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THE CHINA .MAIL,, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949. ›

LET'S TALK SENSE ABOUT THE CRISIS IN FILMLAND

Women Wage War For Communism

By KEITH BUTLER

Special Correspondent in Greece

to the Company CHINA MAIL voice rang out.

LTD.

ENGAGEMENT

CONNOLLY--HILTON, The en-

gagement is nunuanced be Tween Terence Vincent, elder

Fear Of Punishment

"Fifi! More to the right, F18!" with the bands. Setne have evap- Through the rottle of rifled, or have been liberated by the and machine-gun fire, a girl's Greek Army. They have brought From time to back harrowing infes of their time during the battle the same sufferings. clear voice cried orders to the querilla units tittacking the Greek Army position. It was a cool, unexcited, commanding At the sound of it the

soldiers around

nadi returned the

voice. Greek cursed

me

Connolly, LA.O.C., of Con- determination. cord, Sydney. and Juno

To them the girl guerilns fight Margaret, only daughter of fing side by side with the men in Capt. and Mrs. A. S. on the enemy's ranks were no joke,

R. E..

Capelle Ferne of

They brought no lighter, feminine Kent.

touch to the grim struge. Nor were they funny. They made cruel, bitter war even crueller.

In fulls during the night battle the soldiers toll me

they knew of "Ful" and the girl whose voice stiff called out orders from time to time.

ines.

n

what

n for Is

The voice belonged to "Mark".

gugella platoon

commander, Fin was one of her section com manders; the rest were men, fight Dig under Maria's orders.

anong

the

By PAUL DEHN Dialogue For Three Voices

The scene Wardour-street. The yet further the percentage of time: mid-crisis in the British British films which must show film Indhunt Thunder And nt my

cinemas-if passible, to iightening. Enter an Independent

* per cent. | Producer, who makes film in a

Producer: Tehnh! studio; an Erhibitor, who shows them in a cinema; and a Critic. seeking enlightenment.

*

fault is

He Wants More

U.S. Pictures Exhibitor: Let me show 75 per know it is now a fifet that afterrent American plctures. I shall

Crilic: But whose

it, How did it all begin? 1

October 1, out of all films shown pay less for showing them, and 1 In this country by our exhibl-shall profit more-because British lors, a quota of 40 per cent linguers like them better.

Under those conditions I might must by law be British.

The Exhibitor

Producer: Entirely through the fault of the exhibitor, who les the lion's share of every pictures pronts.

mere

Alm.

.

back some

Not that the one need exclude the other. We believe that good British films can make you money, Indeed, many of them have.

But we also know that it takes money to produce a good British film. του

to refuse

Cut The Tax On Films

provide present

Good Morning

Passport to Paradies.

Up in Shanghai folks at the airport have been waving whole bars of (censored) to get to Hong Kong. What 'tael!

Learners licenech have been scsponded. Wot the "L" for?

A

nc-

Se St. George was "only dishonest bacon contractor" cording to Mr. Woodhead's quota- to from Emerson,

A rnsher libel could hardly be applied to our patron saint.

The Chinese gentleman who-ne- rived here with two hats on cer- tainly created an impression. This is the type who will probably have to pay double key money.

The meek are going to inherit a стор of limousines up in ne Shanghai after the exodus.

Gentlemen who once went by Arm in arm with Kempeitai. And each Friday went to tea With the Jap gendarmerie.... Does you conscience never trou-

When you read those things by

*

+

A Sply is just the opposite to VIP

Communist Party and the long come into the hands of the Greck Exhibitor: Certainly we swallow rite stars. Why should the tax- Henry Pontiff. In point of fact

Army

to ou

I know it is also a fact that at even be able to give Fear of punishment and threat

ог present 17 out of 26 Briti

prolits to the British pen. my of reprisals on their families in studios are idle and 3,000 bus of ducera. guerilir-raided avens have prevent- 10,000 studio operatives have been Producer: What will be the

most of them from escaping.lismissed from their posts.

good of your proits to us if you In the guerilla ranks they are

Therefore the Mudios cast are going to show only so mali used as rack animals to carry

enable the exhibitors to meet

You think only of good box Son of Major and Mrs J. W. enemy's fire with even grimme, tores and ammunition over the{ Produce enough British Mus to Arcentage of attr platures?

broken, Tracersible" mountains their quota obligations. How has office. We think sometimes of while the guerillas move where this vexing state of affairs arisen? good cinema. even mules cannot go,

Slaving, cooking. Carrying. washing and mending the men's

Producer Blomes clothes during the days, at night they get no rest.

