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BY C. V. R. THOMPSON

America's New Guessing Game

JEW YORK,-Amerlen's most popular guess-

N

ing game-where will Britain stand in the event of war between the U.S. and Russia ?— produced two answers, neither confirmabio, in the American Press recently.

The Hearst newspapers, which do not like Britain much more than they like Russin, re- ported a "super secret" Anglo-American deal.

It is being worked out, they said, by four phantom-like British agents-unnamed-who are supposed to be flitting between Now York, Washington, and Canada,

Thoir objectives-complete military and économic alliance between Britain, the U.S., and Canada; Britain to act as America's managing director in non-Russian Europe, overlording all distribution of aid both military and economic,

Anewer two came from that Washington "De- koyhole-peeper, Drew Pearson. He said: finite word has been given by the British Govern- ment that if Russia attacks in Europe Britain will fight.".

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MARGARET LOCKWOOD24 DEREK FARRĮ,

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COMMENCING TO-MORROW

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GREAT FILM BATTLE

EOPLE have been shocked and surprised by the studios of film newa closing down and workers 'being paid off. They cannot under stand why this has happened.

months ago the British film industry had the opportunity import tax had of its life. An caused Hollywood to stop sending its Aims into the country.

A few

British films, which had been quality and sinture: growing in

nce 1939, had the market at their since feet. Here, it seemed, was just the chance the industry needed.

Then suddenly, a few weeks ago, Mr. Harold Wilson, the President of the Board of Trade, changed the whole scene.

He signed an agreement with Mr. the representing Eric Johnston,

producers. Hollywood Hollywood was free again to pour its pictures Into Britain.

hc

But there 'were conditions. Mr

explained how Harold Wilson was still going to save our precious dollars.

The American Alm companies would not be allowed to take out of the country all the money their films earned, here. A large propor- at £10,000,000 a tion.

estimated year, would remain in Britain. The Americans must spend it in Britain. Naively Mr. Wilson suprested that the Americans might use the money to show us how to run our hotcla

Far from naively, the Americans made their plans to use the money doing what comes naturally-making. jima.

THEY GAIN

By that i-considered ag.cement Mr. Wilson signed over the British alm industry to Hollywood.

Why do I say that? Because the only people to benefit from it are the Americans and Mr. J. Arthur Rank, who is tying himself up very closely with the Americans.

The Americans are let loose to All our cinemas with their films and crowd out everybody who has not the power of a big combine to ensure it showing for his picture.

They are free to spend £10,000,- 000

making Hollywood # year plctures in Britain, in overwhelming competition with the British inde- pendent producer.

How does Mr. Rank beneẞt? Because his cinemas (and 1,008 of the biggest and best cinemas in Britain are in the virtual control of either Mr. Rank or the American Warner Brothers) are assured of new gims.

Stephen

'That distinctive

000

INCIDENTALLY, Washington

has already asked Britain for precise estimates of what she needs in the first three The months of Marshall ald. expected answer is raw mate- rials and machinery, little or no food.

JACK

BENNY, America's top what 'asking twice comic, is Dauny Kaye. Kot (£2,500 a week) for a London, Palladium appearance- this summer. PHILIP WILLKIE, quality is in danger now. How can it be other-28-year-old son of the late Wendell atts

as a Tory in his native Indiana. wise with Hollywood dictating what Willkle, decided to run for Congress shall be made in British studios? That is not just a personal view. when British films have reached in Rd, Shepherd's Bush, and Isling-York papers as being "as British Rank's studios, Denham, Pine-INGER BEER, advertised in New Kinematograph position of prestige unequalled in. The trade journal, Weekly, says that the producers are their history and have had an un- ton, total 222,000 square feet. Space as crumpets or cricket," is back in "perturbed." It adds:

surpassed opportunity for expansion. already available to the Americans, the shops for the first time since "They are

convinced that the our production should be lagging either by direct ownership (M.G.M., 1939. Price: 2s, a bottle.

