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>Outcome of the long court fight between Jackie Coogan and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Bernstein: an agreement being submitted to court this week, to split the $250,000 remnant of the $4,000,000 which he earned as a child star.

>The highly censorable picture that made Hedy Lamarr famous, got her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was Ecstasy, made in Czechoslovakia in 1933. Last week cinema columnists suddenly discovered that the director of Ecstasy, Gustav Machaty, has for the past two years also been under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom he has turned out one low-budget picture called Within the Law. Cause of the discovery: Director Machaty's announcement, on the expiration of his contract, that he intended to make a sequel called The Girl of Ecstasy, conforming to the Hays production code and starring an unknown actress.

> Published by the Hays organization for the first time last week were addenda to its famed production code, covering the subject of cinema crime. Excerpts:

"Details of crime must never be shown. . . .

"Action suggestive of wholesale slaughter . . . will not be allowed.

"Suicide as a solution of problems . . . is to be discouraged as morally questionable and as bad theatre. . . .*

"There must be no new, unique or trick methods for concealing of guns. . . .

"There must be no scenes . . . showing law enforcing officers dying at the hands of criminals. . . ."

> In Philadelphia, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, now working on a score for the next Walt Disney full-length film, Fantasia, expressed his opinion of the cinema:

"Motion pictures are the greatest art form man has created. ... In Wagner's Walkure there are strange creatures--part human, part horse. The stage could never produce them, but the movies can do it without the least trouble."

*Romeo, Juliet, Antony, Cleopatra, Othello and Brutus were suicides. Suicides also resolved Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, The Sea Gull.

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