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ebruary, 1948
FILM INDIA
Producer K. B. Lall managed to get so many of them to give an imprc:sive dance number in "Samrat Ashok".
nsors has cancelled the certifie issued to Shalimar Pictures' a "Mun-ki-Jeet" in 1944, the verninent of the United Proices have also banned the exhiion of the picture. This is the. =t instance of inter-provincial"' operation and consistency.
VHAT PRICE MOUSTACHE!
New York, Jan. 4. * The first insurance taken out on llm artiste's moustache is the! • just effected by film star Frank rgan who has bought a policy *2,500| from Lloyds on his y moustache and wavy hair.
)ne of the conditions of the inancc is that Morgan must have hair cut regularly by a respone Hollywood barber. He was ) required to undergo a medi/ examination.
jj\ AND NOW BENGAL
Calcutta, Jan. 13. We have achieved freedom to make our boys stupid and girls naughty by showing these erican films. The cinema is not nake our society filthy. It .lid be a powerful instrument I the education of our people '„ the right lines", said a respon3 officer of the Provincial Govnent of West Bengal who inIs to impose rigorous censor
ship on the presentation of U. S. Films in that province.
STARRING NOVELIST
j New York, Jan. 4.
' Somerset Maugham, 73-year old well-known British novelist, will
shortly be making his first appearance as a film star. Five short stories have been made out from this great novelist's numerous works during the last 50 years and the film produced from them is to be called "Quintet".
The film will be introduced by Somerset Maugham who will also provide linking commentary after each story. "Quintet" is expected to run for nearly three hours.
GANDHIJI IN CELLULOID
Bombay. Dec. 18. A full length feature film of the biography of Mahatma Gandhi, produced and directed by Dr. P. V. Pathy will shortly be released for public exhibition. The novelty of this picture lies in the fact that Mahatma Gandhi, the principal actor in the picture, was not subject to the direction of the director.
The picture deals with numerous important events of the life of the Mahatma and though many reels look like a piecing together of scraps from a picture album, it is a record of events of great historical value. Gandhiji is seen in the picture in South Africa with
Husna provides an attractive argument in Gita Pictures1 social
"Dilwale".
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