Equity Urges Action Over Film Crisis
Equity, the actors' trade of Britain at its union annual meeting recently, passed a resolution urging! its council to organise and to public meetings
lobby M.P. over the film crisis. The meeting was at Wyndham's Theatre.
The remtution supported statements by the council on the causes of the crisis and its solution. It regretted that action had not more drastie
been taken.
Mr Roger Snowden,
1 rezolution. said
moving
that most actors hæl found the past year to be one of the worst they had tver xperienced. "We are all having a prelty thin time.
"Thousands
of British actors Anri terhnicians are out of work.
A Britis
industry
is being
allowed to rot while millions dollars are being
of "precious
wasted on a foreign
product,
which it, in mong cans. inferior to our own.
MR RANK'S REASONS
" Rak pives two reasons -- Te tructive practices on the port
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Th exhibitne's profi greater than the grows around MA rgrewed by the proderer.
Rank. 1 exhibitur, and Mr Itank, the distributor
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Mr Felix Aylmer, the president, is aturad. read. In it he slated: major event of
The
the year from the point of view of our pro- fossin has been the culle
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1950.
BEAUTY BY THE CARLOAD
THAT sign In the background reading "Fried Chicken" has nothing to do with these latest entrants for the title of "Miss San Francisco." Getting plenty of suri are, left to right: Connie Young, Paula Taigon, Maryanne Becker. Jean Young. Berry Boyd and Lorraine Hinton. Each and everyone could be "Miss America," (Acme).
RARE
FLYING SKILL AT
DISPLAY
FARNBOROUGH
Aerobatic demonstrations at the Royal Air Force Display, to be held at Farnborough, Hants., on July 7 and 8, will provide a spectacle of fiying skill rarely offered to the general public.
Exacting eliminating con-aircraft ray tests open to flying units att of sight of the home and in Germany, haven the gros 3. ensured that the acrobatic
quickly curry it publie is the hesitation roll, in spectator Wale: the rolling movement is pering med with several distinct pauses as the aircraft turns over on its back and rights itself white crossing the airfield.
Skilful positioning of the the Spectators' items are the best that can aireraft
from
of the mot important beadings be staged. Pilots and teams of view was therefore one to perform, the five indivi-meter which contestants dual nerobatic events in the
of the film instry The Farnborough
programme
collapse had been focess were selected by the originality were other qualities reraft, as well
at Joust two years.
Officer Commanding in - With the return to the market Chief, Fighter Command
hould
b
Acrobate teams af Meteors were and Vampires will perterm Cleanliness of their manoeuvres in close forma
tion, looping and rolling as one bannavre, accuracy
woking a teries of formation changes as which gained marks.
they cross and re-cross the air- Beldi.
formation items These call for the same lyng skill asi
aerobatics, und ven higher degree of
PILOTS CHOSEN
HESITATION ROLL Basi Marshal Sir
the tre Individual The manoeuvres een in of many things of which the (Air
starved.; Embry) and his Senior Air Farriorough aerobatic, will ineren pubic hul long bevo and with a dwindling income to Staff Officer (Air Vier-chie loops, rolls and inverted conestration by the pilots.
which met the cost, it was nevitable
20 Well Marshal 1.1.W. Atcherley) dying, all of that les motry
which forthcoming for what was re-from 23 entrants renching own, upward rols, in
the
about aircraft is rotated
Acrobatic pilots selected for latively the texury of enter the finals,
taxis as it climbs steeply to tainment."
height of perhaps 10.000 feet; the Farnborough events are
Individual Vampire aeroba- atel anteron turns, whe? are! Similar to
upward rolls in re-e: Flying Offerr G. H. Carter, verse, the aircraft bring rotated. F. C. (No. 247 Squadron.i as it dives towards the ground Individual Meteor aerobatles: which Flight Lieutenant R. Emeit (203
Advanced Flying School.)
"
p.rfonance
alter
With the ri
modern more diicult 1. tive and spectacular detuonstratin
Abo carried was a resolution crearing that there were to many theatrical agents and that facy charged too high a rate of
coiled commission. It
in
the war the council of Equity to institute fore
the coming year asable of is in Legatise the system of licensing of agent
upid climb by Equity.
