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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934
FILMLAND NEWS | NEW, MATERIAL MAN OF HOUR
"
Cinema Owners Want the Model In Copper-Brown
Quota Abolished
ABUSE ALLEGED
Important suggestions for the amondment of the Films Act will be put forward by a deputation to the Board of Trade from tho Cinematograph Exhibitors' Asso ciation,
The deputation, which will be received by Dr. Burgin, the Parlia- mentary Secretary, will request the abolition of the quota clauses of the Act, under which every thentre must show a certain porcentage of British flats.
Alternatively, they suggest that the quota of British films should be reduced to 10 per cent, "until such time as a definite standard of quality can be determined."
At the present time and unt(i) September 30, 1936, all cineman must include 15 per cent, of British ilms in their programmes. In the years 1936 to 1938 they will be required to show 20 per cent.
A similar obligation rests upon film distributing organisations, who, in the period ending Septem- bor 80, 1936, munt include 17 per cent. of British films in their output and in the 1936-38 period 20 per cent,
The exhibitors' request for relief to the Board of Trade ls based on what they assert la an abuse of the Act on the part of distributors (says a Dany Mail correspondent).
American companies, it is clalm- ed, frequently make or buy the. films necessary to meet their quota obligations without any regard at all to their quality.
Wool Texture
A SUEDE WAISTCOAT
A
"Basket-wrave Material"
model in copper-brown fine wont of pleasant tex ture...with waistenat of thin supple suede in a lighter tone.
IN SPAIN'S
NEW CRISIS
GIL ROBLES FIRES FIRST SHOT
STRONG BID FOR POWER
"The perind of compromise of the present government has come to an end." declared Senor Gil Roblea, Roman Catholic leader in the Cortes, at Covagonda Shrine re- cently, when he sought to shake the Government during the recent revolt.
Senor Robles challenged any party stronger than his own to prevent the Roman Catholics from taking over the Government.
Despite supreme efforts by In- bour organizations to prevent the meeting from taking pince. over G,000
Roman Catholic youths' reached their destination in the hills of Asturias,
Senor Robles had already pro- nounced the Government's death sentence when he gave a brief nd- dress at a inceting of Catalan own- er-farmers in the capital, while outaido strikers' attempts to paralyze the life of the city result- ed in eight casualties, two score in- jured, as well as 300 arrests,
Catalan landowners cheered speakers to the echo inside the monumental shrine atrongly guard. ed by police. Conclusions of the meeting constituted a strong in- dictment of the Catalan Gener- inlitat, which was asked to carry WHEN CHILDREN DISLIKE MILK out the verdict of the tribunal of
constitutional
which These subjects, known in the COMETIMES children have such a annulled the Catalan agrarian law. trade as "quota quickles," are dislike for milk that it is very Farmers also demanded a return of hurriedly produced at a minimum difficult to persuade them to take it, control of public order to the cost, and are not seriously intend-yet of course, milk is a most valu- central government and deliverance ed for exhibition at all.
A "quota quicklo" · may cost £5,000, as against the £60,000 fre- quently spent on a genuine British film production.
guarantees
able food for children, and must be of all administration of justice included in their diet. If children from party intervention..
Action
PARLOPHONE RECORDS
We are now agents for these records and our first shipment from the monthly releases will arrive shortly.
Parlophones best known artists include:
RICHARD TAUBER, JAN KIEPURA, CONCHITA SUPERVIA, LOTTE LEHMANN, LILY PONS, RIA GINSTER, EMANUAL LIST, RONALD FRANKAU, LESLIE HUTCHISON (HUTCH), SOPHIE TUCKER, PATRICIA ROSSBOROUGH. BINNIE BARNES, HAROLD RAMSAY, HARRY ROY and His Orch., LOUIS ARMSTRONG and His Orch.
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USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR FICK-UP;
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
Астон
1 Scourgen fell around the con- vist even the seat was broken in the end.
6 This performance.appeals to eye
and ear.
As it is often dropped in London. 11 No girl would like to have this
fellow on her hands,
will not drink milk in the ordinary The note struck by Senor Robles way, they may take it readily if they can drink it through a straw. at Covadonga was that of national Give them milk ln the form of cus- unity. The time of party pro- Unfortunately, exhibitors, to Lards, junkets, jellies made with pagunda had come to end.
to bring about national unten ahould now commence. He con- meet their own legal obligations, milk, blanc-manges coloured pink or are sometimes torced to show these chocolate.
demned th Samper Government for films, with serious detriment to:
Make vegetable soups with plenty hunging in the matter of Cata- the good reputation of Brillen of milk. Disguise the colour and lonia and the Basque Provinces. production as a whole.
the taste as much as possible, and His declaration that he did not do not let them see you pouring care whether his words provoked milk into a cup for them to drink,a crisia or not were meant to lead or making it into a pudding. Do to the dissolution of Parliament. of force them to eat milk puddings is unconditional demands upon against their will. If, however, the Government to enforce revoca- you give plenty of variety, you willtion of the Catalan land law were 18 Technical term for a quick. find that children will soon over-taken here as a challenge and bid 21 Shakespearo calls them wise:
for power, unless the Influence of come their prejudices.
