It was best captured in the romantic novels of Booth Tarkington, and especially in the refrains of Paul Dresser, oft cited by Hays: "The candlelight's agleaming on the banks of the Wabash, far away." Will Hays's father was an active participant in the Republican party politics of Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third president of the United States ( ). William Harrison Hays was named after Benjamin Harrison's father, William Henry Harrison. It has been reported that Benjamin Harrison offered John T. Hays a post in his cabinet, but Hays refused, explaining that "Sullivan is good enough for me." Will Hays entered the Wabash College of Crawfordsville, Indiana, in September of 1896, two months before his seventeenth birthday. At this college of less than 500 students, Hays was by his own admission an average student, but he did win a number of oratorial honors and graduated in June During his college years he also studied law under the direction of his father, and five months after his graduation on his twenty-first birthday, he was admitted to the Indiana bar. He then entered into partnership with his father, creating the firm Hays and Hays. The work of the firm concentrated on commercial clients, most notably local railroads and mines. In 1902 Will Hays married Helen Louise Thomas, daughter of a prominent Crawfordsville, Indiana, family. They had one son, Will H. Hays, Junior, in But the marriage did not last Mrs. Hays never saw the need to venture beyond the borders of Indiana. They were divorced on 20 June 1929, after having lived apart for many years. Will H. Hays, in a rare event for his day, kept custody of his son. The matter was handled with much discretion and remarkably little press coverage. On 27 November 1930 Will Hays married Jessie Herron Stutesman, the widow of James F. Stutesman, former United States representative to Bolivia and an important player in the Republican party. In addition, Hays had known the then Jessie Herron in college, since she was a native of Crawfordsville, Indiana. The second Mrs. Hays lived in New York City with her husband and actively assisted him in many functions related to his work with the movies. The Hayses also maintained a ranch in Hidden Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Once' Will Hays reached his majority he commenced his career in politics. He swiftly climbed the ranks of the Indiana Republican party, becoming a Republican precinct VI

9 committeeman for Sullivan County the year he graduated from college. From that base he went on to become head of the county committee, and then on to the chairmanships of the Republican Congressional District Committee, the Republican Speakers Bureau, the Indiana Republican State Committee, the Republican State Central Committee, and, during the First World War, the Indiana Council of Defense. Hays was a strong believer in supporting and joining as many organizations as possible to help him acquire contacts for his work in the Republican party. He served on the Wabash College Board of Trustees from 1919 to the date of his death (the college granted him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1940). He was active in the Presbyterian church, and also held a 33d degree in the Scottish Rite Masons and regularly participated as a Shriner, Elk, and Moose. The list of other clubs to which he belonged covers a complete single-spaced typed page. The decisive moment in Hays's career in the Republican party came with the 1916 elections. (Prior to that year Democrats, under Boss Taggart's rule, had held all the important elected offices in Indiana.) With the efforts of Hays and others, Republicans swept the Indiana elections. In a year that saw a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, win his second consecutive term as president of the United States, a formerly split Republican party captured both Indiana positions for United States senators, and nine of the thirteen congressmen. National party regulars took notice of the Indiana results and subsequently made Hays the new Republican national chairman. He had united the forces of republicanism in Indiana, and party regulars hoped he could do the same on the national level. Before the decisive 1920 campaign that took him forever from his native Indiana, both Will Hays's parents died within seven weeks of each other, in April and May of Perhaps this freed him to seek his fame and fortune elsewhere, for from then on he would spend little time in Indiana, despite maintaining his official residency there for voting purposes. Hays has long been credited with organizing and financing Warren G. Harding's landslide election of Yet Hays also fancied himself a viable candidate for the 1920 Republican nomination. He was well known for the splendid job he had done as head of the Republican National Committee and to many an insider, Hays was the true dark horse. Hays was a brilliant election manager, surely the first to truly understand modern campaigning. He prepared for more than a year and raised some eight million dollars, four times more than the Democrats had. Hays kept Harding's travel to a minimum and let his candidate's image reach the public through Republican-owned newspapers and the omnipresent newsreels. It was Harding's image in the media which "unelected" Woodrow Wilson. Harding made Hays postmaster general, and although Hays secretly had hoped for the post of secretary of commerce, for the duration of Harding's tenure as president, Hays remained close to the presidency. Despite his strait-laced reputation, Hays was a regular at the Hardings' poker games in the White House. Many have speculated that Hays sensed the upcoming Teapot Dome scandals, and "cashed in his chips" to go with the safer movie business. Hays took up the office of postmaster general on 21 March 1921 and had by all accounts an immediate effect on the U.S. Postal Service. He established a merit system, extended civil service, and encouraged efficiency and technical improvement, especially by building up the then-shaky airmail service. Using his media connections, he campaigned for educational reforms which stressed using the correct address and legible writing. As a result, the mountains of letters that were constantly piling up in the dead letter office disappeared.

10 In 1921, while Hays was in the process of reforming the postal service, the American film industry was entering a crucial phase of its growth. It had expanded from a limited presence at the turn of the century into America's most popular mass-entertainment form. The newly founded Hollywood was regularly producing more than 500 films a year, and after the First World War, many of them appeared on screens throughout the world. Movie houses appeared on every corner of every American city; by 1921 the number topped 20,000.. But with success and growth also came scandal. Consider just two examples which made headlines for months: in 1920, Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart, had secretly divorced one star, Owen Moore, and then immediately married another, Douglas Fairbanks. Movie fan magazines of the day claimed her Nevada divorce was a fraud. And in 1921, an unknown movie extra, Virginia Rappe, died during a wild party given by one of the three highest-paid stars in Hollywood, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Arbuckle was tried for manslaughter in a series of three sensational trials which lasted more than a year. Aroused by these scandals, the forces of moral conservatism, fresh from their triumph of adding a prohibition against alcohol to the United States Constitution, prepared to challenge the film world; voices began calling for censorship of the movies. The movie industry needed some sort of leader to help them put their house in order, much as major league baseball had enlisted Judge Landis a couple of years earlier, after the Black Sox scandals. Will Hays would be their man, and Charles Pettijohn would provide the necessary connection. In 1921, Pettijohn, as leader of the major movie companies and lawyer for movie mogul Lewis Selznick, father of famed producer David O. Selznick, approached Hays with an offer. (Hays had known Pettijohn from the world of Indiana politics.) On 14 January" 1922, Will Hays accepted a salary of SI 15,000 per annum (about 8600,000 in 1986 dollars), a prepaid life insurance policy, plus an almost unlimited expense account, and on 14 March 1922, he became the first president of the MPPDA, with an office on Fifth Avenue in New York. Hays then hired Pettijohn to be his chief assistant. Hays's first move was to strengthen the finances of the new trade association. He approached New York bankers whom he knew from his days as head of the Republican party and within a week had set up a line of credit which put the MPPDA on stable economic footing. Such quick action impressed his new bosses. Hays then used his political clout to help avert the first crisis facing the new MPPDA pending state legislation in Massachusetts which would have severely censored the movies. In the end, a referendum was held and the voters of that conservative state rejected the legislation by a more than two-to-one margin. Once the tide had been turned in that key northeastern state, Hays was easily able to prevent pending censorship bills in twenty-two other legislatures. He proved that the resources of MPPDA could be effectively used to benefit all member companies. He also demonstrated that with his political connections he was the right man for the job. Hays then moved to create a formal public relations arm of the MPPDA to deal with the religious groups, educational organizations, and other parties so concerned with the presumed negative influence of the movies. Hays himself was the point man in this PR effort: he spoke before countless groups, trying to convince them that the movies could be a positive force. Hays tangled with these reformers in many a public arena and throughout the 1920s more than held his own. Hays proved just as successful in improving relationships within the movie business itself. Following the principles which had worked so well in the post office department, he sought to institute more efficiency and uniformity. Specifically, he pushed for the introduction of standardized exhibition and distribution contracts and arbitration procedures via

11 to settle disputes among producers, distributors, and exhibitors. In 1927, he established the Copyright Protection Bureau to register titles of films and thus head off disputes over duplication. The next year saw the establishment.of a formal committee on labor relations. On the West Coast, under Hays's direct supervision, this interest in labor resulted in the formation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Today the academy is well known for its annual Oscar Awards, but the Hays Office had created the academy to provide a forum for labor disputes, in effect establishing a union supervised by the major companies. In the 1920s, Hays had little direct connection with actual movie production. Of course, he had many friends in the business, probably no one closer than William S. Hart, the noted star of many early westerns and his son's hero. Hays's own screen fame probably came with the use of sound in the movies. In one of the first Vitaphone talkie shorts ever made, and in the group of the first ever shown, Hays presented a short address congratulating the brothers Warner, members of his MPPDA. Hays's tenure as president of the MPPDA can easily be divided into two distinct parts. In the first, from 1922 to 1928, he served his members as the ultimate insider, the Republican with a direct link into the White House. Operations of the MPPDA proceeded smoothly. Hays took on the multitude of problems that had faced his member corporations in 1922 and solved all with relative ease. Historians have labeled the 1920s the era of Republican normalcy this term is also an accurate description for the movie industry under Will Hays during that period. But industry good will was all based on an economy of growth from the prosperity fostered by the Republicans which vanished in The Republican power base went down in flames in the election^ of 1932, although surely the power and influence of Hays's connections to Herbert Hoover's White House were already worth little after the Great Crash began in October Indeed, upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide election in 1932, there was industry talk that Hays should not be retained as president of the MPPDA, as everyone knew he had lost his valuable though limited political connections. In the end, he was kept on, but the loyalty and support of his member companies were never as strong as they had been in the 1920s. Hays's vaunted organizational skills were sorely tested during the 1930s, indeed up until the end of his MPPDA tenure in During the 1930s the Hays Office had to organize formal self-regulation of movie content through its notorious Production Code Administration (PCA). Although many thought of this as censorship of the movies, it certainly was not. Censorship takes place when an outside force, usually a governmental agency, dictates what may be published or shown. The Hays Office policed the productions of its own member companies: any fines were paid to the Hays Office, owned by and operated for the members themselves. The PCA was created so that federal censorship, most strongly advocated by the Catholic church, would not become the law of the land. Will Hays must indeed be credited with preventing the passage of federal government legislation on censorship. The production code had its genesis in the 1920s with informal rules. To protect member firms from charges of immorality, in 1926 the MPPDA had begun an examination of scripts on an advisory basis. A list of "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls" was formulated in The actual production code was drafted for the MPPDA in 1930 by Father Daniel E. Lord, a Catholic priest, and was loosely enforced until Following a militant campaign including threats to boycott films by the Catholic church's Legion of Decency, the enforcement mechanism was strengthened in There had just been a spate of violent films most notably the classic gangster movies such as Scarface (1932) IX

12 and Little Caesar (1930) and several films with strong sexual innuendoes such as She Done Him Wrong (1933) and I'm No Angel (1933), both starring Mae West. In 1934, Hays selected a respected Catholic layman, Joseph I. Breen, a former reporter for the movie trade paper Motion Picture Herald, to be the head of the West Coast-based Production Code Administration. Hays himself, based in New York, had little to do with the actual day-to-day operations of the production code; he only handled disputes which Breen could not settle. Usually some compromise was worked out before the movie was shot; few violations ever occurred. So, for example, in the period, more than 5,800 features were approved and only forty turned down. And of those forty, nearly all were reshot. The moral values embodied in the production code were designed to please all groups that protested the movies' purported immorality; that is, the code was written to meet the lowest common denominator of protest. As such, it was a throwback to the Victorian era when sin was punished and virtue rewarded: the studios got around code restrictions by having six reels of sex and violence and a final reel of punishment tied up with a "happy" ending. The PCA was rarely openly challenged. The most famous case took place when David O. Selznick, an independent producer not working for a major studio, wanted Rhett Butler to say: "Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn." Damn was expressly forbidden under the code. After a heated public battle, Selznick won his point only because a public outcry ensured that this most popular of novels would not be altered. Selznick was the exception less independent-minded folk working for the major studios simply rewrote their scripts. The Hays Office faced a much more dangerous problem when the U.S. government challenged the monopoly power of the members of the Hays organization. Throughout the 1930s, eight movie companies (Paramount, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, Warner Brothers, Universal, Columbia, and United Artists), controlled the bulk (85 percent) of the revenues from movie showings in the United States. These were the same eight that dominated the MPPDA and the "Big Eight" held their monopoly by owning and operating the key theaters throughout the United States. Consequently, the eight majors made many an enemy refusing to provide their feature films to independent theaters until their own affiliated theaters had exhausted the film's drawing power. Independent theater owners pressed their representatives in Congress to act on their behalf. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration jumped on this antimonopoly bandwagon, and on 20 July 1938 the U.S. Department of Justice, under liberal Attorney General Thurman Arnold, filed an antitrust suit against the eight major companies, charging them with violations of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws. Many private antitrust suits followed, occasioning the film industry to spend millions of dollars hiring the best lawyers money could buy, to defend themselves during the following decade. Antitrust actions, in fact, had been filed as early as 1917, but because of Hays's influence in the federal government, they had never presented any real threat at least during the 1920s. Roosevelt changed all that. At the same time, members of the Democraticdominated U.S. Congress, incited by independent theater owners in their home states, began to investigate monopoly practices in the movie business in what became known as the "block booking" problem. (Block booking was the practice of forcing a theater owner to rent a year's worth of films rather than the ones he or she might think would be most attractive to the theater's potential customers.) Several hearings and investigations were held; much unfavorable publicity was generated. Women's groups and religious organizations pushed for legislation banning block booking, thinking that if some control of the structure of the movie business was effected, then

13 better movies would follow. The most famous of the ensuing legislative controversies, complete with well-publicized hearings, centered around a Senate bill sponsored in 1938 and then again in 1939 by Senator Neely of West Virginia. Once again, Will Hays marshalled his contacts and successfully led the fight against this and all other forms of proposed legislation. His connections in Washington, while not as strong as they had been in the 1920s, proved effective enough. However, that success could not be transferred to the U.S. federal judiciary. As President Roosevelt appointed more and more liberal judges, an increasing number of decisions in the federal antitrust suits went against the major movie companies. Early in 1941, through a consent decree, the major companies and their affiliated theater chains actually seemed to effect a stalemate. But eventually the case was reopened and made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Finally, in May 1948, several years after Hays had stepped down as head of the MPPDA, the Supreme Court ruled against the major companies. In a historic decision, the "Big Eight" were ordered to sell their theaters. Although Hays was no longer in office, he had spent day after day in the 1930s and 1940s trying to head off this dreaded result. He did, however, succeed in preserving the MPPDA at no point was the organization cited as a defendant, although few antitrust actions for other industries at that time saw the major trade association omitted from the government's suit. Hays recognized from the beginning that by having no legal connection to its branches (including the famed PCA), the MPPDA could steer clear of antitrust law violations. An equally vexing problem occurred more frequently in the 1930s: challenges by foreign countries to the distributional hegemony of Hollywood. The conflict usually played out as thus: a nation would grow tired of Hollywood films dominating its marketplace (after 1920, this was the case in industrialized countries throughout the world except the Soviet Union); the members of the small indigenous film industry would complain loudly, and the government would institute some sort of legislative measure to counter the power of Hollywood. This legislation invariably took one of three forms: to begin with, the country would restrict the presentation of American movies on local screens, and a specific proportion or number of native-made films had to be shown. A second variation saw a tax instituted on the showing (or importation) of Hollywood films, with the monies used to finance native productions. In the third form, the country established a quota on the number of films from Hollywood that could be imported in any year. These imports could be shown as often as possible, but the quota was usually set far lower than the number of films actually made by Hollywood each year. It was Hays's job to convince foreign governments to do away with such laws, or at least render them ineffective. Consider a precedent-setting case in France: in March 1928, the French instituted a new law, a variation of alternative three above, whose provisions were so restrictive that American movie companies would have had to withdraw from the French market. Less than a month after the issuance of the French Film Decree, the Hays Office appointed Harold L. Smith, who up to that time had been vice-consul at the American Consulate in Paris, as its representative. Hays set sail for France immediately after Smith's appointment and used Smith's contacts (plus his own) to have two-thirds of the restrictions lifted at once. Over the longer haul, Hays was able to render the French law almost totally ineffective. This type of success in increasingly important foreign markets would repeat itself over and over again during the decade before the Second World War. In effect, Will Hays became an ambassador for the movie trade. The Hays Office also utilized contacts in the

