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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951.

Cummings

"Certainly we maintain diplomatic relations-we do everything short of war "

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In Persia the row grows over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, in which Britain has a controlling interest. This control stems from a master-stroke by WINSTON CHURCHILL, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914. To protect the Navy's oil he talked the Government into putting up £2,000,000 for the

company. Today that investment is worth £62,000,000.

IITTISELI

GIRLS BREAK FROM SCHOOL, LEAD MARCH

T

By ERIC GREY

Teheran.

com- fury against the oil

has never HREE hundred and pany, Russia

fifty girls broke out been on better terms with

high the Persian Government. of Teheran's school. The gates

were locked, so they gaily

But old-timers here take climbed a 9ft. wall while a different view. They call the headmistress and her staff looked on.

It might have been a

prank, But the girls grave ly took their places at the

this "the greatest hold-up of modern times."

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head of a mile-long student THE girls who

school to march in the procession and marched to

the rows In Parliament- square. (The procession, boys' teachers had been Parliament, the anti-British

which fill the 000,000 is waiting to be more co-operative. They let articles

the Persian them out by the front Teheran Press all are the collected by

work of eight members of Government when Parlia gates.)

Persia's House of Commons. ment ratifies the agreement. They style themselves the

National Front."

Over their heads they waved banners covered with graceful Persian script. An English-speaking bystander obligingly translated

them cynicism

The Government needs the money

of lig badly. Much foreign exchange has. been With understandable squandered on the high-power-

in A

for me. "Abolish the oil where political office is re- Teheran's streets,

The Treasury

"Nationa- lise the British oil com- pany"

main were the slogans.

concession" and

to

Dabrein L.

MILES 300

The agreement already nego- tiated offers Persia 1be highest royalties paid to any Middle East all country. It nearly

doubles her revenue.

REFUSED

TV TO WORK FOR FITZ

By McKenzie Porter

ELEVISION in Canada scope than the television camera

will be no enemy

of and always will be. The movie the cinema. Six top- camera can go back and retako a feeble scene, It enn recont flight scientists in Toronto news events which the television are making sure of that.

camera loosca into thin air the second they happen.

They are employed by John J. Fitzgibbons, C.B.E., president of Famous Players

Cinoma's answer

between the television and

Canadian Corporation Ltd., FITZGIBBONS says antagoniam whose 888 theatres, reach movie camera will not last long. ing from coast to coast, They will become complement- draw three million patrons ary. Nelther will be capable of weeldy, produce £6,500,000 giving the public satisfaction. profits annually and domi without the other. nate the amusement dustry in Canada,

in-

Television will not begin in Canada before next. nutumn. This delay has given far-seeing Fitzgibbons time to meet its menace. South of the border television caught US. theatre owners eating the latus they grew during the war. Now there is a scramble for brend in what is tactfully known as "a period of declining box-office grosses."

'Piped' movies ITZGIBBONS, who had seen it coming and has no inten- tion of letting famine overtake his own fabulous business, Gays blandly: "By the time TV. is popular in Canada we shall have had a chance to profit by Ameri- can mistakes in coping with is challenge,"

"Experimenta now taking place in three-dimensional movies," he says, "will produce 05 Freat a revolution as did the advent of cound."

And he adds: "Three dimen- sional Alms are much nearer than everyone thinks."

The voice of this lanky, sandy- grey, sixty-year-old Irish-Ameri- can, who was decorated by the King for services to Canada during the war, rings with au- thority. He is older than the industry in which he has thrived. As a boy of fourteen he started showing custard pie comics in a converted flahmarket in Meridon, his Connecticut birthplace.

Once before when movie chiefs dithered over a novelty called the talkies," Fitzgibbons cut

the cackle and bought 30 units of sound equipment against the orders of his parent company's

Recently, Fitzgibbons bought New York caliph, the great £30,000 worth of experimental Barney Balaman. |T.V. equipment, hired six expen-

He got a cigar sive experts, put them into a laboratory and told them to transform television, the cluema's A bossing a small

AT the time Fitzgibbons was Famous most poterit, foe, into slave.

circuit in Today the company is planning Players of America

New England. Balaman WIF central projection rooms in every

about to fire him for squander- Canadian metropolitan oren.

