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Racing Toward Recovery

American recovery has gone ahead at breakneck pace during the last eighteen months, Busi- ness activity has improved at a rate which has not been experi- enced in Britain. Whereas eighteen months ago Britain's QUOTA AND QUALITY recovery was some two years ahead of America's, now both

Hong Kong, Saturday, June 19,

"

|British film world has come to an posin a roughly similar

A period of anxiety in the nations

· announce-

So

unem-

of

Both are facing labour end with the official

in both there is a ten- ment recently made in the House dency for interest rates to rise: of Lords that the Government in both there is sectional labour intends to renew for a further shortage alongside mass. space of ten years the so-called ployment: in both there are in- Quota, Act which expires in 1938. flationary price tendencies and This act compels all British ex-serious bottlenecks in the pro- hibitors to build up a certain duction process. The United proportion of their programmes States Government is aware with English pictures, and the difficulties which may occur, to guarantees British producers aland although it is unable share in the home market. proffer much remedial action, it English film executives may is able to attempt psychological- not, however, equally, rejoice at ly to influence the market. Thus the Government's declared reso we may expect during the next lution to impose on quota pic-few months frequent exhorta- tures some form of quality test. tions like the recent one of Presi- Yet, in the long run, this pro-dent Roosevelt. They may not vision may quite possibly form have a permanent effect upon the most beneficent feature of the markets, but their momen- the proposed act.

tary influence will be a decided Great Britain has shown her-restraint upon speculative in- self capable of producing pic-terest. tures that are comparable with

the best made elsewhere. The early Hepworth productions of

the war years are cases in point, I Spy and in more recent times the

because bringing about b

presentations of Mr. Alexander Men may come and men may Korda. Yet it cannot be denied go, but the beautiful woman spy that Britain's film reputation in goes on for ever. Her latest ex- the the markets of the world is not ploit, we note, has been high. This is largely

of the down- certain English studios have fall of Marshal Tukatchevski, taken advantage of the present and it is admittedly. difficult to Quota Act to flood British imagine how the unfortunate cinemas with quota "quickies." Soviet military chief could have made cheaply.

been consigned to an honourable

If the new act does anything grave, journalistically, without to stop the production of such her. After all, the glamour girl films, it will leave only the good has a place even in the least British pictures, and, since Bri-likely of circumstances, though tain has bou has for twenty years at least we sometimes suspect a distant a continuous stream kinship between the "beautiful of good films, these will at last woman spy and Mr. A. N. Other, have the opportunity of setting of sporting fame. the standard for the reputation of England in the cinema world

The New Diplomacy?

When so much travelling is being done in Europe to-day by diplomats and politicians military chiefs, from every coun try to every country out any apparent sem ofon definite

jective behind any

plan

hardly surprising to find

||looked an interesting

stances.connected with the

of f

Snow In Japan In June

Local residents must have been startled yesterday to read in the "China Mail” report of a fall of snow in Hokkaido in June!

And for our part, we suspect a subtle propaganda in the an- Snow patches th the green forests spectacle in the

allure

mountains,

ed, is curiously

tempting bait. to potential

General Beck, Germany's tourists from aweltering Shang- Chief of the General Staff, to hai and Hong Kong. It's a theory Paris. The interesting fact is that might nevertheless be worth Isimply that officially there should (testing out.