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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1953.
VIEWS THE SOCIALIST CONFERENCE
AS IT MIGHT BE . AND AS IT WOULD BE IF THEY TELEVISED IT Cumm long
Slot-Machine Films Cummings Take The Cinema Home
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By Randolph Bush
And ils fim is expected to reverre the tido of entertain- ment doliers now flowing 10- wards TV, and Hit the movie. makers out of a sea of red ink,
New York. tower people went to cinemas of this year 0 fight TV, Holly in the first half wood is going on TV, han in the first half last year.
The Film Actors Guld says Films will be put on tour In fen of Hollywood's the air by Telemeter, a directors now work on TV
Twenty TV stations have Darryl F. Zanuck, prąduction "pay-as-you-sce,”
good up for 28 feature films chief for Skourns, says: "Holly-
or fall on to be shown on TV before they wood will rise
on the cinema scree
success of "The Hobe." 'The TV
men want
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brings Marilyn Manto and Danny Kaye into the boms, in their newest films. All the viewer doco is drop a shilling or two in a box attached to his TV cct
Something
walked similar. Phonevision, was chee frici Chicago. The idea of that wa that you dialled the telephone pictures, company to bek for The operator plugged you into a film broadened to your bone Dot. The telephone company was to put the charge on your monthly bill.
It worked technically-}}96! the telephone company elded
It want no part of it.
Hollywood wanted nɔ pari, either. The tim men thought it wouht kill. Jeen! cinemas.
In 400 homes
10 hire
players as Jolu Ireland
Don
tha
You may call that a bit of xaggeration, At in Brain fer film), Hollywood
.0 Alexis Smith,
Ameche, worst only one company--20th
fall Denne O'Keefe (also in Britain Century-Fox-would fer a 3-D film), Jackie Cooper, "The Hobe" flopped.
Hodlak, Journe Dru
It shows the state of John PLRgy Aan Garner, and Jeffrey Hollywood's nerves over TV. Lynn : app in them.
Nothing like
hus hap ned before.
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It fought
first Hollywood fought ugainst TV with 3-D. But Jesy 3-1 in bust. The customers flocked in while it was n novelty. Once euriosity was withsler, Uwy stopped.
Not one 3-D pleture is among bax-ofer attrac- SLOW Tetemmer the top ten system requieren pitone
Today 20 pictures-are being ing, no monthly bill. Just curh
box mine in Hollywned (three years though a slut into the
40); and only which is attachtil to 150 TV ago there were
And one of the bigers four are 3-D. studios, Paramount, is backing it.
Now, this
Shuns
But now Hullywood has an- other secret weapon against TV.
An even wider wilde-zert an Super-sot Mazie, "The Rue, his just had a promine on Ereadway. It fishes 6011, screen in coktur.
RCTOS
O percent Vision in depth having failed at Paramount owns
will put it the box office, they are tying of Telancter. R latest pictures over the system viston in super-width. to 400 homes in the California winter resort of Palm Springs. Filme put out on TV will be the sa.ne as those shown at the two local cinemas. the cinemas will get part of the receipts.
von Fer, Telemeler does So, not pul cinemas cut of
11 can just as Tues, broadcast sports events or live shows to con-box rek-ali without advertising.
basi-
Spyros P. (for Panagiotka) Skouras, 250,000 dollar 000) a year president of 20
spent 4.000.000 dollars casily Cer.571) to make it.
based
Lloyd C. Douglas's best-selling, növel of faith in early Christian days.
The Palm Springs price fr the picture at home prob- ably will be slightly shove the price paki at the
einema
box office for the same film..
(Incidentally, the Telem:ter- people have their eye on Bri- zelta tain. Since their gadget
advertising, they thnk it would be the ideal solution of
TV-with-advertising our
U
TV-without-advertising row.
would They say evin-boxes wipe out the B.B.C.'s annual TV ilcence fee-and alsta 1313 B.B.C. deficit.)
The
test
.
The
It
But
Why, the flowers are wilting in Hollywood studlo beds. Even gardeners have been laid off.
