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He hears now, quizzical and Ironic, of shootings, of gassings, of drownings, and rapine and torture, while the lawyers wrangle round, and a few bored Germans drift in and out.
by JAMES CAMERON
Tow
How the Russians must love this trial, which has turned out to be su precisely what they sald it would!
The odd thing about rl this,
A great change is coming
in British
films
by BERNARD HARRIS
THE affairs of Mr J.
When the deal went through
Arthur Rank and his Odeon shures stood at 40s. Their drop to a fifth of that value is £67,000,000 film
em- due mainly, so the City believes,
piro are soon to Arouse to disappointing financial resulta much discussion.
on flim' production.
First, in a week or two, the financial results of Odeon Theatres, keystone of the
UT the exhibition alde has also taken a knock. The re- Rank group, will be pub-arkably fine weather since early spring has been on em- lished.
barrassment to the cinemas,
Then, next month, will come the report of the Board fot-Trade-committee set up nearly a year ago to inquire into the distribution and exhibition of films.
fact
More important in the that the studion are not turning out enough films of the right quality to duract Uie this in the
old numbers.
+
AOMO
exchange
Add to this Rank's heavy expenditure in building up Imitating Sir Stafford Cripps's world organisation, the inability coyness over the word devalua- to remit revenue from tion, Mr Rank would probably territories because of deny that "crisis" could appro- control, and the comparative efforts to break printely be used to describe the failure of his present state of affairs in the into the American market. ilm Industry,
Then you have the reasony why the City belleves that a change of policy may be coming.
QUT whatever word is chosen there is no doubt that the Industry has run up against Mr of which many troubles, Rank is bearing his full quota.
If you doubt the size of those troubles, have a look at tho slump which is going on in the City in cinema shares.
year the Stock Earlier this Exchange valued Odeon Then- tres 55. Ordinary shares ni 31s od. Today it puts a price ticket on thein of 6s. 14d.
WHAT sort of a change?
A
clue to that may be given when the Board of Trado com. mittee reports next month.
Lord Portal, originally chair- dieg this committee, man of before it was halfway through its inbours.
Ils place was taken by Sir Arnold Plant, a university don with a wide knowledge of the
#lm business.
He was a member of a com- three which reconi- in 1944, ip curb
Six percent. The company's Preference shares are quoted at mittee of 12s., lo yield no less than 10 per- mended Mr Dalton cent. And the debentures of Introduce legislation to
the anrocuted com- "monopoly control of the British some of ponies stand of heavy discounts. Alm Industry."
therefore condemn You You may be doing it your- £Eicttake「rj for committing solves any day now, he fult the
badges a
solemn atrocilina against thein.
of of course, is thni von Maustein's brigadier and cokuels,
def nee was subscribed for by He
that Argues
the You Maustein's onders in Pos British contributors. Apart from rules land--those alleged orders, full this £350 a day this trial is Russians, having no
Britain. £1,020 there of steel and walling children, of costitut
Churchill Kave fore entitled to be treated sudden shots ond barked com- raised-Mr
mrs un the carly murd 20-so that Manstein should public company back in 1937, he bines covering all sections one would trent ther
Ulang orders, sald Me Patel, air
some That two wrongs milder than people.
we have make a right.
IIN
wwr,
Further,
are
not
that this British mili- tary court smother- ed with brass and Union Jacks, and held under the cynical eyes of oc- Germany cupied and chronicled by the world, is not
issued
BASTEIN
trying Field. ----our: concern? Marshal von Man-
stein, but the Soviet Union.
This was the argument of Mr
get n Inje trial,
Humbug
was
When
Mr the inte Deutsch turned Odeon
his colleagues growth of
and Plant Oncur
deplored the Into A
enured a sentence to be put in black type in the prospectus. it said: "The company will not rugage in film production, either by itself or any subsidiary com- pany."
Mr Deutsch was alive to the hazards of the production end of the business. He preferred 10
com-
ok
the industry-production, dis- tribulion, and exhibiton
They pointed out that if Rank or the controller of the other big circuit-Associated British Cine- ma-decided not to book a film, the Independent producer could be ruined,
I only know that the
There are times when one motler is causing some excellent conversation #ekens of all, this nobilily, of
this elaboration of "democracy,' here in Hambury,
of this high-principled rhetoric, among the creamy to late in the day; of this dreary, music in the hotel
humbug lounges, the dingy red pompous, English plush,
Minstein is less than nothing to concentrate on showing pictures, ONE of their recommendations the pillars of most of us. If we had hanged not making them. gorgonzola marble, the lin four years ago it might have dapper Germans with had some point as a gesture: I their brief-rases and don't know. their
blonde gilm, women.
Insults
M
The ownership of
-the setting up of a film finance corporation to help Inde- pendent producers has since been adopted.
R RANK had not long been in control of Odeon before Manstein as an individual no
But that alone will not ensure longer matters much, he is just he started to change that policy.
a vigorous growth of "Indepen- Curio Number One in the Cetin The biggest step into aim pro-
Why? Because the cor- House. The only people on trial duction came nearly two years dents"
ngo, when Odeon took over the portion deals picture by pic- here are the British. What a
One bad picture and the General Cinema independent producer la finished. controlled by This trial-938th of the laget: "What business it of mR PAGET is doing well. In laugh it all is for the Germans, Runk ilm-producing interests ture.
The trial is likely to ou for Finance Corporation,
In Amerien participation ar War Crimes, and, one hopes, us what yoo Masaleha did this, submissions he has
learned counsel the Russiane?" He uppe ded to
weeks, while
rangements always cover a group the list of the whole squad the court, and through the court insulted the Americans the scrap and spar in their cultivated
of picture usually five business: now is a good
to the nations. "Is that our con- prairle Judges"- r:mark which jargon over the question: The said Mr Rank, was
Sir Arthur Comyns Cart pro consider just cer?" moment to
In good stuff for Tak was good, old-fashioned tested was offensive) the British Ruslans are they human? what a deplorable affair it
defenceless Master Race, quite apart shellet the consoling stuff to the rubber. (who Is.