14 State Department and the Bureau of Foreign Commerce in the Department of Commerce to maintain Hollywood's control over foreign movie screens. But eventually all these problems exceeded the frustration level of even such a seasoned politician as Will Hays. The Second World War complicated foreign affairs, and in 1943 United States v. Paramount et al. (the major antitrust case instituted by the U.S. Department of Justice) took a turn for the worse. Thus in November 1944, on his sixtyfifth birthday, Will Hays began to seriously consider retiring. He had successfully held his job as "Movie Czar" for more than two decades. One personal matter also intervened: in 1942 the invaluable Charles Pettijohn had resigned for reasons of poor health. It was then not surprising that Hays followed suit three years later. Will Hays formally resigned as president of the MPPDA on 14 September In what would be labeled today a "Golden Parachute," the member companies of the MPPDA voted to hire him a consultant for the next five years. Eric Johnston, former president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, took Hays's place. Hays worked off and on for the MPPDA during the next five years, principally providing advice on matters of foreign distribution. He formally severed all relationships with the MPPDA on 14 September 1950, some twenty-eight-and-one-half years after he helped create the organization. Will Hays then gracefully retired. After 1950, with no official relationship to the movies, he worked as a spokesman for the Republican party and monitored his substantial holdings in several corporations. His principal office and residence remained in New York City he did most of his work from the expansive suite which he and his second wife, Jessie, had maintained for more than two decades in the Waldorf Towers at 50th and Park Avenue. Only occasional visits took him "home" to Sullivan, Indiana. Will Hays died of a heart ailment on Sunday 7 March 1954 in the family home in Sullivan, Indiana. He had contracted pneumonia the previous winter and had never fully recovered. He was 74 years old. A memorial service was held on the following Wednesday, immediately followed by the funeral and burial at the family plot at the Sullivan Cemetery. Commentators throughout the world noted the passing of the man who had played such an important role in the politics of his nation and the affairs of the movie business. Further Reading The Will H. Hays Papers at the Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, represent the most comprehensive collection of materials available on the life and career of Will H. Hays. In addition, relevant materials touching on Hays's activities in Republican party politics can be found in the Warren G. Harding Papers held at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. There are many collections of documents that reflect on Hays's role as president of the MPPDA. The files of the Production Code Administration are found in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library in Beverly Hills, California. (As of this writing the papers of the MPPDA, now the Motion Picture Association of America, headed by Jack Valenti and located in Washington, D.C., are not open to scholars.) The papers from the major motion picture companies which sponsored and underwrote the MPPDA include the papers of United Artists Corporation held at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin; the Warner Bros, production records held at the Library of the University of Southern California; and the Warner Bros, administration records held at the Firestone Library at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Of Will Hays's own writings, the most valuable include The Memoirs of Will H. Hays (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955); "Supervision from Within," in Joseph P. Kennedy (ed.), The Story of the Films (Chicago: A.W. Shaw Company, 1927), pages 29-54; "The Motion Picture Industry," in Review of Reviews (January 1923), pages 65-80; "Motion Pictures and Their Censors," in American Review of Reviews (April 1927), pages ; "It's Up to Every

15 American," in Liberty Magazine fnovember 9, 1940), pages 8-9; and "The Human Side of the Postal Service," in Review of Reviews (December 1921), pages The best place to read about Hays's career as an executive of the MPPDA remains Raymond Moley, The Hays Office (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945, reprinted by Jerome S. Ozer, New York City, 1971). This book was written with the help and cooperation of the MPPDA during the last years of Hays's administration. Supplement this with a detailed portrait in the leading business publication of its day: "The Hays Office," in Fortune (December 1938), pages For background on Hays's political career in Warren G. Harding's campaign for president, see Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding and His Times (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968). A contemporary study of the political power of the Hays Office can be found in Kenneth G. Crawford, The Pressure Boys (New York: Julian Messner, 1939), pages ; where Crawford details how Hays engineered the defeat of the Neely bill. Most people associate the Hays Office with the Production Code Administration; the role of this MPPDA agency can best be understood by reading Richard S. Randall's Censorship of the Movies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968). For a survey of the economic importance of the Hays Office, see Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System (New York: St. Martin's, 1986). The most useful study which situates the role of the MPPDA in the social history of the movies remains Garth Jowett, Film: The Democratic Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976). These final three books all tender extensive documentation and thus offer the best places to begin searching for sources of information on the role of Will H. Hays and the MPPDA in the history of American film. Douglas Gomery Associate Professor of Communication Arts University of Maryland December 1986 xin

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17 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The microfilm edition is divided into two parts. Part I: December 1921-March 1929 is especially rich in political materials from the twenties, when Republicans held the White House. Hays was directly connected to the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge: he had been Harding's campaign manager and was close to him personally. He was also a supporter of Coolidge, and thus was an insider to that White House as well. His position changed with the election of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and the Great Crash of 1929, which signalled the end of the Republican era. Hays knew Hoover, but did not belong to the inner circle of this new president. Part II: April 1929-September 1945 begins with the arrival of the Hoover administration in April 1929 and focuses on the economic turmoil caused by the Great Depression and the increasing complexity of international distribution of film. Once Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, Hays became a true outsider, and the focus of the political correspondence and documents shifts to Republican considerations of how to recapture the White House and the Congress. Indiana, Hays's home state, remained one of the few success stories for the Republicans of that era. Hays was active as an Indiana delegate in the nomination of Hoover in 1932, and the nomination of Willkie in The documents chosen for inclusion in The Will Hays Papers provide a near-exhaustive edition of correspondence and files on the movie business of the 1920s and 1930s into the 1940s, as well as the inner workings of the Republican party of the United States. Duplicates were not filmed. Correspondence for which it was impossible to specify the correspondent was excluded. This edition is drawn from forty-nine of the eighty-five Hollinger boxes of the papers of Will H. Hays held in the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana. Boxes 1 14, not published here, deal with Hays's formative years, his entry into the Republican party, the election of Warren G. Harding, and Hays's nine-month service as postmaster general of the United States, and end in late 1921, when film moguls approached Hays about the job as head of what would become the MPPDA. Boxes 64-84, with materials dating from October 1945 through Hays's death in 1954, contain very little material dealing with the MPPDA, and thus were not included in this microfilm edition. The Reel Index provides key terms for the papers. Several criteria are used to guide the reader to the appropriate papers. A. Key Organizations Will Hays dealt with many important organizations such as the RNC and the AMPP. When there is significant correspondence or documents concerning one of these organizations, it is noted. B. Speeches as a politician, Will Hays made hundreds of speeches. The Will Hays Papers is rich in copies of these speeches as well as selected handwritten drafts. C. Famous Persons Hays dealt with many of the most influential persons of his age. including presidents of the United States and many movie stars. When this correspon-

18 dence is particularly rich (more than a formal letter of thanks, for example), the name is noted. D. Films when Hays dealt with the matter of a film, or a book to be turned into a film, it is noted by title. E. Personal Travel often it is possible to tell when Hays traveled to the West Coast on movie business or to Wyoming on vacation. These trips are noted. F. Relief and Charity Work throughout his career Hays spent a great deal of time working on European relief and charity work; partly, this was to fulfill a Christian duty, and partly to meet people who might be politically useful to him. G. Special Reports often are included. Reports generated by the Republican party and the MPPDA, if important, are noted by title. H. Special Topics sometimes there is correspondence on certain issues, such as film censorship, foreign film matters, and antitrust matters the three major problems with which Hays dealt in the 1930s and 1940s. As such they are noted by these generic, rather than specific, titles. The sole exception would be for foreign matters, in which the country is specified. Thus, if a country is noted (e.g., Mexico), this means a problem of the MPPDA with the government of Mexico. The correspondence shows the wide connections Hays maintained throughout his life. He never forgot the people who helped him, and he tried to cultivate many to help his party, his church, and the movie companies he represented. By reading his letters one can see how the censorship problem which Hays curtailed in 1922 reappeared later and forced him to implement the notorious Hays Code in One can see how Republican connections helped in the 1920s and hindered in the 1930s. Finally, one can see the growing internationalization of the movie business. Gradually, during the Second World War, Hays became almost an unaffiliated diplomat in trying to deal with such cases as a Mussolini who tried to keep Hollywood films out of Italy, or a Number Ten Downing Street which would not give up Hollywood's earnings in the United Kingdom during a period when that nation desperately needed hard currency to fight Germany. In sum, The Will Hays Papers provides more than a collection of valuable documents of a powerful man who operated at the highest levels of the motion picture industry and Republican party politics. The microfilm edition offers a rare insider look into the highest reaches of power in the United States of America during the first half of the twentieth century. Too often, writers focus only on the president and his most visible advisers. But we must remember that always working behind the scenes was the true "power elite." Will Hays surely was an insider's insider during the crucial period of American history between the two world wars. Douglas Gomery XVI

19 EDITORIAL NOTE The microfilm edition of The Will Hays Papers draws from his correspondence files during his years as head of the MPPDA, 1922 to For five years after that, Hays served as a part-time consultant to the MPPDA, and for that period, only materials relating to his work with the movie industry are included. The collection as it stands contains his business correspondence and most, but not all, of the documents generated by the MPPDA during his tenure. There is little material on Hays's personal life: some letters from his brother on business matters and some from his nephews, but little relating to his son or from his first and second wives. The Will Hays Papers concentrates on two types of material: 1. Letters and documents he generated as first president of the MPPDA for some twenty-three-and-one-half years. The MPPDA functioned as a trade association, representing the major companies of the U.S. film industry in matters of censorship, legislation, foreign trade, antitrust, and other problems the companies had in common. Hays, operating from New York City, dealt more with the distribution of the movies (especially as constrained by foreign governments) and the exhibition of films (especially the increasing number of antitrust suits brought by exhibitors not affiliated with the MPPDA). 2. Letters and documents relating to Republican party politics from 1922 to Will Hays was much more than an administrator of a highly visible trade association. He was a long-time insider in the Republican party. Selections were made by the editor with the goal of completely covering Hays's work in the Republican party and the MPPDA. These were, more often than not, interconnected, since the chiefs of the various major movie companies hired Hays for his strong political connections. Hays judiciously "worked the telephone" and followed up all correspondence. Thus, often he was contacted by someone, or initiated correspondence, or did the person a favor (getting them in for a studio tour or having a son or daughter "auditioned" were favorites), and then used that person's services later on. In every area of his life, Will Hays was a political animal.

20 SOURCE NOTE The Will H. Hays collection was acquired by the Indiana Division of the Indiana State Library through the efforts of Harold F. Brigham, former director of the library, and Mrs. Hazel Hopper, former head of the Indiana division. Upon the death of Will II. Hays in 1954, arrangements were made with Will H. Hays, Jr., to donate the collection of his father's papers to the Indiana State Library. The collection was received in Will H. Hays, Jr., assigned copyright of the papers to the Indiana State Library in 1984, to enable microfilming to proceed. The collection consists of eight-five cubic foot boxes (covering the years 1918 to 1953), 152 scrapbooks and forty-one notebooks. While the papers contain very little information on Hays's personal life, they do cover all his business, political, administrative, and movie-related activities. It should be noted that the different categories of scrapbooks and notebooks listed in the collection were set up by Hays himself. Over the course of the years he changed his approach several times; changes in his staff also resulted in different interpretations of his instructions. His overriding goal was always to collect everything said in the press about him and his work. All material for this microfilmed edition was drawn from the papers contained in boxes dated December 1921 (box 15) to September 1945 (box 63). The remaining unfilmed material can be viewed at the Indiana State Library, by prior arrangement. Reproduction of the filmed material is limited to fifty pages. The condition of the printed material and the "availability of staff determine the limits of photocopying of unfilmed materials. Requests for photocopies should be made to the Manuscript Librarian, Indiana Division, Indiana State Library, 140 North Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Marybelle Burch Manuscript Librarian, Indiana Division Indiana State Library December 1986 Inventory According to the current inventory of the Indiana State Library, the materials are divided into the following categories: Boxes chronologically ordered* Green scrapbooks early clippings files, Clothbound scrapbooks general clippings files, Black binders arbitration case** Miscellaneous notebooks "This inventory should not be considered infallible after Box 70, as, from this point on, the boxes contain some materials which Hays did not incorporate into his regular files, or which became separated from the main collection and were subsequently misfiled. The materials relating to the arbitration case are in the process of being refiled; other materials are being refiled and cross-referenced on an ongoing basis. XVI11

21 INITIALISMS The following initialisms are used in this guide and are listed here for the convenience of the researcher. AMPAS Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPP Association of Motion Picture Producers FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FTC Federal Trade Commission GFWC General Federation of Women's Clubs IATSE International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees JD Justice Department MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MPPDA Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPTOA Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America NRA National Recovery Administration PCA Production Code Administration P.M.G. Postmaster general PR Public relations PTA Parent-Teachers Association RNC Republican National Committee TOA Theatre Owners of America YWCA Young Women's Christian Association x»x

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23 THE WILL HAYS PAPERS Parti: December 1921-March 1929

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25 Parti TABLE OF CONTENTS Reel Index Reel Reels cont 5 Reel cont : : :.- 9 Reels cont 9 Reel cont Reels cont 12 Reel cont : : Reels cont ' Reel cont Reels cont 18

26 Reel cont '.""Ill" 21 Reels cont 21 Reels Reel cont ZZZ 27 Subject Index 29

27 Frame # Folder REEL INDEX The extensive Will H. Hays collection at the Indiana Division of the Indiana State Library is arranged in chronological order, contained in file folders, and stored in numbered boxes. To facilitate access to the material, this index lists the major subjects of each folder. See also the explanation on page xv of the Scope and Content Note. Reel Box December frames. P.M.G.; invitations to speak; legal appeals; New Year's greetings; appointments as P.M.G.; RNC; Postal Bulletin; European relief; draft of speech Box 15 cont January frames. P.M.G.; invitations from White House; advice on motion picture industry job öfter January frames. P.M.G.; White House and other invitations; Postal Bulletin; advice on motion picture position; RNC January. 318 frames. Advice on motion picture industry job; PMG; speeches; RNC January. 168 frames. P.M.G.; advice on motion picture industry job; RNC; speeches; Department of State information. Reel cont. Box 15 cont January. 269 frames. Advice on motion picture industry job; P.M.G.; RNC; life insurance; letter to President Warrén G. Harding; speeches January. 279 frames. Advice on motion picture industry job; P.M.G.; letter from White House; RNC. 5'

28 Frame # Folder January. 282 frames. Retirement from cabinet; life insurance; post office department; White House invitation; Committee on American Delegation for Limitation of Armaments Conference; Postal Bulletin; RNC. Box February frames. Advice on motion picture industry job; newspaper clippings; correspondence with Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce; vacation; P.M.G.; Postal Bulletin. Reel cont. Box 16 cont February frames. P.M.G.; RNC; invitation to White House February frames. Vacation; P.M.G.; RNC; prohibition; life insurance; advice on motion picture industry job; letter to Mrs. Warren G. Harding February frames. P.M.G.; RNC; Chinese-American Industrial Bank; White House invitation; press releases; return from vacation March frames. P.M.G.; invitation; appeals for money; life insurance; Postal Bulletin; press releases, letters from White House and from Herbert Hoover. Reel cont. Box 16 cont March frames. P.M.G.; invitations; certificate of incorporation and bylaws of MPPDA March frames. Legal general release, Supreme Court, New York County; P.M.G.; MPPDA dinner dance; speeches; newspaper clippings March frames. P.M.G.; MPPDA original membership list; newspaper clippings; bylaws of MPPDA April frames. Certification of incorporation of MPPDA; press releases; P.M.G.; minutes of 7 April 1922 MPPDA board meeting April frames. Speeches; MPTOA; P.M.G.; detailed statements of MPPDA receipts and expenditures from 5 March 1922 to 15 April 1922; censorship of films April frames. Report on Senator Beveridge's meeting at Deluxe Theatre, Hammond, Indiana; invitations; P.M.G.; Fatty Arbuckle scandal.

29 Frame # Reel 5 Folder 1922 cont. Box May frames. Letter from Arthur Brisbane; post office matters; speeches; official Republican primary returns, Lane County, Indiana; P.M.G May frames. The church and movies; newspaper clippings; P.M.G May frames. Movie technology; letter to Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty; letter from Fatty Arbuckle's wife; post office department; speeches June frames. Post office matters; National Shrine on the Hudson; censorship matters; letter to Fatty Arbuckle; letter to President Warren G. Harding; speeches June frames. Republican National Club; post office matters; Federal Council of Churches; note from White House; uniform exhibition contract June frames. Letter from Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle; letter to President Warren G. Harding; RNC; post office matters; MPTOA. Reel cont. Box 17 cont July frames. Post office matters; partial Hays family genealogy; note from White House; memo: "Movies and Partisan Propaganda." August frames. Phi Delta Theta; famous players' contributions to campaign of Hiram Johnson for U.S. senator from California; motion picture industry data September frames. MPPDA memos; letter to William S. Hart; note from White House; RNC; dealings of MPPDA with Internal Revenue Service. Box September frames. Post office matters; exhibitor matters; letter to President Warren G. Harding; letter to William S. Hart; note from the White House i-5 October frames. Letter from Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle; letter from Warren G. Harding; P.M.G.; European relief; speeches; "The Motion Picture Situation in Massachusetts"; film censorship October frames. "Universal Picture of Superior Quality," censorship; "Massachusetts and the Movies."

30 Frame # Folder October frames. Note from George B. Christian, Jr., secretary to President Warren G. Harding; European relief October frames. Resumes of correspondence and transactions in connection with Smyrna emergency appeal October frames. European relief; educational films; National Education Association and movies, censorship. Reel com. Box 18 cont October frames. Note from White House; Republican party affairs; telegram to William S. Hart; Massachusetts film censorship problem November frames. European relief; newspaper clippings; film distribution in Far East; film exhibition; Massachusetts censorship problem November frames. Near East relief; telegrams on Massachusetts censorship vote; educational films; European relief; Republican party November frames. Near East Relief Committee, Executive Committee meeting; letter to William Randolph Hearst; MPPDA memos; speeches November frames. Speeches; Friars Club dinner, letter from Warren G. Harding on educational films; newspaper clippings, European relief; Near East relief November frames. MPTOA; Near East relief; P.M.G. Reel cont. Box 18 cont December frames. Near East relief; newspaper clippings; speeches; report on MPPDA; note from White House; P.M.G.; memos and telegrams from Courtland Smith, Hays's associate at MPPDA December frames. Note from White House; interview with Will H. Hays by Harvard Crimson.