Out of 7,000 working mem- bera in the Screen Actors' Gulla, 210 are currently under contract Of the 14,000 mem- Вето of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employers, half are laid off.
Hollywood has been officially tabelled by Washington "a sick Industry,"
Output cut
500
T 20th Century-Fox A1
members of the staff have been sacked: Alm output has been cut from 60 a year to be- tween 12 and 25. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer has 2,700 cm- played at its Culver City plant; once employed 5,000,
to So austerity comes
the make-believe city of glitter and Juxury.
For, of
of course, the cuts and
give
It might help to save them.
economies, chets financial reserves to hop Hollywond them to holl out sieged citadel.
In their br
To hond out until rescue by some giminick-Telemeter, the wide screen... or perhaps Just Ane, Irresistible pictures.
HANS GAOLED FOR JOKES
Jorent
From COLIN LAWSON
Berlin, still being whispered over the TOKES about the Govern. beer mugs.
banned are
in This one, for instance- Eastern Germany. Wise-
"Why don't
fire this You crneks send a man to gaol.
walter? Everyone knows he is Lawk what happened to 48- on Informer."
Hans Weise, year-old
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★ DON IDDON'S DIARY
How The Navy
Anglo-U.S.
for
London Express Bervice
Spliced Friendship
but
It's Av Periodic Clean-up
By Les Armour
London.
THE bulgy, improbably-
Are
scrawny little men vanishing from seaalde post- carda.
Vanishing, too, are the shapely chorus girls who, pecking from shiny covera of magazines atacked behind newsagents' counter, give promise they will tell all for aixpence.
And those temptresses whose lives, spent in bed- rooms, are chronicled in the paper-backed novels, seem to be furing little better,
All this, of course, in tem- porary; Britain is in the throes of one of its periodic attempte to enforce the Obremnity! Law.
It started early in the summer with letters to the newspapers from vicars asking alert readers to drop them à line about the
Reason's crop of pleture post-
cards.
That brought a parado of equally righteous vendors into ecurt--but sent thousands of postcards Into the incinerators..
•
Taking the hint, police' chiefs bogan to collect wagenloads of magazines and hand them out to PC's for evening scrutiny:
another Thur
procession through the ecuris, small firea, and much burning.
The newsagents soon wearied of the game. They asked the New York, Tuesday. Sir Henry Hobron, the British They must get very tired of all arrived here he staggered every-Home Office (the government JAMAICA is already in Consul-General, gave a party tho entertaining and being one by saying certainly he would department apparently in charge
Vice-Admiral Sir William. entertained,
they don't talk to the reporters if they of protecting pubile morals) for a flurry over the visit
Andrewes, the Commander- show i of the Queen. Govern- In-Chier of
and the America
"I'm not so sure that we are would pay him. They laughed a list of offensive periodicals.
are in his face. Farr talked plenty
The Home Office cautiously ment oficials, hotel owners, West Indies station, and some as fortunate with same of our afterwards, and for nothing. Freplied that it was not and travel representatives of his men the other evoning other visitors. Randolph, Turpin In fact, expensive Press and so could not publish its are here in New York mak- and I went along.
should know by now not to agents were hired to try to get Index-or even admit that one give the brush-off to the
existed. ing arrangements for the
I told Sir William: "That was American Press. He wasn't very him newspaper space. public and the Press -
a wonderful idea to give the co-operative aboard the Queen particularly the American five American schoolboys a lift Mary when she and he arrived. Press,
of the many
Americans.
for
In the Superb from Newport to and then he ignorada Press
A blow
New York-lots of people are conference arranged for him WHAT a blow to the British
The
Looked forlorn
Marelano-
and
"A Pin to
private the
censor
Kele of Mon, lending library was fined £2 by a reluctant. High Batlif for "keeping for the purpose of tending upon hire en cbscene book."