Froma these movies may be ing money on crackpot para- "piped" to surrounding cinemas. phernalia when, just in time, he This will save overheads by changed his mind. Fitzgibbons" circuit was ducing the need for projection sound-equipped apparatus, by cutting the num- "packing 'en in." Instead of the ber of movie copies required and, hoot Balaman gave Fitzgibbons through elimination of fire risks a cigar and promoted him to An auditoriums, it will eliminate head the Canadian subsidiary. many costly precautions.

Stage shows, too

DEVELOPMENT Possibilities;

In twenty years Fitzgibbons has built up the original group of 18 theatres into the present chain of 383, and become one of In

the most influential men says Fitzgibbons, are almost Canada. The Prime Minister limitless. A single projection calls him "Fitz."

room' for his entire group of

frighten Television doesn't theatres all over Canada is no Fitz. But there is another prob- longer a pipe dream. Fitzgib- lem

which

him does keep bons visualises ultimately a stage awake,

a problem which he from which big "live" shows belleves is well-nigh isoluble. could be televised un supple- Wryly he calls it "The problem mentary attractions to films. of the rising costs of baby sit-

The amount of revenue from paying audiences, he argues, will permit radiation of shows in- finitely superior to any which orthodox television stations will be able to provide for home viewing.

own

Already Fitzgibbons has his unit. mobile television Many more are to come. These units will eventually bring news direct to the screen.

"At the moment," says Fitz- gibbons, "not more than 20 per- cent, of the population sees any given film, even the best ones.

country ed American cars which crowd THE Americans recently com- By television we hope to increase and other pleted a glant pipe-line the viewings of high quality pic- luxuries.

is al- from

Arabia the legitimate

Saudi

to the tures. This in turn will stimu- garded as

where

to make better late producern And most empty.

to Mediterranean, road to riches they have set and funds with which

Another is bc- to pay

$imo." the task themselves the

of the

rich servants in ing army of civil bringing down the Govern- the next months is a problem. Kirkuk felds in Iraq.

Razmara therefore, ment on the oil issue by General

of national pride.

was anxious to see Parliament Outside Parliament thou- turning it into a question ratify the agreement.

sands took them up.

RUSSIA'S HAND

bullt

from

Flim producers, he says, will always have lie whip hand over ordinary television stations by The Anglo-Iranian company withholding from them any pld- has been refused permission to ture which still retains box office

pull build a pipe-line across Iroq He laughs at the idea of the Pariin- Instead of doing so,

tur to the Mediterranean. It has to movie camera being relegated to The student march near- ment was thrown into

agitation of thu send its oil by tanker around the attic. It a much wider in ly brought them success. moll by the

Sucz National Front. Its members Arabla and through the

3,000 sca

aware that a0 •that neither

General

of

increase

HOWEVER much the Idea The Government volded roundly denounced the general Canal which adds

may appeal to Persian defeat only by pulling its and his Government as "tral- miles to the journey to Britain. national pride, most Per supporters out of the House toro," and bccused him for sians are fully

there waB no selling Petsla's birthright

So while the low-royalty they have

the quorum when the division a paltry £45,000,000.

feld at Bahrein is rapidly ex- panding production of cheap technical skill nor the ex was called.

MORE ROYALTIES of, it is unlikely that the the to exploit perience

Anglo-Iranian company will

to Aly Razmara, fabulously rich oilfields in

production general sold, sock the south which their rulers Persia's tough, hard-bitten rust," the

"that the oil company will this year. leased to the Anglo-Iranian soldier-Premier told me he be more flexible when we start Oil Company 42 years ago. has no intention of resign- our new talks.

ing. But he also said that

"It is

us to nonsense for to Some profess ace he is now compelled to seek

talk of nationalising the com- Russia's hand in the cur- negotiations for

pany-we cannot run a cement with the oil

ourselves. factory

So how Meanwhile, the National rent agitaton against what agreement

could we manage Abadan, the Front sports another feather in has now become Britain's company.

largest oll refinery in the its cap today. An Indian oll largest single investment

world?

company, leaming of the rum

cabled pus in Parliament, has

Front "But we do want a better its good wishes to the

leaders and offered to purchase agreement."

all Abadan's output-f and when the Persian Government nationalises the company.

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