The normal sys- I for the eerilin

chief to alloente the girls to the men carb night on a rofa, to be used for their

that money out of your COMMONWEALTH CONSOLIDATION

pleasure during the night until the next day's working and fightlig.

profis, The City refuses to pro- box-office The British

iples vide it, because the City has cold The news printed today

One of the Tew examples of sion

£108.000.000 a yene. Or this, u feat. amateur dramaties that India will stay in the

£10,000,000 Onds its way

It come from ble you "morality"

Very well. guerillas is British Commonwealth al-

playback to the pockets of the pro- Parliament. There is talk of the acted by veteran guerillas and though becoming a sovereign

guerilla women before the newly ducers.

Government Increasing the capital | «qy"? independent republic is one

ahducted girls and their captors, A first-feature

however, of the Film Finance Corporation of the most important events

tinder the title "Down with Vir-costs a producer between £200,000 (set up to subsidise Independent

A simple producers)

£5,000,000 to from in a year of historic happen- Marin was known to be a girl ginity", the play showed clearly to 8,000 make.

division sun will show that, It is also a major vic-¡nly 22 years of age, attractive in the newly acted what was this Unsis, producers can make at whead

o £10,000,000. Fine. Let them go

Proverb of the week: "All that slim, dark, Mediterranean way,pected of them.

nul double it. Let them glitters is not censored," fory over the disruptive pro-She had been in the mountains Most of the guerilla girls suoner

most such pictures a year. treble it, resses of international Com- | with the guerilins since she was or inter bene children.

But the exhibitors, to fulfil But this

Oripps takes £38,000,000 an-i munism.

10. The

their gral commitments under the nually in Entertainment Tax. Lut romance of the KAM is a luxury not to be permitted in Resistance movement during

Perhaps Quota Act. must show at least 30 him remit us some of that. the this kind of warface. India previously intimated

Axis ogcupation of Greece bad one of the most barbarous features such pictures. her intention to remain neu-

Ench drawn her there in the first place of the guerila movement is

therefore, we pro- is the tral in the warlike squabbles

Fear. Many young people who joined wholerate and deliberate virangling

ducers produce 30 pictures fus Seve,

Ерсаине the money (with between the nations, but at BAM in the file of patriotism and or leaving to die of exposure of which we might

"Correction. In last week's. otherwise have Exhibitor: the same time to adopt the romance had failed to realise that the children born in the mountain

Let him remit you

issue we stated that Charles at the back of a “putelotte" Re- to the guerilla women,

made them) is swallowed up by nothing of the kind. You'd spend Pontiff is the son of Mr. and Mrs. role of leader of Asiatic as-

Repeated sistance Movement was the Greek evidence and accounts of this have

10 exhibitors,

it, all on inflated salaries for arth- spirations. It looked as if

he is the son of Mr. and Mr. the

sub-continent great

nema of Moscow.

of a mess Fontif." the money, because if we didn't. payer help you out would be Inimical to the And the Communist lenders What happens when guerilla we should starve. The wages we caused by your own spendthrift

Try again next week. West in times of crisis, and were more concerned with pepar girls are captured by the Greek pay

cinema employees mismanagement? fur the become en-

On capture they

alone total £6,000,000. Rents are seizure of power in

anything to If Cripps remits further. might

Greece than in putting up merely taken to a prison high. Seat prices

to the are controlled, gulfed in the Red tide now

anyone, let him remit it than a nominal resistance to the transit cams, where they are in-

couldn't We

Let spare the

British Almgerr. taxpaying money swirling about her borders. | German and Italian

cupation terregnted and sected out into even if we wanted to; and, any him reduce Entertainment Tax The present announcement | forces, They took the opportunity | entegories according tu their way, we don't want to, because and allow us to charge less for

to inject big doses of Communist stories and attitude nad

elleve the we

that British moscats, duction methods

Cheaper seats, more patrona. ly change all that, but it does propaganda and class batred intoj evidence concerning them,

the young people in the ranks of This may be gathered from cap- incllicient and financially mudle. More patrons, more money-le be guarantee a continuity of as- EAM-ELAS,

tured

documents and from other headed.

divided between you producers sociation and co-operation- Without any counter-active, it prisoners' statements and the re-

1 grani you, nevertheless, tant and us exhibitors. worth-while diplomatic was no wonder that some of the ports of the Greek Army Intelli-even the most stringent internal

(plus any triumph at such a time.

