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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, February 23, 1963
Recall Priest’s Extraordinary Role
As Great US Social Reformer
The following article takes
notice of two events which coin
cide this month; the appear
ance of a definitive biography
of Msgr. John A. Ryan and the
44th anniversary of the publica
tion of the Bishops’ Program of
Social Reconstruction, of which
Msgr, Ryan was the principal
author, Msgr. Higgins was
closely associated with Msgr.
Ryan in the last years of the
latter’s life and is a successor
to him as director of theNCWC
Department of Social Action.
By Msgr. George C. Higgins
On a lovely Spring morning in
May, 1945, a group of four or
five priests from the staff of
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference drove out to the
Washington National Airport
with their venerable colleague,
Msgr. John A. Ryan, director of
the NCWC Social Action Depart
ment, who was scheduled to
catch a plane for St. Paul,
Minn., where he had been or
dained to the priesthood in 1898
and where he had begun his dis
tinguished career as a priest-
professor and social reformer
extraordinary.”
Msgr. Ryan was going back
to St. Paul ostensibly to pay
a more or less routine visit
to the members of his immed
iate family and to recuperate
from a lingering illness but,
in reality (whether he knew it
or not, and he probably did)
to prepare for his death, which
was clearly imminent.
1 had been assigned to ac
company him on the trip to
Minnesota, but I thought that I
had to pretend, rather implaus
ibly, that my presence on his
flight was more or less of a
coincidence, and the other
priests who had come to see
him off likewise felt that they
had to go to rather elaborate
lengths to camouflage their real
reason for being at the airport.
Their real reason, of course,
was that they wanted to show
their respect and affection for a
great and very lovable human
being who they knew was dying
and whom they never expected
to see again this side of eter
nity.
There was a great deal of
studied casualness and awk
wardly- contrived cheerfulness
and good humor about our con
versation as we waited for his
plane to be called, but the gruff
old Monsignor, who was never
one to wear his feelings on his
sleeve, must have seen through
the charade, for there were
tears in his eyes as he boarded
his plane, and it was only with
difficulty that the rest of us
managed to conceal our own
emotions.
In any event, the old man
quickly regained his compos
ure, and for the better part
of what turned out to be a slow
and rather tedious trip to St
Paul (with a long stop-over in
Detroit for a change of equip
ment), he read a serious book
on economics with his critical
pencil ever at the ready with
all the energy and concentra
tion of a man of 25.
When he wasn’t reading, he
was gulping down a piece of ap
ple pie and a glass of milk with
obvious relish and com
menting, with his usual blunt
ness and clarity of thought, on
what he had just been reading
or on the headline stories in the
morning paper.
Four months later he died in
a Catholic hospital in St. Paul
fortified with the sacraments of
the Church and surrounded
by the few remaining members
of his immediate family.
During the intervening years,
the thought has occurred to me
more than once that that last
trip of Msgr. Ryan’s to the See
city of his native diocese was
strikingly characteristic of the
man, almost down to the last
detail.
All his life he had been the
serious student of economic and
social problems and almost a
caricature of the lovably gruff
priest-professor and social re
former. And the fact that he was
making what he must have known
would be his last trip anywhere
on this earth didn’t seem to
affect him or change him in
the least.
He acted and talked as though
he were preparing—as he had
done a thousand times before —
to write another article or draft
another speech on one of the
burning issues of the day. He
was the same scholarly,
outspoken, and bluntly humor
ous priest that he had been for
almost 50 years.
All of this has been a rather
roundabout way of introducing
the reader to the definitive bio
graphy of Msgr. Ryan which was
published on February 11;
‘‘Right Reverend New Dealer:
John A. Ryan” by Francis L.
Broderick, professor of History
at Phillips Exeter Academy,
Exeter, N.H., (The Macmillan
Company, New York, $5.95).
I have said that this is the
“definitive” biography of Msgr.
Ryan and have done so advised
ly, for while it is only to be
expected that Dr. Ryan’s
surviving friends and co-
workers will disagree with
some of Broderick’s specific
judgments and evaluations and
will be able to pick him up
here and there on a point of
fact, I feel confident that most
of them, together with the ma
jority of Broderick’s pro
fessional peers, will give it as
their final verdict that ‘‘Right
Reverend New Dealer” is, from
every point of view, a super
ior piece of work and one that
will probably never be supplant
ed.
