Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. July 7, 1939,
THE FILMS MAY DROP TELEVISION
CINEMA CHIEFS
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WANT INQUIRY
BRITAIN'S CHAIN CINEMA CHIEFS, CONTROLLERS OF A
£10,000,000 INDUSTRY, HAVE MADE A SECRET PROTEST TO THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL, MAJOR G. C. TRYON, DE- MANDING INVESTIGATION INTO THE HANDLING OF OUT- SIDE B.B.C. TELEVISION RELAYS,
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Their complaints, first of which is that the broadcasting author- ities have no control over the rediffusion of outside relays to cinema audiences, will be laid before Lord Cadman's Advisory Committee on Television.
The trade is asking for the whole question of outside broad- casts to be handled by the B.B.C. themselves. At present cinema interests have found! they have too many concerns to deal with in arranging to re-j diffuse a television relay.
Unless cinema chlets are able to secure protection they may decide to
EMPIRE
NEWS
scrap all television relays in London BOYCOTT IN ASSAM
LOSING STRENGTH
clncinas,
But:
A Gaumont-British ofelul "To give our audiences televised pictures of a fight we have to pay the
Calcutta.
promoters and boxers. For the Bout The situation in Digboi, in North- Race it was the Universities, and for East Assum, where Assam Oil Com The Derby it will be the Epsom pany Inbourers have been on strike Grandstand Committee."
for 49 days, has undergone Bttle change.
B.B.C. PRICE "TOO SMALL“ The situation has arisen because
the B.B.C. cannot afford more than The company has declared its in- a top price of £75 for an outside tention to engage new inbour, but the broadcast, It is stated. Promoters Labour Union la sald to be "frighten- are not prepared to necept this, and Ing" applicants away. There is little the only way they can obtain their doubt that if new labourers appear ui £200-£300 is by allowing elnenins the works in large numbers, there
und charging will be serious trouble. Jo screen the events
thm the balance.
them,
All Europeans, us recently report- These fees are pak direel and the B.B.C. are forced to agree. ed. last their domestic servants, and Until the situation is settled War- the "Red Guards" formed by the the Europeans dourstreet will hold up all plans to strikers, prevented equip cinemas with television units. from engaging new servants.
11,000 ORDER OFF
The pollee have now stopped this practice, but as in the case of other One West-End elnema serapped a labourers the servants are afraid to £1,000 order when the management resume work. realised how much it was going to
cost them to relay certain outalde boycott against Europeans and bazaar There is less strength in the
broadcast events.
One, outcome of that dispute be-prices. tween cinema interests and promo-AUSTRALIA lers has been an agreement by some exhibitors to ban cinema television
of the Roderick-Armstrong fight ot Harringay.
But Oscar Deutsch, head of the 300-strong Odeon Cinema elreult, has agreed to pay the G.R.A., the promoters of the fight, Bentage basin.
UNIONS OPPOSE A NATIONAL REGISTER
Sydney.
Four famous artists chose Erna Andersen, blonde Norwegian skating queen at Sun Valley, New York Fair, as the girl with the slightly aturdler "Legs of To-morrow." But everyone agrees they look nice to-day.
Hitler--A Soldier
Herr Hitler is now be coming a soldier. He is discussing the tactics of war with his generals continu- ally.
This manifestation of ac-
Suicide Fails Dismally
BERKELEY, Cal. The efforts of a 31-year-old man here to commit sulelde by-shooting himself had for their inglorious result his arrest for discharging fire arms
within the city limita. "His first effort was made with a 25 colibre auto- matke pistol but a pocket comb, a pneumonia Jacket and a thick under- shirt deflected the bullet.
The executive of the Australasian tivity is causing consider-feared. quite so, much by the on a per- Council of Trade Unions recently
"He opened his 2,300-seater Odeon decided to oppose the Government's able alarm in German mili- German Army as the ama-
In Leicester-square to Hudlenco
a television decision to introduce a compulsory tary circles. Nothing is teur turned soldier.
