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World Cudiant Da berandumenti with Avesta Slanderd.

Sefton Delmer reports from Japan No 'fratting' or bows

but it's busier than Germany

TOKYO AIR be hanging around the stations

They are determined to hold

the Russians or Communists seizing it and turning it into a base against the Americans in the Pacific.

TELEVISION FROM PUTS CROSBY IN THE SHADE

AMERICAN

By Froderick Cook

1

NEW YORK.· television, which has always logged for

behind Brkish, is entching up fast.

Todny television here has about reached the technical

atnge that the British occupied in 1938,

In the degree

No. bar in

of public acceptance It is now for in front. any major elly is complete without television, And it is penetraling Info the homes by thousands.

Experts say that in the last year American television: has made seven years' progress,

A year ago there were in the USA only 17,000 tele- vision sets. Today, there are more than half a million, of which 278,080 were manufactured in the first · six months of 1949.

The factories are working day and night, but demand increases so fast that their bagklog of orders Krows ateadily bigger. A year hence, station managers belleve, the number of viewers will be counted in mil- lions.

AT the start of 1948 there were 17 television stations

on the air. Today there are 31.. Broadensters are investigating every new technique... Alreatly the now selenco is proving a vigorous com- petitor for formal radio. A survey taken by his sponsors revealed that - Bing Crosby attracted 10 percent of the listeners in homes having radio without television but that in homes having both his audience dropped to. four percent.

the staff they used to employ in the peak period of production but also til employees who have returned to Japan from the firm's branch office In Japan's lost overseas empire.

become

The same was trus lú varying de-- gree with Jack Benny. Bob Hope,. Fred Allen and other well-establish- ed favourites. Faced with a between hearing Jack Benny watching a nowsreel, taking the newsreel.

choice:

and.

listeners are

Unless Japan rids herself of these superfluous millions, the Japanese THERE has been a tremendous in- economy will never again seriously competitive in world trade. At present the Americans are paying out 500 million dollars a year to make up the deflelt and keep the country going.

crease in the variety and aunt- ber of programmes offered. Last April New Yorkers could choose between only three stations. They could use their sets for only two. or three hours a day. Now there: are six alternative stations and. oight hours' continuous television in

The one Power which could give Japan nearly all it needs to get go-every 24. ing again is Russia. The Soviet could give the Japs land on the Asiatic mainland, raw materials and their textiles and markets for

machine products.

MONDAY FIELD Well, and main squares of Germany. on to Japan. FIRST to prevent here I am. And I feel almost

Four times today I have like saying this is where I came driven round the Emperor's After flying I don't know palace. Each time I have scen how many thousands of miles sincwy. young, Japanese students in running shorts and

SECONDLY, in order to have Asia, I have landed once more in gym shoes tearing round the it ready as an American naval would orm the Japanese to fight the cameras to sporting events,

palace mont on a training run. and air base in the event They seem determined to keep und themselves fit.

across Europe, Africa,

and

an occupied enemy country.

And at the first snapshot glance around I feel I might just as well be standing in the Rhein-Main airfield at Frank- fort in U.S.-occupied Germany.

of

make

New cities are being hitched to the television network every week.

laying Programme planners are heavy stress on two items: newsreels. And, to my mind, It is in this and dramatic presentations. But a: temptation for the Japanese, not in new factor is entering the picture... wants to take its own that the U.S. television the improbability Russians for them, that the Austrats own pictures, entertain' Its own customers direct, without the- ans should look for danger.

necessity of buying a formal news- reci film.

For drams presentations stations. are concentrating on

studio. shows, not sims or remoto pick-ups.. from theatres. But some Broadway SATURDAY piece of news shows are likely to be televised. which makes direct if copyright and ice problems. belleve that, despite the can be ironed out,

evacuation of probability of the South Korea by the Americans-- they are already sending home soldiers' families-the Americans will not abandon the Asiatic main- land altogether.

ns THIRDLY, to use it ต with supply buse-together The question is, for what? Another thing. I have not British Hongkong-should the seen any Japanese equivalent so U.S. Government decide that 'There is the same Coca cola far of G.I. frauleins. I have America cannot afford to let me

fountain in the corner, the same stalls with American magazines, coffee, doughnuts, and ham-

The burgers.

white- same helmeted young military police- man is lounging contemptuous- against the door of the Customs hall, the same heroic revolver holster hanging pipe- clayed from his slim middle.

ly

The same group of immacu- lately nyloned U.S. service wives with babies are being kissed by the same proud, whe cracking poppas in the same olive green uniforms.

seen plenty of G.Is taking

The NEWSMAP comes

this week from Tokyo

stroll through the city. I have geen plenty of pretty Japanese girls, many of them in gaily coloured kimonos.

URANIUM HUNT

JUST heard a

South China fall into the hands of the Communists as well as Manchuria and North China.

Australians The

take yet another view. They consider Japanese resurgence fundamen- I feel it is unlikely now that they For tally a greater danger to their will yield up Smuth China.

be exploring the Amne Machin range security than the present threat Russian prospectors are reported to of Soviet expansion in Asia and of mountains on the border between

China and Tibet for uranium. a Communist world revolution.