I recommend the book very
highly to all those, Catholics and
non-Catholics alike, who are in
terested in the history of so
cial reform in the United States
and, more specifically, to those
who have a particular interest in
the role of the Church and the
role of the theologian in the field
of social reconstruction.
Obviously it would be impos
sible to summarize the contents
of Broderick’s 279-page bio
graphy of Msgr. Ryan within the
limits of a brief review.
The most that one can hope to
do is to single out a few of the
highlights in the Monsignor’s
phenomenally successful car
eer as “a priest-professor and
social reformer extraordi
nary,” with the hope that this
will whet the reader’s appe
tite for more of the same and
will send him in search of a
copy of Broderick’s book.
Msgr. Rayn was born of Ir
ish immigrant parents on a
small farm near St. Paul in
1869. He studied for the
seminary in St. Paul and was
ordained for the Archdiocese of
St. Paul in 1898. After serving
for a few months as a curate in
a parish, he was sent to the Ca
tholic University of America
where, after four years of grad
uate study, he took his doctor
ate in moral theology. He taught
moral theology at the St. Paul
seminary from 1902 until 1915,
when he joined the faculty of the
College of
Mount St. Joseph
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In 1919, 20 years before his
retirement from the University,
he was appointed first director
of the Social Action Department
of the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference and served
in that position until his death in
1945.
Msgr. Ryan's first book,
“The Living Wage, ” was pub
lished in 1906. No wonder he is
so often referred to as a pion
eer in the development of Ca
tholic social thinking in the
United States.
This book, which was written
as his doctoral dissertation in
moral theology, strongly ad
vocated legal protection of the
right to a living wage 32 years
before the Federal government
got around to enacting the
Fair Labor Standards Act. And
even to this day, his example
in fathering one of the earliest
state minimum-wage laws--the
Minnesota statute—has yet to be
followed in some of the states
in the Union.
The first edition of Msgr,
Ryan's most important book,
“Distributive Justice”— which
applied the principles of moral
theology very systematically to
a wide range of problems in the
field of industrial and economic
ethics—appeared in 1916.
This reviewer would agree
with Broderick when he
says that “with the publication
of ‘Distributive Justice,’ the ba
sic frame of Father Ryan’s pro
gram for social justice was
set.” By 1916, in other words,
Msgr. Ryan had had his say as
a scholar.
To be sure, he never stopped
writing books and articles until
the end of his very busy life,
but Broderick is correct in stat
ing that he ‘' spent the major part
of his career after 1916 in the
active apostolate for social jus
tice.”
Msgr. Ryan’s major em
phasis in his extraordinarily
“active apostolate for social
justice” was on the urgent
need for adequate socioeconom
ic legislation, though he was
also interested, of course,
in organization--particularly
the organization of workers--as
one of the necessary means of
solving economic and so
cial probelms.
Perhaps the best short sum
mary of his legislative program
is to be found in the 1919 Bish
ops’ Program of Social Recon
struction, of which he was the
principal author. It is interest
ing to note, in passing, that
though this document, which was
released 44 years ago this week,
was considered to be rather
radical, almost all of its spe
cific legislative proposals have
since been enacted into law
either in whole or in part,
Msgr. Ryan was admittedly a
“radical” in his own day, As a
matter of fact, “his ideas,”
Broderick says, “were more
radical than the program of a
good many moderate dues-pay
ing socialists.”
He was “not technically
enough of a socialist to draw the
formal censure of his eccles
iastical superiors, but too radi
cal for most of his coreligion
ists,” Broderick concludes, but
he hastens to add that “Ryan's
view was simpler; He was about
as radical as Leo XIII. That
puts it all very well in a nut
shell.
Msgr. Ryan’s vigorous ad
vocacy of advance social leg
islation and other far-reaching
measures of socioeconomic re
form involved him, more or less
inevitably, in numerous public
controversies, all of which are
detailed very objectively by
Broderick. Ryan emerged from
these controversies none the
less for the wear and with his
priestly and scholarly dignity
substantially intact.
“He had quarrelled with a
president and a cardinal; he had
been honored by another presi
dent and a pope,” Broderick
writes. “Stubborn yet flexible,
gruff but affectionate, learned
but simple, he had survived four-
decades of controversy with hu
mor and friends.”
