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SO KORDA GOES '3-D'

BUT HE WARNS: IT IS

NO EASY ANSWER TO TV

by DAVID LEWIN

London, reflects the style of this tafl, N the large room with silver-haired man whose British pictures span a decade from the high ceiling and the "The Private Life of Henry tall windowa opening VII" to "The Sound Barrier." un to a lawn, an ornamental In America he talked Three-D pool, and beyond them with the Hollywood chiefs who Hyde Park, Sir Alexander are scrambling to use it. Korda strides up and down "They see it as the answer to And of course it s rondering The Shape of

not. TV's place is assured. You Things to Come.

do not retort by Three-D or any He once made that pic- other device like that. TV has ture and now he plans taken the habit out of cinema a ther equally striking. going, but a film win draw big audiences and take just as much For Sir Alex, just back money na ever when it is betler front America, has decided entertainment, than TV can offer that in May he will demon- at home.

television.

strate the shape of things "I do not believe there is any to come, and make Britain's point in rushing in and makin first full-length feature film every pleture ip three dimen- alone Some films do not need in three dimensions.

First topic

TOLLYWOOD

HOL

ii.

"Brief Encounter" would be no better

or more effective a Sim were it re-made in three dimensions от colour, They many would add nothing. has names for the new fashion: "Roundies"

"Three-D" or "Tri-Dimensional" or "Stereo Pictures." Whatever the choice of name the pictures are the

list tople in Alm today.

or

conversation

"But how 1 wish it had been possible to make 'Sound Barrier' in three dimensions. That would have meant something extro."

For its future "Roundies" 13 using varying

They are also being called the Hollywood most single important develop systems. Some of them just give

meat in the cinema

since, tho alm bc.

gan to talk.

1 asked Alex Korda:

that

Trac?"

He said "No." Ho

spoke

fluently,

fast and

"Threa Dimensional' is 监

Important as colour

sound," he

"When talkios nil-

-QUOTE-

Looking through

✪ glasses at a cinema screen to get the effect of 2 third dimension is as old as People the hills,

Eccepted it because they

fired of

were

old fare. When the

novelty wears off

people

pictures

witt pick

能看

tainment not

the Impression of without depth, netually being three dimensional; others need special screens.

Just

Same Alms wil have to be viewed those through Irritating glasses (14 in the British Tele- kinema), which wil either have to be the pald for

by

on customer 09 "extra" at the box.

enter-

because of a

--not

said.

came in the

dience listen

began to This new

third dimension.

It adds no more.

dimension still relics for its office or given away tree of

Blm company.. effect on the eye plus the car. charge by the, Alm

When these "round Alms" we shown there wil

have to be changes censorship. Drees "Liko colour it enhances styles and plunging neck-lines what the eyes ECC.

When the which were acceptable in of- first Hollywood three-dimen- dinary fat flims may have to sional films come to this coun- be changed when the third try it will mean immediately a

dimension is added. hard knock for the ordinary flat Alms. Unless they are better the 'round films. But after the initial impact people will go to see the best films ---- they will not choose a picture simply because it has an extra dimension."

thon

Sir Alex stood for a moment

under

Bellotto* the

point- Ings and a recently acquired Turner on the wall. His office

There will be new views about horror films. The old style chiller plctures, of Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff would be für too effee-

tive the new way.

There wil be new concentra- tion on the ability of state to act. Directors will require some,

mere per thing more then conality performances,

Careful!

Ammings

PRAVDA BRITISH DISMAY AT EISENHOWER'S

FOREIGN POLICY “

~~CABLET OUR SPECIA CORRESPONDENT

"Ah, if we could only persuade the British to do a Tito on the Americans!"

London Express Service

THE QUEEN'S ADVICE

G

CAN GUIDE COURSE OF GOVERNMENT

By George Edinger

Monarchs

10

have

other

SECRETS MAN SETS RIDDLE

from

Honry Lowric

THE

1

Washington.

death of a diplomat makes big and mys terious news.

He is John Montgomery, who headed the Finnish Affairs division at the State Department.

And he was found In lig bachelor apartment by Marvin Braverman, a lawyer who used to escort Margaret. Truman around town.

Montgomery was strangled by a rope and a bathrobe cord. It wing evidently sufride, but because he handled the secrets of a Russian neighbour Govern- mont, security agents were called

in.

