-- An Editorial--
-- An Editorial-Mr. LEYDA RETIRES JN the wake of rising scandal created by The New Leader's recent series of* exposes of Stalinist control and misuse of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library,...
...Robert Z. Leonard JSrected and Hunt Strombeif lip...
...LEYDA RETIRES JN the wake of rising scandal created by The New Leader's recent series of* exposes of Stalinist control and misuse of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, Jay Leyda, Soviet-trained propaganda commissar and the Library's notorious assistant curator, has at last been fired...
...Others in the cast are: Bruce Lester, Frieda Inescort...
...Huff 3 had long been an outspoken critic of the Communist agents and fellow travelers on the Library's staff...
...RETURN OF FRANK JAMES' HELD AT ROXY Darryl F. Zanuck's production...
...And what are we to say of Americans like James D. Mooney,-of General Motors, Henry Ford, Thomas J. Watson, of International Business Machines, and Col...
...Col...
...A new edition of the Roxy News and Pictorial Review completes the hold-over program...
...As added features, the Roxy program includes a new Terrytown cartoon, "Billy Mouse's Akwakade" and Ed Thorgersen's Sports Review, "Vacation Time," both filmed in Technicolor...
...It akso confirms the charges Seymour Stern has made in these columns against...
...As a result, he incurred Leyda's enmity and lost his job.- But following The New Leader's expose, Curator Iris Barry had no other choice than terminate the services of Comrade Leyda...
...Supporting the two stars is a notable cast which includes Edmund Gwenn and Mary Boland as Mr...
...and Mrs...
...This same government is- allied with the Tokyo regime, hostile to the United States...
...The Kaiser's soldiers were falsely represented as haying cut off the bands of children, as having subjected women to wholesale rape, and then as* having slain the victims, Nobody has suggested that the Nazis have done anyhting like this, for the Nazis are truly guilty of a greater crime...
...Together with Iris Barry, he helped Jacobs put out the first Stalinist "history" of the American cinema...
...Everythingjdone by the Nazis has negated the conception of civilization advanced by philosophers and artists from time immemorial...
...Nelson A. Rockefeller, John Hay Whitney, and John Abbott, director of the Museum of Modern Art, for their decision to rid this important institution of a destructive political agent...
...Embassy Newsreel Shows "March of Time* Feature on Dutch East Indies The Embassy Newsreel Theatre at 46th Street Broadway features this week the new and timely mmS the March of Time which graphically poses the probk»«# the Dutch East Indies and its role in the defense plans of the United States...
...Karen Morlcy...
...Bennet...
...to be a tissue of implied falsehoods and misapplied conceptions...
...The New Leader therefore has no other choice than to continue exposing, in future issues, the heritage left by Jay Leyda, a heritage deeply embedded both in the Library's leadership and personnel, and in the pattern of its cultural program...
...Already, in the first four days of its run, 91,343 persons have crowded into the Music Hall to see Olivier as the proud Darcy and Miss Garson a? the lovely but prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet in the beloved story in which Jane Austen poked gentle fun at the haughty society of the early 19th century by telling the tale of the five unwedded Bennet sisters and their flutter}- mother's frantic efforts to find hushands for them...
...duced the film...
...Leyda enjoyed great prestige among university students who were attracted to the Library through a new-born interest in the history of the movies...
...Thus, from the beginning, he was in an excellent position to influence and mold the minds of the younger generation...
...Pressure on the Museum of Modern Art reached a high point of intensity last week, when The New Leader (July 27) revealed the true story of the dismissal of Theodore Huff, the Library's authority on Griffith and the American film...
...i - Judging by his speech, what Col Lindbergh really wants is immediate'~military intervention by the United States on the side of Germany...
...Lady Catherine tiv Bough, and 'Melville Cooper as her librarian...
...both the educational program and certain of the literature written, sponsored, and endorsed by the Library or individual members of the staff...
...I submit that they ought to be pitied even as they are carefully watched...
...The Dutch East Indies are the repository of the oil supply of the Orient—oil, the vital product necessary to the functioning -'-¦ 1a&t» of a war machine...
...Filmed in Technicolor, "The Return of Frank James" continues the amazing adventures of the James boys, originally filmed in "Jesse James...
...Jerome Andrews...
...They dominate the sojanE Asiatic coast, their harboSjE vide bases for marauding BessvT The March of Time is noted1** its thoroughness and accaraeyni the fast moving and inte>sMa% style of presentation which ha made its contributions disttaetkfe screen reporting...
...In addition to Johnny Woods and the team of Dudley and Bostock, the Roxy stage show features The Sylvia Foursome, Ben Yost's New Yorkers, the Gae Foster Girls and Paul Ash with the Roxy Theatre Orchestra...
...Leyda's dismissal from a post of major importance is a victory not only for The New Leader, which has protested his activities at the Film Library for some time past, but also, and equally, for the labor movement and for liberal democracy m the realm of American culture...
...They permit the women and children in the conquered areas to live—under the N^zi yoke...
...Hilda Btkkr and Rabana Hasburgh, dsaaas...
...Fronv this speech on Col...
...It never works more than once...
...lEdward Ashley and E. E. Clhfc...
...Nazi Fellow-Traveler (Continued from Page Five) ous light the peaceful professions of Col.' Lindbergh and his adherents of the "Lindbergh Set...
