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IS STALIN FOOLING?

By ROBERT MUSEL.

ERLIN, Dec. 15. Since Rissia fooled the Bworld by using her second-string army in

the Finnish war of 1939, people have been chary of criticising Marshal Stalin's military inachino.

This correspondent is no exception. For the last few days ho has been walking through the Soviet sector of this partitioned city, and the men and officers he saw seem to bear no relation to the almost legendary heroes, who triumphed over the. Gorman Wehrmacht.

Most newspapermen who have seen the Russians here at close rango have about the same opinion. If the shabby troops in this Western out-. post of Russia are the pick of Stalin's men-aa they are sometimes said to bolt raises the in- teresting question of what sort of troops, are stationed closer to Moscow where the West can- not see them. But there again, Marshal Stalin may be trying to fool the West.

The flower of his forces may have been with- drawn to the homeland, to be replaced by men and boys-mostly the Intter-one sees trudging through the streets of their sector, in worn groy- blue overcoats, and never looking very happy in daylight. I have yet to see one of them smile.

motor They rido sumy In little cars or march along as though bound on urgent business, without friendly curiosity for Americans, British or French.

'Money mania' is killing

OR months now I have watched such lovely: -creatures as Linda Dar- Moira Shearer, Vivien Leigh, Christine Norden, Pau- lette Goddard go through Moorl risings, commit beautiful.. suicides, seduce the royalty of Europe, corrupt politicians, fight- duels with whips in a series of epica variously extravagant called "Forever Amber," "The. Red Shoes," "Idol of Paris," "Green Dolphin Street," "Anna Karenina" or "An Ideal Hus- band."

But neither the graceful way in which these ladies achieved their separate fates, nor the presence of Technicolour and a cast of thousands nor budgets ranging from £200,000 of £500,000 nor the shrill cries

prevent the publicity boys, could me from viewing their antics with a curious, cold deinchment mingled with an irresistible tendency

when it yawn, fidget and wonder was all finally and mercifully going to' end.

Laughs, Tears

to

British

films

by MILTON SHULMAN

The Italians have the "know-How": ́a ́sceno from the success

"Four Steps in the Clouds.

were

nothing at all, And 'lu, fact it succeeds financially because it com bines the adolescent appeal of chewing gum with the habit-forming quality of nicotine.

Sometimes, but only too rarely, a during and mature Ides manages to bloom for a moment in this desert primary conditions before it can be of box-office sterliity. Then we are

passed through the stalld iron grill

"It Happened One a brain.

Night," "Modern Times," "Henry V. "Hamlet," "

"Boomerang," "Pyg malion," "Brief Encounter" and "Waterloo Road."

NOT WELL FED

The American military intelligence suspects that the Russian troops are not as well fed or billeted as their that bathing wartime allies and facilities certainly are more limited foo.. Most Americans who deal directly with the Ruszinis say they are not such bad fellows when you get to know them, and they have officers.

which manyˇtilm producers use for Informed with pictures like "The real respect for some of the Soviet

Old Mixturo

Infant

cowboys,

plures. modigles

Of the Russian rank and file, one American officer said: "They're not so much individually, but there's so darn

many of them,

wander Occasionally... Russians into the Anglo-American sectors in search of frivolity, and sometimes American and British military police

celebrating gels too violent and send

them back home,

The plot must be one that has

But there bright flames of cinema made money before.

Thus, Llc genius are soon snuffed out be hard-riding

Alnister cause the commercial powers-that- Orientals, wise-cracking reporters, ue, either unaware of what has hap-have to spank them when petulant chorus girls, sadistic gong- sters, suave psychiatrists, hard-bitter pened or frightened at the prospect detectives, of having to do it again, are busy and churning out second-rate copies of and the original or pretending that Klamprota courtesans continuo to to parade across the screen in an end- nothing new has taken place at all. Jess and infantile display

after year the same postur- Ings primpings and babblings mere- formula is presented in a clicker, ly because those self same cowboys, more opulent and more extravagant assumed that by Orientals, reporters, chorus girls, manner. It is etc., made money doing the same making the same hackneyed plots silly things same time before.

more stupendous, more colossal and more gigantle than they were be }-Every film must have what is fore they will somehow become

Cuphematically known 01 n better.

of

Thus year

Real People

British day both

American allicers, incidentally, say reports of Russian raping of Ger- man girls are highly exaggerated, but they probably have, the edge on the rest of the occupying troops when it comes to hurrying courtship along.