Corps. youngsters were bitten by the_bug| zener

studio economy would be Insul. thing the Film Finance Corpora- Communist Innaticism,

Finally they are taken back to cient to provide producers with all tion might allo They

you out of the Judging by the official of

continued the guerilla life and war prison camps where they await the money

you would be statement. there does not ven after the Axis enemy hud trini before the Military Courts. Quota obligations.

needed to fulfil their taxpayer's pocket)

able to make more British pictures." seem to have been the ex-departed and tireece had a Parthi- The casus are gone into thorough- Critie: Hoomy, Imoray! Wu Provided they were good box the Pyrenees" says United Fress. pected difficulty over India's and Government of her own ly. Those responsible for atreel appear to have narrowed office as well as good cinema.

fles and fighting in the guerilla problem. The prod

Seems to be a the shouldn't mind if the percentage body's eye when he looked at the acceptance of the King "as choice.

producers need more ranks choice may be sentenced

by the head of the Common-

to death, Those forcibly abducted ruin the demands of the Qunta forced to show by law money to make enough films to of British films which wealth." This might have

Marin was one of these, iler by the guerillas and forend to been a major obstacle. Aus- fanatical fury and experiener in serve them and fight beside the Act. The exhibitors say they high as 35 per cent,.

Critle: Do cannot give them that money,

defect the gliminer- tralia. New Zealand and guerilla warfare in the tough against their will

right. Either the producers ings of a compromise? Canada especially would mountains had made her a naturn to return home

teader. She was one of the crack formali9* vngedy is not yet over: Which is it to be?

must find their money elsewhere. Freducer: 40

cunt pur

or Smokies have strongly opposed any

or we must modify the Quota Act, nothing! formula which appeared platoon commanders of her batta

unemployed member more Jokies, lion.

These ex-guerilla girls, abducted; Exhibitor:

of the Association of Cine Pray Heaven, the likely to weaken Dominion

Such things disturb by matutinal "Rather than fall into her hands forcibly, compelled to live, fight

calm. I know that the Quota Technicians. links with the Crown, and a Greck Army soldier would fight and bear children with the guerillatter!

Technician (roaring): Victorious Circek mu, are welcomed back into the Act was modified the other day. stalemate might have arisen. to the death.

Army troops had come across the ams of their village

When the percentage was reduced per cent or ELSE! India will no longer have mutilated corpses of some of their But many told me of their sorrow from 45 per cent to 40 per cent a Governor General, and it comrades who had been taken pri- then.

with effect from next October, also expected that the suner by Muria's periltas. They Used as they have been by the But that is not nearly enough.

hardest death guerillas in the mountains, they

present generation of system of appeals to the had died the

There is no security in the Critle: Come, now. One thing die-under

British filmgoers dins fiendish are no longer acceptable to

been con-seem

There is no Privy Council in London will patriot

abundantly clear. If the Security Council. Greek men of their villages and ditioned to like

American

filins Government wish to stem the film unity in the United Nations Or- cease, since the new consti-

in all the sectors where the towns as suitable brides, Greek better than British.,

crisis, it

The

Curtain they who must provido ganisation.

Iron tution provides for an Indian Greek Army troops Arc facing morals and conventions are strlet;

never goes up. The Cominform supreme court. This has women guerilla "kapetanissn"the disgrace suffered by these has to cost of an American film the money..

been paid for at the American I presume that neither of you is not informative. been known for some time, you will hear the sante tale of iris, even if unwillingly, debars box-office before even reaches would like to see the film in-

thia and does not affect the basic fanatical fighting spirit and bar thum from marriage.

Please do dustry nationalised, barous cruelty to prisoners.

