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TWO REPORTS FROM AMERICA

"Wouldn't surprise me if that Cecil de Mille or someone don't drop

bombs on us for this"

a few atom

Hollywood fights back the tears

NEW YORK.

OB HOPE, the only star on the list of speakers. Kot up from a dinner that would cost Britons ten weeks' coupons, and said: "I will explain why a lot, more stars are not here tonight. Crosby, Gable, Cooper, Tracy, Garson, Crawford and Benny are at home counting their dough to see if they can afford a new loan for Britain."

A wag has found an old "Bundles for Britain" poster and pasted it on a wall; a daub across it reads "Bundles for Boodle."

AND PREPARES TO TURN

A SUPER COLOSSUS

INTO A MERE COLOSSUS

by C. V. R. THOMPSON

For the most part they are small They are not worried so much about independent people who have the more distant future. All ot At the 1 am. curfew time in kept going for the past 20 years on them have assured me that, given Hollywood's most elaborate night the strength of the £250,000 a plc-. time, they can reorganize sumelent- club, an over-indulgent guest greeted ture they have taken out of Britain. ly to make themselves independent the orchestra's rendering of Star-

in

B.

of foreign markets.

alone,

£1.-

aver in the ex-

Ah! sweet mystery

of life...

By GERALD JOHNSON

NEW YORK. It begins to appear that the lack N these hot and thundery of aggressive leadership may not be days a decision of Imus deplorable is come have thought... mense importance is Truman In certainly the most being reached, but so quietly reluctant Caesar in the history of that the cleverest political pro- the empire, but in that he repre- phets cannot forecast its nature, bents his people with great fidelity.

Congress haz. adjourned, and its The American electorate does not members are now at home consul- rejoice in, it resents, the role of ting their constituents.

world leadership that has been thrust What they are learning now will upon it by the outcome of the war.

The obvious discomfort of Truman determine the temper of the body

when he

make when it meets again, probably car decisions that may affect all con-

la compelled to

the end of this year.

Congress was in SCASION Secretary Marshall made his now famous speech at Harvard University do not deride

inst June.

with St.

when tinents and the seven seas is some- thing they can understand. They It, they sympathise

STRONGER NOW Nobody suspects Truman of being a great man, but he is a perfectly comprehensible man, and for that renson is stronger with the people today than he was when he tookt

The majority of members were 1,000

miles

from their constituencies when the Marshall plan was sug- gested, and so had no opportunity to observe how their people were taking this novelly

As a result, the debate was cauilous in the extreme, Members went to ofer. great lengily to avoid nny sort of commitment until they could learn how volers felt.

They are leaming now, but what they are learning is anybody's guess. NO-PARTY MAN

The ordinary measures of public opinion are unreliable, because un this issue partisan nes have been blurred to a point of complete

erasure.

The Marshall plan has supporters and opponents in both parties.

The Secretary himself has been all his lie a soldier-which is to say, a man of no party.

He is supported by President Truman, a Democrat, but he is also supported by Senator Vandenberg..

Republican.

*

Members of Congress,. therefore, have no party guidance and must look to voters for thele mandate.

Best-informed opinton is none too well informed, but I leans to the view that the Marshall plan shocked the politicians much more than the people.

If the Marshall plari is really made lo work, the indience of the Pre- silent will certainly be one of the deciding factors.

The current

uproar la Palestine could not have been staged at a more unfortunate time,

To nine Americans out of ten the Marshall plan mains primarily sup- porting Great Britain, The fact that most of the money may go to other countries they brush oside.

Emotionally, the question is: Shall wear shall we not back the British?

To have such a charge of emotional high

Palestine explosive as the si uatori tossed into the midst of dcliberations certainly does nothing and reasonable 10-facilitate a cool decision.

'The Zionists have seized on the 51.uation to launch n terrific anti- British campaign. Elements repre- sented by the theoretically defunct Ku-Klux-Kinn have seized it as new for their anti-Jewish

LESSON OF WAR

Ammunition campaign. Wir has taught the people that it Both sides have abandoned Js sometimes necessary to spend appeal to

reason and are enormous suns without hope of exclusively on appeals to prejudice.

the relying

înancial retura, so the Marshall plan The result is to add to the confusion did not startle them us it would in the mind of the already worried have done five years ago.

American.

BY THE WAY..

to

by Beachcomber Spangled Banner by shouting: "Oh Faced now with bankruptcy, they

SCEPTIC has written to 17,000 feet, if wrapped in wet A B. Mayer declared are so ungry they cannot hold their But their next two financial years hooray, Louis

ask me if there are really who want to take lobsters, up 17,000 sacking" The number of people war on England."

tempers when they meet a British may well be chaotic. Take, for in-

in that is how Holly- star Outwardly,

Hollywood.

are stance, They

one "super-colossal epic" pigmy cows in Papua. I have feet must be rather small, but they "Forever Amber Twan-never seen them myself, but the are probably all fanatics, who have wood is reacting. now to the news already ring to organise a move of film restrictions, which it greetedt ment to send packing at least the tieth Century-Fox budgeted

500,000 on that and even made most Rumanian explorers Emu and no sympathy with any other, act- over- most recent arrivals from Britain. longuage typical of its

Nofancu have, As may be vity. Who will be the first jobster emphasis as "Catastrophic."