NO ONE knew why this diplomat. # handsome and wealthy Washington party guest, should kill himself.

Just before he took off his clothes and slipped the nooso around his neck he went to a party, but the police refuse to give any detalls because they "might caure International re- percussions."

Apparently they unearthed one secret in Montgomery's life, for they said: "We are pretty sure we have found the motive," But they are not revealing it and Washington is puzzled.

THE BOWERY, New York slum in which down-and-outs and alcoholles abound, is being cleaned up.

Three police stations havo orders to pick up the derelicts. Instead of putting them all in prison, as they used to do, the men and women to centres in which they are given a six- month course on how to get back to normal life.

But George V thought the REAT crowds cheer

Minister should be 33. the Queen of Eng. advantages over those that rule Prime

the country in their name. A House of Commons man, an ali land, Scotland and minister is ilkely to view matters important business is done in authorities are sending these. Northern Irelandl from his party's standpoint. He the House of Commons, The

his Ministers were certainly in ccclaimed by when she rides out to review will

For. her guards or drives in the followers in what he does, and fluenced by that opinion.

denounced by his opponents. The unexpectedly, they chose Mr Lord! Law, and not great gilded coach of state monarch stands outside the party Bonor

Curzon. to open Parliament. Few, fray and, being aloof, can se

think about things more objectively. though, ever

Once more the King had set a tho the

British

future Prime Fart

give precedent. No So, monarchs often do monarchs play in Britain's guidance to their ministers. Just Minister is likely to be chosen

from the House of Lords. Government.

how effective his guidance can be, depends upon the monarch's character,

Queen's Advice

Most popular "life-savera”........ chicken forming, painting, and toy repairing.

HARRY TRUMAN, relaxing in Independence, Missouri, has "finally and completely" turned dollars down an offer of 100,000

year (£33,700) to be sales

of a Ramsay manager

manufacturing

In 1931, when Britain faced on

Even those few would bo puzzled to define it, for it depends so much upon the Sovereign's character.

No

UEEN Elizabeth II has just monarch acts without the Q

displayed force of character Ministers' advice and yet that made her guidance most no monarch is simply A effective. It was at her sugges figurehead to deck the ship tion that Mr Churchill's Govern- la televise many of state. 'The British ment agreed

of the details

Coronation Sovereign is the symbol of

In ceremony

Westminster the unity that holds the Abbuy. Commonwealth together.

guided his but monarchs

King George V play ministers three times at least. their part in government. Once a liberal Prime Minister, ly affected the future course of time. The British Government is once 丸

Conservative Minister English history, carried out according to the Minister were swayed by kúm Like Umpires British-Constitution. That very wit: matters. Constitution, however, is unwritten.

economnle crisis, the Labour Prime Minister, Mr Martonald. consulted the King firm end an even better offer about the wisest thing to do. frem another outfit willing to give him an eight-year contract. This time George V advised His explanation-he doesn't want the forming ol

on "the 'world's an all-party to capitalise National Government, with Mr mest honor

honourable

office" worl Macdonald at the head of it. To TRAIN passengers are getting this the Prime Minister agreed. nervous about the Washington- He formed his National Govern-New York run. Three times the ment, appealed to the country brakes have falled because of and was returned with a record Interference. And in the latest mujority at an election tm-wrecking attempt a sleeper was The the track. mediately after. This may have laid across

it and stopped in set no precedent. But it certain- äriver saw

G-men are hunting the

Also

Vast Powers

and

once a

Labour

Prime

TN

saboteurs.

MR WOOD COWAN, who sits in Connecticut's State partla ment, weighs only eight stone and will be able to dodge the In 1910 the Liberal Govern-

such ways

monarchs in taxes which he suggests in a Bill It is made up ment of Mr Asquith was quar fluence British politics and he will introduce. of custom, tradition and relling with the House of Lords.

their part in Britain' Here are some of the taxes he precedent.

