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In the latest picture, "I written," with a vivid See A Dark Stranger," Frank ( character in the Irish vilinge Launder and: Sidney Gilliat re-girl, admirably played by
Deborah Kerr:
-turn to the kind of comedy thriller they excelled in as seript writers before the war. As writer-producer-directors, they decided that a brief inter- hude of light entertainment, would be i timely change before returning to the more serious type of picture they have been making during the war.
Spy
"I See A Dark Stranger:" a story get in Ireland and England, is a light-hearted picture full of the happiest kind I of fun. The story is of a naive and spirited Irish,, village girl who becunies involved with German agents in spying on Britain and then realises she aas more in common with the British than with the Nazi. "The English and the Irish are equally the target for Launder and Gilliat's wit. Because they have a deep understanding of the whole subject they were
By CATHERINE
DE LA ROCHE
Laughter And
: Self-Criticism. Authentic background and an impressive opening are equally important in building thriller. "Green For Danger"
up a
one of their latest successes in Bessentially
atmosphere
film," says Gilliat,. "It is a detective murder story, set in hospital during the flying bomb, raids. We open with a model shot of the hospital, pan down through the roof into the opera- ting theatre, and pick out the tense masked faces of each of the seven suspects werking round the operating table. Straight-away you are in the atmosphere of the whole story." In this, as in all their films. Launder and Giliat have made a deep study of the background, and have experts from the medical profession as advisers.
Behind the laughter and th. wit in Launder and Gilliat's pic- tures there is always something thought-provoking. They never evade social comment where it is relevant, and they are never afraid of self-criticism. There is no bitterness in their satire be cause their appreciation of the humour and fun of life is spon- is there any
nor
frivolity in it because their con cerit
with social and moral issues is sinvere.
day again hailed the result as establishing precedent which will ensuite that political and military leaders who in the fu- ture conspire to wage aggressive war will be punished. "The principles laid down by the Court," said His Majesty, "re present an important development in international law which will I hope, prove a lasting deterrent against aggression." This is an admirable idea. But is should not be averianked that the main rea So the Nazi leaders found them- able to produce a comedy that selves in the dock was not that offends neither the English nor thes made the war, but that they the Irish, and gives entertain-taneous:" lust it. Future historiansaring and interesting sidelights therefore mare likely to record life in Eire. that the real significance of! Nuernberg was that it set a pre- culent for the lasers to be tried by the victors. Whether this will materially advance the cause of world civilization seems open to | doubt. The careful" and dis- criminating judgments handed ut at Nuernberg are proof of the seriousness and, sense of res- ponsibility with which the Tri- bunal devoted itself to its com plicated and thankless task. No one can doubt that justice in the broadest sense has been done. Or he ther hand, it is open to grave doubt whether it was good law Certainly the guilty, men
com-
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Created Famous Characters
Beth Gilliat and Launder are in their late thirties. They have] grown up with the British film industry, having joined it during the transition period from silent films to talkies. They have also
|CARNIVAL.
By Dick Turner
ri Traine
"I haven't been able to get a date, since this alona"sia; 7
started-all the girls tell me the Navy is obsolere
The Crucial Problem
Of Coal
Launder's next picture will be based on "Captain Boycott" by Philio Rooney, Gilliat's next will
Britain's epal problem is factories, Trom cust, to sit at be based on on Norman Collins's
Ached in South Wales in nerfast as possible. "Defentism" a best-seller, "London Belongs
To that are very surp and clear miners' leader called it. Tongues Ble," colourful story, под tragic, now wildly comic, about some of the outlines are etched can be blunt as well as eloquent, London and the true Londoner.
in a kind of acid-those lines. And yet, if you can't get enough for instance, named siliensis. epal, what then? Six years ago, Leaders ou both sides. em
South Wales had 140,000 miners players, and men, see ecal and outpat ef valeable coal we problem for the crucial one it 32.352.000 trus. A year later the miners were down to 105,- 000 (the difference gone into the Forces or scattered over
played leading port in develop India: And
ing the essentially national char- acter that appeared in the Bri-! tish cinema durine the war, when Gm workers started maturiag. and ilms cradently acquired style,
While still under twenty-years, Launder wrote a comedy which was produced by the Brighton Company. Though in his view it had no merit except bright and gely dialogue, it secured him a job in the scenario department of Elstree studies. There he wrote the screen plays of some of the first British Lalkies. Later he a founder member of the Streenwriters Association.
been an enthusiastic has always advocate of screenwriting an an independent medium right, a mcs furn which the
Be
in its own
Goa
Is.