A number of significant fa
cets of Msgr. Ryan’s career can
only be mentioned in passing as
we bring this article-review to
a hurried conclusion: his am
bivalent “on-again-off-again-
Finnegan” relationship with the
leading "liberals” of his gener
ation; his early support and sub
sequent opposition—very vig
orous opposition - to our na
tional prohibition law; his cele
brated debate on socialism with
Morris Hillquit; his vigorously
outspoken disagreement with the
economic views of Father
Coughlin; his defense of Justice
Hugo Black’s appointment to the
Supreme Court; his repeated
denunciation of anti-Semitism
and his efforts to promote the
cause of interracial justice;
his boundless admiration for
President Roosevelt, whom, by
the way, he seldom met and by
whom, in spite of persistent ru
mors to the contrary, he was
seldom consulted.
These and many other in
teresting facets of Msgr. Ryan’s
distinguished career are
chronicled in ample detail and
with scholarly competence by
Broderick. Taken together, they
add up to a record in the field
of social reform and social re
construction which has never
been equalled by any other Am
erican Catholic.
Msgr. Ryan was a great Am
erican and a great social re
former who “never forgot that
he was a priest and that his busi
ness was the salvation of
souls.” The triumph of his ca
reer, Broderick notes in the
closing sentence of his fine bio
graphy, "came from the skill
with which he blended tradition
al Catholic principles and the
American progressive tra
dition, from the recognition of
his achievement both by the
Church and by the nation, and
from the translation of social
justice into the law of the land
during his own lifetime.”
J
Press Martyr
A new commission has been
formed at the Carmelite
house of studies in Washing
ton aimed at acquainting U.
S. Catholics with the life of
a priest who died in a nazi
concentration camp because
he urged American Catholic
editors to denounce nazism.
Father Titus Brandsma, O.
Carm., shown above in his
prison garb, was jailed for
fighting efforts to turn the
Catholic papers of the Neth
erlands into nazi propaganda
organs. Spiritual director of
the Catholic Journalists’ So
ciety of the Netherlands, he
was sent to Dachau in 1942
where he died six months
later. (NC Photos)
TAKES OVER DIOCESE—Coadjutor Bishop Leo C. Byrne
(left) has assumed the duties of Apostolic Administrator of
the Wichita (Kan.) diocese followingthe retirement of Bishop
Mark K. Carroll (right) because of ill health.
Wichita Bishop R etires
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Pope
John XXIII has acceded to the
desire of Bishop Mark K. Car-
roll to retire from the admin
istration of the Diocese of
Wichita because of his ill health.
The announcement was made
by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
Apostolic Delegate in the United
States.
The Holy Father has decided
that Bishop Carroll will retain
the title, “Bishop of Wichita,”
but the present Coadjutor Bi
shop, the Most Rev. Leo C.
Byrne, will become Apostolic
Administrator “sede plena”
(the See being occupied).
Bishop Carroll is a native
of St. Louis, and had been
director of the Pontifical
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith in the Archdiocese of
St. Louis for 22 years at the
time he was named Bishop of
Wichita in 1947. He also marked
the 25th anniversary of his or
dination in 1947.
Bishop Byrne is also a native
of St. Louis. He was named
Titular Bishop of Sabadia and
Auxiliary to Joseph Cardinal
Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis,
in 1954. In 1961, he was named
Coadjutor Bishop with right of
succession to Bishop Carroll of
Wichita.
Catholic Women’s
Club Views Film
Blessed
Sacrament
Home & School
SAVANNAH—The Blessed
Sacrament Home and School
Association heard two very in
teresting talks at its February
meeting.
Dr. Gaines E. Sewell, Jr.
gave a treatise on flouridation
and care of the teeth in which
he stressed how, in his opinion,
flouridation would be most
beneficial to all.
Monsignor Thomas A. Bren
nan, Pastor, spoke to the
gathering and told of the meet
ing of the Teachers’ Institute
comprising some two hundred
Sisters and Lay Teachers of
the Savannah Diocese held
at the Blessed Sacrament School
on February 15th and ,16th.
Following this announcement
Monsignor Brennan introduced
Rev. Francis J. McCormack
of the Vincentan Fathers who
with Father John C. Hallahan
were conducting a Mission in
the Parish at the time. Father
McCormack spoke on the Par
ent-Child relationship and the
moral education of both parent
and child. He also discussed
the present day steady dating
of teenagers and “how morally
inconsistent it is to all reason.”
SAVANNAH—Mrs. Dorsey
Smith of the Southern Bell Tel
ephone Company was a special
guest at the monthly meeting
of the Catholic Women's Club.
She showed a movie on House
Decorations and Flower Ar
rangements.