TOP SECRET ..

The nondescript troops Stalla has scen, fit to station in this showcase for the West are not the only signs that might harks back to 1939. At star. This means that some well

Kolsen airfield, most Russion trans- four Yet recently I have seen

built young woman is hysterically

port is the horse and wagon, and Continental films-the French films

Americans who have driven through and blatantly publicised as possess "Le Silerice est d'Or" and "L'Idiot". "

Ing the combined qualities of Sarah Somo

and long Russian-occupied stretches have and the Italian films "Shoe Shine"

Bernhardt, Madame Curie and Helen American film makers may awakebeen equally mystified at the ap- and "Four Steps in the Clouds."

of Troy and is henceforth presented to and that their audiences have parent lack of trucks, command cars.

vehicles. Even" planes They were photographed in the scripts os if they

three or four times a year to per- grown up and that the stickly cine- and other balance-

which have been manoeuvring from simplest tones of black and white sheets, and handle ideas as if they form her limited repertoire of hip- matie sweet ration that satisfied the

cooing in They contained no glamorous wo were overdrafts. For it is undoubt swaying, ogling and

a 'twenties has lost its appeal to a the Russian airfields over Branden- men like Margaret Lockwood or edly this accountant's attitude to nurse's uniform, a, Barong or a public that has learned that the burg, Kotsen and Perleberg are Lana Turner. They did not rely alm production, which hoa

old-fashioned ~~ Yaks'· trans- bubble bath.

cinema can sometimes be intelligent. suspiciously

the and PO-28, which

American!. on Babylonian sets, Technicolour or formed an artistic medium into * No flm must be controversial. When that day comes they will pilots call "sewing machines.”

They were all best-selling novela.

3-

It must not say anything that do well to study the techniques of This could be more of Stalin's much will Yet they made me laugh. They "What will it gross?" are the Hitmus Jews, socialists, capitalista, trade have made good pictures by the he has fet planes, at. Icast oile or nude me ery. They et

me took tests that determine whether or not unions, vegetarians, housewives, simple device of letting real people which equals and possibly surpasses the American P-80. In fact, they deep into the hearts and minds of a lm will be made, No one ever school-children, the Legion of De- do real things in front of an Intel-

know a good deal of what lies. be people I knew and could under- asks: "What is it trying to say?" cency, the Breen Office, the Ameri- ligent camera. And then they wil stand. They showed me how thrill and "Is it worth, saying?" can Way of Life.. the Empire, Wes- also discover that money alone willhind the facade Russia presentato Ing and exhilarating the cinema

Thus, with very few exceptions, tern

the West. But right now most of it Union, Uno and anti- never produce a healthy cinema in- could really be

every new film must satisfy three vivisectionists. In short it must say dustry, That needs brains.

Is top secret-United Press.

made at a cast of well under £100. frozen asset. it cost?" and will offend Catholics, Protesianis, the French and Italian studies who I spoofing. Allied intelligence knows

000.

The Secret

Ams

"How

Russian Window

Now what is there about these postwar Italian and French that have made critics everywhere search their Thesauruses for the IF Uncle Tom had been à Marxist appropriate laudatory adjectives

it would have worked out dif- and why is it that the latest British

Jerently. and American productions

bave made

vitriol and asbestos essential

writing

OK

of every

the

The

A weekly glimpse into the Russian mind, assembled from Moscow-circulated news in the Soviet soctor: of Barlin

KROKODIL,

Russian conte Within the next four years three a prologue to an in-

million homes are to be built in IN

paper, takes on Hollywood, an it?

genious stage adaptation

the villages. The Russians have the of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the THE paper depicts a 12-year-old been fald by press and radio of the

Conducted by directer of the Italian films, Open Moscow Arts Theatre shows back in a huge armchair, cigarette own

rumanly looking boy, lounging joys of home life, of owning one's

PETER house, with a little Cily and Paisa, has the short, but election day in a Southern town between his lips, feet on the table. front and back.

garde. to that question.in the U.S.A. A Nogress, has compicte, answer

BUTCHER Mother comes in stroking a poodle

complications films

of private "My to present life--not to defled the whites and been to and says:

he said.

