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OUR LONDON LETTER.
PROPOSED NATIONAL FILM STUDIO AT BRIGHTON.
BRITISH INTERESTS TO FACE FOREIGN COMPETITION.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. I
LONDON, March 6th.
THE CHINA COMMITTEE.
The China Committee, the formation of which under the chairrossahip of Lord Southborough I. announced in a recant letter, has now been enlarged and strengthened by the inclusion of Mr.
readers know, the controversy has refer- ence to the proposal to make the ex- hibition of British films compulsory—a percentage of British films, "quota" LS it is called, to foreign aims. It is still possible that Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, will
In the City the explanation is given" that he is told he mist apply again, Lui that the United States is the chief buyer that his letter cannot be considered till and Europe only occupies a sacondary next June. position. Lately the Americans have Perhaps it is not surprising that these been heary buyers of tin for immediate tactics are, resented. Dr. Axham is a delivery, and this demand is the strong very old man, and this further disap- point of the tin market; the Continent pointment must inevitable tend to en has been a buyer too, but to a lesser bitter the last fe months of an herolę degree. At the time of writing tin sells life.
up to £99 10% per ton on the London HOUSE OF LONDA REFORM. metal markat-this for prompt delivery
As Westminster it is currently stated and still metal brokers look for bigger that the Unionist-Second Chamber Com- prices to come..
mittee have prepared their report of
At the same time I learn on good House of Lords reform, and it will be authority that although a tin shortage Presented almost immediately. It is un- is quite likely, it is just as probable that derstood that the recommendations in be obliged, however reluctantly, to make sharp fluctuations in the value of tin ace
a considerable remodelling of the House by a limitation of the hereditary
clude
Eugene Ramsden, M.P., representing the good his threat or promise of Government imminent, because speculators have been fight to seats, and the introduction of a
Bradford Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J. Rankinë Finlayson and Mr. W. Maxwell Reekie, representing the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and Ir. Looker, M.P., who was. formerly a solicitor at Hongkong for many years; and now sits in the House of Commons as Member for the South-East Division
of Essex.
action failing the trade agreeing to do busy of late, and that part of the general the job themselves by securing a fixed public will soon be suffering from "burnt representative element with life tenure.
fingers,"
This sounds excellent on paper, but isį as happened recently in the proportion of British Alms in the pro-
doubtful whether such a patchwork as gramme. He may extend the time given cc. of rubber.
acinbly would have more authority and to the trade for finding a solution, with THE AXHAM CASE.
dignity than the present House, and whe- a definite undertaking to legislate at the In spite of very free-spoken comment ther for such a leap in the dark our the General Medical Council refuse to hereditary legislators would submit to end of it if they still do nothing.
do what publie opinion regards as an act self-immolation. Apart from that you THE ENGLISH HOLLYWOOD.
always have another difficulty-namely,
to persuade the House of Commons to agree to any scheme of Second Chamber Reform which would make the House of Lords superior in power as well as in
me.
Seltona
That British film interests are not idieof are justice to Dr. Axham who was is shown by the statement in one of the struck off the Medical Register 15 years I am informed on the best authority papers that the Board of Trade is ago. This drastic action was taken be- that the formation of the China Com favourable to the project for a central cause Dr. Axham acted as nonsthetist to mittee is welcomed by the Foreign Office. national film studio at Brighton. There Sir Herbert Barker, the famous mani It was set up by a group of Members of is no difficulty, it is understood, about Putative surgeon, who is not a registered Parliament to watch" over British in the capital required-£300,000 part of practitioner. Sir Herbert has been an terests in Ching and advise and assist which, it is proposed, should be guaran object of scorn to the medical profession the Government on matters connected teed under the Trade Facilities Act. Mr. led by the General Council for many with that country. It represents. Beddington Behrens, who is the mor years past; they do not acknowledge his multiplicity of interests outside polities ing spirit, says he hopes the studio will existence, yet he is a man whose work has
been so successful in the relief of suffer- BELTONA is a collodion Self-Toning paper which have connections with China, ia be ready this summer. The buildings cluding the Federation of British In will be of steel and concrete. The Coring that the King honoured him with a giving besalital sepia prints by firing only. dustries, the London Chamber of Con-poration of Brighton is co-operating in titie. The Council cannot touch him as No expert is too advanced to need SELTONA be is outside the professional fold, but and no beginner too inexperienced to make they were able to punish "Dr. Axbam as perfect prints by its aid. Sir Herbert Barker's anesthetist. They adjudged him guilty of infamous con duct and struck him off the Medical Register.
merce, the China Association, and many others.