Thus the Americans are able to not strike me. I take that back. issue.

wunded to share some of the resul- to our

cinemas By all means let the Treasury tant profits with the producers-- as at a lower price than that charged earmark a proportion of the tax- thereby eaning the burden on the

Finance payer's money to subsidise British Film I say: Let Parliament reduce

Corporation and tiruugh the producers

medium of

(through the Corporation) on the the Film Finance Corporation, taxpa

taxpayer. That will please the producers.

in London does not necessari-

X

is

Fanatical Fury

torture.

can

But

be released further

without

or

town,

Some of them wish they had

Al

The

country.

the guerlin girls have added to its many of their sisters have been by British producers.

guerilla defensive position,

found.

ute

wasteful,

•

In a bitter war of no quarter, died, tied to a machine gun in a tent their dim It is undoubtedly true to say that the agreement re- babority and ferocity, flects the view that the Com- But the women who are in the ranks of the Communist guerilla monwealth cannot be regard-army in the Greek mountains are ed as a super-state with the not all there out of fanaticul poli- King as titular head, but as tical conviction. The vast majori- a voluntary association oft have been abducted by force peoples "joined together by during guerilla raids on towns and

villages. mutual necessity and friend-

The guerillas have made a de- ship." India is no longer a liberate policy for two years of Dominion, and many con-abdysting girls and young women flicts may arise in the future. in their raide. They are dragged off into the mountains, where they For instance, such a move

are forced to live. move and fight as India's de facto recogni- tion of the Chinese Commun-

There's Hard Currency Under The City's Hats

ist authorities in Nanking may lead to friction., Never- theless, the British peoples can take heart from the ob- vious spirit of willing coni- which has marked promise the meetings of the Prime Ministers in London.

*

Chiang's Return The emergence of Chiang Kai-shek into politics again may have considerable re- sults. In an announcement apparently made from threatened Shanghai, he claimed that the Commun ists, having crossed the

By JOHN HALL

nen

Whiteball flashes un unex-Glasgow, Liverpool, and a dozen pected smile ut the much-other cities and towns. abused City, and 'the shippers, In spite of difficulties, frustra- probably has a good point bankers. brokers, merchantses, and some abuse, the there. The attenuation of and investors who people it. who are something in the City" the Red armles over increas-

Call to the City lo for stil the trading centre of the world.

have re-established London ingly vast distances, the de- more "invisible exports" the

Once more men of all nationa feos, commissions, insurances, and outside the Iron vastation of more food-pro- freights that are earned abroad by ducing country-and the de- the

Curtain prefer men who are "something in to deal through London, and the moralising impact of the wild the City."

money that London earns, much Inflation in

the Southern in the city by the now just as surely

The 1040

target act for the to buy eggs and raw materials of it greatly needed dollars, helps citics, will all have

to be Economic Survey is that they machinery that is sold to Persia as a piece of combatted, apart from the must aim at bringing homo to for a les service that is sold to theoretically possible rally-Britain Just under £63,000,000 ing of Nationalist forces. month..

For The 'Many'

mon,

tho. "invisibio

EX-

New York.

These are poria:"

Shipping,Britain's Merchant

It was always expected that Chiang would.come back from "retirement" when he The 1940 target for the many," Navy has been sot a monthly. tar- thought the time ripe. Not the thousands of miners, textile get of £22,300,000. withstanding his protested operatives, aten!

poltery

Some

of that will bo carned

by

Yangtse, had reached the LI, it is quite probable that tain sells abroad, is 2100,00,000/Transatlanile "Queens," but a large support of Acting President. Workers, and engineers who make the great and much-publieland "vialble exports, the goods Br!

proportion comes from scores of peak of their military deve- this marks his full return to month.

lesser tramp ships, proudly flying lopment, and would now the political scene. Despite overy £3 oerned by British the Red Duster, that trok the have to face a “tangling mass the hatred he has engender- industry, by craftsmanship and oceans picking up a cargo hare of military, political and economic

The

ed, he is still the only source aleamanship, the Government calle and a cargo there.

the upon problems which

will eventually result in their downfall." They had, he claimed, blundered into the same military errors that marred the Japanese con- quest of China.

The Wily generalissimo

+

City, where meri

With that

Enter

#11

money

we nro were as

Sixty

Government Must Find Money

Temporary Laps. With not a seat vacant, the great concourse stood to alter- tion to sing the National Athem.

"

No Myrtle, the Sorbonne is a French university not a bunch of disgruntled German legislators.

"Last ditch defence line along

moat in some-

mountains,

succulentest

When I read of

I have not the heart to make

You try om-buy 'em at the Doley Farm, {free advt.)TM

.

Post-war Paradoxes.

Now kiss and be friends. The But by the same token let the sun rises over Film House. A dove Tremaury also remit a proportion descends from the spire of St. of the money gained in Enter Anne's, Soho, with RB oliva. tainment Tax-to the taxpaying branch in its beak. The Producer flmgoer. That will please the and Exhibitor embrace, ns exhibitors, who may even be per- THE CURTAIN FALLS.

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