Rosemary Lane,
star of Warner Bros. Pictures, appearing In "Four Daughters"
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It was decided to arrange a nation- wide campaign against the proposal, and, organise a mass boycott to pre- vent the filing in of the national register forms.
NEW ZEALAND
PREMIER'S CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
Wellington.
Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, in „a_broadcast appeal_for_volunteers recently, said that the Government wanted New Zealand to be so strong that any would-be aggressor would realise that an attack on it would not be worth while,
He emphasised the vital neecssity for preparedness, and said that all training was for home defence only.
Reuter
SOUTHERN RHODESIA
GIFTS OF SIX FLYING SCHOLARSHIPS
Salisbury,
Three flying scholarships, each of .£50, given by Private individuals or Bms to help to train pilots in the defence of the Empire, were incresaed the next day by two others. Since then sixth scholarship, has been added.
After consultation with Salisbury Flying Club, it has been decided to (divide the scholarships into grants of
£25 each.
The recipients will be required to subscribe £10 each, and Diis, with | the £35 Governmat subsidy for (which they 'qualify, will make a total jot £60 for each scholarship holder to
be spent on instruction,
Teacher Lit Match To See Petrol
A POLICE patrol on Epping-
road, Waltham Abbey, re- cently saw a man staggering to- wards him. All the man'a cloth- ing except boots and neckband were burned off, and nearby was a car drawn up by a blazing
hedge.
The man, who collapsed as ho reached the policeman, was taken to bospitul and died four hours later. He was identified as Churles Goros tizagn, aged-37, of Landseer-road, Enfleid, London County Council science teacher at Schößeld-road school, Hackney, E.
He was a bachelor, born in Engioni of Spanish parents, and lived "with three sisters.
As Gorostizaga was a non-smoker, The cause of the fire is a puzzlo, bút ore theory is that he may have struck; umutch to see how much petrol he Jud.
A charred can of petrol was found near the car.
One of the man's alstera snid she belloved he found the night too warm to sleep and went for a drive. He
| had apparently no worries.
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ANOTHER
Artist Dies
In Studio
MARK GERTLER, the Jewish
artist, was found dead re- cently in his garden studio at Grove-terrace, Highgate. The studio was filled with gas and Mr. Gertler was on the floor beneath a half-finished portrait of a beautiful girl.
Mr. Gertler's wife and young son, on holiday in Paris, were called home that night.
The girl whose portrait Mr. Ger- tler had been painting was Miss Cecilia Blanche Dennis, who had been a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Garder for some years and was studying art with Mr. Gertler.
Miss Dennia said: "Mr. Gertler was in poor health and had been depressed for some time? 1 saw him this morning, and when I went back to the house two women friends dashed out and said, 'Mr. Gertler is dend in the studio.'
'LIFE WAS TOO MUCH' Mark Geriler, who was forty-six, was born of poor Jewish parents, boy In and began paining as a
| Spitalfields' in the East End of Lon- don. At sixteen he went to the Slade School of Art. Before he reached the thirties he was recognised us among the leading artists of his generation.
A close friend said "Life was proving too much for him. The Jewish persecution was worrying him and had been having head. aches and melancholla. "He had an appointment this after- He was most noon with a friend. punetilous In keeping appointments, and when he did not arrive the and got in friend became worried, touch with a Harley-street specialist. "The specialist knew about Ger- ler's condition and at once tried to telephone him. He got no reply so sent his butler to the house."
Some of Gertler's pictures hang in the Tate Gallery, the National Por- Bradford and Belfast Art Galleries. trait Gallery and in the Manchester,
Dousing Brings Divorce
Salem, Mass. Mrs. Allee B. Fraser of Lynn was
granted a divorce and custody of her two children after testifying that ber
husband Willard pushed her into a bathtub and threw hot water on her.
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