Oran). the court necks in the gallery, the long- Freuch feet at
ን። much about providing ready-made extitorials in Italier ("You know and young men
Rundschau. casu 1 frauleins, Judging up I do about soldier for Pravda and the Targische Jackets, the the stout and elderly business ing"), international law ("There It all perms to me rather poor
is no such thing"), prosecuting value for £350 a day. men.
andi of
the course, Soviet Union,
Americans Then the sieved through evidence in the Pentagon Building, and finally forced us into it. Now we are reaping the trouble.
Odd idea
THE quaint illusion that only Communists and Slava organise political trials was dispelled when Mr R. T. Paget opened his speech for the defence.
This
the from
-(London Express Service)
theatres, of little value without a regular supply of flims.
But it is probably reasonable put Odeon into film production also to assume that Mr Rank not find the because he could money for a bigger programmo General of pictures through Cincina Finance alone,
C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene
NEW YORK is supplying all the anti-Dewey he did not care if some people thought him "unethical." Said DEWEY V. ROOSEVELT heat In this campaign. fight is on again.
to I have
please president
Probably the only thorough- going solution' of the troubles afflicting the film industry is to
im-exhibiting. separate Alm-producing from
And it is worthy of note that lost year Plant wrote approv ingly of American legnt decision
An
"ordering a divestiture of joint ownership of theatres by producer-distributors and scale exhibitors upon
which bids fair" to restore a large measure of indepen- dence and
a more freely competitive market."
That, I think, may be an indi- callon of what the committee will recommend in its report.
since "monopolistlo tenden- cles” were last probed dve years
Pretty late in the day, all this. We kept von Manstein in gaol for 4 years with- out trial, desperately hoping Mr T. Pag is a member counsel, something would turn up of the English Dar, member of
for Northampto that would
the Parliament avoid troublesome
man; the necessity of and Socialist Party
Germans and Russians would } putting him and his ancient doubtless like to consider him atrocities in the dock.
the voice of Britain Itself,
Listen to him talk of atrori-
Not Manstejn-deur m. lics. not tuining lo du with that soul in the smart smooth old dock, but atrocities in Lithuania,
Poland.
Mr Paget's Imaginary dock, the Red Army. This trial was bound to be an embarrassinent from the start.
It has offended alt sense of
In speeches all over the State There are only two people A GOOD deul has been learned reason and decency th.t this
It is the same Tom Dewey, he is calling Dewey "America's Truman and Mrs Vaughan." ngo. half-blind old mercenary should still Governor of New York Bilster Also Ran," or "Little Sir have been loft lying around for State, who
fought and lost 419 years until a irial became against
F.D.R. In 1944, and Echo."
And he is fearing into the unavoidable.
again against Truman last year.
But it is a different Roosevelt, theory that Russia is utraki of he is to like is Mr Dulles. Snys Roosevelt: "He even though fother that enemics call him is just a tool of Wall-street,"
MOUTH-WATERING adver- Mr Paget, KC a lawyer NOT that time excures wrong- "That man juntor." with a peculiar conception doing. It is only that the Dewey
tisements for pork will soon (HEAPER CARS will be an- 15 campaigning in stort appearing in 250 American Prico cuts will
nounced shortly by Detroit.
Would Rank agree to changes not be big in, the structure of hla empire? of his obligations at a world whole melancholy
what he calls "a holy crusade"
newspapers overy other day. citizen, made an enormously been so half-heartedly conceived, for the election of his old friend,
to the the super-crops of com have enough to effect devaluation cuts If it could be shown to his satis- John Foster Dulles,
faction that the result would be long and passionate political so generally mislyszolten
Now, for our sins, it is turning Senate. His line is that Dulles been used by farmers to produce on British cars.
many. American a healthier industry, I have no speech to the solemn, he into this deplorable show of it the American most feared in a super-crop of hogs. These are ribboned tribunal of senior political venom and diplomatic the Kremlin.
expected to hit the market in TV While
sports promoters are think doubt that he would, such volume by Christmas time ing of banning TV because of Rank has said on more than bilicers.
Koily.
Democrats, supporting Her- that bacon, hams, and fresh its effect on their box-ofco, one occasion that he has nọ...]. Mr Paget clearly believes in vert Lehman, who is a Jew, pork wil be more plentiful than -Madison Square Garden, biggest desire to see anything in the Ho laid down this 28-
bis cause. He would not other-resent Dewey's line. They say ever before, and almost as cheap indoor arena in the coun- nature of a monopoly created in tonishing proposition: that wise, presumably, have under- it borders on the anti-Semitic, es pre-war,
He bas said is using the
that he you cannot commit offences taken this brief without foo at and that Dewey
"welcomes serious campaign as a proving ground CILENT pince Congress ques- at higher feca.
Garden
competition." against people who break considerable personal loss. the rules themselves. After reently he was expinining, for yet another attempt by him tomat him for allegedly admits that TV has cut its gates may well be therefore, that doing favours, Major-General as much as anyone's but says we aro on the eve of great declaring that the Russians with much forensic skill, how to grab the Presidency.
Bat F. D. R. jun, a Congress Harry Vaughan, President Tru- all dollars are the same, whether sports committed atrocities he shooting of hostages. Why not, man now, and undoubtedly a man's military aide and crony, they come from paying argued that you could not he says; it helps to win wars. later applicant for Dewey's job, spoke up again recently. He said fann or from a TV company.
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