The bigger and wiser boys, Louis of the film twice

Mayer, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl pectation of getting £525,000 back gathered from their book S'a fly over the Himalayas? Or do bo Outwardly, one is led to believe

carried up the Matterhorn? In the that Hollywood is smiling at the Zanuck, the brothers Warner, and from the British market.

Sidit aduna Takigi.

latter case the wet sucking would For those who cannot read Ru- frieze, so there's another problem to loss of its

its British though that market provided even so forth are clamping down on that

manian "I recommend Tausendteufel work out, and Glaubenleht's account of the cave drawings of pigmy cows at Djunanella, in Chapters III, and IV. their monumental Weltgezali-

und

geistliches Kur- (Leipzig)

1929). conclusions are refuted by Kajusfleisch in his Trauserlingen

most

kind of talk.

No matter how-big-a-smash-hit "Forever Amber" is in the home market they tan hardly hope to make up that deficit now.

Other costly pictures that might

recoup their production discovered not

Until they glance at their pro- duction budgets they are looking upon Britain's action through a cor- porate misty eye. It la almost as if they had suddenly that Mrs Miniver susten-

of its overall profi. But if Holly- wood is smiling, it is through real

not studio glycerine drops. tears,

Today Hollywood does not know whether it is coming or going. No une there with more than a million dollars ents for pleasure or su once any more. Every meal given over to meeting to discuss what to do next. If it keeps up. quipped a local wit, all their ulcers will have baby ulcers.

U.S. Press

could

for

ex-

of

Their

had the bailifs penses are "The Arch of Triumph," cl

13 in. They will brook no anti-British "Portrait of Jenny," "Cass Timber-

Jane," "Remember Mama," "Joan of Lorraine."

talk.

Production lull

and

Epitaph

Passer-by, grudge, not a tear,

A most unlucky mouse lies here, Who ate-fand perished sud-

denly)

Cheese that was meant for you

and vie.

cht Yel, in spite of all this. Marginal note

a drawing of a pigmy CHEN the Government selk up In 1030, in

Tummelgater's W the mall permanent committee Barbarische Bekannten des "schnib-

scon

belfarzamsters Hutte nus diesen for passing groups of Bills without

tiresome discussion in the House, Co the current series of meetings Bruckenwahlgewirkschaftdumpt. So

understand that o new force of which now all begin with the Lobsters over Europe

public relations' officers will issue world I will soon start to mean LL those who care for whatever fists of the Bills, passed, to something. Whether stars will accept A It is to many people care for M.Ps. They, in turn, will tell their today will be gratified, and even, consifitents anything they are able

salary cuts is doubtful. They have a strong union and, with one com-

90

Indeed, Louis B. Mayer's Metro- Goldwyn has just given. Deborah Kerr a brand new seven-year con- tract, starting at £750 a week and working up to £1,750 a week.

Sidney Bernstein, now In Holly- wood, tells

of the big me most read the papers fellows show remarkable IF YOU

under- Ifollywood is reading you might standing of Britain's problems. think it possible that Loula B.

will Whether this understanding Mayer would really declare war on

last after Hollywood has become pany making a profit last year of perhaps, edified, to learn that "Lob- to find out about the contents of the England.

In the daily paper Variety.

convinced that British markets are £10,000,000, they will undoubtedly sters are comfortable at a height of Bills.

matter. expect their employers to bear the tone for keeps is another instance,

under the headline "John At present the know-alls are sure coming year's losses. Bull's biggest ball," it says: "Hands they are across the sea is a noble slogan ex- dramatise

being used solely to a new British bid for But the bosses will do their best cept when one cept

of the hands is American dollars.

to make the stars de more work. with brass knuckles."

One studio hend sold: "When A star who now makes one picture gons on: "Allee has deprived people want to reach page one they yearly will be expected to make his people of entertainment which always altack Hollywood." And two. A director who directs two affords them cheer, hope and faith. Hollywood, aware that dollar talks pictures a year will have to make His

has not only in between America and Britain rash move

three. Most culs will be are curred the ill-will of the American about to begin, has its eyes more on duction. motion

picture industry, but of Washington than Whitehall. law-makers as well."

Le Then there is this pathetle little

Miss Hollywood, forsaken maid. Sita mutely in the willow shade

And mourns her bitter loss.

New publicity

on pro-

To avoid retakes, directors have to teach their stars how to do this it right the first time. And

time may mean that for the first acting ability instead of looks will

will

PRESSURE-BOY Allen Dulles is count most.

working overtime at the mo- While Hollywood walts and sees, J. Arthur Rank, a foreign swell, ment to convince Washington that there is fortunately a seasonal Betrayed her with his magic spell, it must do something. Perhaps it is lull in production. Hardly any new Holly- A victim of his charm, the fell significant that Hollywood's Press Aims will be started until

And got the double-crols.”

agents have been deluging my wood is convinced it has had the That is the way some Hollywood office with reports of the patriotic final word from Britain. chieftains feel, and some even more efforts of Hollywood, fim companies A studio spokesman said: "Econo- strongly. They want to freeze instead of with the usual

leggy mise will he The word-and

drastically, top.",

At 2.30, 5.20, Rank and every other Beitish pro- pictures of Betty Grable...-

ducer out of overy American theatre If the 78 percent, tax and there- It is going to be quite a spectacle today, tomorrow or, at latest, the fore the Hollywood embargo stand, watching Hollywood turn 7:20 & 9.20 p.m. next day,

even the glants 'will get angry.super colossus Into a mere colossus.

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