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THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1957, AT
GERMANY NOT American Vice Preila
MAKING WAR TOYS
Bonn, Jan. 2.
West German toy firms, though working hard to win more export markets, are leaving one field almost entirely to their competitors: war
and other countries $7.00 a month. toys.
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The industry expects to set up an export record of about £13,000,000 this year, about ten per cent above last year's record.
But among the′′ 70,000 "toys"in (" New Gorman "free" bidding FOT its selection, there are only
attention Include a child's very small mumber of warilko | camera, complete with flasi articles-mainly tanke with | pggpaystu selling for about foreign markings, soldiers in foreign uniforma, aeroplanes and the occasional pistol, usually of police or cowboy type.
Even though West Germany la now building
up her manufacturers army, the
the
Own
ure
abono caracas 10 ender wer toy market. No tin soldiers modelled on the new forces are yet avaliable, only have Indians and frontier policemen," one dealer sald.
Great Feeling
is a
"We
1276d, which takes real pictures, and a luminous badminton kit for use in tho dark. Bolb
and shuttlecock rackota coated paint,
with phosphorescent
Railways sola are still prob- ably the most popular toy in this country, fur both father and
BOT).
Some firma have dropped their prices of these this year.
For the child of the
there is a radio-controlled
very
rice, ates of the touch of a transmitter button. The operator can be 100 yards away.
recent
There has been much There
educational general feeling discussion in
and about within the trade that war toys toy trade journals here should not be encouraged. Two the educational value of differ- leading dealers chosen "at emt toys, Frau Johanım Zahn, a random anid that they stock war
Munich nursery school expert, toys, but do not put them on writing in "Das Spielzeug" said, display. They are rarely
often asked that worthiess objects
make fine play things. But she recognised the interest of pre- day children in highly developed
modern techniques and praised the West German industry for its wide selection of technical toys.
for.
"The great part of our public has had enough of war," one of them told me. They might ob- Jeel if I put war toys in
my Fun window. I do not want to any
way. It is not that I am against us having an army to defend ourselves, but it is not necessary for children to be brought with war toys.”
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Werner Herr
Wiedling, member of the staff of a Munich toy him, in a recent speech at a trade meeting. emphatically opposed the manufacture of war toys, which he called "mwder apparatus in miniature."
Tho West German toy Indus- try, which exports to more than 100 couriries, hau as i mola
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES | competitors Japan-probably the
"HECTOR"
Damaged cargo eex illis vessel will be surveyed by Means Paulsen Bayes-Davy at Holl's Wharf from 18
A on Jaunry 7 MÊ 8, 1937, and consignees are requested W have their representatives present during the survey.
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Hongkong, January 3, 1907.
To ADVERTISERS
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H. K. S. P. C.
Neada financial support for the make of poor children
Please
address tions:--Secretary, Society for the
world's largest try exporter and, in recent years, Italy.
Britain's toy industry, which exported about £6,000,000 worth of toys last year is also being taken very seriously West Germana,
Exports
by
A recest article in the trade magazine, "Das Splotzeug" (The Toy), recorded the British toy Industry's decision to start own annual toy fair and praised a number of British Ines, pan- ticularly fetike dolls made from vinyl plastic, books, con- structional kits and tool icits.
The West German industry's exporla amount to about 50 per cent of its total production, Its main customers are the United States, where competition with Japan Ня particularly force, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Britain, Bel- gium, Austria, Australia Canadu.
and
Electrification Scheme
In Philippines
Manila, Jan, 3. President Magsaysay'a -ural electrificatiora programme Anal- ly got off the blueprint stage yesterday as the Cabinet sp proved à bond issue of US$3,- 200,000. with which to start the programINE.
One of the base objectives of the
13 the programme construction of the Binga hydroelectric project in Ben guel, capital mountain province in Northern Luzon, whose esti- mated total cost is US$52.5
communica-million.
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of Children, P.O. Box 250 Hongkong,
Please send us your unwanted toys Deflection Centre at Rediffusion.
When completed the Binga recently project would complement the
Anished Ambukino hydroelectric plant in Benguet, Both ploma ako calculated to meet the needs of Northern and Central Luzon.-France-Presso.
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She made a clear distinction, however, between the "mechani- cal" toy with which a child has merely to pross a tortion to make something happen without understanding what is going on. and the "technical" toy, which the child operates purposefully and which is built in such
ap.m. that the child can see how way and why it works.
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She said that the former kind of toy is not likely to maintain interent and the child may be tempted to break it to and out what is going on inside.--China Mall Special.
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Peace Pleas
Ignored In Algeria
Algiers, Jan. 2. Pleas for New Year peace by Parcels via the Ramon Catholic Archbishop of Algiers were ignored, with 19 persons today reported killed in this French Colony, torn by rebellion eined 1984.
