<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a08986bd-2840-42b8-ae6a-b34b637c9a75/69DF9D82-1348-46E5-9E6F-08C8BB213515/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html" href="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html" style="font-size: 11px;">justamason.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html"><H2 class="date-header"></H2> <DIV class="post hentry"> <A name="2265941181794415932"></A> <H3 class="post-title entry-title"> <A href="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Say, Maybe We DO Run Hollywood! (Or did)</A></H3></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Sunday, 15 March 2009</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">But I’ve stumbled across references to Freemasons and Freemasonry in Hollywood in the most unexpected places, and I’m going to share a couple.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Yes, voices. Mel Blanc documents his Masonic and Shrine membership in his autobiography.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Universal’s founder Carl Laemmle was—and Lantz’s autobiography has the picture you see on the right of Laemmle and the King of Jazz, Paul Whiteman, full of Shriney splendour.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/justamason.blogspot.com/img/A8F1D587-CCF7-441A-B2BF-C428B18AD815" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Herb Yates was the founder of Republic Studios. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">from <EM><EM>Boxoffice</EM></EM>, 12 February 1944:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Herbert J. Yates has been named honorary life president of the newly formed Republic Level Club, comprised of Masons on the lot.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">Presidents of Masonic clubs in all other major studios were honoured guests at the first meeting. The new organization plans to hold regular meetings on the last Monday of every month.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">“Your Son Is My Brother,”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, Masons all.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justamason.blogspot.com/2009/03/say-maybe-we-do-run-hollywood-or-did.html">show all Masons what the fraternity is doing for the armed forces</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69DF9D82-1348-46E5-9E6F-08C8BB213515/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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