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POCKET CARTOON PAUL HOLT IN HOLLYWOOD

RƏK KİCKSO

"Sanders n here' la* working on a substitute for willy.

ITALIAN

POLITICS

LEFT-RIGHT

N unmentionable word has i crept into the Hollywood dictionary. Smog. SMOG. Nobody is supposed to use it but overybody does.,

Leading articles in the papers trumpet that the word is a dis- grace and should be, could be, done away with. Loyal citizens of this endless suburb say that it is a disgrace and highly humi-

lating to one and all.

A smog is not n fog and it is not a smoke taze-It's a mixture of the two: It Blots out the hills and it blots out the sea, and the noonday!) sun smiles faintly through to this promised land.

A Fleet Street man, writes from the Celluloid City- quotes Darryl Zanuck; attends a party for the Rex Harrisons; dines with Ann Todd; but sees the 'Smog'

One man-an agent if you will. bellove me-asked me rather fur- Mont- tively what I thought of komery, "I discovered later in the evening that he had been in the Battle of the Ardennes,

ON SHORTAGES

Aro

Wo

THE present shortages in Britain the subject of endless chatter. The Americans thinks nre having a terrible time, and long to help. They don't see why we stand for it.

In this atmosphero of boom and be blowed to it, one man has contrived to produce a serious and enthralling picture called "The Best Years of Our Lives."

It is an honest and unvarnished tole

three what happens to

of

*some

BOLITY.

presented to the nervous and swent- ¡an Intermittent composure. while what's such old fogeya na Dávid Niven and with his brain Cedric Hardwickco went unnoticed.. The smog is symptomatic of what ng producer showing hla ails Hollywood, Industry has right and wrong

child.

Indeed, Ann Todd has every soldiers who come back to civilian brought smoke to smother the city!

Fallacy here, which nobody so far blessing but work. She In atlife in a small American town, and

tako of

tehcock's the civilians make-belleve. The bad men have

appene in

quite come through the wild hills from the seems to have noticed, is that bored waiting to

The Paradine Case.” with punishment from the telling. cast down to the Pacifle plain watchers dial all kinds of algnals, next,

Tho

producer is your old friend the Sam

has had riveters to the great new shipyards, while enthralled ones forget to diai Gregory Peck.

at all. The perfect audience renc-

Goldwyn. He mechanics to the grent new aircraft tion clearly would be an empty

courme both to tell America the graph, but that, I'm afraid, would

truth about herself and to keep the tale going for three hours without hardly satisfy a producer.

n_break.

SHOWDOWN factories.

IMMINENT

By John McKnight

of the Associated Press

her

against self

Their bosses, the movie mognates Goetz and Katz and Spitz

and Loew Skouras, Schenck

at A Balaban-stare the smog

wonder what comes next.

A house divided since the Republic edged out the Savoy monarchy In the June 2 plebiscite, Italy has marvelled the political acrobaties which have kept Premier Alcide de

Gasperi's four-party government precariously perched on the tight-rope of power. there are many Now, however,

been

et line. They one look

takke

better wages,

Hundreds of thousands of workers have come from the east to flood out

ON A STRIKE the little homes of Hollywood and cram the ronds with allen cars,

Their masters, the IndustriniDOVERTY, as is usual, walks side this by Alde with riches in barons, are buying up the chaleta,

A sad strike has been casas, mansions, and palaces of the misty town.

their swimming going film stars with

011. Pickels have pools complete.

patrolling outside the

studio gates And the film stard and radio for several weeks how. Occasionally crooners, struggling bravely along there is bloodshed and even deaths Rivalries of

publle men pushing Italy in on their £1,500 a week, are being from the clashes that occur. to be appears

I have not so far been stopped at exorably towards a long-predicted driven further and further out into showdown between the fast coales- the desert valleys, where they buy la. picket

little ranches, ride quiet horses, and at me and let me I can't cing Right and Left.

brood about things."

say this is very fluttering.

The strike is not for and but a battle for power between the and two rival unions in the studies, and and the strikers, who do not rightly understand the Issues involved, are again mortgaging their homes, selling: their cars to keep going,

They are compelled by their union

they do noi. who agree that the chief factor in one important fact I find to bosses. to picktet, and are able to a

report from Hollywood is that one of up to £20

mognates are came movie the difficult balance--the desire to these

which are producing The studios,

these completely unaware that the quality too many films anyway for keep the balance-la disappearing.

