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Punday, May 27, 1938

CRUCIAL STAGE IN CAMPAIGN

By

Ronald Walker

years

Tday a tall, sturdily-

like Frobisher

for cen-

turies), first to reach the South Pole,

atr.

His record was unique, and well

could he say at the age of 64, "I have finished."

Yet, when the news of the disaster to Nobile's airship was flashed to the world, Amundsen was Drst to volun- trer.

and was Joint tender of the first built man

with the eressing of the North Pular basin by lean,

of a strong face Norseman, rose in his chair at a luncheon in Oslo, and said, "Right away. I am ready to go and save them." So Roald Amundsen, most of the brilliant explorer Arctic and Antarctic, set out on his last journey.

uver

He flew into the North. He did not return. First came anxiety for his safety. The people of Norway, 10 whom he was a hero, and of the world, who admired him, could not

waited.

In

138 Card Fontain Kynsiale, Tar.

"I'm quittin' this life of beggin' nickela for coffee-can I have 85 cents to buy a pere status of my own7“

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

was not definitely known. He said says you

fying to North East

the Spitz-

belleve that he had dared for the last) lime and lost. Most confideat of all on previous ex- Two days before the Italian were companions airship Norge Nobile, command-peditions. They were confident that by Umberto Nobile, crashed Amundsen was safe. So the world

Weeks went by. Expeditions on the ice while returning from the North Pole to Spitzbergen. starch of hlin were humpered by the Nobile and the main part of the fact that the route Amundsen look crew were marooned on na ice he intended floe, sheltering in a red tent sal- Land, the west part of

A vaged from the wreckage of the bergen group. First news

came in August.

Northern ship's main cabin.

trawler, off the fishing

af Norway, picket up a float which was identified as part of Amundsen's machine. Examination showed that it appeared to have been SINCE Amene ther CINCE Amundsen and Nobile torn from the wing of the plane with terrife force, suggesting a crash on It is not too much to say that the North Pole in the

the ice. But hopes that Anundsen: Norge two quarre; had and his companions were not killed were raised by the fact that the the next few days of warfare years before, a bitter

But, when broken out between them.

flont had been repaired with a strip along the Lunghai Railway, in Amundsen heard the appeal for of copper, and there were signs of at that lunrheon table, he forgot all

efforts having been made to fasten Honan, Anhwei, Shansi and personal differences and was ready

1 more firmly to the wing. Shantung, will probably disclose to go at uner, the fate of Hankow and perhaps determine the whole future of the Chinese plan of resistance.

Amundsen, the man who hud so There can be very little question often failed gloriously and succeed- but that a really crucial periode magnificently, journeyed into the frozen North for the last time. The the+: has arrived. That

not regions of snow and ice which he had claimed him He dared for years mean that a sweeping victory has never been heard of since. by uite side or the other will have any decisive effect; for the campaign has developed inte such proportions that only a series of mujor actions can have the influence upon any great outcome. Japan unquestionably took thorough beating

11 Taierchwang, but the defeat did

wenken not materially

the Japanese offensive strength.

at

He set off from Trosor on June 18 in a tothom seaplane, piloted by a Frenchman, Coplam Gullbaud, and areompanied by a crew of four.

The irony is that the news that he

arrived on

the day was missing Nobile, the man he set out to help, was found and rescued by the Swedish nirmen. Captain Lundborg.

ECOND newx

[wo cume months later. Another fish-

Less

must get

for Your

Cinema Money

This is chat Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, greatest showman in the film industry, told Seton Margrave in one of the most candid interview's he has ever given-

GOLDWYN: MR.

think the

salaries

do not wake up und realise that the bubble has burst.

S. M: And all this becauIC Als are being made?

100

Mr. Goldwyn: Too many and loo bad. The public is suffering from Alm Indigestion. In two-feature pro- grammes, people rightly complain of having to elt through a bad picture as to see a good one. They com- Ing vessel of the Halten Being paid in the film world are out-plain still more if they have to sit

should be cut through two bad pictures, banks found a petrol tank with a rageous. They

S. M: But British cinemas favour Nearly two-feature programmes. brass plate lettered. "Hydro-avlon down at least by half.

think' these pro- Lotham."

every player in pictures is over-

Mr. Goldwyn: This heroic story without an end-

grammes are a calamity. Look at it change their in paid. twist in

Cinemas way. ing took another strange

studio workers

their this 1931. After the Graf Zeppelin made

week. Each of these pleture-houses s Polar flight, the Russian meteoro- wages every time, und the great per-programmes in many cases twice a lugist, Moltschanoff, developed some sonalities who draw people to the wes

picture cinemas are worth their salaries---all expects

he had taloon.

