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FILMINDI A
August, 194
"filmindias" editorial of the issue of April, captioned "Don't Murder the Mahatma Again"' and adds. "This is the plea made by our contemporary "filmindia" and should be taken to heart by those American companies flirting with the idea of making a life story of Mahatma Gandhi".
After quoting some extracts from the editorial, the "Picturegoer" concludes its editorial note with the words, "Hollywood, please note."
CINE EMPLOYEES' STRIKE
Madras, July 5. About seven hundred workers of the five cinema studios in the city have gone on a strike from today demanding increased dearness allowance and better conditions of service. Six strikers are on hungerstrike since this morning, each one of them in front of the five studios concerned and the sixth one in front of the office of the Labour Commissioner.
INDIAN PRODUCERS, NOTE
Berlin, June 5. The draft of a voluntary motion picture production code, patterned closely after the American version, now is being circulated among German film producers and other interested parties.
Kamal Mitter as Sabyasachi, Sandhya Rani as Bharati and Mira Misra al Sumitra in Associated Pictures' Hindi Film, "Sabyasachi" shortly to be releasee
Entitled "Voluntary Code for the German Film Industry" (A Draft) the 15-page booklet is based on the premise that no films should be produced which tend to lower the moral level of the patron or which might be instrumental for fostering an attitude of disregard for the laws of na
It is not Sir Chunilal B. Mehta scolding a junior clerk but Bipin Gupta as Talw;irkar talking to Parc*h liancrji in "Sabyasachi" Associated Pictures' Hindi film from Saral Chatterji'B novel, "Pather Dabi".
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tural and human rights or arous sympathy for their violation.
A preamble explains the natura rights to be those which are writtei into the heart of humanity as pre scribed by justice and conscience Human right is defined as the righ guaranteed in the law books.
The code is written to conforn with European standards and i: broken up into various sections in eluding Crime, Questions of Mora lity, Vulgarism, Costuming. Rel gion, National Feelings, Dancing. Re pulsive Themes and Advertising.
CHARITABLE FILM STARS
Calcutta, July 4. Film star Kanan Devi has donatec an amount of Rs. 50.000 to the Can cer Department of the Chitta Ranjan Seva Sadan. Two other film star-, Bharati and Amar Mullick have' also donated Rs. 25,000 each to the' same cause.
PEACE BE TO HER SOUL
Hollywood, July 6, Carole Landis. four times married and thrice divorced movie actress, was found dead in her luxurious Brentwood home yesterday. Police says she apparently committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets.