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THERE'S ICE AT THE LOCAL
BY BRUCE BLUNT
CANNOT believe my ears, This an English pub in an English market town, and I have just asked for u pint of shandy.
"And would you like some leo in 7 aska o'tarmaid...
She must be joking. No one has ever heard of ice in an English pub. But the girl mcans" what she anys... A lovely lump of lee is dropped into the glass.
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Enterprise has its sotbacks. My successor. at the bar is a railwayman. He orders i pint of beer. Would you like a piece of ice in it?" says the barmaid..
"No, thanks," says the railwayman, there is quite enough water in the stuff already."
This lukewarm attitude towards refrigera- tion possibly accounts for the absence of ice in English pubs. A pity. When our beer was beer It did not take kindly to ico. But now ? A nice coid iceberg helps it down.
Follow the bus
CAN believe my ears. This is an English
policeman. A sergeant, to be exact.
We have stopped, in a small town to ask our way along the coast. We are driving in John's 50 h.p. 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce. The sergeant looks at us, and then he points to an old red bus which is just picking up a load of passengers.
THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL
A
BATTLE OF THE "FLICKS"
BATTLE-bloodless but
none the less bitter for that has been waged in Britain for some weeks past which will eventually affect the entertainment of 24,000,000 people every week. The issue is that little silver screen in our 4,711 picture houses (and the till in the box office!). Principal contestants are the British mo- tion picture industry, and Holly: wood vested interests. The final verdict rests with the Presi-, dent of the Board of Trade (and the Chancellor of the Exche quer), and will most probably lead to major changes in the composition and length of our cinema programmes.
Although the quality of British films is no longer in question-inter- national honours have come their way at the Cannes and Brussels festivals lately, and their popularity in foreign countries is growing to an extent which is causing Holy wood magnntes come
concern-It seems incred ble that legislation is still required to ensure that they get a fair showing in the United Kingdom. It is nevertheless true.
By PETER LOVEGROVE
hie barn re-
"You keep behind that bus for about three miles," he ad- vises. "and that'll put you on“ your road at the finish.'
That puts John and his Pan- tom III, in their respective places. And that puts us on the
Cinemas would be placed in four map again... No one but a coun
try police, sergeant could have categories record'ng to developed such different
an Infallible. their locatie end denwing powerschse of lirection. with the quctes varying According to cach category. The highest would be borne by London's West End cinemas, these in the three jorge combines-Gaumont-Brit ́sh,
Local Fordinand
SHALL soon censo to believe
The British quota ·
Meanwhile, the big vested interesis have been conducting n. vost duced to 15 percent in the last two
as eat campaign behind the scenes. It has
in anything. Nothing that 30. Es many years; even cineman failed to observe this vital
been argzed that discriminatory Odeon, and A. B. Pictures (in which I have been taught about tha provision In the Act. Only a. few repercuss'ons on the distribution of terest)-and cinemas with
have unfortunate Warner Brothers have measures might
a major In-countryside ever seems to come am-true. 1. have always been told prosecutions have resulted, as the British films in the United States, authorities were anxlous to place and this just at o time when our nimum of £4,000 average combined to beware of a bull in a field. the whole problem on a new zoting.roductions are beginning, for the tskings a week would have to show I have been scared to death of first time, to appeal to American, at least the first "feature", British this legendary beast. But now The Act expires next Maros, and audiences, and earning us much plcture in every four programmes, I am walking through a field
and one "supporting" British ple- This is true up to a po'nt only. bere in every five. Admittedly, our best pletures have been flatteringly reviewed in the
Sir Stafford Cripps has promised a new Bill,
lo 90 of these. Lack of studio'space Find equipment do not permit greater output for some years.
1
needed dollars.
not come up to
and would
As
which is inhabited by a bull and about 15 cows.
There is no Immediate means of escape. The rands of barbed wire
And the bull?
The bull les quietly in the shade
CINCE that statement was mače,
the Bord! Trade has been in States and have had runt in im: INTO this wordy and heated at- are too taut and close together. The undated with suggestions, recommen- portant theatres, in New York and mosphere, Dr Dalton, the Chan-cows are getting. restive. They do
hat. dations and appeal. Every:ne. In scme other important e'ties, but they cellor of the Exchequer, has just not like my
They are the kind of cows which the industry has had his say. The were not shown on as favourable losted a "Food or Flicks" bombshell.
have British prott cers
unpleasantly long horns, and naturally want terms as those.enjoyed by the native He has Included
a clause
in the their horns are getting nearer overy that a higher percentage of British productions.
Finance B, giving the Treasury moment.