Socialist Foreign Minister Pietro of their films is falling off. Indeed, boom times, proceed at about half-

of joint you cannot convince them that this pace, unperturbed. Nenni,

ardent seems

Talk of the town is the salary the action with the

combine This 15 understundable. Never Duke of Windsor will draw when he rendy to kick the four-party to pieces and to try to set up a have profits been so high. Darryl comes here as an associate producer. workers' po Casper's middle-of-the-with

Zanuck, still plodding steadily along The favourite I hear is £75,000 a

making of "Forever year. the And if De

I don't believe a word of it, but road Christian Democrats, disgusted Amber," estimates that the net profit with four months of attempting to for Hollywood this year will come it keeps people happy and does work with the Left, are not actually to £32,000,000 or more. standing on the doorstep of the Right, they certainly are moving in that direction.

COMPLICATION

ls so.

ON FILM PROFITS

Three reasons are given for this. 1. Housing shortage which makes movie houses a refuge.

3.

Hittle harm.

tonic

15

the New Secondary

thrill and an English colony. excitement and hugely popular. 2. Millions of homing Gis who Lending the parade are Mr and up the picture imbit In the Mrs Rex Harrison, who have shot picked Army.

to the top like rockets. Mr Harrison 3. Gradual revival 'of foreign was so successful with "Anna and re-markets, particularly South America, the King of Siam" that he has been

A pernicious habit has recently given the great Gene Tierney been picked up by most producers his next leading woman.

Mrs Harrison (Litli Palmer)_play- of using a Gallup Poll system to

ed so charmingly with Gary Cooper gauge public taste.

in "Cloak and Dagger" that she is being given Humphrey Bogart as a [reward.

is

To complicate matters, the to Republican Party, fourth group Kovernment, in the presented reported to be preparing to pull its two ministers out of the Cabinet.

Recent events sharpening personal and political unimosities and further. of political Ing

the

coalescence into the Right and Left elements were these:

book

ON RITUAL

was

*15

ON A PARTY HEY gave a party for the happy Harrisans the night I arrived. Cameramen flashed their bulbs and stars flashed their teeth incessantly, Deanna Durbin was photographed Ave times, and I was photographed as seven times, which seems to prove

the virtue of travel.

obvious DESULT

and both Is absurd. The customer thinks 1. Nonni's speech at La Spezzia

which he demanded an early of his favourite star and director in conquest

of power for the workers and puts them both to work on the

story he or magazine and asserted that in no other.

way of could the "cholce

war or re-reading last week. crudescence of fascism" be averted. Awed movie producers, hypnotised 2. A statement by the under- by this abracadabra, strive to turn secretary to De Gasperi that the out new movies which are bound to Christian Democrat Parly would not be more costly and more dull "leave to the extreme Left, a time goes by. minority in the country, the direction of the government."

3. A speech by Attillo Picconi, Christian general secretary of the Democrats, in which he charged that the Communists. were waging a war

In

The strike han closed the sludlo, and poor Todd finds that, according to her contract, she must go unpaid until the picture starts.

With the scant expenses allowed her by the British Treasury, she finds this far from a land of plenty, and will probably join the studio picketeers soon.

Fred March and Myrna Loy play brilliantly,

story: Goldwyn

Sam turned down a suggestion that Danny Kaye should sing a Gilbert and Sullivan

Phyllis Calvert is feeling equally sonit.,

"Gilbert and Sullivan never did frustrated. Two months and more

go she arrived here to make Rachet any good on the screen," announced Field's "Time Out of Mind," directed Sam, "not that I mean any harm to by Robert Siodmak. Not a foot of them. I never met the guys."

To

which fie added quickly, aim has been shol yet.

but with this, "Don't quote me. Whenever news- "I love it here, muddle i might just us well be in paper guys quote me they forget to England. There docan't seen to be quote the twinkle in my eye," uny difference." says Miss Calvert ruefully but full of hope.

ON ODDITIES · ON THE WAR? HUSH! FHenry the Fifth." The natives AVOURITE British film here is

THERE is one golden rule to be affectionately call it Hank Cinq

followed in Hollywood-you do Filling stations carry, the slogan: not mention the war. It never "Nylons sold with every ten gallons happened.

When a man is telling you what Hills given by Mrs Bob Hope all the At a birthday party in Beverly he has been doing since you saw him last in the thirties, he will say: guests were women. After The "Oh, I carried on and so forth until cocktails had passed around nannies 1941 or so, and then I went away appeared bearing the Bables of some

who were for a couple of years or so, and now of the guesta,

passed I'm back at the old job.”

around, too,

of gns."