It becomes illegal if it tends "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such Into and
They tell me that there have
from talking about it,"
the next day.
company and its friends, been 10,000 applications
Sir William said: the public
"Well, it the Royal
Turpin and some other sport- including me, that
On the Isle of Man (and there Garden Party at Kingston, and was my second-the commodore ing characters seem to have the See the Peep Show" lasted only
really brought
one performance. them idea that they are doing journal-
Yet Joan is little difference elsewhere) 'a applicants a who
along and put them up for the ists a favour by talking to them. Miller gave a remarkable per-book La obscene if it comca
It docs Actually it is the other
way formance,
Peter Cotes within the Oxford dictionary de- hope that visitors, Ameri- night in his quarters.
round.
directed with skill.
finition: "Offensive to modesty, can and oherwise, will realise seem to have pleased people." that here is no colour bar what commodere, R. G. Tosswill, by vice-admiral and the
Other London plays due here expressing or suggesting un- aro "The Little Hut,” "Dear chaste or lustful ideas, Indecent," soever. In Jamnica. It is a most com
gesture delighted the hospitable island, and it abhors this
Charles," "The Young Eliza- Impure, lewd." American public. Photographs race, colour, or creed barriers.
beth," "Escapade," and "Gently of the cruiser and the boys and TURPIN sat just behind me Does
wish them luck... It I Jamaica
almost kas
com-
long reports appeared bere. at the Rocky for
The big opening is the do- pleted
arrangements.
H.M.S. Superb has also enter Roland Le Starza fight at the lectable Deborah Kerr's Broad- Immoral influence So have the the royal visit.
Mtained hundreds of poor New Polo Grounds. He seemed rather way debut in "Tea and Sym-whone hands it might fall." Fiji Istes-weeks ago. Bermuda,
uda York children and which is the first place of call That is what I call intelligent was dressed in a
orphans, depressed and preoccupied. He pathy." Deborah gets $3,000 A Put the two together-and it in this hemisphere for Queen
dark-blue week, 52 weeks a year, from can take in quite a lot on the international rela- jacket over
to bookshelves. a dark-blue shirt M.-G.-M., but she wanted o farm "Why should I?
Elizabeth Maybe the
Duke of Public and and the
tions.
It's not necessary to dc- Sir Henry and was without a tie. He was do a play, and out-of-town re- as a wit in his next informer won't be such a
Edinburgh, seems to be vague
am sorry
there ARE any village of Hoppegarten, near good waiter."
Hobson, Neither
our host,
monstrate that British
is reuring presented to the crowd aflor viewers say it will be the sea- in its plans.
soon, although he does not a procession of rather
person "open to immoral In- over son's big hit.' Information officials here... nor Or this: "Just imagine," anys
really want
fluence", nor is it necessary-to- He has done dressed pugilists, including Joc -to
"Well, we noed "one," the Bermuda Information bureau fine work here and it was not Louis, had stepped up bcss Walter Hang hos just been given Ave Communist Party
the literature to the Noel Coward advises that he promised the have any information. Bermuda for
I thought Turpin may be over for a couple
deprave anybody bring Ulbricht, the first seven months of this years hard labour
an Improvement of all workers
has always been rather high-y succeeding the spectacular ring, and "the intellectual father
ly successful Sir Francis Evans, looked Tather forlorn and handed with the Press, part- At 60 Sir Henry has a lot more
weeks in the winter, but it is
But, if Dustere.
charge is pressed, the doubtful if he will play in "The court has little chance to ducks cularly "They didn't resent the pro-
with its
news- own
good work in him. It is a pity He must learn to co-operate Apple Cart" here.
it by using He right to interpret papers. German mise. So I repeated it in 1940.
to put him out ta grass.
with the boxing writers here- London's Eileen Peel is re- the law: the boundaries of the 1950. 1951. 1952. Still they
We are fortunate in most of it is fundamental. Tommy Farr hearsing with Basil Rathbone obscenity laws are so wide that didn't object. I do it in 1953,
Government ofcials here. soon learned. When Farr first in "Sherlock Holmes." and the ungrateful piga rebel."
little is left to interpret. Secret Police boss Erich Woll- weber told a meeting; "When I was young my ambition was to become a pirate.
