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The
And now Hollywood
has
got the Jitters
RISIS, like a
mon-
by
strous crow, flies up
and hides the sky in
Hollywood.
Yesterday, the sun was
shining, every one boasted
rumours.
PAUL HOLT
In none.
The
THE "VERY IDEA"
Ed. Kelly As Has The Jitters (See Above).
By Eddie Kelly, Crawler
Pick a picture, No, no, any pic- of million dollar grosses; he stops all future plans and
lih, you. "Lost Horizon" to-day, it's black, men talk takes quite a slice off Miss Carole ture; I don't want to force one on
due to wide and Handsome, in whispers and pass on Lombard's "Scandal,"
start this week.
Gorden of Allah." Yes, The Gnr World's greatest film studio, den of Allah," that will do nicely. They know crisis in Holly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, acts too. It illustrates nearly every detall of wood. The Acandal
crisis. Norma Shearer's comeback film, the problem, while offending wildly The Garden of Allah" is made by Talkies. The Great Depression. "Marie Antoinette," is allowed But this one beats them all. I to go ahead with a budget of David Selznick with borrowed stats SPEAKING of marriage
First he borrows Merle from have a cable on the table; a £400,000.
reminds us that Hong- phrase stands out:-ONLY: This may be due to sentiment, Sam Goldwyn; then he borrows OSTRICHES HERE DENY IT. a last tribute to her husband, Charles Boyer. Then he decides, kong has never had a "Be
quite righily, that Merle Oberon and
Kind to Worms" week. picture This is what's happening in Irving Thalberg, the greatest Charles Boyer are not ideal roman-
We know a man who was so Hollywood to-day.
cruel to worms that the. Mngis- producer Hollywood has known; tic foils, In that the
trate sent him to prison for So he asks Miss Oberon to excuse There's a major box-office it may be due to the fact that- planned in colour, and both are dark,
Miss Shearer is a large stock him and hires Marlene Dietrich,
week. He used to put a worm's slump. 1937 stars, pictures,
tall in its mouth and watch it holder. I suspect the former.
swallow itself. trimmed.
Hongkong Telegraph. aren't drawing as they should. All other films are stopped and
The foreign market, on which producers depend for 5d. in their shilling, is vanishing like summer Britain, worth £10,000,- 000 a year, threatens to take that profit away.
snow.
An exam-
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1936.
PUBLIC STILL GUESSING
Costs skyrocket. Whether he has done it de- ple. In 1912 they made "The liberately or not, Mr. Neville Prisoner of Zenda" and paid out Chamberlain han indirectly £2,400. The star, James offered a further explanation Hackett, got £600. for the action of Mr. Anthony Eden in resigning from the office of Foreign Secretary. He has frankly declared that the League of Nations cannot be depended upon to preserve the
the or
K.
This year, they make the story again, and pay out something like $820,000. The star, Ronald Colman, gets £30,000.
At which Miss Oberon says, but politely, "Oll You can't do things ike that. Whatever may be the reason, it's going to look to the great THE great studios stop big world as if I'm not suitable to work while executives colour aims. And that, Mr. Selznick, is less than the truth." At which she fly to the coast and argue-men sues him. And he pays her a lot of with names like Nate Blumberg, money, Phil Reisman, Burney Balaban, So. Mrs. Dietrich, who is a good a better Leo Spits...
grand old Holly- trame holder-upper, but wood names. They book berths business woman, reflects to herself -If this Selznick is not only willing on transcontinental planes and to pay Miss Oberon all thin: money catch the crisis NOT to appear in this picture, so that I may, and, in addition, will hire Again, do I hear a customer me away from my own company, it must be worth mere to him that I say, So what? There are films SHOULD net in his photoplay than to be made to keep the cinemas. that Miss Oberon should not.
fly weat to young,
attitude. William Biolf, mouth- still there, and the demand. some, and that she
Wilcox enough to cover £80,000 to
piece of labour boss George Browne, boasts that their or- Kanisation has cost the producers £1,200,000 a year since they
And she asks plenty. And, know- open. There are the stars to
The man power's ing that her price for "Knight With Trade unions adopt a dictator make them.
out Armour is £70,000 and then asks Herbert peace of the world security of any nation, large or
How can I suffer?