31 Frame # Folder 1923 Box January frames. Membership record as of 1 January 1923 of the MPPDA; memo on Arbuckle matter; memo on salaries of MPPDA; censorship matters January frames. Film theft problem; Republican party; newspaper clippings; MPPDA board meeting minutes January frames. Fatty Arbuckle's contract; RNC; report on Cecil B. Milk's plans to film The Ten Commandments; address "What Is Being Done for Motion Pictures." January frames. Film censorship problems; communications with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.; Near East relief; article by Hays; internal memos by MPPDA February frames. Memos for MPPDA; censorship; Near East emergency relief; Arbuckle case. Reel cont. Box 19 cont February frames. Republican party matters; newspaper clippings; Near East relief; letter to Marcus Loew; suggestions for MPPDA reorganization; MPTOA February frames. Jewel Carmen v. Fox Film Corporation; film censorship; MPPDA memo/ reports from Hollywood March frames. Letter from William Jennings Bryan on Fatty Arbuckle case; Near East relief March frames. Near East relief; telegram to Cecil B. De Mille; film censorship, Republican party March frames. Confidential memo on upcoming Harding campaign for presidency; censorship laws March frames. Letter to President Warren G. Harding; film censorship; report on drugs in Hollywood. Box April frames. Fatty Arbuckle scandal; film extras campaign.

32 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 20 cont April frames. The Hollywood Bowl; letter to Hal Roach; P.M.G May frames. Telegram to Cecil B. De Mille; note from White House; film censorship; MPPDA budget May frames. Pennsylvania Board of Censors; letter from Sam Goldwyn; notes from White House; Fatty Arbuckle scandal; RNC May frames. Studio Club of Hollywood; speeches; censorship problems; notes from White House May frames. Life insurance; letter to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes May frames. Note to White House; MPPDA finances; speeches June frames. Note from White House; letter to Warren G. Harding; MPPDA budget; First International Congress on the Motion Picture Arts June frames. Fatty Arbuckle's tax problems; note to the White House; letter to Cecil B. De Mille. Reel cont. Box 20 cont June frames. P.M.G. ; letter from Sam Goldwyn; notes to and from White House; motion picture budgets July frames. Post office matters; Near East relief; Harding's plans to visit studios on California visit; RNC July frames. P.M.G.; letter from Sam Goldwyn; MPPDA internal memos. Box July frames. Insurance for motion picture companies; Hays with President Harding in California; speeches July frames. Letter to Edward F. Albee; newspaper clippings; arrangements for President Harding to visit Hollywood; Community Motion Picture Service, Inc. 10

33 Frame # Folder August frames. Near East relief; news clippings; note from White House; letters to new President Coolidge, and Mrs. Warren G. Harding on Harding's death August frames. Motion picture exhibition; reactions to Harding's death. Reel 12 Box cont. cont August frames. Note from White House; Republican party matters; Motion Picture Capital Company September frames. Passport and special travel letters; post office matters; traveling to Europe for MPPDA; Republican party; MPPDA reports September. 213 frames. Business travel in Europe; reports from Hollywood; film exhibition and censorship; newsreel distribution. 1-9 October frames. Business travel in Europe; meetings with important persons concerning movies; Hays's speeches October frames. Internal MPPDA memos; censorship matters; MPPDA budget and asset accounting; return from Europe October frames. MPPDA matters upon return from Europe; RNC; speeches by and about Hays; letters to President Calvin Coolidge. Reel 13 Box cont November frames. MPPDA board meetings and actions; Warren G. Harding Memorial; report on conditions in Hollywood November frames. National Board of Review; invitation to White House; letters to President Coolidge; notes from White House November frames. RNC; Hollywood labor matters; U.S. attorney general; Near East relief November frames. RNC; P.M.G.; notes from White House. 1-4 December frames. Near East relief; P.M.G.; International Golden Rule Sunday December frames. U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty; My Four Years in Germany. 11

34 Frame # Folder December frames. JD; First National Pictures; movies in Pennsylvania; Near East relief December frames. Pathé Newsreel Corporation; letter to E.F. Albee; The Purple Highway December frames. Letter to William Fox; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; MPPDA memos. Reel cont. Box 22 cont December frames. Note from D.W. Griffith; trip to Indiana [undated]. 48 frames. British color movie processes [undated]. 224 frames. Drafts of speeches; reports of Community Service Department of MPPDA; film censorship reports; Lewis Selznick's plan for movie industry Box 22 cónt January frames. Drafts of speeches; MPPDA membership report; trip to California January frames. RNC; American Peace Award; meetings in California; film censorship January frames. RNC; film exhibitor disputes; post office matters; Near East relief. Box January frames. Invitations for speeches; Industrial Workers of the World; reports from Hollywood; Near East relief January frames. Reports of first meeting of AMPP; report from Thomas Ince. Reel cont. Box 23 cont February frames. Republican party; reports of the movies in Germany; Near East relief February frames. Letter to Mrs. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle; American Red Cross; AMPP February frames. Note from Marion Davies; letter from William S. Hart; reports on censorship; AMPP. 12

35 Frame # Folder February frames. Letter from Thomas Alva Edison; note from White House; TOA March frames. Near East relief; insurance for film industry; RNC March frames. RNC; film censorship; report from Thomas Ince; financial reports from Famous Players Lasky April frames. U.S. Congress and movies; film censorship; Universal's dispute with AMPP. Reel cont. Box 23 cont April frames. Letter from Sam Goldwyn; non-theatrical films; film censorship May frames. Film theft; postal service; AMPP and cruelty to animals. Box May frames. AMPP; confidential memo on New York State censorship June frames. RNC; MPTOA; correspondence with White House June frames. Memo on Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York; destruction of motion pictures; report of annual MPPDA meeting June frames. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; RNC; letter from Hal Roach; report on MPPDA; letter to U.S. attorney general. Reel cont. Box 24 cont July frames. AMPP; RNC; Near East relief July frames. Movie financial data; RNC; Near East relief; lobbying expenses for admission tax repeal July frames. AMPP; Will Hays's trip to California; reports on West Coast theatres July frames. Notes from White House; letter from William S. Hart; West Coast theatres case August frames. Problem of First National Pictures; Republican party. 13

36 Frame # Folder August frames. Letters from Winfield Sheehan; Republican party; internal MPPDA memos August frames. Letter from William Fox; note from White House; motion pictures and U.S. Chamber of Commerce August frames. P.M.G.; RNC; Hays's speeches. Reel cont. Box 24 cont September frames. Letter from General John J. Pershing; letter to FTC; Republican party. [Note The material between frames 0161 and 0330 was inadvertently filmed twice. It is a duplication of the material dated September 23-30, 1924 which appears on frames 0001 to 0160.] Box October frames. Letter from White House; Near East relief; P.M.G.; letter to President Coolidge; movies in Canada October frames. Letters from White House; letter to William S. Hart; Republican party matters October frames. Republican party matters, especially election of President Coolidge October frames. Bylaws for MPPDA of Canada; MPPDA, state legislatures, and movies November frames. Republican party; Harry M. Daugherty and Teapot Dome scandals; MPPDA internal matters. Reel cont. Box 25 cont November frames. Near East relief; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; MPPDA internal matters November frames. AMPP; death of Mrs. Warren G. Harding; letter to President Coolidge December frames. RNC; actor's equity; MPPDA budget; D.W. Griffith's Isn't Life Wonderful? 14

37 Frame # Folder 1925 Box 25 cont January frames. Warner Bros, conflict with MPPDA; letter from White House; letter from William S. Hart January frames. Invitation to White House; legislation regarding motion picture industry January frames. Motion picture exhibition; Hays's speeches. Box January frames. AMPP; movie distribution; Publicity Men's Committee; Federal Council of Churches of Christ and movies; letter to William S. Hart; censorship of movies in New York state January frames. Major Edward Bowes and motion picture distribution; licensing movie theaters; note from White House. Reel cont. Box 26 cont February frames. MPTOA on "clean" movies; motion picture censorship laws in New York February frames. Visit to Los Angeles and movie studios; Hollywood Studio Club; GFWC and movie censorship February frames. YWCA and movies; special meeting of MPPDA in California; promotion of industry-sponsored "The Greater Movie Season"; letter from Colleen Moore February frames. Return from California; RNC; plans for presidential inaugural; advertising movies; Vitagraph publicity March frames. Theatre owners' campaign against Hays; interview with Hays; New York state censorship legislation March frames. Finances of motion picture industry; letter to U.S. Attorney General Charles B. Warren on movie trade practices March frames. Letter from William S. Hart; internal memos of MPPDA; dealings with Vitagraph Corporation. 15

38 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 26 cont March frames. Arbitration in motion picture industry; telegram to William Randolph Hearst; movies and FTC March frames. Annual report of MPPDA's Washington office; educational movies; PR for movie industry March frames. The movie industry and taxes; work to stop movie censorship laws. Box April frames. To Indiana for Easter; finances of MPPDA; letter from Marcus Loew; publicity betterment for movies April frames. Peggy Hopkins Joyce and movie morals; movie distribution in West Virginia April frames. Censorship and movies; JD investigation of film boards of trade; National Vaudeville Artist's Club tribute to General John J. Pershing April frames. Problem of National Federation of Women's Clubs and the movies; reports on film publicity; note from George M. Cohan May frames. End of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's film employment; Saturday Morning Movie Campaign. Reel cont. Box 27 cont May frames. Letter from Edward F. Albee; Greater Movie Season Campaign; AMPP May frames. German film situation; movies and sesquicentennial in Philadelphia; Hollywood Studio Club May frames. New publicity plan for MPPDA; copies of Hays's speeches June frames. Doheny finances in Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company; report by Universal on MPPDA June frames. Newsreel coverage for Governors Conference; legislation and movie industry; Hays's speech. 16

39 Frame # Folder June frames. Invitation to Herbert Hoover, Jr.'s wedding; report to Carl Laemmle on MPPDA's activities July frames. Movie union agreements; European film situation; report on U.S. federal government's actions on film industry July frames. Travels to California; movies and publicity; air travel. Reel cont. Box July frames. Citizenship for Ernst Lubitsch; taxes on motion pictures; film boards of trade July frames. Hays in California; censorship and movies; reform of movies August frames. Hays appointed to Committee of National Affairs of National Republican Club; Greater Movie Seasons; anti-crime movement and movies; movie technology August frames. Note from White House; Chicago and censorship; David O. Selznick and Florida movie studio August frames. Ernst Lubitsch and his citizenship; letter from Lewis Selznick; AMPP September frames. Letter to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut film tax problem September frames. Letter to President Calvin Coolidge; Greater Movie Season essay contests; federal government films September frames. Problem of film exhibition and distribution; publicity for movie business. Reel 24 Box 28 cont cont October frames. Warner Bros. Russian film problem; Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Michigan. 17

40 Frame # Folder October frames. Religious Motion Picture Foundation; letter from Marcus Loew; MPTOA November frames. Federal admission tax on movies; detailed report on independent movie producers; death of Judge A.D. Thomas, Hays's father-in-law November frames. Premiere of The Long, Long Trail, legislation affecting movie business Box January frames. German film situations; return from Christmas in Sullivan, Indiana; National PTA and movies January frames. Changing the admission tax on movies; Lew Wallace, Jr., and MPPDA. Reel cont. Box 29 cont January frames. Campaign against newsreel censorship in New York state; movie boards of arbitration February frames. AMPP; Uniform Motion Picture Contract Conference; letter from William S. Hart February frames. Correspondence, generally by people looking for jobs and money February frames. National Board of Review; legislation against movie business March frames. Annual report of Washington office of the MPPDA; graduation of Paramount Pictures School for Actors; MPPDA editorial department annual report March frames. Saturday morning movies; legislative report on movies and potentially harmful legislation; safety in movie theaters. Box March frames. Federal movie censorship; movie copyright; film boards of trade. Reel cont. Box 30 cónt March frames. The MPPDA in Canada; movies and the church; president's annual report. 18

41 Frame # Folder March frames. Annual report of MPPDA; advertising and motion pictures April frames. Confidential report on the film business in Canada; basic rates of pay within film industry April frames. Movies and universities; movies and President Coolidge May frames. Fox theatres; labor situation in Hollywood; movie industry and film exhibition May frames. Catholic luncheon and movies; GFWC. Reel cont. Box 30 cont May frames. Note to Wallace Beery; standard exhibition contract; dedication of Paramount Building; movies and state legislatures; Motion Picture Theatre Owners of the Northwest; fire protection of movie theaters June frames. Film boards of trade; Hays's speeches; film censorship and legislation; correspondence with Sidney R. Kent of Famous Players-Lasky; films in Great Britain June frames. British film quota problem; MPPDA internal meetings; the Catholic church and the movies; note from White House; Greater Movie Season June frames. The movies and U.S. Army morale; honorary degree from Mt. Union College; trip to West Coast June frames. Meetings on West Coast, finances of MPPDA; motion pictures in South America; movies and French government; Hollywood Studio Club. Reel cont. Box 30 cont July frames. Film Congress in Paris; French movie question; meetings in Los Angeles; Hays's speeches; film boards of trade. 19

42 Frame # Folder Box July frames. Control of AMPP; Harry Warner's son Lewis; reports from Hollywood July frames. Film boards of trade; President Coolidge as movie fan; newsreels as a social force; The Scarlet Letter August frames. Fox Theatres Corporation; report on British film problems; Donjuán; report on motion picture advertising August frames. Budget of MPPDA; competition in movies with sound; publicity for MPPDA August frames. Reports from Hollywood; The Winning of Barbara Worth; Vitaphone talkies. Reel com. Box 31 cont September frames. Hays's visits with President Coolidge; film boards of trade; movies deposited into National Archives September frames. Crime portrayal in movies; Warner Bros, publication "Spotlight"; the movies and U.S. Navy October frames. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; AMPP; Society of Motion Picture Engineers; Religious Motion Picture Foundation October frames..... _ Report on U.S. government and movies; Terry Ramsaye on Hays Office; Hollywood; labor situation October frames. Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and movies; actor Emil Jannings; labor trouble in Hollywood October frames. Movie investigations in Congress; Hays's speeches; movies and Catholic church November frames. Douglas Fairbanks pictures; religion and the motion picture. 20

43 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 31 cont November frames. Education and movies; Australia; exhibition; letter from William S. Hart; motion pictures used in medicine November frames. Letter to Herbert Hoover; Presbyterian church; What Price Glory; Union League of New York. Box November frames. Florenz Ziegfeld; movie censorship and the church; labor negotiations in Hollywood December frames. Report from Hollywood; labor negotiations; American Federation of Labor and movies December frames. Unions (IATSE) in Hollywood; motion picture advertising; Hays's speeches December frames. Reports from Hollywood Box 32 cont January frames. Hays's speech; preliminary report of psychological research of movies; founding meeting of AMPAS. Reel cont. Box 32 cont January frames. Travels to West Coast for meetings January frames. British film problems; lectures at Harvard University January frames. Photoplay magazine; AMPAS; West Coast meeting February frames. AMPP; Carl Laemmle; censorship legislation February frames. Legislation regarding motion picture industry; film boards of arbitration February frames. AMPAS; returns from West Coast. Box February frames. Proposed bylaws of AMPAS; labor issues in California. 21

44 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 33 cont March frames. Irving Thalberg; Jesse Lasky; Winnie Sheehan; William Randolph Hearst March frames. AMPP; AMPAS; legislation concerning motion picture industry March frames. Labor relations in motion picture industry; minutes of AMPAS March frames. Letter to Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Charlie Chaplin's finances; film censorship March frames. President of MPPDA's annual report March frames. Letter to President Coolidge; Producers Distributing Corporation April frames. French film situation; AMPP; Vitaphone Corporation April frames. The movies and FTC; AMPP April frames. Universal Pictures; notes from White House; film censorship. Reel cont. Box 33 cont April frames. Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company; report on films in Europe May frames. Canadian film matters; Hays's speech; AMPAS May frames. Note from White House; introduction of AMPAS to public; labor situation in Hollywood May frames. Fox Movietone newsreel; original members of AMPAS; letters to D.W. Griffith and Herbert Hoover. Box May frames. Note from White House; AMPP; Fox Movietone newsreels June frames. Cecil B. De Mille; travels to Hollywood for meetings; First National studios June frames. Universal Pictures; Hollywood casting office; labor situation in Hollywood. 22

45 '^ s»...stn j.i Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 34 cont June frames. Charles Lindbergh; labor, IATSE, and Hollywood; Hays's plans to purchase a home in Los Angeles June frames. Cecil B. De Mille; Charlie Chaplin; United Artists June frames. RNC; survey of functions of MPPDA July frames. Labor conditions in motion picture industry; college presidents and movies; Cecil B. De Mille; FTC rules against the motion picture industry July frames. Motion picture distribution in Europe; membership list of MPPDA; Movie Trade Practices Conferences July frames. Labor relations in movie industry; local censorship of movies; Film Trade Practices Conferences July frames. Note from White House; AMPP; film advertising August frames. Film Trade Practices Conference; film censorship. Reel cont. Box 34 cont August frames. Film Trade Practices Conference; Universal Pictures; The Callahans and The Murphys; Hollywood labor problems September frames. [Note: This folder was filmed out of order.] Film Trade Practices Conference; AMPP August frames. Union troubles in Hollywood; Film Trade Practices Conference; TOA September frames. Hollywood cameramen; FTC and movie industry. Box September frames. Our Gang, comedy; Mary Pickford; labor and film industry September frames. Arbitration and movie industry; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Educational Film Foundation. 23