DUT back to Am Tr
Telemoter tes: starts in No- vember. This is none too soon, For Hollywood fights with it worker noted back to the wall.
Commercial TV networks sold Weimar.
(about £0.- $9,000,000 dollars
785,000) more advertising in
East
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year than in the same period in jokes now circulating through living standards in 1948. 1952.
New TV stations are opening out the countryside and directed
the against everywhere. Millions mure Government." watch. And the U.S. Guvern- ment's entertainment tax col- The Reds condemn wisecracks lection Indicales that millionsļas sabotage. But one or two are
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"You're lucky," said a com- rade. "Not many people's childhood dreams come true."
No Joke
TO
this. The East German authorities äré get- ting ready to rewrite Karl Marx, the man they worship as the founder of Communism.
Why? Because Western Germans enjoy a higher standard of Ilving, and the Communists are alarmed at the effect of this
on their people.
Tourist only
THINK
it a certainty that
our
of in
decide would
this en
whether
really
enlightened age,
many Americans will want Bevan's blunder that may have cost him his future
to go to Bermuda for the royal visit, even though the Queen will be there only one day. British Overseas Airways ap parently don't agree with me. They are not running a first- class Stratocruiser flight-only a routine tourist flight. Par American are running first- cinc flights. Yel during
the "scason" BOAC has by far the best service of all.
It
anyone wants to know how
to plan a royal reception and
WOULD THEY EVER STAND FOR
HIM AS PRIME MINISTER?
TOTHING trivial, I trust," Sir Winston
"N
make arrangements for a royal have.
the
By Robert Blake
the Evening Standard criticising the assumption that all
Aup- porters of Vichy France werd
Churchill is said to changes after his early twenties, hatred of newspaper criticism, necessarily Nazi fellow-travel-
on
remarked tour, they need only consult
one that the experiences and atu when he managed to have occasion when told that Mr tudes of our Canadians. Everything was
formative years local journal banned from the To convince the East Germans
organised to the last detail by Aneurin Bevan had taken stamp us Ineffaccably for all Workmen's Library in Tredegar that Dr Adenauer's regime is
the Canadians during the visit to his bed because of illness, aur mortal days. to be, the not all t
It appears Russians have ordered that life
in West Germany must be examined more closely "and lis true character exposed."
And
group of "qualined politicians and writers" is to be formed to write
a "popular" book on Marxism for distribu- tion in West Germany as well as East Germany.
ČTILL less funy is an admission of Forious economic trouble in Red Germany-made by Deputy Premier Heinrich Rou. He told the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party that profits State-owned In factories have sunk lamentably. Factory profite averaged 0.2 percent in 1830. Last year they dropped to six percent. Profit
Just
in Stato continerco was only 10.5 percent last year, and
over half of the factories falled to make any profit. The" State building enterprise lost 32,500,- ||000 marks—more than £600,000. Another stren of ́`creaking
economy is a slash in, passenger trains. Eight expresses have been withdrawn, and a number
of workmen's trains are to come
om.
The Gormang" dce, feûd that
miore goods trains are to run 10 Increase inditstrial production. A
of the then Princess Elizabeth
It is a wish that has been and the Duke of Edinburgh al-shored by many,' both_before most two years ago.
two:
speech;
аго
is
olers; and that finally he should, in the summer of 1944, have declared that a vote of thanks to the Prime Minister would be "the abomination of hypoartar
Small wonder that Rathbone described "Mr Bevan's dulike for the Prime Minister as
Good living, contact with the
HIS ERROR
for what he alleged to be un- What, after all,
Mr "fair reporting. Bevan's
principal characteristics
Of course, no one would wish and after, and not only by tious Individualism; a
today? An intense and rebel-
claim that Mr Bevan genuine 19 Several Americans have saldTories. Few people in modem hatred of the Torles, strikingly exactly the same as he was 30 "malicious and virulent, "· to me during the past week or times have excited such furious shown in his notorious vermin' years ago.
