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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. November 15. 1961
Hollywood Is 'Behind' Murrow
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) Edward R. Murrow, who hinted that Hollywood should sell a better "image" of America overseas, can rest assured movie makers are behind him.
Extraordinarily far behind him, as a matter of fact.
AS DIRECTOR OF the United States Information Agency (USIA), Murrow addressed movielet brass earlier this month, hopeful they would mend their ways of depicting us as a nation of gamblers, gangsters and brawlers.
But the celluloid Mahatmas were already one up on him.
Before Murrow made his speech, the Motion Picture Association of America, headed by Eric Johnston, had relaxed its code to accept immoral relationships, including homosexuality.
BUT THAT DOESN'T mean movie men aren't in favor of a better image Johnston revealed there is a double standard for showing American pictures abroad.
Very few films downgrading our way of life are sent to what Mr. Johnston described as "underdeveloped countries." Such places as Uganda and Somaliand are nurtured along on John Wayne extravaganzas.
Films depicting narcotics addicts, sex deviates, cannibals and other all-American types are sent to civilized countries, i.e. Western Europe, because, according to Johnston "they have the same kind of problems."
HE INDICATED chances were slim (perhaps nil) such films as "The
Crisis Day Plans Take Another Step
Plans to set aside a day from regular academic activities for discussion of the effects of nuclear war took another step closer to reality yesterday.
AN AD HOC STEERING COMMITTEE of faculty and students set the week of Dec. 6 as the tentative date for the discussion pending the approval of the chancellor.
The chancellor is out of town and will not be contacted until he returns next week. Earlier this week, however, he was approached with the idea and appeared to favor it.
Patricia Coutts, Lawrence sophomore, was appointed temporary chairman at yesterday's meeting. She will serve as student spokesman for the group.
Raymond O'Connor, assistant professor of history, is the faculty spokesman.
PROF. O'CONNER EXPLAINED that previous plans for two separate committees, one faculty and one student, was dropped.
"Several of us (faculty members) felt that there should be only one committee," he said. He added that one committee would probably be able to work better with students doing the major portion of the work and the faculty serving as advisers
Activities for the special day will be discussed at the next meeting of the committee at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Hula Lessons
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) — Hula dancing "graduation" ceremonies are a tradition on Matson line cruises to Hawaii.
Passengers take lessons during the trip from San Francisco. On the last night before getting into Honolulu, they do their stuff as the highlight of a floor show before other passengers.
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Children's Hour" and "Advise and Consent" — both containing homosexual themes — would ever reach the likes of Indonesia or Ghana.
Thus, our image is as pure as Mickey Mouse in Outer Mongolia. But in Monaco or Lapland, natives can see us for the barbarians we really are in the eyes of movie producers.
"We have quotas in underdeveloped nations," Johnston explained. "And they wouldn't include pictures like 'Children's Hour' or 'Advise and Consent.'"
IN SUPPORT of easing the production code to include sex deviation, Johnston said:
"Movies are now a mature form of entertainment. They are no longer juvenile beep shows.
"No more restraint should be placed against motion pictures than against any other mature medium of communication.
"We felt that some sections of the code should be altered so movies would be free to compete with what is read in books, magazines, newspapers and what is seen on Broadway."
HE FAILED to note that few Broadway plays tour the foreign market as do movies. And inasmuch as most of the world doesn't read English, our newspapers and books never have swamped the Congo and Korea.
But with the new code revisions, Murray's chances of seeing our image improved abroad through movies are almost nonexistent.
We may come off worse than before.
Anti-China Film Presented
The Young Americans for Freedom will sponsor the anti-Communist film "Red China — Outlaw" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater. The film is produced by the Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Red China to the United Nations. The public is invited.
Dean Thomas Gorton of the KU School of Fine Arts will preside at the National Association of Schools of Music's 37th annual meeting, Nov. 24-25. in Denver.
Gorton Presides at Meeting
Dean Gorton was re-elected to a third term as president of the NASM in 1960. KU is a charter member of the 280-member organization which was founded in 1924.
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