This way, sir. They've been be Madame Tussaud, I feel I am be small. The Implication is that
Mr. Selznick at £80,000. the former Foreign Secretary
existing for a year past out there ing reticent in putting her price to on borrowed star-power. Ronald Now if you were Mr. Boyer and Colman, Carole Lombard, Claud- saw all this going on, what would quarrelled with this assump- tion. And since Mr. Eden him- started.
ette Colbert have been bartered you do about it? Mind you, I'm not self has said that his disagree- Pat Casey, hired by the pro- between studios at fantastic saying he did it: I'm just putting ment with the Prime Minister ducers as their go-between with prices. There aren't enough myself in his place. went beyond the matter of the labour, admits that his yearly money-making names to Anglo-Italian conversations, and salary is £17,500. Minimum round. was concerned with the funda-wage for studio workers is 78. an
There aren't enough stories to
Add to which the fact that "The go Garden of Allah" is an old story and therefore needs rewriting more than new story (don't ask me why) and that it is a desert "location job" and in colour, und you may join me in understanding why this film cost
LTD. mental principles of foreign hour; average is £4 a day. go round, either; so that you
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100,000-Maybe it'll make a. pro».
les Boyer; but they don't trust Hence "Tovarich" Most 1938 epics, planned to us any more.
costs £300,000. Hence the cost £250,000 to £500,000, are
crisis. cancelled.
I
Д HAVE
friend in
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And to think that that man was once an innocent little babe, lounging about on his mother's
knee!
As for us, we can say with a certain amount of pride that we have never had worms.
There are two kinds of worms. Long worms and short worms.
The long worms are dis- tinguished from the short worms, because the head of the short worm is invariably closer to the tuli than the heal of the long
worn.
It has long puzzled scientists how. the worm finds a hole to at in.
Nature in its awful wisdom has provided holes of various alzes in Hongkong. All the worm has to do is to tramp about until he finds a hole to fit in.
The grub is very close to the worm, and can quite easily be mis- taken for a worm by anyone who has never seen a worm.
The only difference between the two is that one las more legs, and moro hair on its chest, than the other. The crub is also better upholstered.
Some grubs may ho found under- neath logs. although how the devil the little chaps balance theso great, big trees has got us puzzled.
We cannot speak- with any nuthority, but we presume that the grub lics on its back and then pulls the log over itself.
The centipede 18 really RM armour-plated worm, equipped with a knife and fork at one end.
It has an incalculable number of legs, and how it keeps in siep? We won't bother about trying to explalu that. Once you start thinking about such things, you
go mad, and run, round in circles barking like a dog,
PROPHETS OF DOOM
policy, it is quite possible that!
So what? you say (hav- find adult producers playing this is the true explanation of
ing-acquired-the-ex- swops....one the Cabinet split. However, this is still conjecture. The clear pression from film-going). How Notre Dame" is worth one Ro- reasons for Mr. Eden's disturb- does that affect me? I cannot bert Montgomery and £25,000., see how Hollywood's domestic Frantic, they are, to get new ing action, for some reason or
JOSTSCRIPT: I feel that twists, new moneymaking com-
all this has been a bit dc- other, have not been brought problems are my worry too. binations.
pressing. So here is a man on the forward. One naturally wonders Let me try again. The stump
Are you going to like Claudette telephone to say that M.-G.-M. have why. The British public is left is one. The panic is approach- Colbert and Charles Boyer to- bought the screen rights of the Lon- to guess.
ing peak. The old hands are
don play hit "Balalaika," that Nelson Mr. Lloyd George's probing saying they've never seen any gether? You'd better; they Eddy and a new Hungarian song-
Warners, who cost the
team bird Ilona Massle will lead, support- questions in the House of Com- thing like it in the quarter-cen- them in "Tovarich," £50,000, ed by Roy Belger and Edna May mons, and the characteristic tury, history of the place. (It's
purchase price somewhere between charge that the Prime Minister just like pub talk of the black and the story cost £30,000 more. Oilver. That, If I like, I can fix the
Perhaps you are a simple soul, £26,000 and £30,000. had done something not quite frost of 1897.) At once, a des- like me, and are content just I like to finish on a happy note. fair in dealing with Mr. Eden's perate economy wave is started with Claudette Colbert or Char- case, give an indication of the
A few more facts of the mo- suspicions that exist in some ment:- quarters that Mr. Eden's re- signation was not wholly of his own seeking. The suggestion is that Mr. Chamberlain, in
The Warner Brothers start the spite of his friendly regrets ball rolling. Jack Warner, to
Hollywood (who hasn't, A FAVOURITE device of those which followed Mr. Eden's de-
gloomy prophets who fortell cision to resign, was anxious to whom I was talking a fortnight it is the most friendly town get rid of his Foreign Secretary. ago at Teddington, hurries home when business is good) and he the doom of our present civili- has been sending me some sation is to create the lone figure of some tourist from another It would appear that the Prime with bad news from Europe. Minister realised that as long as It's too late for him to shave figures. Dull things they are, Mr. Eden remained in office the budgets on "Robin Hood," with figures, to be sure unless they part of the world who gazes sor- "Hollywood are big enough, and these are rowfully on all that is left of our of negotiations with Errol Flynn, or
once great age. Italy, and possibly with Ger- Hotel," a radio-musical, or "Gold more than big....