Опе

The

earn

to be supplied with four

έπια

Cinemas, naturally, compete with taken over

each other. You may have three or Novaya Zemlyn showed an aeroplane from this salaries generally are tan-

tustic.

የያኔ on a patch of half-melted snow,

four But have

in the same neighbourhood all Seton Margrave:

programmes. Again speculation on the fate of

op Amundsen.

Was it his

Thus, before we know where we are, machine? not paid some of those fantastic looking for different Final examination of the enlarged salaries yourself?

Mr. Goldwynt 1 have; but not we find we have to make 600 or 800 In consequence every The weight fins a year. photograph proved that the machine

more than 1 could help. shown was a different type from that machine is too great for any studio rushes to turn out as many used by Amundsen.

After that nothing... Still, there one person to fight. The demand for pictures as possible, regardless

5. M: But many people in Britain may yet be alive. It would not be sorts of people who should never have the first time he disappeared into the been near a studlo are hired to make like to go to the cinema twice a week He was the frst man to make the icy waters for years at a time; but on pictures, elusive channel

the southern part of the half-dozen of them-but apart films a week-200 a year.

POALD AMUNDSEN was 50 Two years before he had announced that his life work was completed. years exploring the Arctic and An- taretle.

He had spent nearly 30 are many 10-day who believe that he really fine artists is so heavy that all i qualiès

China' undoubtedly suffered North-West Passage by ship (the those other occasions he had mor- for which seamen ganised expedition and abundant

or more.

of

You can pay as much as you like Mr. Goldwyn: Maybe; but let me for ability. If you can find it. But tell you that in the United States at- nowadays things are so crazy in the tendances have fallen by 20 per cent., food supplies.

film world that a fellow who can and they are still falling. The discovery in 1930 of the rewrite a letter thinks he is an author.

No, we must stop handing out filmas Inains of Andree and his companions So salaries go up and up and picture to the cinemas like army rations- a position to carry on a pro- on White Island, off North East Land, costs rise out of all reason.

two at a time for a showing of only three or lapse of 33 years showed that

six days, regardless the party had lived there for a con-

quality. the siderable time.

severe blow at Hsuchow, and yet the defensive power of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's armies has been very much depleted. China still has men and arms to tracted struggle. The steadily after

length of fight a dozen Hsuchow battles. increasing

not

Nevertheless, the Japanese drive Japanese lines makes the inva- Hfe in those regions of ciernal snow

is bringing the invaders peril-der more ously near the sent of Govern-to ment at Hankow. Chengchow is such favour. looked upon as a key-point in that

upon

the system of Hankow's outer Marshal Chiang retreat defences. If it falls Hunkow is Hankow, a blow, or a series of will be struck at the not directly menaced, but the blows, road has been cleared by the Japanese in the hope of paralys Japanese of one more obstruc-ing the advance. tion.

Fortunes Lost S.

of

Big Alms are taken off to make room for bad ones. The policy of the cinemas must be changed. First-

If any man knew how to support

M: Many fortunes have Taken Off Too Soon been lost in British films. and more vulnerable and ice, it was Roald Amundsen.

be Mr. Goldwyn: Not a quarter of

ATEW pictures should ΝΕ Polar exploration his He made

shown to the public im- run for A the guerilla tactics now infe's work. He spent his whole for the number that have been lost in

And it is certain tune on it. His reward for scient- American productions, although the mediately, and should

to see them. before the armies of de services to the world was that he same extravagance can be seen in long us people want

London as in Hollywood. Picture How often do you hear people say- went bankrupt in 1925.

Four months after he disappeared people have lived in a grand way in ing they have missed some fine fim because it was on view for only a rescue Nobile, it gorgeous homes.

They have amassed great wealth, few days? into the Arctic was announced that all his creditors would be paid in full. The sale of but it will disappear in smoke if they his medals helped to pay the debtors. Fifty-one medals were sold for £850, and the purchaser, Mr. Conrad Lon-

S. M: By how much, then, would Marshal gaard, presented them to Oslo Uni-northern waters till the end of Sep-class pletures must get long runs that appears

versity.