They are scared lest the Japanese

But only once so far have I

of whom there are 75 million seen a Japanese girl walking against Australia's 7% million, ex- with a U.S. soldier. My friends ploit the Soviet-U.S. conflict for the

plenty purposes of Japanese Imperialism. here tell me there are

of Japanese girls with G.I. friends, and I believe them. And in the place of thin. But the point is that whereas obsequious Germans in worn in Germany you see frauleins out and patched German suits and G.Ls everywhere, here I there are thin obsequious have been having to search for Japanese in worn-out patched them. Japanese suits.

ROUND PALACE

STAY OR GO?

EDITOR'S TROUBLE

"This is big news. For the Amert- cans know that there is there, and that the Russians therefore bound to find it.

livé

is co-

INEXPECTED difficulty

fronung television directors over. comedy. The imaginative absur ditles of formal radio are impossible with television. The broad slap- stick of Birns has been tried and has been a dismal flop. The best brains, of the new industry are trying to devise a brand new „programinie form,

of a

say opens.

urnnlum Television people complain

are shortage of good material and

that the new entertainment up an attractive new field for writ-

With

Hollywood holding.

They know it because when Mil-Ing men.

Inn Reynolds, the pen king, took off the rights to so many thousands of from Peking airfield early this year stories and refusing to give

them

to search, as he said for a mountain | up though showing no siens of trans- AT dinner last higher than Everest in this range, lating them on to celluloid-tele- THURSDAY night fas- he was carrying American uranium vision planners are pinning their

cinating

affair experts.

Japan's biggest daily, Asahi Shim- uranium, Now the

after it.

Art

General MacArthur received me this evening. sonality I have met in my

war.

faith on new writers.

TOLLYWOOD film chiefs, are be-. Но

coming more and more interest-

ed in the newcomer to the entertain- ment fleld. Several producers have I and him the most dynamic per-started to turn out short pictures for travelsuse over television on the principle anywhere since the

His en-of "If you can't beat 'em, jala 'em." thusiasm

overwhelming. His Other companies are supplying tele-. WAS of wall space

old

feature Every bit

liberated vision stations with friends claim that he has covered with placarda hand-written

the Japanese from the mentality of flims, foreign pletures and short sub- In Japanese script. Placards

Jects, hung from Japanese lanterns and milltery slavery. the cross-beams in the

Toon).

even

editorial

The Japanese no longer get up and bow when their tram passes the

the

Hollywood and

television planners believe that the long-term. will have to arrangement which come lles somewhere between these two methods.

In which Japanese women guests and servants of the house all wore Milton Reynolds did not And his national dress-I met the editor of mountain. But his scientists found

Russions

bun.

They sell 3.500.000 coples dally. WE STERN

This afternoon I visited their office, WEDNESDAY ON second im-

discussion in and now realise why the editor was TUESDAY pressions Tokyo the East could not find much reluctant, at first, to let me visit his

the plant. is not so much like Frankfort better illustration than after all. For one thing there divergent policies of the Western is not the ruin and rubble. Powers on Japan,

Fire bombs burned down

Britain, or, if you prefer it, Tokyo's wooden houses and Mr Bevin, thinks the time has killed as many as 30,000 people come to make a

peace treaty at a time, but left a big stone with Japan and evacuate the

and and cantilever building unblast- American

Australian occupying the ed and, in most cases, unscath- forces now ed.

country, retaining only a civilian supervisory commission The Japanese got down to it, to ensure that Japan does not swept away the ashes, and have

go Communist. bullt everywhere

up wooden huts for old.

The Americans, vociferously represented by General Douglas Tokyo seems more busy and MacArthur, insist that there FROM OVERSEAS

Film company: executives profess. less demoralised than Frank can now no longer be

any

confidence that television audiences. do not want the sort of fare at their fort.

question of a peace treaty 80 FRIDAY I found yesterday,

own fireside that they expect to. I have not seen here. those, long as the present, conflict

Is, I am told, typi- I am off to Hiroshima to see the find in the local cinema. But there- ganga of young black mar with the Soviet Union remains cal of all Japanese industry. They place where the atomic bomb began a slightly hollow sound about. keteers which always seem to unsettled..

are compelled not only to retain all a new era.

new

NANCY

High and Dry

WHAT'S

"THE BOY" BEHIND',

WRONG,

TILLE?

They dangled over the heads of Emperor's palace. sub-editors and make-up me

"We are having a spot of labour trouble," said my host, "and theso are appeals written by rival parties and rival unions.

оде

Although Asahi print only sheet daily, they have 000 editoria) in Tokyn workers on their sloff alone.

·

'ME' IS ALWAYS -- DIPPING MY BRAIDE

IN HIS INKWELLS

COME IN MY

HOUSE ---

MacArthur has killed all that, they say, and put in its place a new of personal dig-

democratic cense

I would like to watt a Hitle longer nity and equality before the law.

before I endorse that.

TO HIROSHIMA

I HAVE got my

for SUNDAY passes

.tho military train to

THE sinte of affairs

morrow,

On both sides of the fenca close- attention is being paid to the New York television station WFIX (own- ed by the Now York Daily News) which has closed an experimental deal with Sir Alexander Korda for a..

entertainment. series of full-length flms, which are televised once a week, ·

their protestations.

By Ernie Bushmiller.

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