21 Ford. the President himself were ex24 It will provide a mouthful, any- erclaed to prolong the strained sit- Carroll star, Toeplitz Productions untion until the Cortes deals with will put in hand two other films.
Feeling hus been so high in certain parts of the country, and particularly in Scotland, that it has been seriously suggested that exhibitore should deinult on their quota obligation and challenge prosecution.
Various suggestions made in the trade to abolish the "quickie" in- clude the amendment of the Act, by the addition of a minimum cost clause and the establishment of a committed to declare a film "At for exhibition" before it receives gistration under the Act.
·
ft.
Kurt Bernhardt, the Continental director, has been selected to redirect the second film on the pro-annually, and extends, with
gramme. Bernhardt directed "The tions, for five yeara,
ROMANCE INTERRUPTED.
Virginia Cherrill, the film actress, has gone to her mother's home after what her husband, Cary Grant, calls "household quarrel" (says Reuter from Holly. wood.)
"It is nothing serious I feel definitely certain," Cary Grant ex- plained.
The disagreement, which has arisen between Cary Grant and his wife within a year of their marri- age, has caused surprise in film dom,
Last Company" and "The Rebel"
for Universul. Ernst Lubfisch wil direct the third film.
LESLIE FULLER'S OWN COMPANY,
Leslie Fuller, the comedian, has formed his own production organi- sation and has started work on his first picture, "Strictly Illegal,"
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It will show him as a book- maker, and the cast includes Betty Astell. The Cricklewood studios are being used.
Lestle Fuller Pictures (Ltd.) will operate under the production control of Joe Rock, associated in the past with Laurel and Hardy
It was understood that the and other comedians in Hollywood. couple had hoped to leave for It is backed by the comedian's Mexico, but the young film actor was unable to get his release from the studio where he is engaged.
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12 Smoking-room--chair.
13 Miss Facing-bothways.
16 This house is aways hospitable. 17. Mark Twain's favourite pipe.
anyhow, they are cutting.
way.
25 Here there is a good opening for
a convent.
28-Three-of-these: do the work of
one fire,
20 What an adder actually does. ap.30 Pity the screw is prominent.
Down
"ABDUL HAMID" STARTS.
Work on the interiors of "Abdul Hamid" commenced at the B.LP. Elstree studio.
Nils Aather, the celebrated Hollywood player, has arrived In this country to appear in the role of police chief in this production.
Adrienne Ames will arrive from Hollywood shortly to play the dancer in the picture, and Fritz Kortner has the title role of Abdul
the Hamid,
of tyrant moltan Turkey. Charles Farrell has one of the other leading roles.
GARBO'S NEW CONTRACT.
Greta Garbo is to remain with former associates at Margate and Bellevue, Manchester, and the her present employers, the Metro- distribution is in the hands of Goldwyn-Mayer Company, for at Jenst onc more picture, says Gaumont-British, who will approve
with
their
1 An ancient enemy.
2 Where headaches go.
3A first is sometimes valuable.
4 An excursion
starting
for
was so called
honours at Cambridge. Harold's wife (hyphen)..
6 Two places in different counties
describe china prized by collec tors (two words).
7 "Up girl! Abet man" and go,
hiking (ansg.). 10 Makes a first-class churchman
for brass, copper and all metals.
use
BRASSO
-the
polish that
It is unnounced at Hollywood gives a lasting shine.
of the subjects, but will not be Reuter, directly concerned NOTABLE SCHEDULE.
making.
that she has accepted a sum Following "The Dictator," inj
The distribution contract pro- of 200.000 dollars (£60,000) for which Clive Brook and Madeleine vides for a maximum of four fime the pleture..
SALESMAN SAM
3
Coppers for a Copt
between Afty and a hundred. 11 Just a broken lance.
16 An old fiddle, but just like many. 18 This affliction is generally local. 20 Goes one better in a hat shop. 21 If your feet are like this, I'm
afraid no chiropodist would tackle them, however he scanned them.
22 Excelsior was a famous one. (26 Pollte nume for a shop-CEK.
27 This London statue has never
been really popular.
Note. am indebted to the Itov. Edward J, G. Forse, of Bournemouth, for some of the clues in the above
puzzle.-R.M.B.
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