Mrs. Rudolf Heitmann, First
Vice President, presided in the
absence of the President, Mrs.
John Buckley, who was ill.
Father Andrew Doris, O.S.B.
gave an interesting and inspir
ing talk on Lent.
Mrs. Heitmann announc
ed that on March 9th, Miss Mar
garet Murden, Chairman of the
Social Committee, assisted by
Mrs. George Ebberweim, Mrs.
J. J. McLaughlin, Mrs. E. J.
Deacy, Mrs. E. F. Elmore and
Mrs. Bernard Taylor, will
serve with the USO Hospital
ity Committee for the Dance
at the Guards Armory.
Miss Margaret Collins,
Chairman of the Mamie Kel
ly Memorial Fund, announced
that the annual Fashion Show
and Tea will be held on April
20th. Details to be announced
later.
Attention was called to the
Annual Meeting of St. Mary’s
Guild, which will be held Sun
day, March 17th, at the Home,
and all members were urged
to attend. The Most Rev. Thom
as J. McDonough will be the
guest speaker.
7,000 Principals Warned
Against Ignoring Power
ious Belief
Of Relig
PITTSBURGH, (NC)—A Lon
don educator told some 7,000
high school principals here that
4he depth and power of relig
ious faith should not be ig
nored in teaching the political
sciences.
John D. H. Eppstein, secre
tary general for education of
the Atlantic Treaty Association,
spoke to the 47th annual con
vention of the National Associa
tion of Secondary School Prin
cipals. The association is a
division of the National Edu
cation Association.
Eppstein said that “politics”,
fascinating as they are, are
not the whole or even the most
important part of life.”
“It is not politics that brings
half a million people on
foot from the towns and villag
es of Portugal to Fatima in the
mountains on the 13th day of
May, or even more to Czesto
chowa on great occasions from
all parts of Poland,” he said.
“It is not politics that fills
a vast stadium to hear Billy
Graham. It is not politics that
draws the patient pilgrims from
all over the Moslem world to
Mecca. It is not politics that
has built the new Israel in the
teeth of bitter enemies,” he
added.
Eppstein, a prominent En
glish Catholic layman, empha
sized what he considered “The
best way of teaching world af
fairs to the boys and girls in
our secondary schools.”
The Atlantic Treaty Associa
tion has as a primary concern
the teaching and study of inter
national affairs in secondary
schools.
As the tirst fundamental,
Eppstein reminded the educa
tors, the vast majority of them
public school administrators,
that “international affairs is
not an abstract science: it is
about people—millions of men
and women and children each
with his or her own character,
each one a spiritual universe,
as Jacques Maritain says, each
of infinite value in the sight of
God, however we may have to
lump them together for conven
ience of description intonations
and states and races and blocs.
“It is man that matters,”
he stated.
Eppstein declared that he did
not apologize for introducing a
sense of moral purpose into
discussion on the teaching of
political sciences. “Without a
social ethic there can be no
civic responsibility and no con
ception of national duty,” he
said.
“I am well aware,” Eppstein
continued, “that among many
teachers today—in my own
country for instance—there is
a disinclination to speak of the
individual in relation to the
national community or of the
nation in its relation to other
nations and the whole society
of mankind in terms of right
and wrong.
“Moralizing and the over
simplification of every issus
into black or white can, of
course, be dangerous and
even ridiculous. But the fact
remains that a distinctive fea-
feature of that European Chris
tian civilization of which, what
ever our philosophical differ
ences, we are all the heirs
on both sides of the Atlantic,
is the belief that there is an
objective rule of justice apply
ing to human collectivities as
well as to individuals.”
Hospital Nuns
Persecuted
In Ceylon
COLOMBO, Ceylon, (NC)—
“We are leaving only because
we have to go,” said the last
three nuns to leave Ragama
Chest Hospital.
The three nuns--Sister M.
Alen^ (in Ceylon since 1923)
who was superior of the Sis
ters at the hospital, Sister M.
Jemma (here since 1936) and
Sister M. Anselma (here since
1946)—are Belgians and are
returning to their order’s Bel
gian headquarters for assign
ment to other missions.
Before the Ceylon govern
ment started expelling Catho
lic nursing Sisters from the
country, the 17-ward Ragama
hospital was served by 18 Sis
ters.