46 Frame # Folder October frames. The Garden of Allah; labor in Hollywood; Ku Klux Klan; resolutions of Trade Practices Conference October frames. Trade Practices Conference; Universal. Reel cont. Box 35 cont October frames. End of Trade Practices Conference; nomination of Herbert Hoover October frames. Universal Pictures; AMPP; note from White House November frames. Princess Mascha; FTC and movies; Photoplay magazine; Al Jolson November frames. Otto Kahn and Max Reinhardt; United Artists; nomination of Herbert Hoover December frames. Labor situation in Hollywood; telegram to Tom Mix; letter from Winfield Sheehan December frames. Hoover for President campaign work; Motion Picture Club; FTC and film industry. Box [Undated.] 38 frames. AMPAS; Motion Picture School of Technology; film censorship; Seventh Heaven; film boards of trade [Undated.] 129 frames. Public relations of MPPDA; movies suitable for children's nontheatrical movies. Reel Box 36 cont January frames. Hal Roach letter; Central Casting; report on censorship and unions in Los Angeles January frames. Cecil B. De Mille; trip to California; Republican party politics January frames. Federal legislation on movies; Republican politics; meetings in Hollywood January frames. Teapot Dome scandal; Vitaphone; letter to Calvin Coolidge; federal legislation against movies; boxing films. 24

47 Frame # Folder 1-6 February frames. Federal movie legislation; TOA; Hollywood labor situation February frames. National endorsers of Photoplays; trip to Mexico; federal movie legislation; Herbert Hoover campaign February frames. Testifies on oil scandal and 1920 campaign. Reel cont. Box 36 cont February frames. Teapot Dome investigation; safety of motion picture film February frames. MPPDA's Copyright Protection Bureau; clippings on Leon Trotsky March frames. Annual report of MPPDA; Teapot Dome scandal March frames. Letter to William Randolph Hearst; Teapot Dome scandal; Hoover campaign March frames. Hays appears before U.S. Senate; European film situation; Teapot Dome investigations. Reel 39 Box cont March frames. Annual report of Washington office of MPPDA; Teapot Dome investigation; detailed report of AMPP covering all aspects of film production March frames. Teapot Dome scandal investigation March frames. Senate Teapot Dome investigation; newsreels and potential Herbert Hoover campaign March frames. European film situation; Senate Teapot Dome investigations; Foreign Department annual report. 1-6 April frames. Senate Teapot Dome investigations; films on France. 25

48 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 37 cont April frames. Teapot Dome scandal hearings; films in France April frames. Teapot Dome scandal trials April frames. Annapolis; Cecil B. De Mille; surgeon's use of motion pictures; report from Hollywood; German film situation April frames. Teapot Dome investigation trials; French film situation April frames. Central Casting; Teapot Dome scandal investigations; film boards of trade May frames. French film situation; Teapot Dome scandal investigations May frames. Cameramen in Hollywood; French film situation May frames. French film problem; TOA; daylight savings time and exhibitions May frames. Labor problems in Hollywood. Reel cont. Box June frames. Trip through the Midwest; report from Hollywood; MPPDA budget; Cecil B. De Mille pictures June frames. Annual report of relations with film exhibitors; report of PR department of MPPDA June frames. King of Kings; president's final copy of MPPDA's annual report July frames. MPTOA; Albert Fall and Will Hays July frames. Albert Fall and Will Hays; Motion Picture Club; movie exhibition workers' strike in Minneapolis August frames. Howard Hughes; Albert Fall and Will Hays; Universal Pictures, Inc.; newsreels August frames. Pennsylvania censorship situation; Copyright Protection Bureau of MPPDA; letter to William Fox. 26

49 Frame # Folder Reel com. Box 38 cont September frames. Movie publications to support Hoover for president; international newsreel September frames. Newsreel editors; Motion Picture Club; AMPP; letter to Howard Hughes October frames. Hollywood union agreements; Republican party matters. Box November frames. Budgets for AMPP; film board of trade; invitation to White House [16-23] November frames. Mary Pickford; labor contracts; board of directors meetings; Republican party November frames. Letter to President Coolidge; Central Casting; RNC December frames. Film board of trade investigation; publicity and movies. Reel cont. Box 39 cont [Undated.] frames. Activities of MPPDA; Hollywood Screen Star Fashions, Inc Box 39 cont January frames. Membership record of MPPDA; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Carl Laemmle January frames. Trip to California; talkies discussion; film censorship January frames. Universal Pictures; letter from Orville Wright; film censorship; film industry unions February frames. William Randolph Hearst on film censorship; film copyright; films in France March frames. Problem of films in France; movies in South America; state legislatures and movie problem; note from White House; film boards of trade March frames. Antitrust suit against movie industry; films sold around world; The Marriage Holiday, movie censorship. 27

50 Frame # Folder Box March frames. Film censorship; annual report of MPPDA; film exhibition; Pennsylvania legislation against movies; movies in Europe. 28

51 SUBJECT INDEX The following indexais a guide to the major subjects, within each folder, in Part I of this collection. The first Arabic number refers to the reel, and the Arabic number after the colon refers to the frame number at which a particular folder begins. Hence 26: 0950 directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0950 of Reel 26. By referring to the Reel Index, the researcher can identify the title and contents of the particular folder. Actors' equity 19: 0348 Admission tax changing 24: 0986 general 24: 0330 repeal lobbying expenses 17: 0129 Advertising motion picture 20: 0580; 26: 0147; 28: 0618; 30: 0597; 34: 0947 report on motion picture 28: 0618 Air travel 22: 1089 Albee, Edward F. letter from 22: 0001 letters to 11: 0790; 13: 1019 American Federation of Labor (AFL) movies and 30: 0493 American Peace Awards 14: 0624 American Red Cross see Red Cross, American AMPAS announcement to public of 33: 0495 founding meeting 30: 0959 general 31: 0913; 32: 0188; 33: 0122; 36: 0992 meeting 31: 0323 minutes of meeting 32: 0350 original members 33: 0495 proposed bylaws 31: 1073 AMPP annual dinner 32: 0792 budgets 42: 0502 control of 28: 0197 cruelty to animals 16: 0212 general 15: 0138, 0311; 16: 0477; 17: 0001, 0263; 19: 0169, 1037; 22: 0001; 23: 0637; 25: 0099; 29: 0314; 31: 0474; 32: 0188, 0943; 33: 0653; 34: 0947; 35: 0116; 36: 0144; 42: 0085 report on film production 39: 0001 reports of first meeting 14: 1141 Universal's dispute with 15: 0988 Animals cruelty to AMPP Annapolis, Maryland 40: 0288 Anticrime movement movies and 23: 0390 Arbitration in motion picture industry 21: 0001; 35: 0665 movie boards of 25: 0001; 31: 0685 Arbuckle, Minta Durfee (Mrs. Roscoe "Fatty") letters from 5: 0383, 0977; 6: 0532 letter to 15: 0138 Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty" case of 8: 0952 contract 8: 0631 letter from William Jennings Bryan on case 9: 0333 letter to 5: 0582 memo on 8: 0307 scandal 4: 0978; 9: 1058; 10: 0362 tax problems 10: 1047 Attorney general 13: 0370 Australia general 30: 0001 Beery, Wallace note to 27: 0001 Beveridge, Albert report on Deluxe Theatre in Hammond, Indiana, meeting 4: 0978 Bowes, Edward motion picture distribution 19:

52 Boxing films 37: 0592 Brisbane, Arthur letter from 5: 0001 British color movie processes 14: 0197 Bryan, William Jennings letter on Fatty Arbuckle case 9: 0333 Cabinet Hays's retirement from 2: 0549 California v labor issue 31: 1073 meetings 14: 0624 trips 14: 0468; 17: 0263; 22: 1089; 37: 0160; 43: 0313 Callahans and the Murphys, The 35: 0001 Cameramen Hollywood 35: 0395; 40: 0895 Canada bylaws for MPPDA of 18: 0810 confidental report on film business in 26: 0287 film matters 33: 0122 movies 18: 0331 MPDDA 26: 0001 Catholic church and movies 27: 0574; 29: 0890 Catholic luncheon and movies 26: 0950 Censorship church and 30: 0322 federal movie 25: 1001 film 4: 0810; 6: 0532; 9: 0205, 0528, 0948; 10: 0232; 12: 0525; 14: 0244, 0624; 15: 0810, 0988; 16: 0001; 32: 0505, 1061; 34: 1132; 36: 0992; 43: 0313, 0422, 0902, 1111 general 5: 0582; 6: 0648, 0931; 8: 0307, 0952; 12: 0886 Hearst, William Randolph, on 43: 0579 legislation 31: 0474 movies 21: 0834; 23: 0182 problems 8: 0829 reports 15: 0311 see also New York state; Pennsylvania Censorship laws general 9: 0695 work to stop 21: 0341 Central Casting 37: 0001; 40: 0614; 42: 0778 Chamber of Commerce, ILS. motion pictures and 17: 0935 Chaplin, Charlie finances 32: 0505 general 34: 0196 Chicago, Illinois censorship 23: 0504 Children movies suitable for 36: 1030 Chinese-American Industrial Bank 3: 0492 Christian, George B., Jr. secretary to President Harding 6: 0777 Cohan, George M. note from 21: 0988 College presidents movies and 34: 0365 Community Motion Picture Service, Inc. 11: 0790 Community Service Department of MPPDA 14: 0244 Congress movie investigations in 29: 0890 movies and 15: 0988 Connecticut film tax problem 23: 0809 Contracts uniform exhibition contract 5: 0791 Uniform Motion Picture Contract conference 25: 0099 Coolidge, Calvin election 18: 0681 Hays's visit with 29: 0001 letters to 11: 0953; 12: 1078; 13: 0201; 18: 0331; 19: 0169; 23: 0918; 32: 0674; 37: 0592; 42: 0778 as movie fan 28: 0364 movies and 26: 0484 Copyright Protection Bureau 38: 0238; 41: 1130 Copyrights movie 25: 1001; 43: 0579 Crime movie portrayal of 29: 0183 Cruelty to animals AMPP and 16: 0212 Daugherty, Harry M. general 13: 0772 letter to 5: 0383 Teapot Dome scandal 18: 1075 Davies, Marion note from 15: 0311 Daylight Savings Time exhibition and 40: 0955 De Mille, CecU B. general 33: 0870; 34: 0196, 0365; 37: 0160; 40: 0288 letter to 10: 1047 pictures 41:

53 report on plans for The Ten Commandments 8: 0631 telegrams to 9: 0528; 10: 0232 Doheny, Edward L. finances in Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company 22: 0454 Don Juan 28: 0618 Drugs report 9: 0948 Eastman Theatre memo 16: 0892 Edison, Thomas Alva letter 15: 0379 Education movies and 30: 0001 Educational Film Foundation 35: 0665 Educational films 6: 0931; 7: 0430, 0861; 21: 0152 Europe film situation 22: 0925; 38: 0817; 39: 0660 Hays's trip 12: motion picture distribution 34: 0553 movies in 43: 1111 report on films in 33: 0001 European relief 1: 0001; 6: 0532, 0777, 0931; 7: 0251, 0430, 0861 Exhibition contract standard 27: 0001 Exhibitors, film annual report of relations with 41: 0171 Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. communications with 8: 0829 pictures 29: 0994 Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company Doheny finances in 22: 0454 see also Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company; Pickford, Mary Fall, Albert B. Hays and 41: 0724, 0936 Famous Players-Lasky contributions to campaign of Hiram Johnson 6: 0212 financial reports 15: 0810 Hays's correspondence with Sidney R. Kent 27: 0327 see also Paramount Pictures Corporation Far East film distribution in 7: 0251 Federal Council of Churches 5: 0791 Federal Council of Churches of Christ movies and 19: 1037; 29: 0703 Federal government films by 23: 0918 movies and 29: 0566 Film boards of arbitration 31: 0685 Film boards of trade general 23: 0001; 25: 1001; 27: 0327; 28: 0001, 0364; 29: 0001; 36: 0992; 40: 0614; 42: 0502; 43: 0739 investigation 42: 1111 JD investigation of 21: 0834 Film exhibition disputes 14: 0756 general 12: 0525; 19: 0864; 43: 1111 motion picture industry and 26: 0740 problem 23: 1078 Film extras campaign 9: 1058 Film publicity reports 21: 0988 Film theft 8: 0474; 16: 0212 Film Trade Practices Conference end 36: 0001 general 34: 0553, 0733, 1132; 35: 0001, 0116, 0255, 0976 resolutions 35: 0760 First National Pictures general 13: 0923; 33: 0870 problem 17: 0568 Florida movie studio David O. Selznick and 23: 0504 Foreign Department annual report of 39: 0660 Fox, William letter from 17: 0935 letters to 13: 1154, 41: 1130 Fox Film Corporation, Jewel Carmen v. 9: 0205 Fox Movietone newsreel 33: 0495, 0653 Fox Theatres Corporation 26: 0740; 28: 0618 France film problem 40: 0955; 43: 0739 films 39: 0927; 43: 0579 film situation 32: 0792; 40: 0420, 0740, 0895 movie question 28: 0001 movies and government 27: 0969 Friars Club dinner 7: 0861 FTC letter to 18: 0001 movie industry and 21: 0001; 32: 0943; 34: 0365; 35: 0395; 36: 0290,

54 Garden of Allah; The 35: 0760 Germany film situation 22: 0139; 24: 0826; 40: 0288 reports of movies in 15: 0001 GFWC general 26: 0950 movie censorship and 20: 0155 Goldwyn, Sam letters from 10: 0362; 11: 0001, 0388; 16: 0001 Government see Federal government Governors' conference newsreel coverage for 22: 0651 Great Britain film quota problem 27: 0574 films in 27: 0327 report on film problems 28: 0618; 31: 0199 "Greater Movie Season" campaign 22: 0001 essay contest 23: 0918 general 23: 0390; 27: 0574 promotion of 20: 0340 Griffith, D.W. Isn't Life Wonderful 19: 0348 letter to 33: 0495 note from 14: 0001 Harding, Florence (Mrs. Warren G.) death 19: 0169 letters to 3: 0225; 11: 0953 Harding, Warren G. letters from 6: 0532; 7: 0861 letters to 2: 0001; 5: 0582, 0977; 6: 0469; 9: 0948; 10: 0937 memorial 13: 0001 presidential campaign confidential memo 9: 0695 reactions to death of 11: 1128 visit to motion picture studios 11: 0181 Hart, William S. letters from 15: 0311; 17: 0463; 19: 0555; 20: 1110; 25: 0099; 30: 0001 letters to 6: 0332, 0469; 18: 0549; 19: 1037 telegram to 7: 0001 Harvard Crimson interview with Hays 8: 0265 Harvard University Hays's lecture 31: 0199 Hays family genealogy 6: 0001 Hays Office Terry Ramsaye on 29: 0566 Hearst, William Randolph film censorship 43: 0579 general 32: 0001 letters to 7: 0593; 38: 0567 telegram to 21: Hollywood, California arrangements for President Harding's visit 11: 0790 IATSE and 34: 0001 labor general 13: 0370; 26: 0740; 35: 0760 labor negotiations 30: 0322, 0493 labor problems 35: 0001; 40: 1140 labor situation 29: 0566, 0703; 33: 0300, 1046; 36: 0648; 37: 0802 meetings 37: 0362 report on drugs 9: 0948 reports from 9: 0205; 12: 0525; 13: 0001; 14: 0954; 28: 0197; 30: 0493, 0805; 40: 0288; 41: 0001 union agreements 42: 0266 union troubles 35: 0255 Hollywood Bowl 10: 0001 Hollywood casting office 33: 1046 Hollywood Screen Star Fashions, Inc. 43: 0001 Hoover, Herbert correspondence with 2: 0831 letter from 3: 0793 letters to 23: 0809; 30: 0176; 33: 0495 presidential campaign 37: 1010; 38: 0567 presidential nomination 36: 0001, 0474 Hoover, Herbert, Jr. invitation to wedding of 22: 0800 Howard, Roy W. 32: 0505 Hughes, Charles Evans letter to 10: 0626 Hughes, Howard general 41: 0936 letter to 42: 0085 IATSE see Unions Ince, Thomas report 14: 1141; 15: 0810 Indiana trip 14: 0001 Industrial Workers of the World 14: 0954 Internal Revenue Service (1RS) MPPDA dealings with 6: 0332 International Golden Rule Sunday 13: 0637 International newsreel 42: 0001 Interviews general 20: 0781 by Harvard Crimson 8: 0265 Invitations 1: 0411; 4: 0001, 0978