"Given 60 milion tons more we should be a well-to-do nä- tion" said a coal-owner. Again: "Without rough eral we sink to a recond-rate ngrientural
New Delhi, Nov. 7 India has asked Britain to make representations, to the Portuguese Goveftiment on her behalf over the recent detention in Goa-the Portuguese
By JAMES ritory on the west coast of LANSDALE HODSON India-of the Congress Socialist
House.
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Ilon tuns less than we
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DRAMA IN PAINT
By JAMES LAVER
It is safe to say that not one. peranu in a thousand, ever among those interested in the arts.h the faintest idea of the wealth and variety of the Royal Collectións. Some pain- tings everyone has seen, such n the Lely "Beauties" at Hamp- ton Court; members of special blies like the National Art Collections Fund have examine‹l, the pictures at Buckingham Palace: specialists have turned over the portfolios at Windsor. Many Masterpieces. But in the show at Burlington House recently, H.M. he King graciously allowed a free chcice to be made among all his collections, and the result. "admirably arranged and magnificently catalogued by the Keeper of the King's Pic Jures. was a revelation
The galleries are large, but the King's pictures filled them. There was no picture which was not interesting; the majority were splendid, specimens of the work of the greatest painters.
Masterpieces jostled one an other. It was impossible to take them in anything less than half a dozen visits.
Net alt our kings have cared for painting. George I it will be remembered "hated paint- ing, and poetry, too," But those who have cared for it- notably Charles I and George V-cared for it intensely. The was. the unfortunate Charles greatest patron of all
of the way cor.
He accumulated Italian and Flemish pictures, and he com missioned paintings by "echtem- prary artists. As two of these). bore the names of Rubens and Van Dyck. the level King's "modern" art, England in ether trades be spicuously Eigh.
Splendid as the other pictures cause upal exports had stopped! and pits were shutting). In were it was probably the por January 1945, we had 112,007 traits which appealed to the miners; 2.000 of them Bevin public most All our history was 293.000 tons, Today the miners ilenry himself was represented boys. Outpu in 1944 was 22. here, from Henry VIII onwards. number 107,829, and alth.ugliby a painting by Joos van Cleve, leader Rani Mandohar Lohia, country," said a miners' leader, that is 500 higher than last and then began the magnificent Mr. Hugh Weightman, the Ex-That extra 50 milion tons is Desember, the increase
came series of Holbeins, Lernal Affairs Secretary, told
reen as an elusive gift of the from returned soldiers; you One of the most attractive," the Central Legislative Assem-gods, tantalising, out of reach. can't go out repeating that. Out, the "Young Man in Red was bly here today.
from Holbein Mr. Weightman was replying Yet even that would be 50 mil put last year was 20,109,000 taken away
Look tons, a drop since 1946T 12 and given to a "follower," but to a question in the Lower out of the carth when million tong in one coalfield. it was none the less a superb we had nearly half n-milion | We're now ging to save, a piece of work and brought the . He said the Indian Govern-
in and about the million ton: by switching lo-age vividly before 38. Another ment considered the arrest and more men
Working pity...
contives from cut to all, and anonymous "Painter matter of importance.”
tona. by converting factories. the most moving portrait of Cardiff was our largest coal- The result of the representa
Some discorn glimmers of Queen Elizabeth. awaited tions to Portugal was now shipping port. Speak of the
An employer
Guarded Lips. further action Rhondda and you think of coul, light, however,
She is shown as a girl with as well as on the legal advice burn coal or oil was would depend on developments Whether the Royal Navy should who is chairman or managing
a grave director of half-a-dozen South watchful eyes and clovely gard- obtained by the Government, topic in the Welsh valleys in Wales companies spoke of a ed-lips. They had reason to be
Lohin was arrested in June cider days. Oil won, to Walea's group f pits wherein he has for
as long as "Queen Mary and released last month. He regret. So it's natural that I. persuaded the men to stop pool-lived a single false step would of the ing their earnings and allow the have brought Elizabeth to the was forbidden to re-enter Por- should hear criticism faguese India for five years. plan to switch 1,300 heavy individual man to be paid for block. Router.
comotives and, it's said,"1,000 the coal be cuts. Thereby the output per manshift at the face has risen (he said), from two tons to lice and he belleves it will rise to five. He is pro- prying to install machinery at ther pits which will, he trusts, trehle output at the coalface.
respect for the greatest creative writers can detention of Lohia to he "Coal Or Oil Controversy; perhaps a further three million in England" bas left us perhaps
for self-expression, provided. they love the cinema.