There are cighty-eight com- This "one tourist" has quite a many, would be jeopardised, is Where You Find It" (all peg-. Thus the Labour charge that ged at the £200,000 mark), but panies making films there; eighting and respectable literary pedi
big flens, eighty little fleas upon gree, the example which comes most Mr. Edon's resignation is a vic-
readily to mind being Macaulay's their backa. In the past year, "New Zealander." Macaulay con- tory for the dictators of Europe
What is certain is that the June 1936 to June 1937, they cludes a fine thetorical passage on is explained.
Mr. Lloyd George charged Prime Minister is following a turned out 588 fenture pictures Ranke's "History of the Popca" as
course which he believes will which cost them just about £33,- that Mr. Chamberlain WILS
on Sunday, that the appease Europe, even though by 000,000 to make, nware,
Man power totalled 28,000! Italian Government would agree his manoeuvres Britain has al-
rendy lost ♫ great Foreign workers on a weekly wage in the to the British formula in con- nection with the proposed con- Secretary, and may lose some-studios and that weekly wage
to came
£335,000. Multiply versations, aimed at a general thing more. appeasement.
probably that by forty (that's the average out there; they that the Prime Minister did not justifica his actions with the working year communicate this information contention that peace, if it can have a twelve weeks' holiday, to Mr. Eden, Mr. Chamberinin be won, is worth much greater mostly without pay) and you get declared ho had given the facts sacrifice. Unfortunately it is an annual wage bill of £14,200,- to the Cabinet. Mr. Eden roso by no means certain that ap-000.
Probably higher.
success
He
Mr. Chamberlain suggested
in the House to say that as long peasement is the right way to
follows:-
And she (the Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of
St. Paul's."
Although Meaulny's "Now Zen- lander" achleved wide popularity, the idea was by no means new. This picture of a solitary stranger sadly gazing on the ruins of the civi-
lisation we know and think so per- manent has exercised a strong na- cination over many writers.
Shelley, for example, in dedient-
Moore writes:--
as he was in office he had not permanent security. It too fro- When Winfield Sheehan was Transatlantic Commentator been informed of the Italian quently requires retreat and boan of Fox and making pictures communication. This exchange may Involve surrender. It may like "Seventh Heaven," "What leaves an unpleasant doubt in be good enough for the protes Price Glory?" and "Cavalcade" ing "Peter Bell the Thir" to Thomins
But the minds of those who admire tion of one generation. Mr. Chamberlain and sympathise what about the next? There in he reckoned to spend not more Mr. than £2,750,000 a year on forty- a limit to compromise. with Mr. Eden.
Did Mr. Chamberlain yicki to Chamberlain has something big-eight pictures. Now, he says, pressure, directly or indirectly ger than England and a general the price of that number of pic-ter Abbey shall stand shapeless and brought to bear from abroad? clection to remember. He is lures la more than double. Perhaps it does not matter very largely responsible for un Em- much; though it would be in-pire of naveral hundred millions, teresting to know the truth. 'and its future.
I
Kamo.
"In the firm expectation that when London shall be hubitation of bit- terns, when St. Paul's and Westming-
nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh; when the plers of of Westminster Bridge shall become the nuclei of lelels of reeds and esters and cast the Jogged shadows of their
AGREE: I'm tired guren too. Let us play a
broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator &c.' Horace Walpole, in a letter to Sir Horace Mann in 1774, says: —
"For my part, I take Europe to be worn out. When Voltaire les we may ray, 'Good-night'. The next Augustan age will dawn on the
side other
of the Atlantic. There wiil perhaps Le ♫ Thu- cydides
Boston,
R Xenophon
at. at New York, and, in time, a Virgil Mexico, and a Newton at Peru At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a descrip- tion of the ruins of St. Paul's like the editions of Baalbee and Palmyra,"
at
Readers to-day will find these 150- years-old references to Europe being played out oddly familiar, and per- haps even comforting. For what hor survived the gloomy forebodings of To many prophets, may perhaps. survive even anticipations of Mr. II. G. Wella,
Goldsmith's Dream
Goldsmith, also, in his "Citizen of the World." refers to London Inding away some day, and, again, “The sorrowful unvoller wandern over the awful ruins."
tic places
*C-
Jox-
Nowadays, of course, this solitary. surveyor of our ruined civilisation comes from another planet, Now Zealand, Lima, and other Transatlan-
less being much mate than they were. The of this melancholy observer doubt fulfils its purpose of ging
into
of rome Bort realisation of the evils of our time, but one cannot help feeling that the writers seem to enjoy depicting our future downfsil and describe the particulars with unpardonable gustof
8. D. M.
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