...Machiavellianism has only one weakness...
...Marsha Hunt and Heather Angel as Miss Garson's four engaging sisters...
...iWhat neither Col...
...Lindbergh...
...The screenplay was mpared by Aldous Huxley andjue Murfin...
...For he has disclosed himself as a Nazi fellow-traveler, find our No...
...Tl Also continuing at the Mane Hall for a second week sjffl be the spectacular stage <m -"Lights and Shadows," prodBMi by Florence Rogge, the tslesW young woman who directs fat Music Hall's Corps de neQet Heading the large cut fci: George Tapps, Marie Grasfli...
...In the dramatic revelations of a beautiful girl's experiences with the husband she thought she knew, Joan ^Bennett plays the young wife and Francis Lederer, the husband...
...1 ideological "Fifth Columnist...
...Like his propaganda among the college students, and his program notes on the Soviet film series, "The Rise of the American Film" represents the heritage of Jay Leyda as much as does the entire slant of the Film Library on the subject of motion pictures...
...Lloyd Nolan, Anna Sten...
...June Forrest, sqgsjao...
...On its face it is dishonest in that it juggles the facts, as when he says that --"whether England or Germany wins this war, Western civilization will still depend upon two great centers, one in each hemisphere...
...The East Indies are the key to Uk...
...For nearly four years he had virtually unlimited authority in his capacity as "educator" in the main reading-room...
...He was " also the constant collaborator of Iris Barry in shaping the pattern of the Library's educational program...
...Maureen O'Sullivan, Ann Rutherford...
...Leyda joined the Library staff in September, 1936...
...The colonel's speech in coolful analysis turns ou...
...Edna May Oliver as the crotchety o 1 d downier...
...Otto Kruger, Maria Ouspenskaya Ludwig Stossel- and Johnny Russell portray the other important characters in "The Man I Married...
...Even something so remote from proper political, concern as human love has been taken under political jurisdiction by the Nazis, to be prostituted to the ends of a political bureaucracy...
...Besides the March of Tin* issue, the Embassy Theatre ato shows 43 world-wide new»>—ft, and selected shorts...
...The important supporting cast in "The Return of Frank James" features Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, HenryHull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Donald Meek, Eddie Gollins and George Barbier...
...But, knowing that such a suggestion would not be at all well received, he wisely refrains from making it...
...Lindbergh, it seems, -is for isolation and non-intervention only when joint action with England is in question...
...Pride and Prejudice" it taed on the Helen Jerome drajntts**tion of the celebrated Aastai novel, which was a Brotdaaj stage hit during the seasep ft 1935-36...
...But Leyda's outstanding work in this field unquestionably was his ideological editing of Lewis Jacobs' book, "The Rise of the American Film...
...PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" SEEN BY 9 J .343 IN 4 DAYS Created at, the box office with the same enthusiasm with which they were received by the critics, Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, starring in M"-G-M's "Pride and Prejudice," will be continued for a second week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...Ray and Trent, comedy tsafMsJ the Rockettes, Ballet, GlesQab and Symphony Orchestra.' For a complete, infonnKiie, and accurate picture of tit»ternational labor monwSubscribe to The Newfppf...
...When«4t cenpes to the Third Reich, however, Lindbergh is in favor of cooperation and the underwriting of Nazi war conquests...
...Lindbergh will be watched even more closely than he was watched by the- press after he had flown the Atlantic...
...The Return of Frank James," starring Henry Fonda in the title role, will remain for a second week starting at the Roxy Theatre...
...FILM BASED ON 'I MARRIED A NAZI' AT PALACE "The ¦ Man I Married," based on Oscar Schisgall's powerful story "I Married a Nazi," and Anna Neagle in "Queen of Destiny" will be the attractions on the double feature programs scheduled for showing in the Palace this week...
...Queen of Destiny," the intimate " love story~ of the" queen whose gift for love matched her genius in building the world's greatest empire, affords Anna Neagle an opportunity to display her versatility...
...Fritz Lang directed and Kenneth MacGowan was associate producer...
...The Fanchon and Marco variety presentation headlining Johnny Woods and Alice Dudley and Kenneth Bostock, also remains for a second week on the Roxy stage...
...We wish to express our gratitude to Messrs...
...Jan Peercc and Robert T*n#flT, tenors...
...The glamorous dancing star of the musical "Irene" is said to give an amazing portrayal of the woman of fire—who became the ruler of the vastest dorpain..on .earth . . . and slave "to her own romantic heart...
...Netherlands today is completely under the domination of the Nazi government...
...Also in the cast of the new 20th Century-Fox film, which was adapted from the screen-play by Sam Hellman, are Ernest Whitman, Charles Tannen, Lloyd Corrigan, Russell Hicks, Victor Kilian, Edward McWade, George Chandler and Irving Bacon...
...At the same time, however, we cannot but note that the cultural pattern and ideological intrepretation of films which Leyda was instrumental in putting across, is still being advanced by his disciples, Iris Barry, Arthur Rosenheimer, and other fellow-travelers on the Library's staff...
...Lindbergh nor the members of his set are sensitive enough to see when they talk about ."civilization" is that the Nazis in their own pronouncements have outdone all the atrocity, stories ever invented...
...Lindbergh" himself, who accept decorations from the hands;of these representatives of a new kind of civilization...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 33