Cert the vilest crimes against humanity. But in order that these should be brought home to them. new law had to be invented, and applied retretively. No one can Hind, much, satisfaction in that. Granting, the essential illegality of the whole basis of the trial. the proceedings were conducted with such dignity and fairness, and with such rules of evidence, that the ac reused showed quite plainly by
in their conduct that.
their
Gilliat also started hearts, they accepted the Court's before he was 20 doing all kinds film work jurisdiction. The accused. like of jobs. First he wrote sub-titles King Charles of England, when for silent dims; then he costum tried by the triphant Rounded several pictures, till one day
he thought of a "gaz" (
cornedy heads, might have refused to plead. Instead, they defended trick) which was incorporated in- To an early talkie. On the themselves with vigour. And strength of this he became "gar- an repeated oc man" to Walter Forde, one of the they showed,
for the leading directors of the time, and their respect casions,
worked on many of his comdies. Court, for the conduct of the
By 1930 he was a recognised trial, and for the way in which script writer. Bath Launder and Laird Justice (Sir Geoffrey Law- Gilliat, therefore. established first as humorous ee presided, as well as for the themselves
writers. When later way in which Sir Maxwell Frit
they cu- gaged in more serious work, its and other Allied lawyers con
quality was always enhanced by ducted the prosecution. But the wit and humour that is na- dignity and impartiality in judi- tural to both of them. [cis) proceedings, and trials which area signal example of Allie also deterrents to | cooperation, are not necessarily
the arising o
raw, aggressors,
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The screenplay that first drew
attention to the team was "The
Lady Vanishes," the Alfred Hitch- cock comedy Urüler in which they created
the now famous
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
FALSE-CARDS
ANY SIZE
both of these cards. On the
Fewer Women At Work Thirdly, he saw hope in the hope that East held only one fact that in many a household of them, he put in the 2 from the miner's wagepacket has When the expression "false the dummy instead of making grown in importance because most players the natural play of "splitting fewer women are going out to characters of Charters and Caldi- card" is used,
coal-using, of a coal-burner' in one in order or J. Englishmen who remain more of a high interested in the game of convey the impression st
Thch we have the first Duke of Buckingham, the "golden boy" batled in a golden light; and the touching" fortrait of the three children of Charles I.
And the great oval, with trees,¿ containing, almost incidentally, the Duke of Cumberland and two ladies, and, the first sketch for Gainsborough's "Perdita," and the Lawrence portrait of Castlereagh, with the melan
holy, suicidal- eyes.
There were enough pictures there, supreme from the interest of their subjects or from thes.
cot, satirising two unimakinative think of it as meaning the play his honours" and using the work. He spoke of economy in intoxication of sheer technique, --
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́U.S. ELECTION The true significance of the
East took Ure trick with his his house which does better with to keep mind and fragi American election result probably cricket than in the international certain lower ones are not held. A and noted that South played five tous what formerly took tien living for months. This was
aph whom they; succeed
ever shown in in There are 'tuations, however, the 3. Convinced that South 10 tons, said that when Britain, one of the most remarkable lies in the indication they give a-
In which the play of a low card would have used da honour as a nation, burns her coal eff. exhibitionE to who will move into the Whit unmasking.
can be just as definitely a false- from dummy unicas he held the clently, she will extract as much odenti House in January, 1949 Thu Their first venture as joint card. An inclusive definition for K, East was sure. South had power from 150 million tons as
MILCH TO BE strength of the tide flowing directors was "Milliona Like a false-card would be some that card and that West had now takes 170 milion. This. desirous of keeping trade relations with foreign | against the Truman administra Us," an original `story about | thing like this: "Anycard led a fourth-best from the theme is on men's lips A Mayor
TRIED Mi Manufacturers and any other reliable firms.
tion and the Democratic Party munition workers, and one of which is intended to cause an 9-8-7-0, alther with or without asked me did I realise we sont
Hamburg, Nov. 7. ↑ could. hardly “ huve been · more the best British films made opponent to think your holding the 1. He decided not to lead a whole pharmacopoeia up the The British News Service in 236-8, Dog Voeux Rd., C., 2nd F). 22. Son Ping Lee Kinting, R., E. amply illustrated, and, it is note during the wur. Like manyt af in different from what it really to that diamond K. Study of chimney, that we never set Germany stated today that a Trì. H20-2402 Po Họ: 120
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a shift but it has to be spread 367 In Mountain Ash. "All this over others not at the, face).. Is differenent from the past Britain lv, pa a nation, faking when "pneumoconiosis was not mute care of her industrial pensionable and men feared casualties. Men are encouraged having a medical examination to leave the pits go son as lest they by pronounced "unfit
are compensated, and new, till far gold, We're dealing with "factories are being built grievous legacy, and while our epecially for them, a wise and calightened action is not getting right action since: 80 per Eent, coal out of the pits now, later. Or more re-fit for some form on it may for these lang (Dealer West. East-West of Industrial employment, In disedzes are 'n mighty deterrent vulnerable)
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