The
cows come charging nade films should be allowed screen
duty on Import- Financial facts are that the US, powers to impose me,
collected £17,000,000 (in dollars) ca films if necessary, without fur-up to me with depoproving snorts and wag their heads (and their ther reference to the Commons, Exhibitors are against this, as they Just year from the British box office that these will be used is almost horas) at me in a somewhat dis
will not be enough
(as against only £7,000,000 before carinin it the Marshall Plan does this
turbing way. I wish I were out of that there
we picked up nat
Ald. expectations. British productions to go round: they the war), while
£2,500,000 from our point out that 400 to 450 pictures more than pre needed very year and that the shows over there. And don't forget the Government has guaranteed that
me studios con・ only produce 80 t the U.S. Loan la running out prices of seats would not be raised of the hedge and mills vaguely at much faster than anyone expected. It would mean less American Alms, dalica. He is obviously, our local
settle all arguments.
takes no nětice of the com- COME American companies, per- Meanwhile, what of the ordinary motion surging round me. He lies ceiving the writing on the wall, e'tizen and his girl, queueing week there at peace with the world and Anthony Asquith, brilliant NINCE 1027, a Films Act, designed dependent fin miker of such oul-
have very recently signed agreements" after week at their local Odeon or is mercifully unaffected by the with J. Arthur Rank and Sir Alexan- Granada for their brief hours of to prevent the Americans from landing films as
alarming hat-consciousness of cows. "Scarlet Pimper-
escapism? der Korda, the two biggest figures synthetic establishing a comict stranglehold el "Pygmalion," "Demi-Paradise in the British Alm world today, over £100,000,000 every year- and They spend
Tho-cloth diamond... on our home markets, compell
"Way the Stars" wan's quality undertaking to show British produce keep all
these nolsy gentlemen CANNOT bellevo"my eyes. A exhibitors and renters to citer for to by encouraged and pubile taste tous not only in their hire
clrcuits In going. and show
man with an unlit cigarette has a percentage
parifeularly, that the Govern- 1.5.A. but throughout the world. of raised;
stopped me in the road. British films, starting at 75% percent ment should fester flims in the scm?
I'm not sure that they haven't
Flease could you give me a light and rising to 25 percent, D-ring effective as the Arts Counel
A pointer to the Government's been forgotten in all this financial gentleman?" he asks, "I have for World War 11, a number
of our has forwarded the interests of the future action might by found in the and publicity set-to. My guess is gutten my fire. studios had to suspend cperations, theatre during recent years,
recommendations submitted by that they'il more than welcome As he turns to go I see the sui- and there were not enough British Labour M.P.'s, supported by Trade Quota Committee appointed by the larger number of Bitish films, and phur-coloured diamond of cloth Alms to all the quota. Once again Union representatives of the industry Films Council. These advocate 12 view the disappearance of thosewn into his tunic. The sight seems Hollywood had the field to itself, employees, havé proposed the bu'l- higher percontage of British Almt, second-grade. American films which unreal in the sunlight of an English: and those astute busnessmen took ding-up and operation of State-owned but under
2. more Rex.bla quota usually make up the double: feature, country road. It is more degrading full advantage.
cinimas.
system than in the past.
with considerable equanimity.
to the victors than to the vanquished.
S
in-
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
n
One must do something
master
seems to me that if the new
dogs, but here is one cat in litern- Strabismus rocket is des-
ittle Belaud, who, when weary of everyone to take an Intelligent chasing his tal, would stare cribed section by section the extremely important for ture I would have been glad to meet, So- "like some gloating public will be able to interest in the next attempt of Dr lemnly at his
Strabismus (Whom God' Preserve) Sorbonde doctor."
be get an idea of what it is like- of Utrecht to fly to the moon,
who have
there is not coal for Twang, twang cause when especially, those
railways and no petrak for motor- scientific or mechanical turn of
there will be nothing to do but y Let us today, take the rotating the moon, pending the establish shoft. This transmits the driving ment of a regular service of inter-,
planetary space-ships. torque. End Eurports the steam-jet buckets under the lubricating falls. Belaud There are no fixed vanes, but only
mind.
cars, and no motor-cars for petral,
vain for some
WHEN the publishers have used
up all their stock of paper and can get no more, I suppose authors will, wander about from house to house (as they did before the war) Feciting their own works. From that it will be but a stop to a revival of minstrelsy. After a public dinner an
thee will be summoned from
hary kitchen to touch the
and de- claim a chapter from his latest book.
the old
harpers And just as rwarded with golden goblet of wins, the poor devil will be gracious
were
a series of dentaled nozzles, each PEADING an essay about cats in passing over a blade passage attach- a Sunday paper. I locked in ed to the pressure-galt. Double re-
mention of Belaud, duction is
inca by ratchets on
on Joachim du Bellay's pet. He wrote of the, Glenville' its epitaph four hundred years ago, 'tha top static head. Losses due to windage, but the litle animal plays before friction and eddies are counteracter cur eyes today as we read the poem. ly offered a cup of watery tea; or, by a throttle deflector with a lon- The plcture is as vivid as that other perhaps, if they don't like his work, gitudinal outflow and a radial in- one In the epitaph on his dog Peloton. he will be invited to share a saucer dow. It is as simple as all that I dislike cals as strongly an I. Ilke of milk with the house col.
NANCY In the Groove
GUESS I'LL GO
HOME AND GET A BITE
OF LUNCH
QH, DON'T **BOTHER --- I'LL
GIVE" YOU → SOMETHING
OF CORN?
HOW ABOUT'A
NICE EAR
I NEVER
OH, Boy
GOODNESS-
SAW
EAT
50 FAST
ANYONE
CORN
NO
WONDER
Just
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