Warners) or virtual control through he is beaten in the Presidentlar

totala 175- settlement gives the Americans a instead of pushing forward.

election, President Harry Tru- Contributory very, very strong position in Bellish-

cntises have been their tie-ups in Britain

man has been-promised-n-£30,000– dangers ahead

square feet. mony. Our films cost too much, studios. They sce and they argue that the second year take too long to make.

If the Americans get the Indo-n-yeur job with an insurance com-

they pendent studios

will have pany. may

be worse than the first."

The men who actually make the, almost exnetly the saine area as WERE IS À BOOM in Rolls As for the studio workers, the

Rank has. cause of their anxiety is clear, ma-do not spend all the money

Royces (American' price £4,875) charged against their pictures.

Hollywood pictures GTC made in Texas and the other day a man: unlon leader. Their

faster than ours. The conclusion bought one for his wife because it O'Brien, M.P., says: "British studio Many of the overheads are invisible

Rea- many highly paid labour is being reduced to

to them. Too tho

that American production in Britain matched her new blue hat.

Briush position

is son-there is a new crop of mulu of asking non-productive executives have dug

and three.... humiliating

themselves in on the upper leveis. will quickly outstrip

Irresistible,

millonaires. In Toxas American companies to take it over.'

other American States-Kansas, The business is riddled with rackets,

Oklahoma, and Colorado. Now the zenith of opportunity is the tax agreo- past. Thanks to ment, Hollywood, against whom our producers had made great headway during and since. the war, at least British producers and workers in the home market, is back in the now realise that their future hus arens refreshed and re-equipped. been sold out to Hollywood, in the Its films will do nothing for Britain. name of saving a few dollars.

They will be Hollywood Alms made. "on location."

Tom Mr.

MR WILSON Humiliating it certainly is, but it is also now Inevitable. It became inevitable when the Wilson-Johnston pact was signed.

The Independent film-maker suddenly finds himself hemmed in

Our films have been widely prols at every turn, his finance light. ed for their distinctively. British studios unobtainable, and his outlet character. The way of life they blocked by Hollywood pletures reflected Wha greeted even in America as a welcome change from crowding the big circuit cinemas.

Perhaps Mr. Wilson did not know the stale conventions of Hollywood.

doing, but exactly what he was there was no doubt about it at all in the mind of anybody who took the trouble to read the terms of

ngreement.

the

The dynamite lay there-in, foi example, the "Schedule of Permitted Uses" to which the American-com-- panies may put the money they have to keep in this country,

Item No. 1 is this: "To encompass

the flm uses within

Industry in the sterling area without limit as to amount."

The independent British producer -and it is often the small man who has the ideas and courage which stimulate and vitalise a whole in- dustry-is doomed. There will be no room for him anywhere.

RENT RISE? Why, you may ask, should he be crowded aut of the studios? Be-

American the

companies cause

through or control already、own

affiliations most their British the studio space not under the con- trol of the Rank group.

A VICTORY Morcover as the Rank aims are the principal British pictures that will go

to the American market, ere will be a natural tendency to make them sult that market by conforming to Hollywood's mould,

Men are making fortunes In these States

everyone wants because they produce oll, wheat. what

Richest of them. meat, and cotton. all, indeed, the richest man in. America today, is в Техоп even Texans do not know. His name is.. No wonder the British producers Haralson Hunt His home town are "perturbed." No wonder the Dallas. His weekly income £250,- Motiou Picture Producera of 1000. Starting with a lease on un- America declared when the agree developed all land, Hunt has built ment was signed that Mr. Johnston, up a fortune estimated at £85,750,- their £50,000 a year negotiator, 000. had achieved "a moral victory for THE RUSSIAN INN in Carmel, America." It was certainly a California, changed its name to famous victory,

Ocean Inn "for business reasons."

WILL AMERICAN MILITARY

Cbring

AID END CHINESE WAR?

BY JOHN RODERICK

This is a question over which there appears to be singularly little agreement within China itself.