Late an effec- aerobatic than it was he
with Aghters
PROTON AVAR Anther
230 mph. This has burune topmar with pilots sperd and the in recent years but is still un- set familiar to any of the genetal ef a 600 mpis
NEW
FACE
IN
CHICAGO
THE newest guests at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo are two lesser pandas. Cuck Ing his head quizzically at the photographer is the male member of the pair. Lesser pandas, similar to raccoons in size and markings, are natives of the plains of
K. O. CANNON
Tibet.
(Acme).
MR. MITCHELL7.3 AM A FRIEND OF MILE, CARESSE LACROWN!.
I BELIEVE THAT YOỆ KNOW
·HEA, TOOL?
*Term
agrebatles:
Vampire Flight Lieutenants H. Bennett, R. Bowie and G. H. Shnan, Flying Oflects P. II. T Clay ant H. Minnis (No. 54 Squndron).
Meteor Team arrebatics; Flight Lieutenants J. W. Foster, and D. F. C., N, E. F. Hart
A. F. Jenkins and Flying Officer P. A. Ladiam (No. 263 Squad- ron),
todividum? Spitfire aerobaties: Pol Posta (No. 1 A. A. €. Squadron).
Synchrankud Chipmunk nero- Lieutenants J. batics: Flight
Dalgliesh and W. H. Johnstone (Instrument Training Flight).
PATCHING UP
WAR SCARS
are
London's War years disappearing as borough councils "thylog go ahead with their up" for the Festival of Britain.
There has been a bit speed- up in the clearing of bombed sites in nearly every horough since the councils were granted extra powers to deal with the problem. Already, in many districts, neatly laid out gardens and children's playgrounds are replacing the shabby heaps of rubble and scrap.
In badly bombed Bermonde:y. most of the work has been done schools, by volunteers. Firms, youth clubs ond private Моге residents have Joined in. than 30 sites in the borough, of the larger Including many ones, have been dealt with since work started last September.
In Islington, work is about to begin on six sites, and in Poplar. in another ten.
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
FOON QIML1..1 WOULD LIKE TO SAY "NO"-BUT I SEE YOUR GIRL FRIEND HAS
SPOTTED...
....HER PHOTOGRAPH, 150 1
CAN'T DENY (T-
SO WHAT?
Scientists In Disagreement
INTELLIGENCE DECLINE
IN BRITAIN TODAY Disagreement on the question whether the standard of intelligence is falling in Britain is expressed by scientists and psychologists in memoranda presented to the Royal Commission on Population.
Sir Godfrey Thomson, Professor of Educa- tion at Edinburgh University, declares that he finds it difficult to avoid a fear that the fall in the average intelligence quotient of children may be as much as one point per generation. "This is a serious matter," he adds.
"It is clear," he writes,} their
children, even
INSUFFICIENT DATA
"that if there is a negative numerous, would certainly have correlation between size of every chance to reach what they considered ʼn desirable position would have larger family and intelligence, and in e. if the explanation is that familles. intelligence is largely an in- herited quality and that
Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, pro- Intelligent people tend to
University fessor of biometry, produce smaller families, College, London, is "in complete then the average intelli-disagreement" with Prof. Thom- gence will sink generation son. Grossly unintelligent people,
writer, he
even less by generation."
fertile than the highly intel- gent.
We had not reached anything like the Ideal of equal edtura- onal opportunity at which we
Him. Dught to
Intelligent and ambitious parents, assured that
SAILING
Fre
"Existing data give no reason that the level of to ruppose
expacity in innate Intellectual our population is falling.
Dr J. A. Frazer Roberts, of the London School of Hygiene nrid Tropical Medicine, and an authority on genetics and pay- chology.
Reviewing the
Д reason- available evidence. able, approximate estimats can
much be made without
dim-
culty, and points to a substan- than one
ally higher kure point
per generation in the decline in intelligence."
Fears of an immediate catan- fraphic fall Intelligence, due in the lesser fertility of intelli- gent parents, must be set aside.
desirable: It was highly
that the problem should be studied intensively.
