Filmindia (1941)

FILM INDIA October, 1941 you feel was specially built for hanging a hat on. Coming further down, or should I say climbing up, one gets a bit confused to note the absence of a baby kangaroo. On further exploration, and believe me it is not necessary to have much practice of exploration to notice when she is looking at a person di4-ectly in front of you, that she has something about her that would put a baby elephant to shame. Such in geographic outlines is Madame X. A mountain of all fuss with a surfeit of sex appeal rolling all round and in every possible and impossible direction. Her hobbies I understand are Naval boys. She likes them halfhungry. THE WITHERED BLONDE Another rare specimen from this Club is the Lady in Red. A young, bewitching damsel heading straight for the divorce courts because her husband dislikes her liking for Little Boy White, who is often mistaken for a butler. What beats me is why someone has not told them yet that the squash courts are not to be taken in their literal sense. * * * Then there is a withered blonde, a very unmarriable married lady, who at the moment appears all at sea with the departure over-seas on active service of her beau not exactly beautiful. She is the main puzzle of the Club as people are wondering whose absence she feels most .... the loss of tokens for the slot machine or his unseemly presence. The husband, it is rumoured, is now trying to make a come-back through the backdoor. * * * NEXT ISSUE The November issue will be out on the 1st of November and agents should inform us of their requirements before the 15th of October. No, it is not true that VUB has taken the sole monopoly of all the pansies in town. There are still some left in some newspaper offices in Bombay, who do film journalism for stimulation. * * it An item in a film weekly reads: "Kishore Sahu is reported to have staged a dramatic arrival in Bombay and threat'-ns to invade the film colony again." Probably that accounts for the equally dramatic departure of a cine-technician for Kashmir. * * * Bombay is indeed a strange place. In every other part of the globe one sees journalists plodding from one newspaper office to another selling their manuscripts. . . .but here in this wonderful city of ours one comes across newsweeklies going the round Doesn't Madhuri look charming in "Sasural" a Ranjit picture? of prmtrng presses begging to be printed. * * * Head-line in an evening daily: "Japan Has Missed The Bus." This biis missing business seems to be going too far. Somehow they always seem to reach their destination sooner. * * • The deserts of Arabia are known as the Garden of Allah. In Bombay the Churchgate Reclamation has become the Garden of All Ahs. * * * Iran like the Xmas turkey now wishes she wasn't quite so plump. * * * The screen is a permanent ally of the Bombay female. Old dames who once thought their butterfly days were gone with the wind have now been given a fresh lease of youth. Carmen Miranda has set many a back-number dame wondering. And by Jove, some of the dames found in the Chit-Chat Club, by the rougeful, have definitely got plenty of sex appeal in the regions where I got my first spanking. Oh Boy And can they swing it. * * * Then there is the poor fish who joined the C.C.I, to play cricket and got his l.b.w. * * » Why are Goanese butlers like billiard cues requiring tips to work better? * * Overheard at the Taj V Ball: He: "It's very nice of you to dance with me."' She: "Ohl Don't mention it. It's a charity ball isn't it?" SOLD OUT All the bound volumes of "filmindia" for 1939-40 have been sold out and intending purchasers are requested not to remit any money for the same. 70