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Since the New York Star cons | we carry off the top film honours big men hare button up consuming the ed publication after
It will be unfor £2,300,000 which could not keep their wallets. It twinking, the blight has spread, tunate if the custom of Academy
Fancy salaries and swollen ex- Awards is dropped. pense accounts are out,. This is The run-of-the-mill employees industry the entertalument the gloomy truth, and we had in In one tremendous year
stepped right better face it, because an Ameri-here are disgusted with the ac- United States has
financially strapped
the American Alm
big out in front, and is even begin-en
and tion of hing to glory in world leadership struggling is not going to scatter companies. The newspaper cri- snowflakes over tics say they have never seen Jong
like affair with Great dollars
hand-out. such poor sportsmanship. Britain has now become roman-everyone seeking a
It is just too bad Britain cun- Many important Americans, In- lenarriage. There has rarely
cluding Mr. Churchill's greatest not win once in a while without been happier pal
an exhibition of bad manners of Ernest Bevin and Dean Ache-friend, Bernard Baruch, think the on walk hand-in-hand, bearing United States will have to trim this sort.
The money Involved-a on each other, applauded by the her expenditure and re-examine
to avoid und blessed by her resources
folnx £25,000 years peanuts wedding
quests
broke herself.
Hollywood's standards. Winston Churchill.
Mr. Churchill's visit, and Mr. A perpetual honeymoon is pro- mised, and abuse heaped on the Bevin's too, in a lesser way, have Russin-confused by given this country a stimulant couple by the confeiti and seeing red at the and put over Britam-they are range blossom-is merely help our two best salesmen-but other Countries Jexy endowed with ing to seal the betrothal
the But no bells
statesmen are going to find the ring, over American home remittances reduced. Funtion on the front.
Last spring there was R MOP- Ing boom. The Unitest
States
Legs Again
The taxi-drivers thought they
are
mere
hy
send
|LEFTIST MP SAYS:
BRITAIN WON'T FIGHT UNDER LABOUR PARTY
Paris, April 21.
Britain will navor go to war while she has a Labour Government, Mr. Konni Zilliacus, Labour Mom- ber of Parliament, told 1,500 Communist and loft wing delegatos here today. Representatives of 59 nations at the second session of the "World Peace Conference” here apploud- ed loudly when Mr. Zilliacus said: "I do not believe that any Government in Britain can take our people into a war within the next few years and after that it will be too late."
that the
con-
M. Álexander Fodeev, author | Germany, Greece, the Near aud Perhaps Olivier should
the Pacific back his Oscar. Obviously, the and leader of the Russian dele- the Middle East,
not betalands, China and Japan, be sold, notation, said he does tycoons of Hollywood do
The existence of these bases lieve a war is imminent. War
14 want him to have it.
menace to world peace, he is most Hollywood has become a reality for
to- claimed. The truth
'said. producers fear our artistry and morrow, he
A new M. Fadcev added craftsmanship
superior
to armaments race has begun in atomie bomb can not be theles
And everything the film
many Western European coun-sidered a defensive weapon. critics here say supports that
He attacked the Atlantic Pact tries and in the United States. view.
World maps reveal the growth and sak it is clear to every man Again we are getting a magni- of a huge this of military bases blocs are dividing the world into of Round mind that Auch
from England. "Quartet"-a two- hour feature film of four separate stories all by Somerset Maugham --has been a gigantle success.
termined defenders
of
редса and their feeling about war la summarisad by
of group 2,000 women of Paris, "We do not wan tanks but ngricultural machines. We do [not want war stocks. Give us
back our soNE"
A mesange was read from the painter, Henri Matisse, aged 79," regretting his absence from the Congress because of liness.
A Bishop of the Hungarion_Re- formed Church, M. Albert Ber- czyk, spoke of the International polemies ruled by the case of the Archbishop of Hungary' (Car dinol Mindszenty),
A
"Disgust For War"
"As a Bishop Berczyk, sald: member of the Church and as a good patriot 1 wish to express to the Protestant States of Nor- them Europe my sincero grati- tudo becaule they have recog- nised from the beginning that hin (Mindzenty's ense WAS
nal politics."
M. Ilyn Ehronburg. Russlan commenta- writer and political tor, said he and his
Eko colleagues would
nothing better than to shake hands with the Americans in the knowledge that they are going to live to gether in peace.
was pereled happily on the peak could tie up New York by with jernt Press. The latest product pussing through Greenland, Ice-opposing groups of countries, that matter only of Hungarian inter-
the bright drawing their cabs from The of prosperity, and
They have not. duze American sky was the limit. streets.
New York has taken the taxi Today even the Government act-
It has been reits there is a recession which trike in its strale, it insists will not turn into a te- pression, but is merely a neede corrective and levelling-out.
Unemployment
Unem
3,500,000 - Twice
110W that of
totals Just
April.
per
ber
Helad sades are down #1
prices 5 cent, wholesaler rent, seed prices 8 per cent, and general Consumer prices 3 pet ront
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a much plesanter place to live. In these past few days.
A lot of luxi-riders have re-} disrovered their legs or settled for the subway and buses.
There has been Bitte violence, i and 1 expect most cab-drivers back on the streets any day now th their original del £2 3s, a or £2 15s, a night minimum
-ansatisfied.
New York and Amerien under the threat of
depression still
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The New York publican who Arst offered heer at five cents
with his re-election plans.
Mayor O'Dwyer is preoccupied
He did take time off the other day to say New York had be come the fashion centre of the worki
Perhaps has. The women have certainly blossomed out for (38.) a glass has so many comspring with flowered bonnets and
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Free lunches -cheese and crackers, sardlines. Sausages, pickles, and onions—are renp-
Women's clothes have the lowest price-range since · 1941- from 43 5s, to 13 15s., and they wil got even cheaper.
While fears multiply like rab-
pearing in the cheaper bars bits, the women are sul defer- particularly the waterfiant hung-mined to dress well. outs.
The Job-huntres are having a tough time, and are taking most anything that is offered.
Even in the Daily Mail's sanal New York office we have had procession of callers looking for work.
My own profession the most acute sufferers,
among
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Hollywood's producers are stilti treching alibis and excuses for withdrawing their financial sup- port of the
Academy Awards.
Of course, the decision was in Be way the result of pipe over the Opears going to Britain and American publishing costs have Sir Laurence Olivier this year. Kone up 70 per cent since the The charge is incredible, fantas- war, and many newspapers and fic, unjust, uncalled for, Sp magazines are fighting to keep they say. alive. Hundreds of are out of work.
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and, Britain,
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such blocs bave a military char- netor and that, from the moment of their creation, the war hos entered its preparatory already phase,
Russian
The New York newspapers say Rudicals and Reds are back in that we have taken the lead in power in American Alm studios. original flim presentation, Holly- And those who opposed the
Dofonders Of Peaco wood just
Its pinkos are being punished. mutters under
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M. Fadecv concluded with an
all over "It is difficult to suppress the Our old enemy Ben Hecht is most violent erities of the Left-appeal to intellectuals
and the met; in business and is adapting Wingers, has not been given a the world to unite against the voice of the people,
voices of the people are crying months in any grade | warmongers. "Edge
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"We for peace." he Enid. Re of film despite his versatility and book here, for the screen.
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