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I'VE HEARD OF YOU, CHARLIE THE BIGGEST GAMBLEA IN TOWN/ WHY HAVE YOU GONE TO SO MUCH TROUBLE --
--TO. STEAL THIS BOX THAT JANIE RECEIVED FROM HER UNCLE ED?
THE BOX! YOU BROUGHT IT/
TRIED TO STEAL IT--AS YOU SAY BECAUSE IT'S MINE!
50 YOU--ARE MANDRAKE!
16, 1951.
By Leo Falk and Pall Davis
YOURS! WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT'S THIS
ALL ABOUT?
AND THAT'S A SECOND BLACK BOX
NOT ALL. LOOK AT
THIS!
WHAT'S
INSIDE?
NEXT WEEK- UNCLE EDS SECRET
Is Danny Kaye Worth A Prolonged
It's
£7,000 A Week?
a lot
of money, says GEORGE SCHWARTZ, but Let's Face It, there is only one
Danny Kaye
skilled as
Now then, how do we deat with that situation? First of all, we don't allow-no: it we
Mr W. Marsland, of the Note this, If a lot of doctors balls at a time. The Manchester branch of the and dentials dropped out of rale for that is high.
of Heaven 'the Increase In the National Association Schoolmasters, points out supply would bring down their that when Danny Kaye per- pries, It wouldn't matter that
were: Just a they forms in London this year
the during
Festival of before. Down would come the Britain he will be paid price. £7,000 a week or as much as a schoolmaster on his new maximum salary will earn in 11 years.
I
AND DEMAND
A high price for services can prevall even if no skill at all is Involved.
He was generous enough
Why does the fat lady at to say "Good luck to Danny the fair probably get two or Kaye," but he went on to three times the income of a ask why doctors, dentists skilled engineer? Because she and Danny Kaye com- deserves it? As I said, deserve manded so much higher is hardly the word. Because she rates than schoolmasters works hard? But she has to sit
still, could command.
And he declared, quite rightly, that it was because of the scarcity value.
That is how the market works.
Danny Kayes go at p very high price because there are very lew of them, Doctors and dentists go at a fairly high price because there are relatively few of them. Unskilled labour goes at a rather low price because of such labour Is the supply fairly abundant.
SUPPLY-
The answer is that the supply of ladies weighing over 20 stone is very short, and that is the one and only economic explana-
tion,
Suppose she felt guilty about this and proposed to do some welfare work in her spare time. "No, you don't,' 'her manager First of all you would say.
yourself would be exhibiting
Burst Of Pageantry
Edward Small, who deals' in big pictures, sometimes
manages to miss the markt,
but in "Lorna Doone" suffi- clent excitement is sustained to make it worthwhile.
The film is ideal fare'for the
family, and is replate with situations which provoke ex- market | citement. There is abundant
chivalry gicaned from, the an
romantic past nouls of England's
It is made up of castles stand- ing on cliffs, craggy waterfalls whose rocky summits are goin- are sensible any occupation to
sion of dying man which Give Danny keep its mupply scarce by arti-ed by a young hero, the confes- ncial restriction.
He doesn't do
transforms Lorna Doone into a Kaye his due,
daughter of the Duke of Lome, anything to keep budding
a knighthood conferred on the Danny Kayes off the stage.
Come spur the
moment, a king in Secondly, let us do everything. hiding, and secret passages to encourage and help young which lead to freedom.
Exquisite colour lends its op- people to train for the "scarcity- value" occupations.
to the story, and the medieval ages are recaptured; prolonged burst of
And don't think things arc
peal
In
going wrong if the threat act supply brought about in that fact that in the end all the way brings down the price in the ls are corrected and such occupations. You might knight wina his lady makes for the film's faithful edherance have a world in which brick-
to form, and this does not dis- layers earned as much as doctors, or to put it the other way, in please as much as it satisfies which doctors carned no more for anybody who loves Robin than bricklayers.
Hood still wants him to abide by the fairy tale.
