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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY + 1, 1935 and Dischi Ped

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Across

3-Found in your golf club and

mics.

8 I take it for granted it in put

D It is all tant, including the first 3: half.

$10 Fire-raising.

11 Shoot

12 No Pantomime King of the

Fairies.

1à Sir John or Petar.

10 He's pretty sam

#commission,

to get his

19. One of those juvenile "Don'ts." 29 Retort.

23 Vehicle, and

24this comes and goes with it:

it's of no use to it, but it can't

go on without it.

Viennese componer.

20 Mackerel balt

29 Sad song, for instance in a

Cathedral town.

132. A tree of some importance in Bad Beetland,

38 No amateur before fifty-nine

We becomes wordy and tedious.

While day in May 24th.

97 Irish county."

8. Steris always in one direction.

artifak, to begin with, this is n {pidi ni sorta.

Mixture of clans in England.

Down

Don't expect a proposul if some- Kona has been doing this formu.

No foreign spa.

Impressive animals?

A moke before morning in Aala.

5 This has something to do with

dove-tailing.

6 Turn to prevent with loss of five

hundred.

The kind of retreat a cockney

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might mistake for a haven.

14 Endanger a beard almost.

16 Knotted curbs in Old English.

Not clear this, is it?

10 Spanish coins can easily be

-changed-in-an old French town.... 17 This is not right.

18 Endeavour leads in this meeting. 10 Tanto in one.

20 Get up.

21 "Security is morial's chiefest

(Macbeth.")

27 Seeing that it sends one head foremost, it naturally sounds like

diver.

28 Woman's name.

10. Pre-Sopwith.

31 Get around the vessel and And

the fish.

32 An excellent start.

33 County,

Put aide into such tears, and get the people who pay them.

Move for Amendment

Quota

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BLOCK_BOOKING TOO WITH WING SLEEVES

The Flims Advisory Committee have decided to press for the amond- ment of the Act in respect of the quality of quota filma, according to Mr. G. R. Hall Caine, M.P., & mem- ber of the Committee..

His remarks at a meeting in Lon don Indicated that the subject of the quota "qulekle" had been en- gaging the attention of the Com. mittee, who had brought forward a report for early submission to the Board of Trade,.

It was anticipated, he said, that an early move should be made by Mr. Runciman to secure ari amend- ment of the Act, and little oppost- tion would be expected when the matter came before the House,

The Advisory Committee, con-

Mr.

Caine, Hall

had tinued thoroughly examined each clause of the Act, and were of the opinion that legislation that met the de- mands of the industry some six or seven years ago was out of date 10- day.

It was also anticipated that re ference would be made in the Com- mittee's report to the practice of block booking. and amendments In this direction are also expected.

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U.S. Business Worries

MR. MORGENTHAU'S PROMISE

FAIR TAXATION PROMISED

Washington, Jan. 28.

The Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., told the United Press. In an interview here that corporations would get a fair! deal on taxation of their surplus

funds.

..

Business men are apprehensive of interpretations of Section 102 of the 1934 Revenue Act and Section 104 of the 1932 Act. These sections say surplus funds ne- cumulated beyond reasonable needs to protect stock-holders from a Aurtax shall be subject to a stiff tax, graduated from 25 to 30 per cent, in the 1934 Act and fixed at 60 per cent. in the 1932 Act.

Mr. Morgenthau's assurance op- plied to both acts. Only on income In 1938 and subsequent years will tax be assessed under the 1934 Act. "The last thing I want," Mr. Morgenthau said. "is that my businessman should be afraid of his Treasury Department. If a boat-'

ls worried AS to the nessman

the Bureau of manner. in which

is going to internal Rovenue administer the income tax law, we ought to be ready to give him advice on his particular problem.

"If we can't advise businessmen

Mr. Hall Caine poluted out that the Films Act had done consider- able good to the British film in- dustry. It had made it possible for British producing companies to secure the necessary capital and to make extensions to their studios, MOCHA PUDDING But when the Act was first intro- duced, certain loopholes were not ONE pint milk. three-quarters directly on their own tax problems ounce of gelatine, three table then there is something the matter foreseen, and it la considered, in the interests of the British in spoonfuls cream, two quinces sugar, with the law or something the dustry, essential to tighten up the and some coffee essence or very

If matter with the Treasury. law on these points.

strong black coffee. Dip the gela-barinessmen are terrorized by the Treasury there is something wrong with the Treasury."

Colonies. These films, he anid, were

A reference was made to the de-tine leaves in water, then soak them trimental effect of the quota plc in the milk for half an hour. tures sent out to the Dominions and Put them into a small pan, with deing considerable harm to the in the milk, and stir over a gentle heat dustry; in this country they till nearly boiling. Add the sugar, emptied the theatres; abroad they and sufficient coffee to flavour, and were damaging to British prestige. colour well. Strain into a basin, It was hoped, he continued, that and when cool stir in the cream and

if and when the Act was amended pour into a mould. Turn out when by Parliament, a higher standard of eet. British production would emanate

from our studios.

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The Act had been abused beyond enjoying the triumph of his life all anticipation, and it reated with with the production of his ballet, Parliament to put an end to this forms a poignant climax,`. growing and damaging practice.

NEXT DICKENS FILM

Mr. Morgenthan has locked his own door against tax lawyers and other go-between representatives of business on this and other tax questions. But so far as his time permits, Mr. Morgenthau is willing

to meet with any businessman who

at

fe not satisfied with the treatment he or his tax lawyer receives the Bureau of Internal Reventle.

CAUSE OF DOUBT

Corporation executives are Two of the five "baby-atars" are

because they do not know Italian, and the remainder Engilah, ay This is the result not only of the what the Treasury may deem to be action being spread over severalja reasonable surplus. There is

un-

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production of Dickens' "A Tale of ages, but is also due to shooting the establish a single formula by which Two Cities." which is to follow on film in different localities.

David O. Solznick's production-

tax liability of all surplus accounta

schedule at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Part of the film, for instance, was would be judged.

completed.

Businessmen

1s goon as "David Copperfield" is shot in the Dolomites, North Italy, point out that surplus needs vary

where a baby was secured from with types of business, among the villagers of Cortina.

Mr. Guy T. Helvering, Commis- Another baby-Italian also was

for the scenes almed Insioner of Internal Revenue, and Mr. used

Robert H., Jackson, assistant gen-.

Hugh Walpole and Lenore Coffee have completed the adaptation and screen play.

Venice.

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more have been employed up to the scene where the child, having aged by several months, dies.

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ing in age from six weeks to eight employed in any scenes. The child LCHE LCNN months, are being used in the parti exposed to the very minimum of SHERIFF EPHAS A of Gemma's child in "Escape Melight, and is on the set for only tiny

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will reveal the truth, and the lower part the progress of the main story,

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Germa's husband, Sebastian, is Idea. The upper part of the screen a mental hospital..

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