55 Isn't Life Wonderful? 19: 0348 Jannings, Emil 29: 0703 JD general 13: 0923 investigation of film boards of trade 21: 0834 Jewel Carmen v. Fox Film Corporation 9: 0205 Johnson, Hiram campaign contributions 6: 0212 Jolson, Al 36: 0290 Joyce, Peggy Hopkins end of film employment 21: 1091 movie morals 21: 0597 Kahn, Otto Max Remhardt and 36: 0474 Kent, Sidney R. correspondence 27: 0327 King of Kings 41: 0349 Ku Klux Klan 35: 0760 Labor contracts 42: 0611 Labor matters in Hollywood 13: 0370; 26: 0740 see also Unions Laemmle, Carl general 31: 0474; 43: 0150 report on MPPDA activities for 22: 0800 see also Universal Pictures Lasky, Jesse 32: 0001 see also Famous Players Lasky; Paramount Pictures Corporation Life insurance 2: 0001, 0549; 3: 0225, 0793; 10: 0626 Limitation of Armaments Conference Committee on American Delegation for 2: 0549 Lindbergh, Charles 34: 0001 Loew, Marcus letters from 21: 0469; 24: 0179 letter to Long, Long Trail premier 24: 0516 Los Angeles, California meetings 28: 0001 report on censorship and unions in 37: 0001 Lubitsch, Ernst citizenship 23: 0001, 0637 Marriage Holiday, The 43: 0902 Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company 33: 0001 see also Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company; Pickford, Mary Massachusetts film censorship problem 7: 0001, 0251 motion picture situation 6: 0532 movies 6: 0648 telegrams on censorship vote 7: 0430 Medicine motion pictures used in 30: 0001 Mexico trip 37: 1010 Michigan Motion Picture Theatre Owners 24: 0001 Mix, Tom telegram to 36: 0648 Money appeals 3: 0793 Moore, Colleen letter from 20: 0340 Motion Pictures Arts, First International Congress on the 10: 0937 Motion Picture Capital Company 12: 0001 Motion Picture Club 36: 0832; 41: 0724; 42: 0085 Motion picture companies insurance 11: 0563 Motion picture distribution Major Edward Bowes and 19: 1161 general 19: 1037 problem 23: 1078 in West Virginia 21: 0597 Motion Picture Engineers, Society of 29: 0314 Motion picture film safety 38: 0001 Motion picture industry advice on job offer 1: 0165, 0411, 0652, 0970; 2: 0001, 0270, 0831; 3: 0225 antitrust suit against 43: 0902 arbitration 21: 0001; 35: 0665 basic rates of pay 26: 0287 data 6: 0212 film exhibition 26: 0740 FTC and 35: 0395; 36: 0832 FTC rules against 34: 0365 finances 20: 0890 insurance 15: 0603 labor and the 35: 0542 labor conditions 34: 0365 labor relations 32: 0350; 34: 0733 legislation against 25:

56 legislation regarding 19: 0706; 22: 0651; 24: 0516; 31: 0685; 32: 0188 PR 21: 0152 report on federal government's activities on 22: 0925 Lewis Selznick's plan for 14: 0244 taxes 21: 0341 unions 43: 0422 Motion Picture Producers, Association of see AMPP Motion pictures budgets 11: 0001 destruction 16: 0892 distribution 19: 1037 exhibition 11: 1128 federal legislation against 37: 0592 federal legislation and 37: 0362, 0802, 1010 financial data 17: 0129 legislative report 25: 0869 local censorship 34: 0733 psychological research on 30: 0959 reform 23: 0182 surgeon's use of 40: 0288 taxes 23: 0001 U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 17: 0935 Motion Picture Theatre Association of America 41: 0557 Motion Picture Theatre Owners of the Northwest 27: 0327 Movie exhibition workers Minneapolis strike 41: 0724 Movie producers independent report on 24: 0330 Movie theaters fire protection 27: 0001 licensing 19: 1161 safety 25: 0869 Movie trade practices letter to Attorney General Charles B. Warren 20: 0890 MPPDA activities 43: 0001 annual meeting 16: 0892 annual report 26: 0147; 38: 0342; 43: 1111 annual report of Washington office 21: 0152; 25: 0649; 39: 0001 board meeting 4: 0674 board meeting minutes 8: 0474 board meetings and actions 13: 0001 budget 10: 0232, 0937; 19: 0348; 28: 0791; 41: 0001 budget and asset accounting 12: 0886 bylaws 4: 0001, 0398 bylaws of Canadian 18: 0810 in Canada 26: 0001 certificate of incorporation 4: 0001 certification 4: 0001, 0674 Community Service Department 14: 0244 dinner dance 4: 0227 Editorial Department 25: 0649 finances 10: 0783; 21: 0469; 27: 0969 functions 34: 0299 internal matters 18: 1075; 19: 0001 internal meetings 27: 0574 Internal Revenue Service and 6: 0332 meeting, special 20: 0340 membership list 34: 0553 membership list, original 4: 0398 membership record 8: 0307; 43: 0150 membership report 14: 0468 memos 6: 0332; 7: 0593; 8: 0952; 9: 0205; 13: 1154 memos, internal 8: 0829; 11: 0388; 12: 0886; 17: 0765; 20: 1110 PR 36: 1030; 41: 0171 president's annual report 26: 0001; 36: 0603; 41: 0349 publicity 22: 0267; 28: 0791 reorganization suggestions 9: 0001 report 8: 0001 report by Universal 22: 0454 report to Carl Laemmle on activities 22: 0800 salaries 8: 0307 state legislatures and 18: 0810 statement of receipts and expenditures 4: 0810 trip to Europe for 12: 0225 Warner Bros, conflict with 19: 0555 MPTOA campaign against Hays 20: 0781 "clean" movies 20: 0001 general 4: 0810; 5: 0977; 7: 1047; 9: 0001; 15: 0379; 16: 0705; 24: 0179; 27: 0001; 35: 0255; 37: 0802; 40: 0955; 41: 0557 Mt. Union College honorary degree 27: 0777 My Four Years in Germany 13: 0772 National Archives movies deposited at 29: 0001 National Board of Review 13: 0201; 25: 0454 National Education Association (NEA) and movies 6: 0931 National Federation of Women's Clubs and movies 21: 0988 National Shrine on the Hudson 5: 0582 National Vaudeville Artists' Club tribute to General John J. Pershing 21:

57 Near East relief 7: 0430, 0861, 1047; 8: 0001, 0829, 0952; 9: 0001, 0333, 0528; 11: 0181, 0953; 13: 0370, 0637, 0923; 14: 0756, 0954; 15: 0001, 0603; 17: 0001, 0129; 18: 0331; 19: 0001 Near East Relief Committee executive committee meeting 7: 0593 Newspaper clippings 2: 0831; 4: 0227, 0398; 5: 0179; 7: 0251, 0861; 8: 0001, 0474; 9: 0001; 11: 0790, 0953 Newsreel editors 42: 0085 Newsreels distribution 12: 0525 general 41: 0936 potential Hoover campaign and 39: 0501 social force 28: 0364 New Year's greetings 1: 0001 New York County Supreme Court 4: 0227 New York state censorship legislation 20: 0781 censorship of movies 19: 1037 confidential memo on censorship in 16: 0477 motion picture censorship laws 20: 0001 Nontheatrical films 16: 0001; 36: 1030 Our Gang 35: 0542 Paramount Pictures Corporation building dedication 27: 0001 general 35: 0665 Paramount Pictures School for Actors graduation 25: 0649 Paris, France Film Congress in 28: 0001 Pathé Newsreel Corporation 13: 1019 Pennsylvania Board of Censors 10: 0362 censorship situation 41: 1130 legislation against movies 43: 1111 movies in 13: 0923 Pershing, John J. letter from 18: 0001 National Vaudeville Artists' Club tribute to 21: 0834 Phi Delta Theta letter from 6: 0212 Philadelphia sesquicentennial movies and 22: 0139 Photoplay general 31: 0323; 36: 0290 national endorsers of 37: 1010 Pickford, Mary 35: 0542; 42: 0611 see also Fairbanks-Pickford Movie Company; Mary Pickford Motion Picture Company P.M.G. 1: 0001, 0165, 0411, 0652, 0970; 2: 0001, 0270, 0831; 3: 0001, 0492, 0793; 4: 0001, 0227, 0398, 0674, 0810, 0978; 5: 0001, 0179; 6: 0532; 7: 1047; 8: 0001; 10: 0001; 11: 0001, 0388; 13: 0553, 0637; 17: 1137; 18: 0331 Postal Bulletin 1: 0001, 0411; 2: 0549, 0831; 3: 0793 Post Office Department general 2: 0549; 5: 0383; 16: 0212 matters 5: 0001, 0582, 0791, 0977; 6: 0001, 0469; 11: 0181; 12: 0225; 14: 0756 Presbyterian church 30: 0176 Presidential inaugural plans 20: 0580 Press releases 3: 0492, 0793; 4: 0674 Princess Mascha 36: 0290 Producers Distributing Corporation 32: 0674 Prohibition 3: 0225 PTA movies and 24: 0826 Publicity for movie business 23: 1078 movies and 22: 1089; 42: 1111 for MPPDA 28: 0791 Publicity Men's Committee 19: 1037 PR for movie industry 21: 0152, of MPPDA 36: 1030; 41: 0171 Purple Highway 13: 1019 Ramsaye, Terry on Hays Office 29: 0566 Red Cross, American 15: 0138 Reinhardt, Max Otto Kahn and 36: 0474 Religion motion pictures and 29: 0994 see also Catholic church; Catholic luncheon; Presbyterian church Religious Motion Picture Foundation 24: 0179; 29: 0314 Republican National Club Committee of National Affairs 23:

58 general 5: 0791 Hays's committee appointment 23: 0390 Republican party affairs 7: 0001 general 7: 0430; 8: 0474; 9: 0528; 15: 0001; 17: 0568, 0761; 18: 0001, 1075; 42: 0611 matters 9: 0001; 12: 0001; 18: 0549, 0681; 42: 0266 politics 37: 0160, 0362 see also RNC Republican primary returns from Lake County, Indiana 5: 0001 RNC 1: 0001, 0411, 0652, 0970; 2: 0001, 0270, 0549; 3: 0001, 0225, 0492; 5: 0179, 0977; 6: 0332; 8: 0631; 10: 0362; 11: 0181; 12: 1078; 13: Ó370, 0553; 14: 0624, 0756; 15: 0603, 0810; 16: 0705, 1086; 17: 0001, 0129, 1137; 19: 0348; 20: 0580; 34: 0299; 42: 0778 Roach, Hal letters from 16: 1086; 37: 0001 letter to 10: 0001 Safety of motion picture film 38: 0001 Saturday morning movies campaign 21: 1091 general 25: 0869 Scarlet Letter, The 28: 0364 Scripps-Howard Newspapers 32: 0350 Selznick, David O. and Florida movie studio 23: 0504 Selznick, Lewis letter from 23: 0637 plan for movie industry 14: 0244 Senate see U.S. Senate Seventh Heaven 36: 0992 Sheehan, Winfield general 32: 0001 letters from 17: 0761; 36: 0648 Smith, Courtland memos and telegrams from 8: 0001 Smyrna emergency appeal resume of correspondence and transactions in connection with 6: 0905 South America motion pictures in 27: 0969; 43: 0739 Speaking invitations 1: 0001; 14: 0954 Speeches copies 22: 0267 drafts 1: 0001; 14: 0244, 0468 general 1: 0652, 0970; 2: 0001; 4: 0227, 0810; 5: 0001, 0383, 0582; 6: 0532; 7: 0593, 0861; 8: 0001; 10: 0545, 0783; 11: 0563; 12: 0738, 1078, 1137; 19: 0864; 22: 0651; 27: 0327; 28: 0001; 29: 0890; 30: 0959; 33: 0122 Spotlight Warner Bros, publication 29: 0183 State Department information 1: 0970 State legislatures movie problem and 43: 0739 movies and 27: 0001 Studio Club of Hollywood 10: 0545; 20: 0155; 22: 0139; 27: 0969 Talkies discussion 43: 0313 Taxes movie industry and 21: 0341 Teapot Dome scandal congressional investigation 38: 0001, 0817; 39: 0001, 0268; 40: 0614, 0740 general 37: 0592; 38: 0342, 0567 Hays's testimony 37: 1164 hearings 40: 0001 Senate investigation 37: 1164; 39: 0501, 0660, 0927 trials 40: 0099, 0420 Technology, Motion Picture School of 36: 0992 Technology, movie 5: 0383; 23: 0390 Ten Commandments, The plans 8: 0631 Thalberg, Irving 32: 0001 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association 13: 1154; 16: 1086; 19: 0001 Thomas, A.D. 24: 0330 TOA 15: 0379 Trotsky, Leon clippings 38: 0238 Uniform exhibition contract 5: 0791 Uniform Motion Picture Contract Conference 25: 0099 Union League of New York 30: 0176 Unions agreements 22: 0925 in film industry 43: 0422 in Hollywood 30: 0597 see also Labor contracts; Labor matters 36

59 United Artists 34: 0196; 36: 0474 Universal Pictures dispute with 15: 0988 general 6: 0648; 32: 1061; 33: 1046; 35: 0001, 0976; 36: 0144; 41: 0936; 43: 0422 report on MPPDA 22: 0454 see also Laemmle, Carl Universities movies and 26: 0484 U.S. Army movies and morale of 27: 0777 U.S. Navy movies and 29: 0183 U.S. Senate Hays's appearance before 38: 0817 Teapot Dome investigation 37: 1164; 39: 0501, 0660, 0927 Vacation 2: 0831; 3: 0225; 3: 0492 Vitagraph Movie Company Hays's dealings 20: 1110 publicity 20: 0580 Vitaphone Corporation general 32: 0792; 37: 0592 talkies 28: 0967 Wallace, Lew, Jr. and MPPDA 24: 0986 Warner, Lewis 28: 0197 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. conflict with MPPDA 19: 0555 general 29: 0314; 43: 0150 Russian film problem 24: 0001 War Relief Commission 4: 0227 Warren, Charles B. letter to, on movie trade practices 20: 0890 West Coast Theatres cases 17: 0463 general 17: 0263 West Virginia movie distribution in 21: 0597 What Price Glory 30: 0176 White House correspondence 2: 0270; 3: 0793; 5: 0791; 6: 0001, 0332, 0469, 0777; 7: 0001; 8: 0001, 0265; 10: 0232, 0362, 0545, 0783, 1047; 11: 0001, 0953; 12: 0001; 13: 0201, 0553; 15: 0379; 16: 0705; 17: 0463, 0935; 18: 0331, 0549; 19: 0555, 1161; 23: 0504; 27: 0574; 32: 1061; 33: 0300, 0653; 34: 0947; 36: 0144; 43: 0739 invitations 1: 0165, 0411; 2: 0549; 3: 0001, 0492; 13: 0201; 19: 0706; 42: 0502 Winning of Barbara Worth, The 28: 0967 Women's clubs see GFWC; National Federation of Women's Clubs Wright, Orville 43: 0422 YWCA and movies 20: 0340 Ziegfeld, Florenz 30:

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63 Reel Index Part II TABLE OF CONTENTS Reels cont 45 Reel cont Reel cont 46 Reel : 47 Reel cont ; 48 Reel cont 48 Reel cont T 49 Reel cpnt.' 49 Reel cont Reels cpnt : 50 Reel cont ; ;

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67 REEL INDEX Reel cont. Box 40 cont April frames. Talkies; unions and movies; New Jersey censorship legislation April frames. Motion pictures and emotion; Hollywood wages; Hollywood trip April frames. Fox Film Corporation; antitrust and movies; state legislation against movies May frames. Talkies in Great Britain; arbitration bill in U.S. Congress; film censorship May frames. Letter to President Herbert Hoover; unions and movie cameramen; MPPDA budget; film boards of trade May frames. Abie's Irish Rose; William Fox; movies and science May frames. French films and quotas; European film situation and the export of talkies May frames. GFWC and movies; movies and the church; federal legislation and movie industry June frames. Actors' equity and unions in film industry. Reel cont. Box 40 cont June frames. MPPDA budget; movies as a cause of crime; unions in Hollywood June frames. Churchmen attack Hays; movies and crime problem; unions in Hollywood. 45

68 Frame # Folder August frames. Warner Bros, and film boards of trade; European film situation; letter to President Herbert Hoover August frames. Antitrust suits and movie industry; memo of meeting with President Hoover; talkies; morals and movies September frames. Harry M. Warner; antitrust and motion picture industry; talkies September frames. Study of movies by National Bureau of Economic Research; The Cockeyed World; Warner Bros.; film censorship October frames. Antitrust and movies; churches and movies; federal legislation. Reel cont. Box October frames. Hays's speech; AMPP; antitrust and movies October frames. Film censorship; report from Hollywood; MPTOA November frames. The Callahans and the Murphys; movie censorship; The Motion Picture magazine Box 41 cont January frames. MPPDA membership; GFWC and movies; MPPDA budget January frames. The Christian Century and movies; movies and world peace; world trade and movies February frames. Original agreement in operation of code to govern the making of motion pictures; report of Committee on the Use of Motion Pictures in Religious Education March frames. Hays's speech; Catholic church and movies; Calvin Coolidge visits Hollywood March frames. Better Films Committee; production code; Hays's speeches on film censorship. Reel cont. Box 41 cont April frames. New production code; educational activities of MPPDA; Hays's speeches April frames. Warner Bros, and Catholic church; education and talkies. 46

69 Frame # Folder May frames. New movie code; Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors; AMPAS May frames. Movies and The Christian Century; film as international salesman. Box June frames. AMPAS; advertising code and its publicity; Hays travels to Europe July frames. Hays travels in Europe; speeches in Europe August frames. Return from Europe; MPPDA budget; production code; movies and morals; film censorship October frames. Talkies in Germany; AMPP; note from President Herbert Hoover; Standard Release Print Agreement November frames. Cardinal Patrick Hayes and movies; AMPAS; unions in film business. Reel Box 42 cont January frames. - MPPDA membership; William Randolph Hearst on film censorship; antitrust and movies; movies and surgery January frames. Warner Bros, and talkies; the Catholic church and movie censorship February frames. Proposal for new newspaper in New York owned by Gannett; production code; progress in reflecting social and community values in motion pictures March frames. Film censorship; report on state legislation on film industry; letters to Joseph Breen April frames. State legislation against the movie industry; The Public Enemy; The Secret Six May frames. Note from White House; state legislatures and movies; Al Capone and movies May frames. State legislation and movies; memo to William Randolph Hearst on state of movie industry. Box June frames. Federal Council of Churches and MPPDA August frames. Unions, labor matters, and movies; MPPDA budget. 47