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Teenage Millionaire—UA
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Big Money—UA
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1 Thank a Fool—MGM
Last Year At Marienbad (Fr.)—Astor
Lovers of Teruel—(Fr.)—Continental
Manchurian .Candidate—UA
Marriage of Figaro (Fr.)—Union F'ilms
Married Too Young—Headliner
Money, Money, Money (F'r.)—Times F'ilm
Corp.
Monkey in the Winter (Fr.)—MGM
Murder, Inc.—F'ox
Nine Hours to Rama—Fox
Notorious Landlady—Col.
On Any Street (was: La Notte Brava) (Ital.)
—Miller
One Plus One—Selected Pics.
Only Two Can Play (Br.)—Col.
Panic in Your Zero—Am. Inti.
Period of Adjustment—MGM
Pigeon That Took Rome—Para.
Rebel with a Cause (was: Loneliness of the
Long Distance Runner) (Br.)—Continental
Rice Girls (Ital.)—Ultra Films
Ride the High Country—MGM
Rider On a Dead Horse—AA
Rocco and His Brothers (Ital.)—Astor
Rome Adventure—War.
Satan Never Sleeps—F'ox
Season of Passion—UA
Secrets of Nazi Criminals (Swed.)—Trans-Lux
Sparrows Can’t Sing (Br.)—Janus
Summer and Smoke—Para.
Sundays and Cybele (Fr.)—Davis-Royal
Susan Slade—War.
Taste of Honey—Continental
Term of Trial—War.
'Three On a Spree—UA
Through a Glass Darklv (Swed.)—Janus
Thunder of Drums—MGM
lower of London—l T A
Town Without Pity—UA
Trial and Error—MGM
Two for the Seesaw—UA
Two Women (Ital.)—Embassy
"Warriors Five—Am. Inti.
West Side Story—UA
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?—War.
* Where the Truth Lies (Fr.)—Para.
Who's Got the Action—Para.
Winter Light (Swed.)—Janus
Wolf Larsen—AA
Yojimbo— (Jap.)-r-Seneca Inti.
CLASS B — Morally Objectionable in Part for All
Arturo’s Island—(Ital.)—MGM
Back Street—U-I
Bloody Brood, The—Pathe-Am.
Brain That Wouldn’t Die—Am. Inti.
Cabinet of Caligari—Fox
Candide—(Fr.)—Union Films
Chapman Report—War.
Concrete Jungle—Fanfare
Confession of An Opium Eater—A A
Day the Earth Caught Fire—U-I
♦Diamond Head—Col.
Doctor In Love—Rank
Dr. No—UA
Explosive Generation—UA
Firebrand, The—Fox
Five Minutes To Live—Pathe-Am.
F'orcc of Impulse—Pathe-America
Frightened City, The—AA
Gill Named Tamiko, A—Para.
Goodbye Again—UA
Gypsy—War.
Head, The—Trans-Lux
House of Fright (was: Two Faces of Dr.
Jekyll)—Amer. Inti.
House of Women—War.
It Happened In Athens—Fox
Jessica—UA
Joker, The (Fr.)—Lopert
Journey to the Seventh Planet—Am. Inti.
Kind of Loving, A (Br.)—Governor
La Yiaccia (Ital.) — Embassy
Leda (Fr.)—Times
Lover, Come Back—U-I
Lovers On a Tightrope (Fr.)—Interworld
M ada me— (Ital.) —Embassy
Man Trap—Para.
Marines Let’s Go—Fox
Mary Had a Little (Br.)—Lopert
Maxine (Fr.)—Intcrworld
Mongols—Colorama
Night Is My Future (Swed.)—Embassy
Night of Evil—Pathe-Am.
No Exit—(F'r.)—Zenith Inti.
No Love for Johnny (Br.)—Embassy
CLASS C — Condemned
And God Created Woman (Fr.)—Kingsley
Baby Doll—War. .
Bed of Grass (Greek)—Trans-Lux
Bcll’Antonio (Ital.)—Embassy Films
Boccaccio 70 (Ital.)—Embassy
Breathless (Fr.)—Films Around World
(.old Wind In August—Aidart
Come Dance With Me (Fr.)—Kingsley-Intl.
During One Night (Br.)--Astor
Expresso Bongo (Br.)—Continental
Five Day Lover (Fr.)—Kingsley- Inti.
