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April 1938
where the cine-going people had gone. Bhavnani, Mody and others went out in search and found them all at the Central Talkies watching "Gopal Krishna". The rascals! How could they let our
producers down like that?
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Babooseth Mamooji has gone to Calcutta to warm up the 'conscience' of Sarkar as a friend puts it. Kapurchand will now run after with a refrigerator. Between Mamooji, Munji Nathoo and Kapurchand let us see who succeeds in holding Sarkar longer.
Mustard oil is always slippery.
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Chunibhai Desai's one time 'mania' Jor Marathi pictures seems to have subsided a lot. It was a boil that burst rather unceremoniously, and it is lucky that the infection did not spread.
Kevalchand and Kapurchand — both the brothers — are thinking of taking a well earned rest in Kathiawar (I forget the name of the village). Has Chunibhai made Bombay too hot for them? Why worry when New Theatres is giving "Adhikar" and "Bara
Didi" in 1939?
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Sagar has opened their own distribution office at Delhi. Lala Alopi Prasad suggested putting R. R. Gharekhan in charge. Kevalchand thinks that even Chunibhai could do the work. I suggest sending Mr. Ramesh Babu Thakore for quick and reliable work.
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Dossani Film Corporation of Calcutta have been buying plenty of praise by the usual methods. Even without asking for the price we may congratulate ♦hem on their 140 engagements
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— week achievement. We have few distributors as efficient as the
Dossanis.
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They say that J. B. H. Wadia almost fainted after seeing "Soungadi" a Natraj picture. A "Stunt King" cannot stand quality so easily.
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Sagar's are doing plenty of posthumous publicity for "300 Days & After". The pity is that
it is all just after.
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The Imperial Film Co., has served notices to a hundred employees, but they refuse to go as they have never gone out of the Studio and do not know how much the outside world has changed during the last ten years. I suggest starting a big chummery in the compound.
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My howler in the last month's issue proved useful to Director Badami. He is now getting Rs. 1551 per month and has got back the right to say that he is going any time he feels like it. "Don't
worry, I know Badami better than he knows himself" says Proprietor Chimanlal. But who pays for
the knowledge?
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A Punjab Cinema Proprietor recently confronted a Calcutta Film actress who was on a dancing tour with the following proposal, "Come and dance in my theatre one night and the next day you go to the hospital and I go to the goal." What does that mean? Didn't I once tell you that Punjabis are an affectionate people?
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Padma Devi has left the Imperial— colour or no colour. They say that she has forgotten the exact colours in which the currency notes are printed. She should join the Ranjit, where people suspect, the Currency office has opened a branch.
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The South is afire with competition— most of it unwise and throat cutting. C. V. Raman has almost completed "Tennali Ra