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By BUD FISHER
GENTS CLOTHES
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
HEY, MUTT! WANNA HEAR ME PLAY "THE FLIGHT OF THE. BUMBLEBEE?
DON'T
BOTHER ME!
LADY WOULD
YOU LIKE TO
SIR!
AH; WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ME
HEAR "THE
FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE?"
RECORDS GONE WITH CANALS TO
THE WIND
"Gone With The Wind" has made screen history. With a recent perform- ance at the Ritz, London, it became the first film to run for a year at a West End cinema.
The previous record was held by "Ben Hur," which ran for
TALK OF HIGH WAR WAGES IS "NONSENSE"
war workers.
forty-nine weeks the Tivoli
fourteen years ago.
at
Not only has it made a for-
CARRY FOOD
Britain's vast network
of 3,600 miles of canals and inland waterways, tune for David Selznick, who neglected for years, will as busy as they soon be were in the days of their Victorian prosperity and will be playing a vital
spent £800,000 making it, but; made Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh the "most seen" person alititles in films,
Receipts in Britain have already reached £250,000, although it has only been shown in a dozen locali-part in speeding up the country's war transport system.
ties.
In London alone it has taken £ 120,000, and there are still queues at the Ritz.
Manchester's run at one cin- ema lasted for twenty-four weeks and produced £34,000.
woman
Of this, one old
of sixty paid £3 38. in seeing the film fourteen times,
Beat All Records
Mr. George Gibson, Chairman Equally popular at Birmingham, of the T.U.C. General Council, it brought in £31,000 In seventeen criticised Mr. Bennett, a Metro-weeks.
Even in Scotland, where they politan magistrate, and "aristocra- tic people in London" who had think twice before paying a 3s. 6d. commented about the wages of minimum admission, it beat all records at Glasgow, Dundee, and, believe it or not-ABERDEEN!
It is estimated that a further when it is £750,000 will follow generally released in the autumn the exact date is not yet set.
This will bring the figures in Britain up to £1,000,000 - far ahead of the total registered by any other film.
He told the annual conference of trade union women in Leeds that Mr. Bennett seemed to have the idea that income tax had gone up to 10s, in the £ because war workers were earning £5 a week "It is easy to talk non- or more. sense with an Oxford accent," he declared,
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Since his appointment by the Minister of Transport to investi- gate the canal system, Mr. Frank Pick, former L.P.T.B. vice-chair- man, has been getting a move on,
Taking the Minister at his word that "speed is the essence of the case," he has been roaming the the use-and country, probing
disuse of our canals, only com- ing back to town at intervals for hurried conferences with his chief. Now, without waiting to sub- mit a final report on his inves- he has handed the tigations,
report con- Minister an interim
of recommen- taining a number dations.
Cutting Out Waste
The "Daily Mirror" understands that Mr. Pick's proposals in- clude:
New wharf accommodation at various pointa along the canals to eace war Industries of their transport difficultles.
Speedier means for finding ekliled labour to operate hun- dreds of bargce now tying idle.
Two-way schedules that will keep boats employed all the eliminate wasteful time and empty return journey.
Expansion and speed-up of canal system for bringing about quicker and more even distri- bution of nation's food,
The Minister of Transport is so much in agreement with Mr. Pick-recently he confessed him- self "becoming very bargemind- ed" that he has already started putting some of the earlier re- commendations into practice with- out waiting for the completion of the inquiry,
DE-RESERVED MEN
AS GUN-FODDER
This is what Mr. J. Marchbank, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, says about the coming comb-out of the re- served occupations:
"It seems to me imperative, that we should realise that what might be called the reserve of the indus- trial army, is being levied, not for war industry, but to feed the querulous and insistent appetite of the military authoritles, for enn- non-fodder.
"The principle is that no young men however skilled, shall remain in industry even at key jobs-if their work can be done by older men of non-military age or by women,
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