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FILMLAND NEWS
New British Picture-Making
Colony
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The Cosmopolitan Picture Cór- poration (Ltd.) is looking for a afto in the Sheffield district which a film colony is to be created. It is proposed to orect studion with a large floor space surrounded by a garden village, at which homes would be built for artists technicians,
and other studio
workers: A number of sites have been, inspected and are under con sideration.
A. E. Frenquelli, the Continental director, la mentioned as producer and it is hoped to start producing nt an early date. It la oatimated that upwards of 45 films a year can be produced in studios such as the promoters have in mind.
The possibilities of Sheffield which apart from its industrial! activities had the peak scenery of Derbyshire on its doorstop sve aften been discussed.
Mr. C. H. Wybrow, managing! director of the Corporation, anys; it is an ideal centre for film pro- duction. On the one hand, he said on an interview, you have the big- Rost steel centre in Great Britain. while immediately on its borders! thera is scenery which can com pare with Switzerland, while the wide stretches of moorland com pare with Arizona,
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COLOUR FILMS Alexander Korda, managing dire ector of London Film Productions, has joined the board of Colour gravure (Ltd.). This system of filming in colour will be used in a full-length film as soon as the new London Films studios are com- the author of Filma: The Way of pleted next spring.
the Cinema, will adjudicate the It is believed that the Hillman films this year. Among the awards procena for the production of mov, is a silver cup, presented by Victor ing pictures, patents of which are Saville. owned by Colourgravure (Ltd.), will enable colour pictures to be made at only a slightly higher cost than the present black and white.
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NOVEMBER 23, 1934.
MODEL CONVICTS
STUDENTS DELVE IN PRISON MINDS
GAOL-BIRDS KNOW ANSWERS
Jefferson City, Missouri, Nov. 9.
Convicts at the Missouri peni- tentlary may not be smart enough to slay out of prison, but no fresh college students can fool them with a lot of questions and answers.
The prisoners laboriously under- went a two-hour test with Uni- versity of Missouri sociology stu dents Aring the questions and the prisoners answering them, honour tmund not to look at each other's papera.
the
The questions were from atandard army alpha test for in- telligence. The students hope to And out why convlela are convicts.
There was much glee in the assembly hall with the Arat easy questions but when the questions Kot around to classification of auch words ns "equivocal" and "lugubri- ous" the groans that went up were decidedly the latter.
The convicts had a hard time deciding why it is better to fight. than to run.”
They were given three choices, namely:
1.
Cowards are shot;
2,
It is more honourable;
3.
If you run, you may get shot in the back.
Three out of every five convicts thought the possibility of getting shot in the back was renson enough for a man to fight.
Home
Everybody got one certain ques- Lion right, but there was suspicion that a farmer confidence man had muttered the right answer a little too loudly. The question read:
"If a grocer should give you too much money in making change. would you
1. Buy some candy from him
with it?
2. Give it to the first poor, man
you met?
B. Tell him his mistake?" Every convict had number 3 on
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Wireless listeners will be in- terested to learn that Les Allen, one of Britain's most popular BELATED HONEYMOON
dance-bard "crooners," has been this paper —United Press. Laura la Plante has left London signed up by Gaumont-British. and!
will appear in "The Code." on a belated honeymoon,
Married in June last to Irving musical subject due to start pro ut. the Gainsborough Asher. managing director of duction
First National, Studios at Islington, under Maurice Laura in Plante was so busy, both Elvey's direction, Allen will co- star with Cyril Maude, Vera on the screen and stage, that Pearce, Albert Burdon, and Ann honeymoon trip at the time of bee.
--Cannilken -trade with Hongkong marriage was out of the question. Les is a Canadian, and halls from | in the latest year for which figures Now they are taking a trip during Toronto. He came to Britainį are available (the twelve months which they will visit Paris, Monte originally with Hal Swain and his ended August) shows a substantial Carlo, Rome. Venice, and Capri.band, ami was not at that time a increase. Both imports and ex- On their return, Laura la Plante singer, but played the tenor saxo-ports are higher. Canadien im- will prepare for a new film
phone. His first experience an anorts from Hongkong rose from which she will co-star with "ernoner was a chance occurrence. $555,380 (Canadian) to 3668,063. Reginald Denny at Teddington.
during the temporary absence of Exports to Hongkong of Canadian | 10 Bring up for discussion, though Į the band's official vocalist. He be- prádnes rose from $1,100,165 to
Halls $1,241,335. AMATEUR FILM FESTIVAL came later one of Henry
18.8.C. dance band. This is his!