PROOF DIFFICULT
In
Prof. Sir Cyril Burt, pro- fessor of psychology, University College, London: "The evidence is by no means conclusive,
of mea- psychology, methods
subject surement many
are
matter than
In the less complex sciences,"
LOOK
WHO'S HERE!
ACTRESS Betty Hutton and her daughters, Candy, two (left) and Lindsay, three and a half, are shown upon their arrival in New York. Betty's new picture is that
(Acme). popular musical, "Annie Get Your Gun."
Crown Jewels
Replicas For
Canadian Fair
To give the people of Canada an opportunity of gaining some idea of the boauty of Britain's Crown jewels which by law are forbiddon to leave the United Kingdom-porfact roplicas of many of them were sent for exhibition overscas for the first time, at the Canadian International Trade Fair in Toronto.
Altar
authentic has been
The replicas, displayed by the Archbishop's Cross, William to so the Jewellery and Silver. the First's Crown, the disturbing
alitionally factors that ware Council of Great Bri-Closs and the Jewelled Spurs. the empirical verification or tain, represent 15 years' touch Toronto dieproof of such inferences is devoted work on the part of provided by the men who guard far more diMeult
Mr Charles Elston, an anti-the display, for they wear actual The Beef- Beefeater uniforms que denler, of Stockton-on- caters. or to give them The calculated figures sus- Tees, in Northern England.
of rested a drop
nearly two.
study By careful
of the ders of the Tower of London, intelligence quotient points per
the Crown Jewels of Lon-uard is. expressed originats in the Tower generation-Brat
Over the Tower, about on. Mr Elston has achieved rebel visitors of one year's mental the remarkable feat of having and were instituted when
Tower was built in 1078. development. Yet a comparison each gen in his replicas of exact weight and colour
In terms of mental age. in terr
a third
"
correct title, the Yeomen
thelr
War-
and
the
of recent Agures with those of size, Rape, they duplicat SHAW'S HOME
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Pain
FOR SALE
generation
revealed us those which
The changes in the number of the While not all the jewels in
preeloas, many bright
dull or the
chlidren replicas, are
which are have been decidedly smaller than this rate
Bernard For sale Is George takingly collected by Mr Elston of decline would imply.
home-Torca from alt parts of the world. Shaw's boyhood
Killeney. County of the
patience Cottage, Some idea
Giving details
of a survey
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he conducted as psychologist neered to create the replicas Dublin.
social
was given to to the London County Council, can be gained from the fact that Torca Cottage Prof. Burt states:
"The chil-it took Mr Elston three years to Shaw's mother by her singing dren from the poorest
tirzel
a copy of the Great Star of master. George John Vandeleur It became young Shaw's classes not only have an intelli- Africa, which he embodied in Lee. gence that is nearly two years the Sceptre.
third home; he was born at 3. Dublin, Synge Street, Lelow
the that of
children The three Crowns alone in- Upper
Stones, The later moved to Hatch Street. from the better social classes, clude uver 11,000
Torca Coltage stands. on from familles replien of the Sword of State, but are drawn
its with that are nearly twice as
1,000 stones, was hill overlooking. Dublin Bay. If the decline in intelligence actually a sword une at the Shaw's own decription of the view: "All Dublin Bay from
Island to Howti ts our garden, and number are the Imperial Crown of India, visible from
with The o school children of "scholar-St Edward's Crown, the Imal Killeney Bay
Crown ship" ability would be roughly | perial
of Stale, the Wicklow Mountains in the back- halved.
Jewelled Sword, the Royal Orb, ground from the hall door."
continued
at ils
present es- Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
timale rate. then in 60 years The pieces shown in Canada Dalkey
AS Bing Crosby's leading lady in St new movie, actress Nacy Olsen is sail-cont! ing along smoothly in film work as in this shot made
Santa near
Monica. (Acme).
or alighty more the
JOHNNY
GETS
SPLASHED
WHEN film star Johnny Weismuller opened in Chicago with his new water show, he wa toss by five of the cast's mermaids. "But Johnny's one lad who knows his way around in
perfectly safe,
for a playful
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