People, Feb. 24, 1936

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In Washington Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis summoned the United Press, gave out a resounding 800-word statement declaring that Cinema Tsar Will Hays had banned any film version of his best-selling book It Can't Happen Here. Stormed Author Lewis: "I wrote It Can't Happen Here but I begin to think it certainly can."

Tsar Hays promptly denied any ban. Vice President Louis Burt Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which owns screen rights to the book, said: "We are not planning to make the picture at the present time because it would cost too much. The Hays office has not said a thing. ... If all this talk continues, perhaps we will find it profitable.''

Up to a radio microphone at a Notre Dame football banquet last month stepped Mayor George W. Freyermuth of South Bend, Ind. to congratulate "this fine baseball team." Up to another microphone last week stepped Mayor Freyermuth to congratulate Studebaker Corp. on its 84th birthday. Boomed he: "Studebaker is now producing a car equal to few and superior to none."