"Do you think there is controversy as Mr Bevan. For nny chance of the Queen maka parallel we must look back to tivity to criticism, which is rich and grand, experience of
an extraordinary sensi ing a flying visit to New York the young Lloyd George or manifested in his bitter hostility politics and the world have WHAT of Mr Bryan's future? or Washington before or after even the young Mr Churchill.
given him sophistication and . VI Mr Brome discuNSES" Bermuda?** I have told them It may well ba doubled to the Press, there is not a hope-not at this whether a satisfactory to of Mr Bovan's early career.
All these features appear in pollab.
} sanguine tones the likelihood of time.
controversial a figure con be
The homely clothes that he him becoming one day Primo There was excitement the written ill ume has allowed the PRESSURE GROUP for suits of immaculate cut, and immense difficulties the English.
once wore have been exchanged Minister.
Surely he underestimates the other day when it was reported dust to settle. It is, Ár
any and broadcast
except at Buckingham Palace, that case, very doubtful whether a widely Princess Margaret was coming blography whose
conditions of a Welsh Mr Bevan always dreues with party system puts in the path of subject is still THE
correctitude, mining valley just after the scrupulous
All the rebel, United States the
can ever have much real 1914-18 war might well have these reasons help to explain and
Lord Randolph Churchill and Canada next summer; but later
Chamberlain word for Joseph Palace
anyone against a Lord Bracken's happy descrip Jos Buckingham
sald
Mr. Vincent Bromo's' lauda- embittered didn't know of any such plan.
tory ilie of Aneurin Bevan, Tory Party which seemed to be tion of Mr Bevan as "the Bol- abler men than Mr Bevan, and
linger Bolshevik."
the party structure in their, day Even so, it would not surprise alas, only confirms these doubts. Identified with the ascendancy
was a good deal. Iess rigid. But me if Princess Margaret does He can tell us little that is not of the coal owners.
both were utterly- defeated by visit the New World next year, puble knowletos so circumspect interesting to and Mr Bevan at As for rebelliousness, "It is
their
rospective leaders, Mr Bevan's American Interest in the Royal can, he has to be so
the Sociallet
10
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SURPRISE
NE feature of this book etmes as something of a surprise→→
may
from
Family has never been higher, about his sources (is it possible the age of 23 loading a dissident There is deep, genuino affec- that the principal one is Mr Socialist pressure group in local
e a reminder of the intense bitter-
1931
ay well prove to have Ubn, for the Queen
Bevan himself?) that the in politics of Tredegar, and and her
ness of the wartime teud bo- been a major error of tactics. family. Also, for her Navy. formation has little historical ploying all the iors of intrigue
"Worth"
with which in recent times he "ween Mr Bevan and Sir Win- Mr Attlee, Mr Morrison and Mr
ston Churchilt.
Galtskoti are quite as tough ma and his satellites have plagued Wonderful idea
It stems extenordinary that Mr Me Bevan, and they still com- the Socialist leaders but em- Bevan, even in the disastrous mand, the big battalions, ploying them, it may be added, days of - 1942, chould have * All
HIS YOUTH
good Torien must, of officers and crew of the HE most interesting part of with a good deal more success described Churchill' continuance course, hope that Me Bevat THE
THE most inter erulser ILM.S. Superb, who Mr Brome's book is his ne- thún agilost, rich past-masters' In: office un “'a major national will remain, prominent in' the have been making a goodwill count of Mr Bovan's youth, in political manoeuvre as Mr disaster; List he should have Socialist; counsellor Acid inersi visit to New York, ...... my they It certainly confirms tie nither Attico and Mr Morrison, uendeavoured to make political elections he is likely to yanain are overwhelmed with "Ameri- gloomy view, maintained by Finally, we have a good capital out of a harmism letter one of the Tory Party's gibalant con goodwilli
some that no one ever really example of Mr. Bavave early: written by: Sir Winston's sons 10 smeta,