American Music

119

Has

Arrived

By Jane Eads

unw

Carlos Moseley, blond young man from Spartanburg, South Carolina, a former concert pianist who is a music specialist for the U.S. State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, says that while the work of the past generation of American composers was derived from European music, the new musie adulteratedly American, and has been described by leading musicions abroad

and vigorous." [resh, The Prague Intional Festival last Spring was reluctant to arrange

the general belief special American concerts, due to American national music had not really developed yet."

"This view has been completely changed." says Moseley. "Amerl- can music won a great and resounding triumph in this ancient sent of. , musical tradition and culture."

that

that

He reports es now wants to do an introductory series of American

Ultraphone, the most prominent of Czecho-Slovak

Several

recording works, including orchestral and chamber music.

theatres in Czecho-Slovakla have asked for rights to large produce some of the outstanding American operas-including Marc Blitzstein's

Will Rock," which had successful New York pro- duction;

Vir: Menolli's "The Old Mald and The Thief," and

Gertrude

"Four Saints in Three Acts," with text by the late

The leading orchestras in Budapest · are now ready to perform.

From Warsaw also comes an urgent demand for scores of the latest popular semi-classical music and negro spirituals, as well as the muste of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin.

Similar requests have come from Finland, Norway, France, Sweden.. Yugo-Slavia and the Netherlands-Associated Press..

The party was in aid of the final When the picture they have made is finished a new ritual takes place. release of the Harrisons' British assassing go out into the film "Rake's Progress," which in Hired streets waylaying passers-by with called "Notorious Gentleman" here. lucky but just as popular Not so the invitation to a sneak preview,"

Seated in the theatre, they are all are Ann Tadd and Phyllis Calvert,

American music at any time. declared that the given little dials wired to a recording I dined with Miss Todd recently and I have never before sat at a Christian Democrats now were quite machine. Dinis read: Bored,

table so stared at. oriented

toward a

a renascent right. "terested, Excited, Thrilled.

Miss Todd, who insists that she is ies by the Leftists in the

the film proceeds-they--are Victories

-As vial elections.

asked to register their emotions 30, something, looked a startled "19 municipal

between thus. 5. Unabated animosities

and at the end a graph is receiving this obvious adulation with De Gasperi and the Communist Party latter's "private mission" to Belgrade leader, Palmira Togliatti, aver the to talk over Italo-Yugo-Slav rela- flons with Marshal Tito. De Gasperi called the mission 41-timed" and resented Togliatt's reporting to the' Communist press before he did so to the government.

CONDITIONS

com- the

With Christian Democrat

throughout mittees meeting country to clarify the party's post- tion, an early resolution of situation seems likely.

the

If the Christian Democrats looked the support of the Right, Piccioni

said it would be on these conditions:

1. There be no thought of fascist

or neo-fascist resurgence.

2. The right to abandon "the spirit

of social reaction."

3. The issue of the Monarchy versus the Republic not be raised again.

These conditions could narrow the feld.

Most potent Right Wing group on the basis of recent balloting is the Uomo Qualunque movement. Some of its orators have made plain their esteem for certain parts of the Fascist government.

INDIA-CHINA PIPELINE

The Chinese National Highway Administration has been ordered to assume the management and care of the India-China oll pipeline built during the war, according to repdri carried by the semi-official United Credit Information Bureau, reports Reuter.

R

This 1,150-mile pipeline, described as the longest in the world, has not! been used since the end of the war, It runs from Kunming to Calcutta, and carried a daily load of 1,000 barrels during the war years.

The mandate to the Highway Administration from the Ministry of the Communicantly in an operable

to keep pipeline state. To full

thin order the Administration has decided: to di- vide the line into sections for

on work, to assign technical }

to to each section and have inspections made of each section three times a month.

According

To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

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South, dealer.

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This

too spade trick.

looked all likely but he saw a certain chance, and te now

attack planned lis accordingly.

East won the club lend with the jack, and made the safest return- the club four. South went up with the ace and promptly exited with his last club.

with which to exit. A return would let Sau

East now was back on lead, with the club king, and was in precisely the position that declarer hoped for. The club suit had broken

3-3, East had no card left in that suit diamond South ruff in his own hand while dummy discarded a spade. So East decided to lead the spade six. South put in the eight, and West had to sacrifice his Jack, The king won, and south finessed to the ace-ten against East's queen.

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