The Lords threw out the play

It a proposes: you are 8ft, it will Liberal budget, and to the bus government Like umpires at

gome or experts at a conference, be two dollars a year (145. 4d.) ness of governing stood still. For administration cannot be they are at hand to give their and one dollar (75. Zd.): for each

that height.. It Bernardo Bellotto, Venetian artist How does the British invention

when they are con-inch over for making Three-D films

your (1120-30) printed landscapes (n

carried on without the funds counsel

sulted. They are consulted on waistline is 40 inches two accurate datali. Becama court compare with the latest Holly-

IN theory the powers of British raised by taxes. painter at Dreadan and in Warsaw, wood devices?

all important matters.

dollars plus a dollar an inch

where he died,

Sovereigns orc vast. They'

after that. If your feet cre size So the Government drew up Korda said: "It is excellent. can make war and peace, apa bill to curb the powers of the

They stand bound by their two dollars with an ad- There is no

to

point the ministers and preside House of Lords. fech

Coronation reason:

oath to maintain ditional dollar for But before worried. Our system is just as good as anyone else's. I believe

themselves that the extra cost of making a film in three dimensiors would te around £25,000,"

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Obviously vou do not spend that kind of "plus" money on a drawing-room comedy. Some stories will stay flat,

It is the showmen who put filmis on at the cinemas who will really have to be alive to the passibilities at the new Abins.

at the councils of state and that bill could become law, the the laws and customs of cabinet meetings. They can sit

land. And so House

of

Lords

the shoe size.

they are 1 Cowan says

as judges in any court of Justice, would have to pass it, and in guarantee that change shall not occupy

pardon offenders before trial and reprieve them after it,

every extra

the big people much more teritory the average men, und should be made to pay for it.

the House of Lords the Govern- be violent nor any minister than ment's supporters were a small abuse his power. These powers are never used minority. In practice. They have lapsed sometimes by chance and come-

To solve the problem Mr A1- umes by design, since so much quith met King George V. The of the Constitution depends on Liberal Prime Minister advised precedent. Thus in 1003, when the King to create more Lords King James I accepted the only the Sovereign can create advice of Lord Chief Justice a Lord-and to choose them

style Coke, who told him that though from Government Bovern- }

As a producer Korda knows about selling films (he still earns about £10,000 a year from reissuing "Henry VIII"), but he says this coout the cinema owners: "Things will not be as comfortable for them. There is no barrel of money for them to buny their heads in now,

I predict a "set-fair" future for Three-D. Hollywood eces in fin new "barrel of money," But that barrel should be marked: "Handle with enre.”

***

POCKET CARTOON [by OSBERT, LANCASTER

NUCLEAR

>KTURES INC.

"Maybe she can't act bus I still think she's got a big future In Three-Dimensions,”

he might sit as a judge he could thus ensuring that the

not give a judgment, he set a ment majority would be sate, precedent. Since then no English monarch has sat es a Another Course judge. It would be folly to waste time in court and sit there ellent.

George suggested BUT King Danother course. Why not first Again in 1714 when George I hold a general election and thus came from Hanover to be King test the country's feeling. K of England he set, by chance, the Leral Government got most important precedent. It back again the Lords might be happened that the new King low obstinate, knowing that the zpoke no English. He could not Government had a majority in understand what was being said the country. Should Mr Asquith by ministers in council, so got his majorly and the Lords ecased attending councils. Since all refused to pass his bill the then British monarch hus King would then create new ever gone to a cabinet meeting.

Lorris,

In Royal Name

Mr Asquith accepted that advice, went to the country and The Lords

AND so by various means all won lus inajority.

the powers that monarchs reflected, and they passed the might exercise have been given bill The King had set a proce- dent. For no minister, "inco over to their ministers, But 1910, has asked a monarch to government is still carried cut in create new peora fur parsing. the royal name. And it is cus- meanies through the Lord. tomary for ministers to ask the

́monarch's opinion on important In 1922 the Coalition Govern. matters of state. They need not ment, an alliance of Liberals and accept the opinion, but they Conservatives lod by Mr. Lloyd respect it. For tonarchs have Carge, was broken by the votes teen told, when helra apparent, of a Conservative, supporters, what prevadents were set, when 'Then the Conservative Ministers reigning monarche mat their discussed". who they should various ministers..

choose a loader, an important question, because that leader So every Sovereign comes to would become Prime Minister. Britain's throne' with unique' Most people thought that they: knowledge. For, what passes would chooso Lord Curzon, na when a monarch moois a minis», ex-Viceroy of Indin with a fing for is usually kept secret from record in both politics and all except the heir apparent, government,

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