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Gomulka's Poland
Offers Freer Life For Actors
BY THOMAS HARRIS-
Stockholm, Jan. 2.
M. Gomulka's Poland öffers a freer life: for stage folk, according to Mr Jerzy Kawka, a former professional "actor and member of the Polish Communist Party's Creative · Arts Committee.
"Neverthekas, the freer He| permitted. Poland has évèn la not free enough for Mrbegun 10 Import American Kavka. He has given up Alme
a successful career in
Warsaw
and i now settling down in Rehearsal, in the Communist Sweden,
way, was the most irritating restriction, Mr Kawka con- now select tinued. Leaming the ints and
"Actors Western plays,
can
Вотта
rehearse them
gestures of the play was the by Westest methods and per- least important part. The all then with Western important thing was the study techniques," He
This
of the inner ideological mean- licensed
said.
freedom is, however, and not
absolute. Polishing of the play. actors and producers have the "We had to
each analyse same degree of freedoms as a sentence in the play and
a loose noose round man with
oil the Communist his neck, Moscow has allowed explain
principles it Involved, Wa them, Ilke the rest of Poland, atudied those dry,
materialist more rupe. But if they stray texts with the concentration of too far over to the West, the theologians men in the Brumlin will pull Bibles. the noose tight and them."
FOUR TYPES
strangle
Selection of plays WHA hitherto made in accordance with directives issued by the Comminist
through party the Creative Arts Commitice. These directives permitted four types of plays:
I. Production plays urging workers to Increase output,
conning their To increase the religious awo which we werd
to
expected
show for communism, we were sent on what I can only call ideologieni pilgrimages.
COAL MINE
"We were forced to spend two days in a coal mine when the Warsaw National Theatre ployed Lutowski'w "Mole," This play showed how Communist
thetrayed a coal mine from being sabotaged by deviationists. Our time in the mine was intended to drive home to us not the mülleu which the characters in the play worked, but the
them.
2. Political plays preach- ing communism,
3. Soviet
wus
of any type, 4. Wester
plays
While Monsignor Leon Duval, Archbishop of Algiers, asking "an initiative of brother-
by those in Algeria". hood French forces were reported to e "succesfully dealing with a rebel outbreak 30 miles west of
OMD.
"such
bearing on
forces Russian plays ideological
The result of this ideological to delay prom duction For example the by Holul, given
as do not have reactionary rehearsing was themes."
This last proviso was applied Dry Country so narrowly that even some of at the Warsaw Popular Theatre earlier this year, took eight Shakespeare's historical drames
months to produce. I have Now, plays by Informed sources zuid soma 45 were banned.
other playa Lake French
Jean known author,
months to produce. of the rebels were trapped while the
and other
"Con- attacking French infantrymen Anouilh,
writera United ProES.
By, Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THE FIRST ATTEMPT JO GET THE PACKAGE FAILS! NOW THE DESPERATE ENEMY AGENTS PLOT TO WRECK THE TRAIN!
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"Another result was a falling off In the standard of acting. Ideology killed Our artistic
enthusiasm.
This again led" to mary" fattures, The 'Dry Country", after its eight montha in production, only
ran for about ten nights, Sometimes the audience was only about 40 persons.
"No wonder the staic aubsidy was 22 zloty (nearly £2 sterling at official exchange rates) per ticket,"
Performance techniques were Diso compressed In ideological strait-jacket, Mr Kawka continuod
"The best example I can recall is from Stalin times, although conditions remainedi bad until about one year ago when the slow improvement
began.
IDEOLOGY
"In the play, 'Happiness,' played the part of an adjutant who burst in on a group of people discussing Communist
brou a private home. I
threats on
them not terror but 蠱 plate of enkes from Start. Each member of
the group had to register his in different ways, some by andling, others by cheering and others by
rapt
milence.
we
The whole performance, knew, would be judged by the the exasperated, but
experienced, staff reacted to a biscult from Stalin.
"Arsothor
which
actors
Poland escape
of poiltion
drudgery
from
Gomialka
the two hours
instruction each
sic which, was compulsory
recently. This was
until very additional to
the
texcla and the
pilgrimages
TO
By Kawks said that these rostrictions
have din juraged men and wolnen from entering the theatrical profession so that there is now a shortage of trained actors in Poland Yo trained actor, novices had to study four years
school
quality as a
10
do
overcome
of dramillo det.
the abortat the State has given professicani mintthe to- the, serbour, who used to set at the amateur theatres studded About the country. Those amateur thouiter Have been, nationalised. §
The
TWO MEASURES
result d
two
-medsores is that Polar Hos
about 9,000, neform about 100 national thi Mr Kawka's opinions, about 1,000 of
the
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