Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd)

After a series of conferences, Hollywood producers were reported last week to be raising $2,000,000 to educate cinemagoers, by means of paid advertising, against "censorship" and "professional reformers"—i. e. the Legion of Decency sponsored by the Roman Catholic hierarchy (TIME, June 11). And last week the Legion of Decency's cinema boycott was growing vigorously. Without naming names, George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago urged his flock of 1,159,000 to join the movement. More outspoken, Denis Cardinal Dougherty urged Philadelphia Catholics to register their protest by staying away from all cinema houses....