European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fag 16 the stars and stripes tuesday augur 25, 1959 adult films and falling theater attendance Hollywood ducks its morals code at to Point fms is the second of a two Ems Toh. In. Its own waywardness. Peculiarly the Campaign for moral improve ment was directed not so much at the films being made As at the personalities that played in them. Scandalous conduct of film stars off the screen infidelity divorce drunkenness even murder was the inspiration of the code. Holly Wood formed the motion picture Assn. Of America and installed William Harrison Hays postmaster general in the Harding Cabinet As its  morals code was written and members of the organization pledged themselves to follow its rules with the Hays office the dominant regulatory  when television first de re def and scoffed at by the movie moguls threatened and eventually took Over the mass audience the cries for revision of the code be came louder and More insistent. Open violations of it were numer Ous. Set Back official loosening of the morals code heralded by months of unusually Liberal treatment of Tabooed subjects came in 1956.the Johnston office successor to the Hays office and headed by Eric Johnston president of the motion picture Assn., announced that after a year s study the morals code had been streamlined. Major changes lifted the prohibition against subjects having to do with illicit narcotic practices illegal operations kidnapping and  s attempt to keep its own House in order was set Back some years ago when an antitrust order forced the Industry to divest itself of movie houses and chains of Heaters which it owned or con trolled. Producers thus were deprived of the control by which they Kepi exhibitors in line. Movie review a beginning its tour of army and air Force Heaters this week floods of fear saved from raging floodwaters by three men Anne Heywood finds that two Are inmates from a nearby prison the third is their guard. One convict Howard keel plans vengeance on a Man he says framed him. Exciting stuff. A a Universal doodles by Roger Price 0-25 fish with automobile Tail. When i first thought of this Dandy Doodle 1 had intended to go right ahead and use k without providing any Long winded explanation but then i suddenly realized that if 1 did t go into detail and Tell people Why this fish looks like it was manufactured in de troit they d Start writing thousands of letters to the editors complain ing that i m goofing off and concealing vital facts i m not. The truth is that i figured this Doodle. Like All doodles was self explanatory but since it prob ably in t and because i Don t want to alienate any of you Nice readers i have decided to explain Why the fish in this poodle has. A 1959. General motors Tail Assem Bly it s a co iliac. Well you asked for it this divorce of the functions of production and exhibition has enabled code violators to flout Holly Wood s morals control and find ready outlets for their films many1 of them enhanced at the Box office by the publicity created through their Defiance of Hollywood s code. Trouble is on the film land threshold in the form of a crystallize it National attack on a increasing number of daring sex searching themes that Are flowing off the production lines. Code ducking How far can Hollywood go in its game of playing tag with the code producer. Samuel g o 1 d w y a noted for class productions in variably labelled family accept Able and Jerry Wald most dynamic of the younger group Are among those expressing the belief that the code is being judiciously directed in line with present Public tastes and stand Ards. Goldwyn declared he was bit Terly opposed to outside censorship and had fought for years to liberalize the code so it would not revitalize creativity on the screen unabashed at being tagged the front runner among All major studio exponents of sex shockers Wald is training his sights on a Bevy of stories that could make the current Eyebrow lifters stack up As mildly tepid efforts. Riding High Jeff Connors 7, son of to s Rifleman Chuck Connors gets a ride on dad s shoulders at their Home in Hollywood. Jeff holds his state work permit which Al lows him to make his acting debut on his father s show. His two line role will pay him about $300. Associated press photo crossword by Eugene Sheffer 25" 18 l t 0 24 37 19 54 i 13 \