THE DUPES OF COMMUNISTS.
The families of these dupes of the Cool- munists, who wickedly misled the workers and involved general dislocation and loss throughout the Empire, have on Mr. Wilson's calculations iuffered a direct
a liberal spirit.
The idea is to build up from the foun- dations a British technique and 6lm tradition equal to anything in the world. British people abroad, and the countless millions of native races and others with-
Now, after 15 years. Dr. Axham, who in the Empire, it is held, should be given pictures which are British in con-is 85 years of age, is in ill health. A
outlook
WHAT 15 ECONOMY!
life.
Mr.
Mr. Havelock Wilson, the seamen's leader, is appealing to the charitable for the wives and children of the British seminen who were last year inveigled by Communists into a wanton and disastrous strike: He states that the result of the ception and
demand for his re-instatement has been strike for the workers has been to de-Behrens has visited many of the best made to the General Medical Council, prive 3,000 families of misled British studios abroad. A Doctor of Philosophy, but in vain. Public opinion is on the Beamon of all means of support. he has been a University lecturer on side of the aged doctor and against the Council. His diploma has been restored economics and kindred subject. For a
to him by the Royal College of year or more past he has studied the,
Physicians, Edinburgh, but when the technique of film production in all ica
General Medical Council were asked to bearings.
do him similar restitution, they at first refused and then proceeded to raise other stick with which to beat the Gov-admission was before the Council for Political circles have been given an objections. His application for re- enment over the question of coonomy. months, and the latest development is Ministers from the Premier downwarda are, constantly telling the country they are striving to economise. But just lately we had these same Ministers "pro-" posing to spend £200,000 of the taxpayers' money on the purchase of sports grounds for Civil servants. There was, however, of the London, Midland and Scottish such a public outery that the project has Railway Company, Sir W. Guy Granet.been dropped. But it' meant one or two the chairman, gave some instructive facts Cabinet meetings before the great, wise showing how capital is bearing its share and eminent ones who manage our afizira could bring themselves to yield to
loss of not less that £173,000, or £33 per family a small fortune for poor people. It is to be hoped that the necessary relief for the wives and children will be obtain ed, and that the men who have been so badly bitten will be more than twice shy of "Red" deluders in the future.
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CAPITAL AND LABOVE.
Addressing the annual general meeting
of sacrifice in these hard times.
"I think," said the Chairman, I can the storm. They did not like climbing put it to you in a very convincing way down, and were concerned to save their by giving you a few Agures. Taking our faces; and therefore we have them` sa- owa line and comparing 1913 with "192,nouncing that the proposed grant of what do we find? In 1913 £18,688,000 £200,000 is not formally to be abandoned, was paid in salaries and wages and but postponed to a season more financial- £18,283,000 was paid in interest and ly convenient. On present prospects this dividends. In 1923 £48,287,000 was paid means relegation to a future nearly as in salaries and wages and £18,230,000 remote as the Greek Kalends. was paid in, interest and dividends. In A cynic would probably find an ex- other words, the ratio of capital paycellent text in the foregoing incident." ments to labour payments way as 400 Some people actuated by Infty motives: to 108 in 1913, and was as 100 is to 255 in 1926."
BRITISH AND PORZION FILMS..
pinch and screw, and deny themselves in a laudable desire to help to put things in the country on a better foot- ing; yet in high places we have the The controversy over British-versus
stupifying spectacle of lavish expendi-. foreign films for cinema, performances.
ture. It may be a good thing to ea proceeds apace. It is difficult for a courage Civil Service clerks to play out- observer outside the trade to keep him- door games by providing them with selt informed of developments. There it
sports grounds, but the average English- so much money at stake, and so many in man considers that this is hardly the terests are vitally concerned, that the moment to make a big hole in a quarter inquirer after truth receives conflicting of a million pounds for that purpose. information and is apt to come away After all, Civil Servants are somewhat confused. This muchtem section of the nation--and a specially a amall clear enough that American film pro-sheltered section at that. Jusers are leaving no stone unturned to BOOM IN TIN. retain their tremendous hold-on-the British picture theatres, and even to strengthen their grip.
After the rubber boom, it is tin." There Lira shortage of tin, it is said, which accounts for the high prices on the Lon- Meanwhile, the position at the moment den metal market, in the United States, appears to be that the trade is making and on the Continent. Nearly all the fet another attempt to produce an
agreed scheme, but owing to the violently p
experts in the tin market ars looking
divergent interests inside the industry and of course for still higher prices for for a steady-decrease in visible supplies.
the outlook is not very hopeful. As your the metal
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