--- description: After a series of conferences, Hollywood producers were reported last week to be raising $2,000,000 to educate cinemagoers, by means of paid advertising, against "censorship" and... title: Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd) image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd) (18 Jun 1934) by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 18, 1934 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 18, 1934 4:00 AM CUT After a series of conferences, Hollywood producers were reported last week to be raising $2,000,000 to educate cinemagoers, by means of paid advertising, against “censorship” and “professional reformers”—i. e. the Legion of Decency sponsored by the Roman Catholic hierarchy (TIME, June 11). And last week the Legion of Decency’s cinema boycott was growing vigorously. Without naming names, George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago urged his flock of 1,159,000 to join the movement. More outspoken, Denis Cardinal Dougherty urged Philadelphia Catholics to register their protest by staying away from all cinema houses. In St. Louis, Archbishop Glennon warned local exhibitors that “the good pictures will suffer with the bad, until the bad are eliminated.” Archbishop Curley of Baltimore flayed Hollywood’s “river of filth.” Elsewhere Knights of Columbus, Holy Name Societies, Sodality Unions and other Catholic lay organizations were last week swinging their members into line. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6894744/cinema-legion-of-decency-contd-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6894744/cinema-legion-of-decency-contd-2/"},"headline":"Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd) (18 Jun 1934)","datePublished":"1934-06-18T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-23T15:35:24.089Z","description":"After a series of conferences, Hollywood producers were reported last week to be raising $2,000,000 to educate cinemagoers, by means of paid advertising, against \"censorship\" and...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6894744/cinema-legion-of-decency-contd-2/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6894744/cinema-legion-of-decency-contd-2/","name":"Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd) (18 Jun 1934)"}}]}] ```