Jersey Hiradó, 1964 (45. évfolyam, 3-39. szám)

1964-09-18 / 38. szám

September 18, 1964 Shame on Hollywood! Democratic Convention Votes Is there to be no end to Hollywood’s erase commercial­ization of its own dead? The Marilyn Monroe life and legend have been disgracefully played up, her character smeared with the thinnest ven­eers of dramatization until about the only positive fact concerning her is engraved upon her Westwood Village tomb. She is dead, although neither friends nor enemies seem willing to let her rest. Now it is poor Jean Harlow’s turn. Having been virtually stripped of her shroud by Irv­ing Schulman’s book, vital “dis­closures” in which are indig­nantly repudiated by respectful people who knew her, Jean, the first “platinum blonde,” is to be characterized by Carroll (Carpetbaggers) Baker, in a movie Joseph Levine proposes to make for Paramount. His “story” will be taken from the Shulman book. Levine was not around Hol­lywood when Jean Harlow lived. He may therefore suffer no personal compunction against bandying Shulman’s allegations across the screen. I knew and liked Jean Har­low. Not intimately but well. She was kind, simple, but quite aware of the price she had to pay in order to “live up” to the image created for her—as a sex symbol. Her private life was not as sensational as some writers would have us believe but, in any case, it was her own. No one has a right to drag up and, for profit, dramatize Harlow’s personal experiences; much less multiply the myths in order to make money. There are in Hollywood, many influential people who knew Jean Harlow. Some of them were enriched by her friendship; others by her films. Joseph Levine has made and is making fortunes out of many movies, American and foreign. He could suffer no real loss were he to reconsider his plans and drop the Harlow film with respectful silence. This Jean Harlow’s friends should try to impress upon him. When Jean died, fans all over the world wrote in their tributes by the car load. Un­fortunately public loyalty to screen idols is short-lived. Few among today’s movie crowds remember Harlow. Those who do will resent Levine’s picture just as they do Shulman’s book. Hollywood’s already sullied reputation should not be made dirtier in order to line already bulging pockets with a few more “fast bucks.”—W.H.M. Vatican Official’s Bombay Trip Stirs Speculation VATICAN CITY (NC)—Offi­cial Vatican sources have denied that the current trip to Bombay of a high Vatican official strengthens an indication that Pope Paul VI may go there for the 38th International Euchaiistic Congress. The departure September 1 of Msgr. Paul Marcinkus, Chicago Daniel Brenna J’UmAal (DjüisLcloh 340 Hamilton Ave. THREE SPACIOUS AIR­­CONDITIONED PARLORS AMPLE PARKING SPACE FREE USE OF PARLORS Tel. EX 3-2857 priest assigned to the Papal Sec­retariat of State, for a week’s trip to Bombay set off specula­tion in the press that he was on a scouting trip like the one taken by Msgr. Jacques Martin to Jeru­salem in preparation for Pope Paul’s January trip there. Official Vatican sources said: “The trip of Msgr. Marcinkus cannot be taken as indicating any­thing more than that the Holy See is extremely interested in the forthcoming [International Eucharistic] Congress. There is no basis for establishing any con­nection between his visit and any future trips the Pope might make.” Officially, Msgr. Marcinkus is going to Bombay to study the preparations that have been made for the Eucharistic Congress to be held from November 28 to December 6. But for some time rumors have been circulating that the Pope may go at least for the closing sessions of the nine-day event. There has been no official denial of these rumors. 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Contained in a compromise pro­posal designed to head off a flare­­up in the 1964 convention, the ac­tion is seen by observers as having tremendous future influence upon the Democratic Party itself, and possibly upon the alignment of the two major political parties in one or more areas of the country. The convention here voted to amend the first paragraph of the call for the 1968 Democratic Na­tional Convention to read: “It is the understanding that a state Democratic Party select­ing and certifying delegates to the Democratic National Con­vention, thereby undertakes to assure that voters in that state, regardless of race, color, creed or national origin, will have op­portunity to participate fully in party affairs, and to cast their election ballots for the presi­dential and vice presidential nominees selected by said con­vention and for electors pledged formally and in good consci­ence, to the election of these presidential and vice presiden­tial nominees, under the Dem­ocratic Party label and designa­tion. The action was proposed in a report of the convention’s cre­dentials committee, which had struggled with contests over the seating of state delegations, not­ably those of Alabama and Mis­sissippi. In these two cases were involved pledges of loyalty to can­didates selected by the convention and the charge that Negroes were discriminated against in the state Democratic Party. In the case of Mississippi, a pre­dominantly Negro group known as the Freedom Democratic Party, asked to be seated in place of the regular state Democratic Party delegation. The group charged that the regulars were disloyal to the party and its nominees, and discriminated against Negroes. The credentials committee proposed a three-part com­promise. It called for the seat­ing of those members of the Regular Democratic Party del­egation who gave assurances they would support the conven­tion’s nominees in November; increased the total number of delegates at the 1964 conven­tion to 2,318 and offered the two additional seats to Dr. Aaron Henry and the Rev. Ed­win King as representatives of the Mississippi Freedom Dem­ocrats. It als-o prescribed against dis­crimination and for loyalty to the convention’s nominees. The con­vention quickly adopted the com­mittee’s report, hut both factions to the Mississippi dispute rejected the compromise. But there was no floor fight and no great disturbance to dis­­edify television watchers. This, presumably, was what the compro­mise was intended to achieve. But upon reflection, observers see the compromise proposal also doing these things: Ridding the Democratic Party of the civil rights issue, with which it has been wrestling in conventions for 16 years; stem­ming defections by ordinarily Democratic states which have deserted party nominees in elec­tions of the last two decades; affecting the make-up and pos­sibly the strength of the Dem­ocratic Party in some areas; bringing shifts of allegiance, possibly temporary in some cases, among Democrats and Republicans, and possibly alter­ing the relative strength of the Democratic and Republican Par­ties still further in places where, for a long time, it was more or less predictable. There were two areas in whichs civil rights might have caused major difficulties for the Dem­ocratic convention—in the plat­form and in the seating of dele­gates in cases where there were contests. The platform, which says “ending discrimination based, on race, age, sex, or national origin demands < not only equal oppor­tunity but the opportunity tó be equal,” was adopted with no dif­ficulty át áll. This reference in the platform- does not mention dis­crimination on the grounds of “creed,” but the reference in the credentials- committee’s compro­mise does. That both factions tó the Mis­sissippi dispute rejected the com­promise seemed to disturb very few. There was much more con­cern over the possibility that three and maybe four other states would join with Alabama and Mississippi in a demonstration and walk out. This did not come about, and there was widespread relief in the con­vention. But the compromise was adopted by the convention, and it becomes a directive to the Democratic Na­tional Committee t)0 see that, in 1968, the delegations that come to the convention from the several states are above suspicion of racial, religious and other discrimination, and that they will be loyal in the elections to the candidates selected by the. convention. CD BIG DAY AT NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR American-ltalian Nationality Day SUNDAY-OCTOBER4 Air-Conditioned Siiverliner Train Going Returning Read Down Read Up Lv. Philadelphia: 8:05 A.M. (Suburban Station).................... Ar. 11:35 P.M. 8:15 A.M. (Penna. Sta.-30th St.)....................... Ar. 11:25 P.M. 8:25 A.M. (North Phila. Station)............................ Ar. 11:15 P.M. 8:32 A.M. (Frankford Junction)............................. Ar. 11:08 P.M. 8:47 A.M. Lv. Bristol......................................................... Ar. 10:52 P.M. 8:54 A.M. Lv. Levittown-Tullytown................................. 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