Film censor and motion picture executive whose “Hays Office” instituted the Production Code of movie-making ethics which was in effect from 1930 to 1966. TLS, two pages, 8 x 11, Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America letterhead, February 9, 1923. The head of Hollywood censorship comments of the notorious Fatty Arbuckle case. In part: “Now that the Arbuckle incident is concluded I want you personally to know the facts…From the beginning there were two elements of considerable public interest in the Arbuckle matter; first, what he was going to do in his profession as to future pictures, etc., and, second, what was going to be done with the pictures already made by the company owning them… the facts are that the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation decided last spring not to release the films…the matter has been concluded…by the operation in a natural way of natural and proper factors and not by an arbitrary power, real or imaginary…” In very good condition, with two horizontal folds, separation along the right portions of the folds, one third of the right margin of the signed page missing, as well as two small corner portions of front page. R&R COA.