70 Frame # Reel 6 Folder 1931 cont. Box 43 cont September 1931, 155 frames. Republican National Club; GFWC and movies; MPPDA budget September frames. The movie industry and relief for unemployed October frames. Radio stations and movies; MPPDA budget; film censorship October frames. International Cinematographic Conference in Rome; Educational Pictures terminates membership in MPPDA November frames. Observations on MPPDA's publicity problems and proposals for solutions; film censorship November frames. Travels to Hollywood; problems with RKO; Kinograms newsreels; Polly of the Circus Box 43 cont January frames. Reports from Hollywood; censorship in Kentucky; Fox film; film censorship February frames. Movie exhibition; film censorship. Box February frames. Travels to Hollywood; Senator Brookhart of Iowa attacks movies. Reel cont. Box 44 cont March frames. Survey of Hays's first ten years as head of MPPDA; AMPAS; movie censorship March frames. Admission tax; film censorship; Motion Picture National Preference Poll April frames. AMPAS; The Christian Century; movies and education; block booking; tenth annual MPPDA report April frames. Talkies; quality movie production; RCA sound equipment May frames. Motion Picture National Preference Poll; Republican National Convention June frames. MPTOA; RNC June frames. Motion Picture National Preference Poll; Republican National Convention. 48

71 Frame # Reel 8 Folder 1932 cont. Box 44 cont June frames. Unions and Hollywood; Republican party politics July frames. Financial problems of MPPDA; Hoover campaign July frames. Movies and morals; Republican party; Presbyterian church and movies August frames. Newsreels; film censorship; Universal Pictures; travels to Hollywood. Box November frames. Herbert Hoover's campaign for president; MPPDA budget; correspondence on Democratic sweep in 1932 elections November frames. Motion picture exhibition; movie industry taxes; film censorship Box 45 cont January frames. MPPDA membership; film censorship February frames. Film censorship; the church and movies; funeral for Calvin Coolidge; Will Hays's speech. Reel cont. Box 45 cont March frames. Film censorship; salaries in Hollywood; MPPDA annual report April frames. Film censorship; unions and movies; New York state and censorship i-12 May frames. Film censorship; The Christian Century; U.S. Congress and movies May frames. Film censorship; the Payne Foundation Studies of the Movies June frames. Film censorship- children and cinema; the National Recovery Act and motion picture industry June frames. The movies and public opinion; film censorship; movies and children; trip to Hollywood July frames. Film censorship; National Recovery Act and motion picture industry. 49

72 Frame # Folder Box September frames. Film censorship; NRA and movies; Will Rogers; traveling to New York from California. Reel cont. Box 46 cont October frames. Film censorship; movies and NRA November frames. Film censorship; MPTOA November frames. Universal Pictures and Carl Laemmle; NRA and movies Box 46 cont January frames. MPPDA membership; film censorship; NRA and movie industry January frames. Film censorship; NRA and movies; block booking of movies January frames. Film censorship February frames. Film censorship; PR for movie industry February frames. Film and law; film censorship March frames. Hay's speech; Catholics and movies; film censorship. Reel cont. Box 46 cont March frames. Hays's speech; film censorship; Federal Motion Picture Council March frames. Academy awards; film censorship; block booking April frames. Interview with Hays; film censorship; RNC April frames. MPTOA; statistics; admission tax in Ohio April frames. Report of the Cinematographic Committee of National Council of Women; Motion Picture Research Council May frames. Film censorship; NRA and movies. 50

73 Frame # Folder May frames. Film censorship; Catholic church and movies; educational films June frames. Film censorship; Catholic church and movies. Box June frames. Catholic Legion of Decency's boycott of movies; film censorship; movies and crime; motion picture code. Reel cont. Box 47 cont June frames. Federal Council of Churches of Christ on movie problem; French trade with Hollywood July frames. Religion and movies; film censorship July frames. Film censorship; Legion of Decency; religion and movies August frames. National Episcopal Committee on Motion Pictures; film censorship August frames. Interview with Will Hays; Catholic church and movies; film censorship ^12 September frames. Publicity and MPPDA; AMPP; film censorship September frames. Movie code; film censorship; educational films. Reel cont. Box 47 cont October frames. Catholic church; film censorship; Central Casting October frames. Publicity for motion picture code; block booking of movies; William Randolph Hearst; movies and antitrust October frames. Movie censorship; Warner Bros.; International Federation of Catholic Alumnae; Motion Picture Bureau November frames. Movie publicity; movie censorship; actors' equity and movie unions November frames. PCA; report to Presbyterian church on movies and morals December frames. Federal Council of Churches of Christ resolution on movies; Catholic Legion of Decency. 51

74 Frame # Folder December frames. Movies and social behavior; Catholic church and movies. Box January frames. Membership of MPPDA; trip to Hollywood; Catholic church and movies; antitrust and movies. Reel cont. Box 48 cont January frames. Exporting movies to Czechoslovakia; The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, Presbyterians and movies February frames. Commander Richard E. Byrd and movies; Uncle Sam Gets His Man; social values and movies February frames. Antitrust and movies; meetings with attorney general of United States March frames. Newspapers and movies; antitrust and movies; Let Em Have It, Catholic church and motion picture industry March frames. Movie code for short subjects; FBI and movies; John Dillinger motion picture March frames. MPPDA annual report; MPPDA members; Uncle Sam Gets His Man April frames. Travels to California; Presbyterians and Hollywood July frames. Catholic church and movies; meetings in Hollywood September frames. Film libraries for schools; movies and advertising. Reel cont. Box 48 cont September frames. Movies in Detroit; returns from West Coast trip October frames. Hays's radio address on movies and future; motion picture study guides. Box December frames. Will Rogers Memorial Program; fire insurance and movies; trip to East from California. 52

75 Frame # Folder 1936 Box 49 cont February frames. It Can't Happen Here; Doris Kenyon; newspapers and movies; block booking report March frames. Catholic church and movies; RNC March frames. Film censorship and federal legislation; MPPDA annual report April frames. Selected motion pictures suggested by MPPDA; survey of sixty leading movie directors; NRA and movies. Reel cont. Box 49 cont May frames. Meetings in Hollywood; AMPP; investigation by JD of movie industry May frames. JD investigation of movies; antitrust June frames. Antitrust; Hays's speech; block booking; film censorship July frames. Alf Landon; film censorship; antitrust; motion pictures and public opinion. Box August frames. Report on history of motion picture industry; trip to Hollywood; The Charge of the Light Brigade August frames. Review of movie season, by Hays; Universal Pictures sale; antitrust September frames. Universal Pictures sale; antitrust; Irving Thalberg's death September frames. Republican party politics; investigation of movie industry by JD; motion picture curriculum for schools October frames. JD investigation of movie industry; admission prices to movies. Reel cont. Box 50 cont November frames. Sails to Europe for month's vacation; JD investigates movie industry November frames. Travels in Europe; letters from William Randolph Hearst, meetings on Italian movies. 53

76 Frame # Folder December frames. Returns to U.S.; British Board of Censors; film trade in England Box 50 cont January frames. Italian film situation; remarks by Hays at Walt Disney's testimonial dinner February frames. Block booking; The Eternal Road; communism and movies February frames. Will Rogers Memorial; movies and international trade March frames. TOA; MPPDA fifteenth anniversary. Reel 18 Box 50 cont March frames. British film situation cont. Box March frames. Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce; MPPDA fifteenth anniversary March frames. Report on movie trade papers; Hays's speech; MPPDA fifteenth anniversary March frames. American film trade with Italy; U.S. House of Representatives investigation of movie industry; MPPDA annual report April frames. Film trade in Italy; unions in Hollywood; film trade in England May frames. Film trade in England; Hays's speech May frames. Film trade with Italy; film trade with England June frames. Sam Goldwyn; film trade with Italy. Reel cont. Box 51 cont August frames. Film trade in England October frames. Review by MPPDA of movie season; Republican party politics; Alcatraz Island October frames. Better Movies Campaign; Republican party politics. 54

77 Frame # Folder November frames. Film trade in Italy; Republican party politics. Box [Undated] 92 frames. Membership criteria for MPPDA; film trade in England; encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on motion pictures Box 52 cont January frames. Reports on Republican party politics; speech by Cecil B. De Mille January frames. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-, newspaper coverage of movies; Hays's speech. Reel cont. Box 52 cont January frames. Reports on Republican party politics; travels to Hollywood January frames. Return from Hollywood; film trade with England; reports on Republican party February frames. Film trade with England February' frames. British film actors in Hollywood; Hays's speeches; quotas on Hollywood films in Great Britain March frames. American youth and movies; U.S. legislation on block booking March frames. Film censorship and block booking; film trade in Italy; MPPDA annual report April frames. U.S. Senate bill banning block booking May frames. Report on American films in London; International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art; Hays's speech May frames. Financing movies; motion picture and family. Reel cont. Box 52 cont June frames. U.S. Senate bill banning block booking; AMPP. 55

78 Frame # folder Box June frames. Meeting of Hays and film industry executives, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt; movies in Italy August frames. Cecil B. De Mille on Republican party politics; meetings in Hollywood September frames. British film industry; film trade in Italy; reports on results of California primary; Cecil D. De Mille radio speech October frames. Movie PR; European film situation; speech by Douglas Fairbanks October frames. Movie PR; Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems; Hays's speeches December frames. "Films for Democracy"; film advertising; film censorship. Reel cont. Box 53 cont December frames. "Films for Democracy"; European film situation Box 53 cont January frames. Republican party politics; film censorship; Hays's speech January frames. Memorandum on constitutionality of censorship of newsreels; film themes; reports from Hollywood. Box February frames. Antitrust; film censorship; film trade in Italy; PCA March frames. Academy awards; film censorship; film trade in Italy March frames. Movie advertising; U.S. Senate bill to ban block booking March frames. California legislature and movies; MPPDA annual report; film censorship April frames. U.S. Senate bill on block booking; New York state and film censorship. 56

79 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 54 cont April frames. European film situation; block booking; motion pictures and business; motion picture distribution; motion pictures and education; motion picture production May frames. Admission tax in movie theatres in California; film censorship June frames. Antitrust; Hays's speech; U.S. Senate bill to ban block booking; the motion picture in education July frames. The motion picture in education; European film situation; Hays's speech July frames. Block booking; film trade in Italy September frames. Travels to Hollywood; United States v. Paramount Pictures et al. (antitrust case); synopses of short stories by Will James. Box October frames. Report on U.S. government antitrust actions against movie industry; United Artists trouble in Holland; history of motion picture industry; press summaries November frames. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Charles Boyer; press summaries November frames. Charles Boyer; Will Rogers; press summaries. Reel cont. Box 55 cont November frames. Commission for Polish Relief; agreement with Great Britain on film imports; House of Representatives bill against block booking December frames. Gone With the Wind; unions in Hollywood; block booking; film trade with Italy; press summaries Box 55 cont January frames. The movies in 1939; Gone With the Wind; film export to Holland; block booking; press summaries February frames. Block booking; film export to Italy; press summaries. 57

80 Frame # Box Folder 1-7 March frames. Block booking; motion pictures and literature; United States v. Paramount Pictures (antitrust case); press summaries March frames. Block booking; MPPDA annual report; press summaries [27-31] March frames. Republican party politics; film censorship; block booking; young people and movies; press summaries April frames. Music and motion pictures; National Labor Relations Act. Reel com. Box 56 cont May frames. John W. Bricker for President campaign; Wendell L Willkie; block booking; music and motion pictures, press summaries; the Democratic party and business May frames. Block booking; United States v. Paramount Pictures et al. (antitrust case;) political outlook for 1940 by Opinion Research Corporation; press summaries May frames. Republican party; delegate to national convention; Indiana political highlights; press summaries May frames. Block booking; RNC; press summaries; Wendell L. Willkie June frames. Block booking; Republican party and convention; press summaries; Wendell L Willkie June frames. Republican National Convention; block booking; defense and foreign policy; Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries June frames. Block booking; Republican National Convention; Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries June frames. Republican National Convention; newsreels; Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries. Reel cont. Box 56 cont June frames. Republican National Convention; Wendell E. Willkie; press summaries. 58

81 Frame # Folder August Ill frames. Travels to Los Angeles; unions and Hollywood; communism and movies; double features; press summaries August frames. PCA; film censorship; Wendell L. Willkie; press summaries. Box August frames. PCA; movies and communism; press summaries September frames. RNC; newsreels; PCA; movie propaganda; press summaries September frames. Campaign of Wendell L. Willkie for president; film censorship; press summaries; Charles Lindbergh October frames. Hays's speech; press summaries; PCA; Wendell L. Willkie's president campaign; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association October frames. A Dispatch from Reuters; movies and war effort; Willkie presidential campaign; RNC; press summaries October frames. Film censorship; movies and communism; Republican campaign for president; press summaries; Clare Boothe [Luce] speech October frames. Raymond Loewy; film censorship; British film trade; press summaries; Willkie presidential campaign; motion pictures and national defense. Reel cont. Box 57 cont November frames. Film trade with Great Britain; reports of November 1940 elections; press summaries; Joseph Kennedy cables November frames. Film trade in Great Britain; follow-up to November 1940 elections; Hays's speech; Joseph Kennedy press statement November frames. Antitrust and movies; biography of Courtland Smith; film trade in England; press summaries November frames. Film trade in England; Republican party politics; press summaries November frames. Film agreement for England; antitrust; Republican party politics; press summaries; "Railroads and National Transportation Policy." December frames. PCA; film trade in England; Hays's speech; press summaries; tribute to John McCutcheon. 59

82 Frame # Box Folder January frames. Women's clubs and movies; film trade in England; press summaries; Transportation Association of America January frames. Film trade in England; analysis of Wendell Willkie's campaign for presidency; film propaganda; press summaries January frames. Film trade with England; production code; press summaries. Reel cont. Box 58 cont March frames. Will Hays meets with President Franklin D. Roosevelt; MPPDA annual report; analysis of Wendell Willkie's campaign; press summaries March frames. MPPDA annual report; block booking legislation in Georgia; press summaries; analysis of capital structure of Continental Baking Company; MPPDA certificate of incorporation and bylaws April frames. Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense; press summaries; film-related legislation in New Mexico; PCA May frames. Newsreels; Hays's illness; press summaries May frames. Latin America and movies; Hays's illness; press summaries; Continental Baking Company June frames. False reports of Hays's death; Hays leaves hospital; press summaries June frames. Quarterly report of MPPDA; Joseph Breen resigns from PCA; Hays's vacation in Sullivan, Indiana; press summaries August frames. Hollywood and World War II; Darryl F. Zanuck and film propaganda. Reel cont. Box 58 cont August frames. No Greater Sin-, U.S. Senate investigates film propaganda; state legislatures and movie laws September frames. War movie propaganda; U.S. Senate investigates propaganda and movies; Three Little Words; press summaries. 60

83 Frame # Folder September frames. U.S. Senate investigates film propaganda; press summaries. Box October frames. U.S. Senate investigates movie industry propaganda; film industry and World War II; press summaries; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association November frames. Republican party politics; AMPAS and World War II; press summaries November frames. Irene Dunne; "The Role of the Opposition Party in American Democracy"; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; press summaries; Indiana Society Dinner December frames. Will Hays and Joseph P. Kennedy contract; Screen Actors Guild; Indiana Society Dinner Box 59 cont January frames. War bond rally in Indianapolis; broadcast on Mutual Radio. Reel cont. Box 59 cont January frames. Victory rallies and Clark Gable; war bond sales; Congressional Record; death of Carole Lombard; press summaries January frames. Reorganization of MPPDA February frames. Joseph P. Kennedy and World War II; labor relations in Hollywood; reorganization of MPPDA; press summaries; "Problems Confronting the Motion Picture Industry in World War Conditions." March frames. Returns from California; twentieth anniversary of MPPDA; MPPDA activities; press summaries April frames. PCA; press summaries; interview with Hays. Box May frames. Hollywood movies and movies on World War II effort; war bond sales; press summaries; Hays's speech May frames. Movies about World War II; Latin America and movies; press summaries; Army Specialist Corps regulations June frames. Film propaganda; World War II and movies. 61

84 Frame # Folder July frames. PR and movies; British film industry; press summaries; Civil Aeronautics Board accident report regarding Carole Lombard; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association. Reel cont. Box 60 cont July frames. Remember Pearl Harbor, history of 1920 Republican National Convention; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association August frames. Reorganization of MPPDA; war bond rallies; Motion Picture Herald, press summaries September frames. Movie PR; war bond rallies October frames. War bond rallies and sales; Hollywood reports; press summaries November frames. PCA; British film industry; pay freeze hits Hollywood; The Robe, press summaries Box 60 cont January frames. War bond rally; Australia and film industry; "The Advertising Vision for 1944"; press summaries; Movies at War by War Activities Committee. Box March frames. The movies and World War II; twenty-first anniversary of MPPDA; press summaries; lend-lease luncheon; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association; Waldorf-Astoria fiftieth anniversary April frames. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modem Navy April frames. Motion pictures around world; film export to Latin America; press summaries May frames. Republican national party; Mission to Moscow. Reel cont. Box 61 cont June frames. Quo Vadis; MPPDA's PR; North Carolina film matter; press summaries July frames. Report from Hollywood; movies and World War II; Motion Picture Herald; press summaries. 62 e