Roald Amundsen was no stunt mer- you cut down the number of pictures It appears to be the Chinese Chiang himself is close to thej

lengthen strategy

the front lines now. It is reported that Amundsen was worth £65,000. chunt. He prepared himself for his produced? Japanese fighting line as much that he has been in Chengchow The Norwegian Government paid work of exploration as few men ever

£20,000, but it was not sufficient to prepare themselves for their job." re- for some days, and Chengchow cover expenses of his Polar expedi as possible. Latterly the treating armies have been leav-is one of the immediate objections. ing strong forces, inside the tives of the Japanese. Japanese lines of action. These,

to

It

After the war it was estimated

There

washing and cooking.

tember.

Mr. Goldwyn: K we made only a third of the number now being pro- duced we should still be making too many. The scramble after quantity

trazy.

is

Norway, in 1872, he was as a youth

DOAN at Borge, Smaalenene, feature programmes?

us have single-fenture Dro-

Let The Public Rebel

Amundsen suld that the most

5. M: Then you favour single- humiliating and tragic episodes of

Mr. Goldwyn: Most certainly. The A little study of the map of us career were when friends bought,

house thrilled

by Nunsen's and presented him with,

his lawyer before triumphal return from the first cross-cinema has never been so prosperoUB it must be presumed, were deli-operations shows the probable near Oslo. To

as when single-feature programmes in-

the Ideal over were the rule. I think tended for medicine, threw

it over said, "Make me a free man." berately dropped to employ line of Japanese attack from the starting out on his last journey he ing of Greenland. Amundsen,

against guerilla tactics

an present positions and the im-

Thus does the world treat a man and began his training. As a ind of cinema fare is a feature film, a news

short comedy. la the enemy whose mechanical power portance of Chengchow as the who spends his life in its service and 15 ho went to sen before the mast; reel, a short interest picture, and a

Let

us make fewer films. Let a story about that house. Arctic, a year of navigation training them be shown for a longer time, and and gun strength are so superior junction of the Peiping-Hankow does not trouble to snatch its riches spent a year seal hunting

in the to China's that they make any railway and the Lunghai line. Amundsen lived alone in it for some a year of training on skis attempt at holding permanent Once at Chengchow General years, doing his own housework, mountains, during which he did not let

In the summer sleep one night under, a roof, two grammca. positions not only costly but Doihara will make for Hankow of 1928 some of his old companions years in the Antarctic as mate of the dangerous. For although the by way of the railroad. There called. Amundsen opened the door Belgice with de Gerinche, and finally

and

said, "I am sorry I can entertain one year's theoretic studies on mag- of that. And no guests. There is no one except netism at Oslo University.

M: And do you propose to strong points may hold, the is little doubt

the myself in the house."

Ils first exploit was the North~|

Je begin this revolution? essence of flanks more than often cave in, while the

We know," they repiled. "That West Passage and relocation of the

Mr. Goldwyn: The public should come. You need position of the Magnetic North Pole begin IL The publle who pay for and the troops in the centre are Japanese campaign is speed, and is why we have in danger of complete isolation, the capture of Hankow, which, help and company. Here we are." to prove its continual movement. He pleures should demand the best we accomplished both objects, and can produce. I am glad to see peo- Amundsen was n rent patriol. He took three years in 30-year-old ple already rebelling against bad But now, scattering powerful they hope, will be a severe shock They stayed.

pictures. I hope they will rebel a lot forces over a vast territory, to Chinese morale, it is China's loved his country; worked for it. He herring boat....

have asked me what has always spur- never attempting to hold a line obvious intention to make full once said, "There are so many who on there journeys. It is or a town against heavy bom-ment of these plans as difficult red me bardment, the Chinese are show-as possible, and prolong the simply this," and unfurled the Nor- ing the benefit of their long and fight, realising that the strain in the note of irony enters the swift deaths amid the Ice? Did the bitter experience. Even lacking of continued conflict is relative- tale, Amundsen flew into the North party survive and eke out its meagre a bankrupt, ponniless. When he dis provisions hoping against hope for her enemy's appeared to rescue an ally, thousands rescue? Can he still be alive rallways and the advantages ly greater upon

frozen fastnesses? these undoubtedly give an than upon her own tortured

for his rescue, and all to no avall. Ice breakers continued to search the 17. army, they would

be

in resources.

Again,

*

Did Roald Amundsen erash to a

where in

of pounds poured from every country The Arctic holds its secreta jealous

more.

I

Just before I left Hollywood heard of a cinema offering a seven- hours show with a free lunch thrown

tu. That, just raakes the cinema a laughing-stock to the rest of the en-

tortainment world..

1 day, by all means let the public rebel. Let the public rebel so much that the entire nim industry will bo forced back to sanity.