"Johnny, I'm going 10 property no longer strike terror the bird. After a few seconds he represent it," he

give you a watch for your birthday into his heart. He is even encour-rises his hat again un presto, the a short trip across the Chan the polls to vote. And o

"No," scowls Johnny, "give me puged to set to and build his own dove has nel would show British Alm-makers

Lecome a atom bomb. How it is possible to make good She is returning home with her revolver and I'll get the watch my home without waiting for the Polonged applause, 1 films cheaply. For the French would little daughter when they are both

The title is "Hollywood Upbring. speelal building brigades.

The ideal home for the villager A FAMOUS contratto makes a song them

they made "Le run down by a car full of white Silence est

is described as a four-room affair d'Or" for £90,000, toughs,furious at the Negress for Ing."

about the inadequacies of Gom~ with wide windows, a bathroom, and "La Symphonie Pas defying the unwritten law. that - 100

£50,000 ench. The bans them from voting in the South. PRIVATE PROPERTY — with "alf with “hygienic fittings" and a, ver-" Italians would do even better than

mod con-is no longer out of andah, that by showing him how "Opa The girl is fatally injured. Appeals step. City" was made for £25,000 and by the mother, to passers by for

each road with £35,000

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MADAME BARSOVA, who is one The new model villages will ra- of the finest contraltos of the of log-and-mud Moscow Opera, Is, unhappy about composers. ; Is Lact; in

and ""Four Stops in help are in. vain, She sits by the OR months past Soviet architects, place the cluster.

have hovels of the old days. The clean Soviet bullders, and engineers

"Shoe Shine" the Clouds" for

roed is a

the Italians also make bad pictures. her mother to tell her the story. But not nearly as oile

oficu miď nac nearly as bad as the British and the The prologue ends here, and the Americans. In fact atalisties would mother's tale of "Uncle Tom's Cab- show that whereas the Latins pull in" is presented on "the slago. off a worthwhile picture about, once

the dying girl in her Some recent British films have cast arms. On the other side of the been put through special refresher sweep made by the Nazis of Soviet this month's issue of "Soviet Music," as much as £300,000 each.

sign. advertising Uncle courses. They have had to rid their villages Inspired the four-year plan the has written an open letter to the composera complaining that they Now undoubtedly the French and Tom's Cabin. The little girl asis minds of ambitious projects for announced recently.

are no longer writing good operas skyscrapers, theatres, and communal centres mild think In more modest A NEW version of the Marshall or sood arise for the singers.

plau còmes out of the Jiat,

"The publie is leaving the theatres terms.

unimpressed and disappointed," she Insono

week recently, special [N Moscow's best variety, theatre writes, "Melodious expression : Je "building brigades"

been have

there is a conjurer appears on the stage lacking because

no song assembled and instructed. Now the wearing a mask, which passes for in the souls of our composers. In every four trkas our best averago By giving the Negress's version of plan has been announced, and the Secretary of Stato Marshall. He "Like a breath of fresh air, we secins to be about one in ten and the story, dramatist Brustelu can architects and labourers turned raises his top hat and out fles a must have a modern Soviet opera- the Anterleans' about one. in 20. show Uncle Tom in a critical Mar- loose.

white dove with an olive twig infic repertoire The Soviet people Yet such dreary Anglo-American xist light as a weak character, who "Our villages must be changed its beak,

demand worthy, Soviet opera, statistics are likely to become much could have advanced the cause of and mado places at for Soviet It Bies round the room and per- and it is the duly of the composers more depressing if filma continue freedom for the Negroes, by, organiz- heroes to live in the word went ches on a small table. The maglelan and singers to work together to to be made by men who

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