85 Frame # Folder July frames. Abolition of Board of Economic Warfare; establishment of Office of War Mobilization August frames. Hays in California; PCA; educational films; press summaries August frames. State politics in Wisconsin and Texas; Hollywood studio tours for Congressman Jennings Randolph and Senator Albert Hawkes September frames. Returns from California; One World; reorganization of MPPDA September frames. Movies used by armed services; newspapers and Republican party; actors and studio personnel in armed forces; war bond rallies; Jimmie Fidler radio broadcasts; address by Henry J. Taylor; press summaries October frames. The movies and the Soviet Union; resignation of Charles Francis Coe; address by Jesse H. Jones. Box December frames. "The Christian and the Movies"; PCA; War Activities Committee; speech by Governor John Bricker December frames. "The Christian and the Movies." December frames. Motion pictures in China; movies' role in World War II; twenty-fifth anniversary of death of Theodore Roosevelt. Box 62 cont January frame. Studio visit for Dr. Cavell Reel cont. Box 62 cont February frames. Movie legislation in North Carolina March frames. Cinema in World War II; films in Great Britain; press summaries March frames. Film trade in Great Britain; MPPDA annual report; fiftieth anniversary of motion pictures April frames. Movies and World War II April frames. Fiftieth anniversary of movies; film trade in England; address by Charles Francis Coe; press summaries; motion pictures and education. 63

86 Frame # Folder May frames. Film trade in England May frames. Speech by Joseph P. Kennedy June frames. Movies and World War II; Daughters of the American Revolution; John F. Kennedy awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal; address by Joseph P. Kennedy; Hays Office in foreign affairs; proposal for United Nations July frames. Movies in South America; Hollywood unions July frames. Fiftieth anniversary of movies; War Activities Committee; movies in Europe; press summaries; Hays Office in foreign affairs August frames. Movies and World War II; movie popularity; death of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; press summaries. Reel 34 Box cont September frames. Youth Runs Wild; movie advertising; articles on John Foster Dulles October Ill frames. Unions in Hollywood; Hitler's Children newsreels; death of Wendell L. Willkie; congressional campaign of Clare Boothe Luce October frames. Jimmy Steps Out; films and U.S. soldiers; presidential campaign of 1944; electronic research; Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association. 1-9 November frames. Fiftieth anniversary of film commemorative stamp; sixth bond drive; 1944 election results November frames. Movies in Latin America; movies in education; Hays's speech December frames. Unions and Hollywood; article on John Foster Dulles Box 63 cont January frames. Analysis of November 1944 election; films and society; letter from William S. Hart; speech by Eric Johnston February frames. Rumors Eric Johnston will replace Hays as MPPDA president; films in Europe; Air Power League; organization of MPPDA. 64

87 Frame # Folder Reel cont. Box 63 cont March frames. Movies overseas; address by Joseph Grew April frames. Hays's speech on United Nations; Academy of Political Science dinner; letter from Ingrid Bergman; movies in peace and war; Hays's statement on the death of Franklin Roosevelt; address by Herbert Hoover May frames. MPPDA after World War II; special meetings with J. Arthur Rank June frames. Special meetings with J. Arthur Rank July frames. Movie export to England; Raymond Moley's book, The Hays Office; rumors that Eric Johnston will succeed Hays as president of MPPDA August frames. Agreement that Hays will resign from MPPDA effective 15 September 1945; films in Latin America; The Hays Office. 65

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89 SUBJECT INDEX The following index is a guide to the major subjects within each folder of Part II of this collection. The first Arabic number refers to the reel, and the Arabic number after the colon réfers to the frame number at which a particular folder begins. Hence 4: 0644 directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0644 of Reel 4. By referring to the Reel Index, the researcher can identify the title and contents of the particular folder. Abie's Irish Rose 1: 0588 Academy Awards 11: 0116; 22: 0549 Actors British in Hollywood 20: 0256 Actors' equity general 1: 0946 movie unions and 13: 0523 Admission prices movies 16: 1101 Admission tax California 23: 0192 general 7: 0168 Ohio 11: 0290 Advertising film 21: 1041; 22: 0711; 34: 0001 movies and 14: 1088 vision for : 0539 see also PR; Publicity Advertising Code publicity 4: 0495 Air Power League 34: 0871 Alcatraz Island 19: 0251 Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors 4: 0289 AMPAS general 4: 0289, 0495, 1074; 7: 0001, 0285 World War II and 29: 0602 AMPP general 3: 0001; 4: 0865; 12: 0877; 21: 0001 representatives of 16: 0001 Antitrust legislation general 16: 0152, 0264, 0437, 0750, 0862; 22: 0373; 23: 0341; 27: 0734 movies and 1: 0306; 2: 0987; 3: 0001; 5: 0001; 13: 0175, 0952; 14: 0328, 0452; 27: 0395 report of U.S. government actions against movie industry 23: 0785 Antitrust suits see Lawsuits Arbitration bill in U.S. Congress 1: 0405 Armed forces actors and studio personnel in 32: 0462 movies used by 32: 0462 Army Specialist Corps regulations 30: 0765 Australia film industry and 31: 0539 Behavior, social movies and 13: 0878 Bergman, Ingrid letter from 35: 0123 Better Films Committee 3: 1102 Better Movies Campaign 19: 0423 Block booking film censorship and 20: 0600 general 7: 0285; 10: 0657; 11: 0116; 13: 0175; 16: 0264; 17: 0600; 23: 0001, 0678; 24: 0107, 0260, 0420, 0624, 0736, 0928; 25: 0001, 0151, 0407, 0532, 0698, 0876 House of Representatives bill against 24: 0001 legislation 20: 0448 legislation in Georgia 28:

90 report 15: 0475 Senate bill banning 20: 0811; 21: 0001; 22: 0711, 0989; 23: 0341 Board of Censors, British 17: 0274 Boothe, Clare see Luce, Clare Boothe Boyer, Charles 23: 0936, 1116 Breen, Joseph letters to 5: 0471 resigns from PCA 28: 0820 Bricker, John W. presidential campaign 25: 0001 speech 32: 0922 Brookhart, Smith Wildman attacks on movies 6: 1136 Business Democratic party and 25: 0001 motion pictures and 23: 0001 see also Motion picture industry Byrd, Richard E. movies and 14: 0128 California admission tax in movie theatres 23: 0192 Hays's travels to 14: primary election results 21: 0576 Callahans and the Murphys, The 3: 0317 Cameramen unions and 1: 0475 Capone, Alphonse (Al) movies and 5: 0788 Catholic Alumnae, International Federation of 13: 0366 Catholic church general 13: 0001 motion picture industry and 14: 0452 movie censorship and 5: 0144 movies and 3: 0993; 11: 0679, 0860; 12: 0694; 13: 0904, 0952; 14: 0964; 15: 0638 Warner Bros, and 4: 0135 see also Churches; Religion Catholic Legion of Decency boycott of the movies 11: 1004 general 12: 0346; 13: 0878 Catholics movies and 10: 1109 Cavell, Dr. studio visit 32: 1247 Censorship legislation in New Jersey 1: 0001 of films 1: 0405; 2: 0775; 3: 0086, 0317; 4: 0738; 5: 0471; 6: 0254, 0493, 0831, 1010; 7: 0001, 0168; 8: 0390, 0744, 0963, 1097; 9: 0001, 0170, 0370, 0549, 0702, 0833, 0934, 0984; 10: 0001, 0183, 0541, 0657, 0803, 0814, 0990, 1109; 11: 0001, 0116, 0265, 0504, 0679, 0860, 1004; 12: 0146, 0346, 0525, 0694, 0877, 1026; 13: 0001, 0366, 0523; 16: 0264, 0437; 21: 1041; 22: 0056, 0373, 0549, 0791; 23: 0192; 24: 0928; 26: 0295, 0624, 1003, 1146 see also New York state Central Casting 13: 0001 Charge of the Light Brigade, The 16: 0610 Children movies and 9: 0702, 0833 China motion pictures in 32: 1055 Christian Century general 7: 0285; 9: 0370 movies and 3: 0673; 4: 0390 Churches Christians and movies 32: 0922, 1253 Federar Council of Churches of Christ 12: 0001; 13: 0878 movies and 2: 0987 see also Religion;" headings under Catholic; headings under Presbyterian Cinematographic Art, International Exhibition of 20: 0919 Cinematographic Conference, International in Rome 6: 0367 Civil Aeronautics Board accident report 30: 0976 Cockeyed World, The 2: 0775 Coe, Charles Francis address by 33: 0460 resignation from MPPDA 32: 0756 Committee on the Use of Motion Pictures in Religious Education report 3: 0799 Communism movies and 17: 0600; 26: 0184, 0414, 1003 Congress, U.S. see U.S. Congress Congressional Record 30: 0001 Continental Baking Company analysis of capital structure 28: 0105 general 28: 0547 Coolidge, Calvin funeral 8: 1097 visit to Hollywood 3:

91 Council of Churches, Federal MPPDA and 5: 1046 Crime movies and 11: 1004 movies as cause of 2: 0001 Cummings, Homer S. meetings 14: 0328 Curriculum, motion picture for schools 16: 0960 see also Education Czechoslovakia exporting movies to 14: 0001 Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) 33: 0674 Defense foreign policy and 25: 0698 national motion pictures and 26: 1146 De Mille, Cecil B. radio speech 21: 0576 Republican party politics 21: 0387 speech 19: 0908 Democracy role of opposition party 29: 0722 Democratic party business and 25: election victory 8: 0550 Detroit, Michigan movies in 15: 0001 Dillinger, John motion picture about 14: 0615 Directors, movie survey of leading 15: 0998 Disney, Walt testimonial dinner for 17: 0444 Dispatch from Reuters, A 26: 0888 Double features 26: 0184 Dulles, John Foster articles on 34: 0001, 0610 Dunne, Irene 29: 0722 Economics Research, National Bureau of study of movies by 2: 0775 Economic Warfare, Board of abolition of 32: 0308 Education r films 11: 0679; 12: 1026; 32: 0315 motion picture curriculum 16: 0960 movies and 7: 0285; 23: 0001, 0341, 0496; 33: 0460 movies in 34: 0517 religious use of motion pictures 3: 0799 talkies and 4: 0135 Educational Pictures terminates membership in MPPDA 6: 0367 Elections : 0001, : 0390, 0689 see also Presidential campaigns; Willkie, Wendell L Emotion motion pictures and 1: 0167 Episcopal Committee, National on motion pictures, 1,2: 0525 Eternal Road, The 17: 0600 Europe film situation 1: 0684; 2: 0259; 22: 0001; 23: 0001, 0496 Hays's travels 4: 0644; 17: 0169 movies in 33: 1042; 34: 0871 speeches by Hays in 4: 0644 see also individual country Exhibition, movie 6: 1010; 8: 0744 Exports, film to Czechoslovakia 14: 0001 to Great Britain 35: 0626 to Holland 24: 0260 to Italy 24: 0420 to Latin America 31: 0931 Fairbanks, Douglas speech 21: 0786 Family children and motion pictures 9: 0702, 0833 motion pictures and 20: 1071 FBI movies and 14: 0615 Federal Council of Churches of Christ on movie problem 12: 0001 resolution on movies 13: 0878 see also Churches; Religion Fidler, Jimmie radio broadcasts by 32: 0462 Film boards of trade general 1: 0475 Warner Bros, and 2: 0259 Film libraries for schools 14: 1088 Film quotas French films and 1: 0684 in Great Britain 20: 0256 Foreign policy defense and 25: 0698 Fox, William 1: 0588 see also Fox Film Corporation 69

92 Fox Film Corporation 1: 0306; 6: 0831 France films and quotas 1: 0684 trade with Hollywood 12: 0001 see also Europe Gable, Clark victory rallies and 30: 0001 Gannett New York newspaper proposal by 5: 0334 Georgia block booking legislation in 28: 0105 Germany talkies in 4: 0865 see also Europe GFWC movies and 1: 0827; 3: 0499; 6: 0001; 27: 0971 Goldwyn, Samuel 18: 1007 Gone With the Wind 24: 0107, 0260 Great Britain actors, in Hollywood 20: 0256 agreement in film imports 24: 0001 Board of Censors 17: 0274 film agreement for 27: 0734 film industry in 21: 0576; 30: 0976; 31: 0368 films in 20: 0256; 33: 0093 film situation in 18: 0001 film trade 17: 0274; 18: 0637, 0772, 0892; 19: 0001, 0816; 20: 0113, 0194; 26: 1146; 27: 0001, 0135, 0395, 0620, 0830, 0971, 1058, 1172; 33: 0263, 0460, 0650 movie exports to 35: 0626 quotas on films 20: 0256 talkies in 1: 0405 see also Europe Grew, Joseph address 35: 0001 Hart, William S. letter from 34: 0689 Hawkes, Albert Hollywood studio tour for 32: 0445 Hayes, Cardinal Patrick Joseph movies and 4: 1074 Hays, Will in California 32: 0315 contract with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. 29: 0913 death, false reports of 28: 0708 delegate to 1940 Republican National Convention 25: 0297 illness 28: 0463, 0547 interviews 11: 0265; 12: 0694; 30: 0476 leaves hospital 28: 0708 as MPPDA head 7: 0001 movie season review by 16: 0750 radio address 15: 0157 remarks at Walt Disney testimonial dinner 17: 0444 resignation from MPPDA 35: 0764 return from California 30: 0311; 32: 0449 Roosevelt, Franklin D., death 35: 0123 Roosevelt, Franklin D., meetings 21: 0156; 28: 0001 speeches by 3: 0001, 0993, 1102; 4: 0001, 0644; 8: 1097; 10: 1109; 11: 0001; 16: 0264; 18: 0342, 0772; 19: 1097; 20: 0256, 0919; 21: 0916; 22: 0056; 23: 0341, 0496; 26: 0778; 27: 0135, 0830; 34: 0517; 35: 0123 survey of first ten years as MPPDA head 7: 0001 travels in Europe 4: 0644 travels to Hollywood 23: 0682 travels to Los Angeles 26: 0184 vacation in Sullivan, Indiana 28: 0820 Hays Office in foreign affairs 33: 0674, 1042 Hays Office, The 35: 0626, 0764 Hearst, William Randolph on film censorship 5: 0001 general 13: 0175 letters from 17: 0169 memo to 5: 0907 Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems 21: 0916 Hitler's Children 34: 0119 HoUand film export to 24: 0260 United Artists trouble 23: 0785 see also Europe Hollywood, California labor relations 30: 0125 meetings 14: 0964; 16: 0001; 21: 0387 pay freeze 31: 0368 Presbyterians and 14: 0841 reports from 3: 0086; 6: 0831; 22: 0149; 31: 0268; 32: 0187 salaries 9: 0001 trips Hays's 1: 0167; 6: 0655, 1136; 8: 0390; 13: 0952; 16: 0610; 20: 0001 unions and 8: 0001; 26: 0184; 34: 0610 unions in 2: 0001; 18: 0637; 24: 0107; 33: 0935; 34: 0119 wages 1: 0167 World War II and 28: 1007 Hoover, Herbert address 35: 0123 letters to 1: 0475; 2: 0259 memo of meeting with 2: 0397 note from 4: 0865 presidential campaign of 8: 0140,

93 House of Representatives, U.S. see U.S. House of Representatives Imports, film agreement with Great Britain 24: 0001 Indiana political highlights 25: 0297 political scene 25: 0532 Indianapolis, Indiana war bond rally 29: 1079 Indiana Society dinner 29: 0722, 0913 Insurance, fire movies and 15: 0327 International Federation of Catholic Alumnae 13: 0366 see also headings under Catholic Interviews Hays, Will 11: 0265; 12: 0694; 30: 0476 Italy film export to 24: 0420 film situation 17: 0444 film trade 18: 0494, 0637, 0892, 1007; 19: 0645; 20: 0600; 21: 0576; 22: 0373, 0549; 23: 0678; 24: 0107 meeting on movies 17: 0169 see also Europe It Can't Happen Here 15: 0475 James, Will synopsis of short stories by 23: 0682 JO movie industry investigation 16: 0001, 0152, 0960, 1101; 17: 0001 Jimmy Steps Out 34: 0230 Johnston, Eric replacement of Will Hays by 34: 0871; 35: 0626 speech by 34: 0689 Jones, Jesse H. address by 32: 0756 Kennedy, John F. awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medal 33: 0674 Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr. death 33: 1186 Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr. address 33: 0674 cables 27: 0001 contract with Hays 29: 0913 press statement 27: 0135 speech 33: 0666 World War II and 30: 0125 Kentucky censorship 6: 0831 Kenyon, Doris 15: 0475 Kinograms newsreels 6: 0655 Labor movies and 5: 1071 relations in Hollywood 30: 0125 Laemmle, Carl Universal Pictures and 10: 0373 Landon, Alfred M. 16: 0437 Latin America film export to 31: 0931 movies and 28: 0547; 30: 0765 movies in 34: 0517; 35: 0764 Laws, movie state legislatures and 29: 0001 Lawsuits motion picture industry and antitrust suits 2: 0397, 0639 Legislation, federal block booking 20: 0448 film censorship and 15: 0761 general 2: 0987 Legislation, state against movies 1: 0306 movies and 5: 0907 Legislatures, state movie laws and 29: 0001 movies and 5: 0788 Lend-lease luncheon 31: 0730 Let 'Em Have It 14: 0452 Literature motion pictures and 24: 0624 Loewy, Raymond 26: 1146 Lombard, Carole Civil Aeronautics board accident report regarding 30: 0976 death 30: 0001 London, England report on American films in 20: 0919 see also Great Britain Los Angeles, California Hays's travels to 26: 0184 Luce, Clare Boothe congressional campaign 34: 0119 speech 26: 1003 McCutcheon, John tribute to 27:

94 Man Who Reclaimed His Head, The 14: 0001 Mission to Moscow 31: 1075 Moley, Raymond 35: 0626 Morals movies and 2: 0397; 4: 0738; 8: 0264 Motion Picture 3: 0317 Motion Picture Bureau 13: 0366 Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense 28: 0323 Motion Picture Council, Federal 11: 0001 Motion Picture Exhibitors, Allied States Association of 4: 0289 Motion Picture Herald 31: 0104; 32: 0187 Motion picture industry antitrust actions by government 23: '0785 antitrust suits 2: 0397, 0639 Australia and 31: 0539 Catholic church and 14: 0452 federal legislation and 1: 0827 history 16: 0610; 23: 0785 House of Representatives investigation 18: 0494 JD investigation 16: 0001, 0152, 0960, 1101; 17: 0001 legislation 1: 0827 National Recovery Act and 9: 0702, 0934 NRA and 10: 0541 PR 10: 0814 problems 30: 0125 relief for unemployed 6: 0156 state legislation against 5: 0471, 0580 taxes 8: 0744 unemployment relief 6: 0156 unions 1: 0946 World War II and 29: 0407 see also Business; individual titles of motion pictures Motion Picture Producers, Association of see AMPP Motion Picture Research Council 11: 0365 Motion pictures children and 9: 0702, 0833 the church and 1: 0827; 8: 1097; 32: 0922, 1053 distribution 23: 0001 emotion and 1: 0167 family and 20: 1071 fiftieth anniversary 33: 0263, 0460, 1042 fiftieth anniversary commemorative stamp 34: 0390 financing 20: 1071 legislation against 1: 0306 in : 0260 overseas 35: 0001 in peace and war 35: 0123 popularity 33: 1186 production 23: 0001 science and 1: 0588 worldwide 31: 0931 see also Talkies; individual titles Movies see Motion Pictures; Talkies; individual titles Movies at War 31: 0539 MPPDA activities 30: 0311 annual reports 9: 0001; 14: 0749; 15: 0761; 18: 0494; 20: 0600; 22: 0791; 24: 0736; 28: 0105; 33: 0263 budgets 1: 0475; 2: 0001; 3: 0499; 4: 0738; 5: 1071; 6: 0001, 0254; 8: 0550 certificate of incorporation and bylaws 28: 0105 educational activities 4: 0001 Educational Pictures resigns from 6: 0367 Federal Council of Churches and 5: 1046 fifteenth anniversary of 17: 0978; 18: 0169, 0342 financial problems 8: 0140 Hays resigns 35: 0764 Johnston, Eric, as head 35: 0626 membership 3: 0499; 5: 0001; 8: 0963; 10: 0541; 13: 0952; 14: 0749 membership criteria 19: 0816 organization 34: 0871 PR 12: 0877; 32: 0001 PR problems 6: 0493 quarterly report 28: 0820 reorganization 30: 0121, 0125; 31: 0104; 32: 0449 review of movie season 19: 0251 selected motion pictures suggested by 15: 0998 tenth annual report 7: 0285 twentieth anniversary 30: 0311 twenty-first anniversary 31: 0730 after World War II 35: 0367 MPTOA 3: 0086; 7: 0833; 10: 0183; 11: 0290; 17:

95 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 23: 0936 Music motion pictures and 24: 1079; 25: 0001 Mutual Radio broadcast 29: 1079 National Bureau of Economic Research 2: 0775 National Council of Women Cinematographic Committee Report 11: 0365 National Defense, Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for 28: 0323 National Labor Relations Act 24: 1079 National Recovery Act motion picture industry and 9: 0702, 0934 Netherlands see Holland New Jersey censorship legislation 1: 0001 New Mexico film-related legislation 28: 0323 Newspapers movie coverage 19: 1097 movies and 14: 0452; 15: 0475 Republican party and 32: 0462 Newsreels constitutionality of censorship 22: 0149 general 8: 0390; 25: 1057; 26: 0512; 28: 0463; 34: 0119 Kinograms 6: 0655 New York Herald Tribune forum on current problems 21: 0916 New York state censorship 9: 0170; 22: 0989 Afo Greater Sin 29: 0001 North Carolina film matter 32: 0001 legislation on movies 33: 0001 NRA movie industry and 10: 0541 movies and 9: 0984; 10: 0001, 0373, 0541, 0657; 11: 0504; 15: 0998 Ohio admissions tax 11: 0290 One World 32: 0449 Opinion, public movies and 9: 0833; 16: 0437 Opinion Research Corporation political outlook for : 0151 Opposition party role in American democracy 29: 0722 Paramount Pictures, V.S. v. antitrust case 23: 0682; 24: 0624; 25: 0151 Pay freeze in Hollywood 31: 0368 Payne Foundation movie study of 9: 0549 PCA 22: 0373; 26: 0295, 0414, 0512, 0778; 27: 0830; 28: 0323, 0820; 30: 0476; 31: 0368; 32: 0315, 0922 Peace, world movies and 3: 0673 Pius XI encyclical letter on motion pictures 19: 0816 Political outlook : 0151 Poll, motion picture preference 7: 0168, 0630, 1001 Polly of the Circus 6: 0655 PR movie 21: 0786, 0916; 30: 0976; 31: 0253 for movie industry 10: 0814 MPPDA 32: 0001 Presbyterian church movies and 8: 0264 report on movies and morals 13: 0677 see also Churches; Religion Presbyterians Hollywood and 14: 0841 movies and 14: 0001 see also Churches; Religion Presidential campaigns Bricker, John W. 25: : 0230 Republican 26: 1003 Willkie, Wendell L 26: 0624, 0778, 0888, 1003, 1146; 27: 1058; 28: 0001 Press summaries : 1041; 22: : 0785, 0936, 1116; 24: 0001, : 0260, 0420, 0624, 0736, 0928; 25: 0001, 0151, 0297, 0407, 0532, 0698, 0876, 1057; 26: 0001, 0184, 0295, 0414, 0512, 0624, 0778, 0888, 1003, 1146; 27: 0001, 0395, 0620, 0734, : 0971, 1058, 1172; 28: 0001, 0105, 0323, 0463, 0547, 0708, 0820; 29: 0127, 0269, 0407, 0602, : 0001, 0125, 0311, 0476, 0650, 0765, 0976; 31: 0104, 0268, : 0539, 0730, 0931, 1075; 32: 0001, 0187, 0315, : 0093, 0460, 1042,

96 Production code agreement in operation 3: 0799 general 3: 1102; 4: 0001, 0289, 0738; 5: 0334; 11: 1004; 12: 1026; 27: 1172 publicity for the 13: 0175 see also PCA Propaganda, movie general 26: 0512; 27: 1058; 29: 0127; 30: 0971 U.S. Senate investigates 29: 0001, 0127, 0269, 0407 Zanuck, Darryl F. 28: 1007 Public Enemy, The 5: 0580 Publicity movie 13: 0523 see also Advertising; PR Public opinion see Opinion, public Quo Vadis 32: 0001 Radio stations and movies 6: 0254 Railroads speech 27: 0734 Randolph, Jennings Hollywood Studio tour for 32: 0445 Rank, J. Arthur special meetings with 35: 0367, 0511 RCA Corp. sound equipment 7: 0526 Release agreements standards 4: 0865 Religion movies and 12: 0146, 0346 religious education and movies 3: 0799 see also Churches; headings under Catholic; headings under Presbyterian Remember Pearl Harbor 31: 0001 Republican National Club 6: 0001 Republican National Convention (1920) history 31: 0001 Republican party general 8: 0264; 25: 0297; 31: 1075 national convention 7: 0630, 1001; 25: 0532, 0698, 0876, 1057; 26: 0001 newspapers and 32: 0462 politics 8: 0001; 16: 0960; 19: 0251, 0423, 0645, 0908, 1097; 22: 0056; 24: 0928; 27: 0620, 0734; 29: 0602 reports 20: 0113 see also Opposition party; RNC Research, electronic 34: 0230 RKO Pictures problems 6: 0655 RNC 7: 0833; 11: 0265; 15: 0638; 25: 0407; 26: 0512, 0888 Robe, The 31: 0368 Rogers, Will general 9: 0984; 23: 1116 Memorial 17: 0768 Memorial Program 15: 0327 Roosevelt, Franklin D. death of, statement by Hays 35: 0123 meeting with film industry executives 21: 0156 meeting with Hays 28: 0001 Roosevelt, Theodore twenty-fifth anniversary of death of 32: 1055 Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modem Navy 31: 0929 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association 26: 0778; 29: 0407, 0722; 30: 0976; 31: 0001, 0730, 1075; 34: 0230 Science movies and 1: 0588 Screen Actors Guild 29: 0913 Senate, U.S. see U.S. Senate Short subjects movie code 14: 0615 Smith, Courtland biography 27: 0395 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 19: 1097 Society films and 34: 0689 Soldiers, U.S. films and 34: 0230 see also Armed forces South America movies in 33: 0935 Stamp, commemorative fiftieth anniversary of film 34: 0390 Standard Release Print Agreement 4: 0865 Study guides motion picture 15: 0157 Surgery movies and 5: 0001 Talkies education and 4: 0135 export 1: 0684 general 1: 1001; 2: 0397, 0639; 7: 0526 in Germany 4:

97 in Great Britain 1: 0405 Warner Bros, and 5: 0144 Taylor, Henry J. address by 32: 0462 Texas state politics 32: 0445 Thalberg, Irving death 16: 0862 Theatre owners, movie chamber of commerce 18: 0169 Themes, film 22: 0149 Three Little Words 29: 0127 TOA 17: 0978 Trade, international movies and 3: 0673; 17: 0768 see also Exports, film; Imports, film Trade papers, movie report 18: 0342 Transportation speech on policy 27: 0734 Transportation Association of America 27: 0971 Uncle Sam Gets His Man 14: 0128, 0749 Unemployment movie industry and relief for 6: 0156 Unions actors' equity and 13: 0523 in film business 4: 1074 general 5: 1071 in Hollywood 2: 0183; 18: 0637; 24: 0107; 33: 0935; 34: 0119 Hollywood and 8: 0001; 26: 0184; 34: 0610 movie cameramen and 1: 0475 movies and 1: 0001; 9: 0170 United Artists trouble in Holland 23: 0785 United Nations proposal for 33: 0674 speech by Hays on 35: 0123 United States v. Paramount Pictures antitrust case 23: 0682; 24: 0624; 25: 0151 Universal Pictures general 8: 0390 Laemmle, Carl and 10: 0373 sale 16: 0750 U.S. Congress arbitration bill 1: 0405 movies and 9^ 0370 U.S. House of Representatives bill against block booking 24: 0001 movie industry investigation 18: 0494 U.S. Senate block booking ban 20: 0811; 21: 0001; 22: 0711, 0989; 23: 0341 investigates movie propaganda 29: 0001, 0127, 0269, 0407 USSR movies and 32: 0756 Values, social movies and 5: 0334; 14: 0128 Victory' rallies Clark Gable and 30: 0001 Wages in Hollywood 1: 0167 Waldorf-Astoria fiftieth anniversary 31: 0730 War Activities Committee 31: 0539; 32: 0922; 33: 1042 War bonds drives 34: 0390 rallies 31: 0104, 0253, 0268, 0539; 32: 0462 sale 30: 0001, 0650; 31: 0268 War effort movies and 26: 0888; 30: 0650 War Mobilization, Office of establishment 32: 0308 Warner, Harry M. 2: 0639 Warner Bros. film boards of trade and 2: 0259 general 2: 0775; 13: 0366 talkies and 5: 0144 Wham, Benjamin address on transportation policy 27: 0734 White House notes from 5: 0788 Willkie, Wendell L. death 34: 0119 general 25: 0001, 0407, 0532, 0698, 0876, 1057; 26: 0001, 0295 presidential campaign (1940) 26: 0624, 0778, 0888, 1003, 1146 presidential campaign analysis 27: 1058; 28: 0001 Wisconsin state politics 32: 0445 Women's groups see GFWC; National Council of Women World War 11 cinema 33: 0093 film industry and 29: 0407; 30: 0125 Hollywood and 28: 1007 Joseph P. Kennedy and 30: 0125 movies about 30: 0765 movies and 30: 0650, 0971; 31: 0730; 32: 0187; 33: 0450, 0674,

98 movies' role in 32: 1055 see also headings under War Youth, American movies and 20: 0448; 24: 0928 Youth Runs Wild 34: 0001 Zanuck, Darryl F. film propaganda and 28:

99 APPENDIX Details of the unfilmed material, its extent and condition, and where applicable, restrictions on photocopying, follow. The material is located at the Indiana State Lihrary, and a description can be found in the Source Note, page xviii. I. Materials used in the Hays autobiography A. Rough drafts and notes May be photocopied; restricted by condition of material, which varies. Approximately 5'/2 linear inches. B. Transcriptions of stenographic discs Used for work on the autobiography. 1.) partial minutes of AMPP and MPPDA meetings, 1922 to 1945, briefly inventoried by Ernest B. Chamberlain. 2.) reminiscences recorded by Hays and thoroughly indexed by Chamberlain. Approximately I'/i linear inches. C. Note cards Index cards (5x8 and 3x5) were used in collecting material for the autobiography. Still in subject order, they are cross-referenced to the now-rearranged correspondence filing system and to the clippings books. They provid s a valuable index to the collection. There are approximately 2,500 5x8 cards aid approximately 2,500 3x5 cards. They must be used with caution, and photocopying may be limited. D. Index to Hays files, Arranged by subject with brief summary and citation of the letter or clipping, on legal sheets which may be photocopied. While not as complete a> the index cards, this index is easier to use. Approximately 2 linear inches. E. "Memoirs of Will H. Hays" Eighteen volumes, varying in condition, some are final versions of the autobiography, on bond paper, some are second-sheet carbons or onion skin the latter categories are harder to photocopy and some restrictions may apply. Twenty-two and one-half linear inches. F. Drafts of autobiography One box of revised and completed drafts ordered by Fred Niblo, pp May be photocopied. Five linear inches. II. "Chaney Digests" and "Murphy Memos" The Chaney Digests are transcriptions of printed material about Kays, mainly newspaper clippings but also pamphlets and correspondence. They were later edited into Murphy Memos. These items were used extensively in the preparati on of Hays's 77

100 autobiography, although the Chaney Digests were not created for that purpose. The dates covered are 1920 to 1944; the subjects are Hays and anything affecting Hays. The series' value lies in its complete outline of Hays's career and its easy-to-use format. There are no copyright restrictions, but some of the material is flimsy and photocopying might be restricted. Forty-five linear inches. III. Scrapbooks, clippings, books, press comments, and press summaries Taken together, these books provide coverage of Hays's career from 1915 to While the actual format of the books might vary, the content is the same: anything said (in the print medium) about Hays or his activities was collected and preserved. A. Green scrapbooks, These eleven volumes are commercially produced, in good shape, and the pages measure 9 1 /2" x 12". Approximately thirty linear inches. B. Clothbound scrapbooks, These consist of SV2" x 11" sheets with clippings pasted on them, organized by subject, and bound. They are roughly chronological, although there is some overlap. The earliest clippings on Hays's motion picture activities are contained in these books. Photocopying might be restricted, because the earlier clippings are brittle and the bindings are tight. Approximately 315 linear inches. (Note: the Chaney Digests mentioned in Section II above were drawn from these scrapbooks. ) C. Scrapbook of the National Convention of Letter Carriers, 1921 About thirty pages of SV2" xll" sheets, with much comment on Hays's "humanizing the Post Office" campaign, which had a great effect upon his career. Approximately one-half linear inch. D. Unbound scrapbook material 1.) Censorship demands of Some pages are brittle; photocopying might be restricted. Approximately two linear inches. 2.) Hays's trip to Italy, 1936, with postcards and memorabilia as well as clippings. Another scrapbook from a 1938 trip. Approximately four and two linear inches, respectively. It should be noted that scrapbooks, while measured in linear inches, might contain less than half the number of pages of an equal amount of flat paper. E. Press comment on motion pictures, Beginning in 1925, there is a change in format: instead of scrapbooks, these press comment books are S 1 /»" xll" second sheets containing typewritten transcripts of newspaper articles. Some of the earlier books also contain clippings, but in the later books, the clippings were eliminated. The press comment books are uniformly brittle, with tight bindings, and hence difficult to photocopy. Approximately sixty linear inches. F. Press summary books, In 1935, there was another change in the format of the collection of print material: these books now contain stencil copy on good paper with wide margins. Approximately fifteen linear inches. 78

101 IV. Movie material Stenographic minutes of the arbitration between Columbia Pictures, Loews Paramount, RKO, Twentieth Century-Fox, United Artists, Universal, and Warner Bros., involving the remittances from France, 1939 to 1947, in front of arbitrator Will H. Hays, nineteen volumes, plus correspondence. No copyright restrictions, but photocopying may be limited because the material is flimsy. Forty-five linear inches. V. Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and printed items, 1922 to Most of the material has been dated and arranged chronologically. Forty and one-half linear inches.. VI. Personal material A. Wabash College, Hays was a member of the Board of Trustees of Wabash College from , and the files contain some confidential material which has only recently been released from copyright restrictions imposed by Hays. There will still be some restrictions on photocopying. Thirty linear inches. B. Phi Delta Theta Papers Photocopying restricted. C. Memorabilia One small box. 79