A Scottish festival of amateur first venture in films.
SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ, Alms, organised under the auspices
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Telephone: 80244, 30245, 30246. Cable Address: Swanstock
9, Queen's Road Central
(Corner of Ice House Street).
of the Meteor Film Producing Society, is to be held in Glasgow on Deceraber 8.
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from the previous order, under which he was required to pay £800 lawyers' feca.
Across
much
7 Sailors don't care, we know, but
doesn't this cover too ground even for a salt?
8 Adam and Eve ate this fruit,
it may prove to be a great bore.
11 Expel by conjuration.
12 le "buya, glad" am I to any su
those insects for his garden's Kake.
14 Primitive,
15 in certain sets this counts for
nothing.
18 Emend it in contradiction.
be idolized, if its head were 22 See if you can find a trumpet la
20 Improved the mind, but would
this border.
GRACIE FIELDS'S NEXT
The author of the story for the The festival will be similar to next Gracie Fields picture will
A demand for temporary alimony that held by the Society last year, again be J, B. Priestley, who wrote by Mrs. Ednn Bancroft was refus- when Victor Saville adjudicated "Sing As We Go."
ed by the Judge on September 7,
turned, "I regard this combination of when the £800 costs against her the entries, but will take a more comprehensive form. Entries will star and auther as ideal," states husband were granted. be accepted from socleties
and Basil Dean. "Story-writers and} At the same time an order was 23 Casse - clubs in Great Britain, and also stars do not always prove com- made restraining George Bancroft 20 Notwithstanding the attendant individuals resident in Scotland, patible" in their ideas, but feel from making over his property to monster, growth is indicated. while there is also to be a class certain the combination will be a his present wife, Mrs. Octavia Ban-30 This material provides its own for talking and Bound pietures. 31:ccess.
The details of the groups are asį
follows:-
Class A Story films open to clubs in Great Britain.
Cina B Interest filme open to clubs in Great Britain.
Class C-Interest films open to individuals resident in Scotland.
Class D-Sound films of any de- seription open to clube or individ- uals in Great Britain-35 mm, only
Andrew Buchanan, editor of the "Gaumont British Magazine," and
SALESMAN 'SAM
GEORGE BANCROFT'S
TANGLED AFFAIRS
Jeroft.
24 A very rough sketch of a bud
suite.
cluc. 31 Advances-with musical bon-
ours? This rule was given pending the trial of Mrs. Edna, Bancrof main-32 This might be of steel, or of
grass, or next to a shoulder. tenance suit, in which Mrs. Octavia George Bancroft, the film actor. Bancroft, the actor's present wife,j has been ordered by the Los ls cited as co-respondent. Angeles Court to pay 20 dollars
AV ค
નર્મ
1750 dollara George Bancroft alleges that (350) lawyers' fees to Mrs. Edina records show that Mra, Edna Ban-
WAS who craft Bancroft, his first wife,
not legally divorced brought an amended separate from her first husband when she maintenance order against him, married him at Buffalo in 1913. | These aums, the Court ordered, and that, therefore, she is not his were to be paid pending his appeall wife.
A Long, bort Cu !
Down
1 Astronomer and idealist.
2 Enough to put a real spy cut of
action,
3 A bishop who was famed for his
algebra and arithmetic.
4 Disliked, to say the least of it.
Extracted.
GA left-hand page employed in accounts department of
thu
every hotel,
alf a thousand, but not ten fifties.
12 Voluble.
10 Where a vote disappeared.
17 Though right enough, certitude
here will be misplaced.
19 If not altogether masterpieces, these pictures certainly are able in parts.
21 Supple.
2
Gate-ernshers certainly are.
26 Rouses wrath and, when an end has been achieved, Imperils. 27 This distance is too short to
walk. 28 A letter from the Pope-quite a
long note, in fact,
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