Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH July 7, 1939.
THE FILMS MAY DROP TELEVISION
CINEMA CHIEFS 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.
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 Committeo on Television.
The trade is asking for the whole question of outside brond-} 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- diffuse a television relay.
Unless cinema chlefs are able to: secure protection they may decide to scrap all television relays in London
cincnias.
A Caumont-British offelal sold: "To give our audiences televised pictures of a fight, we have to pay the
EMPIRE NEWS
BOYCOTT IN ASSAM LOSING STRENGTH
Calcutta.
promoters and boxers. For the Bout The situation in Digboi, In North- Race it was the Universities, and for East Assam, where Assam Oil Com-) The Derby it will be the Epson puny labourers have been on strike | Grandsland Committed,"
for 40 days, has undergone little
B.B.C. PRICE "TOO SMALL" change. 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 is said to be "frighten- are not prepared to accept this, and ing" applicants away. There is little the only way they can obtain their doubt that if new labourers appear at 1200-£500 is by allowing cinemas, the works in large numbers, there to sereen the events and charging will be serious trouble. then the balance,
These fees are pald direct to theni,
All Europeans, as recently report-
ed, lost their domestic servants, and and the B.B.C. are forced to agree the "Red Guards" formed by the Until the situation le settled War-1 dourstreet will hold up all plans to strikers, prevented the Europeans equip cinemas with television units.from engaging new servants,
£1,000 DRDER OFF
The police have now stopped this practice. but us in the case of other One West-End cinema scropped a labourers the servants are afraid to £1,000 order when the management resume work. realised how much it was going to
There is less strength in the cost them to relay certain outside boycott against Europeans and bazaar
broadcast events.
One outcome of that dispute-be-prices. tween cinema interests and promo-AUSTRALIA ters has been an agreement by some exhibitors to ban "einerna television
of the Roderick-Arinstrong fight at #farrtigny.
UNIONS OPPOSE A NATIONAL REGISTER
Sydney.
Four famous artists chose Ema Andersen, blonde Norwegian skating queen at Sun Valley, New York Fair, as the girl with the alightly sturdier "Lega of-To-morrow," But everyone agrees they look nice lo-day.
Hitler--A Soldier
Suicide Fails Dismally
BERKELEY, Cal. Herr Hitler is now be- The efforts of a 51-year-old man there to commit suicide by shooting coming a soldier. He is himself had for their inglorious result discussing the tactics of war his arrest for discharging fire arms with his generals continu-was made with a 25 calibre auto- ally.
matic pistol but a pocket comb, u pneumonia incket and a thick under- shirt deflected the bullet,
But Oscur Deutsch, head of thei 300-strong Oleon Cinema clreutt,!
This manifestation of ac- tras agreed to pay the GRA.. the
The executive of the Australasian tivity is causing consider promoters of the night, on a per- Council of Trade Unions recently able alarm in German mili- ventage basis.
He opened his 2,300-seater Odeon decided to oppose the Government's
a televisionision to introduce a compulsory tary Leicester-square to
national register.
in
audience
Rosemary Lane,
star of Warner Bros Pictures, appearing in "Four Daughters"
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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 attack on it would not.
be worth while.
He emphasised the vital necessity (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 firms to help to train pilots in the defence of the Empire, were incresaed the next day by two others. Since, then a 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 this, with the 25 Governmnt subsidy for (which they qualify, will make à totul ef C60 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's cloth- ing except boots and neckband were burned off, and nearby was
a car drawn up by a blazing hedge.
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The man, who collapsed reached the policeman, was taken to: hospital and died four hours later. He was identified as Charles Corsa- lizaga, aged 37, Landseer-road, Erfelt, London County Council science tencher ut Schofield-road rehnol. Hackney, E.
He was a bachelor, born in England. of Spanish parents, and lived with three sisters.
As Gorostiznga was, at non-smoker, |the cause of the fire in a puzzle, but ore theory is that he may have struck a match to see how much petrol he had. A churred can of petrol was found near the cur.
One of the man's sisters said sho believed he found the night too warm to sleep and went for a drive. He bud opparently no worries.
circles. Nothing
within the city limits. His first effort
Artist Dies
In Studio
MARK GERTLER, the Jewish
artist, was found dead re- cently in his garden studio at The Grove-terrace, "Highgate.
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 culled 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. Gertler
years and was studying art with Mr. Gertler.
for some
Miss Dennis sald: "Mr. Gertler was in poor health and had been depressed for some time. I saw him this morning, and when I went back to the house two women friends dashed out and said, 'Mr. Gertler is dead in the studio."
'LIFE WAS TOO MUCH' Mark Gertler, who was forty-six, Was
born of poor Jewish parents, and began painting as a boy ttt 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 as among the leading artists of his generation.
A close friend said "Life was The proving too much for him. Jewish persecution was worrying him and he had been having hend- aches and melancholia, "He had an appointment this after- He was most noon with a friend. punctilious in keeping appointments, and when he did not arrive friend became worried, and got in touch with a Harley-street specialist. "The specialist knew about Ger- tler's condition and at once tried to telephone him. He got no reply so sent his buller to the house."
the
Some of Gerlier's pletures hang in the Tate Gallery, the National Por- trait Gallery and in the Manchester, Bradford and Belfast Art Galleries.
Dousing Brings Divorce
Salem, Mass, Mrs. Alice B. Fruser. of Lynn was
feared quite so much by the granted a divorce and custody of her German Army as the ama- two children after testifying that is teur turned soldier. ·
FLASH!
ANOTHER
husband Wiline! pushed her into a |bathtub and threw hot water on her.
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