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November 1941
FILMINDIA
and "Editor" of a Bombay weekly join the Chit Chat Club and give up phoning other people's secretaries. I'm sure he would gather the harvest quicker,
TOUGH LUCK!
A thousand sympathies to the people who went to see "The Birth of a Baby" and didn't see what they went to see.
WHY NOT?
Why don't the Ladies of the War Funds Committee arrange an archery exhibition? I'm sure such a novelty would be quite attractive for stimulating the war effort — or wouldn't it?
NEW RESORTS
Apollo Bunder hotels are now becoming fashionable resorts for our film actresses. Breakfast, beds and producers are always available to suit occasions. Even drivers with beards are catered for and assured a night's repose.
FLUCTUATING STARS
In a popular photographer's shop in the City there are two life-size portraits of a one-time famous screen actress. It appears now that the princeling who ordered them feels that they are not worth the price as
the star herself has lowered the rates.
Am I now to understand that film stars like Hessian are Liable to fluctuation, or is it that like second hand cars they depreciate in value with over-use?
WAR ECONOMY
War seems to have taught some of our film stars some economy. At least one of them is reported to have evolved a marvellous all-hour technique of living on others. For breakfast she invites herself to a college boy's home on way to the studio — the boy is thrilled. The lunch is taken in an air-conditioned laboratory with a technician — the technician's machinery is thus oiled. Pictures are seen with a pansy film journalist— the guy gets emotional relief. Dinner and drinks are supplied by an half-expsctant director who lives in hopes of "Someday". The bed is paid for by a young amateur producer at different hotels every night in Apollo Bunder— and they suspect he gets the best of it.
But no, there is another— the husband who stays with his parents happy in the thought that his wife takes pleasure by proxy and spares him the trouble. I wonder, how the milkman is paid.
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