Elephant dance (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Elephant dance
Date:
1937
Publisher:
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Volume:
Elephant dance
Leaf #:
00043
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 11, 2024
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'To The Manager, Fan Mail! The Cinema Factory, London Film Corporation, Ltd., Mysore. Sir, May I request you to be good enough to let me know if you can take me on your staff on at least Rs. ioo per mensem as an Assistant Manager or Superintendent. I am a retired Police Superintendent. I am a motorist and I maintain my own car. I was an actor during my college days in Madras. I can manage your correspondence and put your actors in the way, as I have an eye for art. I was acting principal of a Girls' High School before I got into Government Service. I was a private Coach for European and Indian girls appearing for Cambridge and Intermediate Examinations. This is to hint that I know how to keep girl actors in discipline/ This, my dears, was Daddy's fan mail, a sample of it, in Bombay. The papers announced that we had come to film Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants. India is a film producing country. Daddy says it is Indian Film the second largest consumer of raw film in the world. Production There are over 180 companies in all, small though they may be, that are producing films for their own 31