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Warner Bros, announced plans for pictures for "family audiences." Paramount's Emanuel Cohen, vice president in charge of production, told company salesmen: "In 30 of the 35 pictures we have released during the last eight months there has not been a single cut made by the censors and only very minor eliminations in the five others." In Cleveland Stadium, 50,000 Catholics took the Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning it by name the Central Conference of American Rabbis commended its aims. The Ohio Presbyterian Synod voted in favor of the Legion. So did the executive commit tee of the Federal Council of Churches, although with characteristic caution it refrained from recommending the pledge to its constituents.
The official censors of France and Italy approved the Legion. Through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli, Pope Pius XI made public a letter urging Catholics to make it "a duty of conscience" to improve the cinema, to film their own pictures if necessary.
Fan Dancer Sally Rand was to have appeared in Syracuse, N. Y. last week. Said Bishop John Aloysius Duffy: "I must regard the presence of the Rand woman on the stage as an act of public defiance of the Catholic people of Syracuse." Sally Rand's act was cancelled. In Chicago it was announced she would again appear at the World's Fair, this year without fans. Said Impresario Joseph Imbrugio: "It is quite artistic. In fact it's a wow."