Big & little frogs of Hollywood have long been dissatisfied with the rule of their King Log, Will H. Hays. He was called "The Speechless Spokesman" be cause, as the industry's Washington representative, he often seemed to be in effectual. His Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (The Hays Office) also disliked him because he administered the motion picture code with prim inflexibility. So last week Czar Hays finally abdicated.
In return he got a five-year contract as "adviser," at $100,000 a year. Cracked a producer: "It looked like it might be difficult, but all we had to do...
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