Girl With the Golden Eves (F'r.)—Union Films
Green Carnation (was: Trials of Oscar Wilde)
(Br.)—Warwick F'ilms
Green Marc (Fr.)—Zenith
Heroes and Sinners (Fr.)—Janus
1 Am a Camera—DCA
I Love, You Love (Ital ) -Davis-Royal
Joan of the Angels?—Polish-Telcpix
Jules and Jim (Fr.)- Janus
L’Avventura (Ital.)—Janus
La Notte (Night) (Ital.)—Lopert
Lady Chattcrley’s Lover (Fr.)—Kingsley
Lcs Liaisons Dangereuses (Fr.)—Astor Pic
tures, Inc.
Liane, Jungle Goddess—DCA
Love (lame (F'r.) F'ilms Around World
Love Is My Profession (F'r.)—Kingsley-Intl.
Lovers, The (F'r.)- Zenith
Mademoiselle Striptease (Fr.)- I)CA
Magdalena (Ger.)—Buhawk
Maid in Paris (F'r.)—Bellon-Foulkc
Mating Urge—Citation
Miller’s Beautiful Wife (Ital.)—DCA
Mitsou (Fr.)—Zenith Inti.
Mom and Dad (Sideroad)—Hallmark Prod.
Moon Is Blue, The—UA
Never On Sunday (Greek)—Lopert
Nude Odyssey, The (Ital.)—Davis-Royal
Odd Obsession (Jap.)—Harrison
Oscar Wilde (Br.)—Four City F'nterprises
Passionate Summer (Fr.-Ital.)—Kingsley
Phaedra (Gk.)—Lopert
SEPARATE CLASSIFICATION
themselves,
(A Separate Classification is given to certain films which, while not morally offensive in
as a protection to the uninformed against wrong interpretations and false conclusions.)
Adam and Eve (Mex.)—Wm. Horne
Advise and Consent—Col
Anatomy of a Murder—Col
Case of Dr. Laurent (Fr.)—Trans-Lux
Circle of Deception—Fox
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Fr.)—Zenith
Crowning Experience—MR A
Devil’s Wanton (Swed.)—Embassy
•Divorce, Italian Style (Ital.) — Embassy
F’clipse (Ital.)—Times F'ilms
Freud—U-I
Girl of the Night—War.
Important Man (Mexican)—Lopert
Intruder—Pathe-Am.
King of Kings—MGM
La Dolce Vita (Ital.)—Astor Pictures, Inc.
Lolita—Seven Arts
Long Day’s Journey Into Night—F'mbassy
Martin Luther—de Rochemont
Never Take Candy From a Stranger—Omar
Corp
Paris Blues—UA
Passion of Slow Fire (F'r.)—Trans-Lux
Payroll—AA
Peeping Tom—Astor
Private Lives of Adam and Eve—U-I
Purple Noon (Fr.)—Times
Shoot the Piano Player (Fr.)—Astor
Siege of Syracuse—Para.
Sodom and Gomorrah—Fox
Splendor in the Grass—War.
Summcrskin—Angel
Tartars—MGM
That Touch of Mink—U-I
Tomorrow Is My Turn (Fr.)—Showcorp.
Two Weeks in Another Town—MGM
Vampire and the Ballerina—UA
Very Private Affair—MGM
Waltz of the Toreadors (Br.)—Continental
War Lover, The—Col.
White Slave Ship—Am. Inti.
Wild Harvest—Pathe-Am.
World by Night—War.
Port of Desire—Union
Pot Bouille (Lovers of Paris) (Fr.) —
Continental
Prime Time—Essanjay Films, Inc.
Private Property—Citation
Question of Adultery—NTA
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Br.) —
Continental
Savage Eye—Trans-Lux-Kingsley Inti.
Seven Capital Sins (Fr.)—Embassy
Sins of Mona Kent—Astor
Smiles of a Summer Night (Swedish)—Rank
Tales of Paris (Fr.)—Times Films
Temptation (Fr.-Ital.)—Shelton
Third Sex (Ger.)— D. & F. Dist.
Too Young, Too Immoral—Rialto Int’l.
Trials of Oscar Wilde (Br.)—Warwick Films
Truth, The (La Vcrite) (Fr.)—Kingsley Inti.
Viridiana (Sp.)—Kingsley Inti.
Wasted Lives and The Birth of Twins—
K. Gordon Murray Production
require caution and some analysis and explanation
Pressure Point—UA
Sky Above and the Mud Below, The (Fr.)—
F'mbassy
Storm Center—Col.
Strangers in the City—Embassy
Suddenly, Last Summer—Col.
Too Young to Love—Achur-Go Pictures, Inc
Victim (Br.)—Pathe-America
Walk On the Wild Side—Col