That sounds
untnatural, but only, because we have fixed and irrational ideos about economic values.
Richard Greene and Barbera Hale sbare stellar honours and handsome pair- they make a ADC
SHOW TALK HAROLD CONWAY
for nothing and spoiling your BRITISH FILM HAS A
market. Worse than that, the exertion might take off 5 or 0 stone, and your occupation would be gone. At 22 stone you are unique, At 15 stone you would' be one of a crowd."
NAZI AS THE HERO
%
It's important you should get Most British film studios, avoid controversial topics like the plague. But a new picture being made' at Elstree is probably going to stir up a lively controversy. Its title is "So Little Time"....and the hero-most sym- pathetically-drawn-is a Nazi officer...
Don't mix up these economie • valucs with any other con- this clear, because clear think- siderations, especially moral ing on the issue will enable us considerations.
to go the right way to reduce inequalities...
Don't, for example, say that Danny Kaye gets an enormous salary because he deserves il- hot if you use the word deserve
in its ordinary meaning.
Don't say that doctors and dentists get high Incomes because they do skilled work. It is true in a way, but this com presses the argument too much. To get it clear it must be set out properly. Thus:
Because doctoring and dentistry Arc highly skilled operations, the supply of doctors and dentists is not very large, since the training is long and expensive. Bacause the supply is not large a high price at taches to the work.
take
Remember, the market iF
Here is a new kind of screen And, of course, the musicals, It values the hero indeed unless you count quite impersonal.
Let theatre managers product, not the merits of the the sneaking admiration we felt down that silly logand "Festival producer.
some years ago for Erie Port- Production" from their bills. It man's escaping submarine com- means nothing and audiences are tired of it. Let them con- mander in 49th Parallel."
Has Danny Kaye achieved his performing skill by tremendously hard work, or did his talent come Heroine of "So Little Time" whose naturally? Does he take it out of is a young Belglon girl himself at every performance, or family have been klibed by the does he merge fresh as a daisy Nazis, but who falls hopelessly not in love with the German mill- You, as the audienco, are concerned with that at all. You tary commander of her town. simply rate the performance.
A man may have been born a juggler, or he may hava practised eight hours a day for
You 20 years.
don't argue about that. He is one of the few persons who can juggle 15
ready for another: Engllab
THAT WORD Vienna-born Maria Schell, whose home is in Switzer- land, plays the part. It is her biggest role since she came to England unknown 18 months
Britain's Marius Goring is the Nazi commander. He and Miss Schell go to Belgium this month for location stenes. With them In an important supporting role gocs Mannheim.
Goring's German-born wife Larie
I welcome the producers en- terprise though they are ap parently not without a certain trepidation. They wince at the word "Nazi". So far as they are concerned, the hero is a "Ger- man."
PERHAPS...
Audrey Hepburn, is an at tractive young soubrette who has dona some promising bits and pieces in West End revue and cabaret. Then she wor given a film test.
Ever since then she has been publicised as one of the most
exciting discoveries: British
MARIA SCHELL A
The Belgian girl who fails, la fora
with a Notl
studios have made. I hope her centrate on good entertainment. cheeks, are not too red this week. Then there will be no need for,
For Miss Hepburn'a first pic albis.
fure Laughter in Paradise"
ENTER MISS CHRISTIE har just been shown. She has Back from excavating
the
two fleeting appearances on screen of what seamed, to be a few seconds each.
3,000-year-old town in Iraq: murder-novelist Agatha Chris- We have sill to see two other tie, confessing to a broken vow. At least, most of the excIva- in which she has taken ting was done by her husband, pictures part. Perhaps she will yet Max Maliowan: he is.
Professor dazzle us But it would have.
then.
until worked
secretary,
been wiser and more helpful to of Archaeology at London Uni- Hepbum herself to hold versity, Miss Christie, as usual,
tho capacky of h up, the trumpet
“And I mean secretary," she
murder
are
But she did. För she has come
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