-

"They have a

But it would take should be followed. AN American military ald in two years.

about

before Nationalist at least four усага a

the right to prescribe medicine for a government could decisively defeat sicir China," victory in the bitter Chinese

the Communist armies. civil war?

Spencer Moosa in Polping"]} Correspondent Harold K. Mills in

the opinion of neutral and Chinese Nanking Most sources are dubious circles, American military ald in the that American milltary assistance form of war supplies would bring at on expectable level could produce about a Nationalist victory: first, if a clear cut victory. But it should American advisers were attached to To assess opinion throughout the

be able to reopen communications the army from the high command in country the Associated Press ap- proached foreigners and independent and reestablish Chiang Kai-shek's Nonking down to feld units; second, with Pelping,

if this were Chinese In

Shanghai, military superiority.

synchronised Hongkong and Nanking.

without "Any assistance approved today is economie help, particularly towards

stabilising the currency, important produce AP unlikely to

bo replies the

which other assistance These are the of

battlefeld results

Chinese on

nullined. опе year. correspondents received:

Shanghal-American military help within six months to to Chiang Kai-shek can have little Any lasting change in the situation

would take double that time..

to hope alternative is effect unless: first, the Chinese army

"China's milltary needs would in- "The Loot soldier leadership is thoroughly shaken up:

cer Chiang Kai-Shek can hold on until clude a vast expansion of the of intensive second, the Chineso

SIVU the world situation changes.""

transport service particularly facili-. ten to move Ray Ave divisionis training under the eyes of Ame- rican army advisers! third, Ame- Hongkongan American military quickly to danger areas.

accompany Chinese ald programme

swing the rican advisers

battle in the

favour, armies into the Bald, doing

How soon such thing short of firing rifles.

depends

They have not been using their space much lately (while the tax was on they wanted to starve, not feed, British screens), but now they are going ahead with their produc-undergoes a period tion plans.

The Hollywood companies which. do not have studios will quickly be, ar tenants for the in the market others. And they will have plenty of money..

every"

come

could nationalists*

a victory would

оп mainly

estimate is at least two years.

might

air

amount of the old. The popular large-scale all-front counter-offen-

stantial-around

"An estimate of the time needed Even for victory is three years, His own Aime aro guaranteed

with every help it is doubted that they studios where showing, the

the the

nationalists could mount a are made are owned by him, and the agreement ensures that the Ameri-

sive before next year, auch cans will push his films in the U.S. Studio rents, already fabulously

"The Chinese army is

"The cost of financing this" is "The old would have to be sub- in order to free more

sprawling organisation, its leader

and Interna—- of their re- high, will go up still further. The .seeking to maka

US$2,000,000,000, reckoned in billions

risk of tionally in the

making Britain for removal in independent. venue in

pictures at an economic-price (even ship so bad, its morale so low that complete house It would take a dollars,

China another Spain with the pos achieve any If he could find oh, outlet for them), cleaning to Rank sald in

solid No wonder

"The only alternative would be a neutral military Communist victory with one part of sibility of provoking or hastening there will be against man.

China Communist, will not be able to stand up to such result," said one

other World War III.

#Unless substantial help is given wan signed, "Everything in the

the Communistsa If the United States is prepared Nationalist, with

would him.

the be alternative the garden is lovely."

Arival with £10,000,000 a year to spend an amount equal to her gradually absorbing all

gradual subjugation of the whole China-in

Reda and the wartime outlay in to spend is a formidable fellow.

"A prominent financier who asked of China by the

In the What must puzzle the ordinary cess of US$2,000,000,000 and if she man on the outside looking in at the is willing to dispatch 10,000 advisers, anonymity said Generals MacArthur inclusion of this country Alm business Is why, at a time the results would become apparent and Wedemeyer's recommendations Soviet orbit," Associated Press.

Mr.

M-G-M's “GALLANT BESS" in action cinecolor New York the day the agreement

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worried very,

Indeed very kro about their future.

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