FilmIndia (1948)

FILMINDIA December, 19<l POISONING THE WORLD Hollywood, October 22. To the Hollywood producers, crime has been one of the most paying ingredients of a motion picture. The way they have poisoned their own country and encouraged crime in other countries is too well known to be ignored. At present, 40 crime pictures are in the making in Hollywood. Harry Sherman, a Hollywood producer, gives his pet argument in favour of such pictures as follows: "There are more crime stories being shot already than will ever pay for themselves at the box office. The wave won't live long enough for the Legion of Decency or any other group to kill it. It will be killed by the guy who won't pay the admission price to see those things. As usual on these movie cycles, the last 10 or 20 pictures are going to run smack into a wall of public indifference that will have them playing to empty houses. There can't be enough juvenile delinquents in America to pay enough in admission prices to keep these pictures running for ever. The audience's sympathy is with the law, not the criminal, in a western. The criminal is always despicable and the hero is always virtuous." And so crime pictures will be produced and a new crop of juvenile delinquents got ready "to pay admission prices". SECOND CHANCE Hollywood, October 15. Hollywood star, Ida Lupino married Collier Young, film studio executive at La Jolla, California. It was the second venture for both Ida and Young. Better luck this time! SCRAMMED! Bombay, November 3. At the instance of Sohrab M. Modi, the petitioning creditor, Shiraz Ali Hakim, previously of Famous Cine Laboratory, was adjudged an insolvent on the 3rd of November 1948. Shiraz Ali Hakim is now in Pakistan where every one from the Government down to the individual is supposed to be in a paradise of solvents. PHOTO EXHIBITION Birmingham, October 4. To the lovers of photography, the 53rd Annual Open Exhibition of the Birmingham Photographic Society to be held from February 19th to March 5th 1949, should offer an opportunity for some artistic expression. Entry forms can be obtained from D. Mc M. Henderson, 62 All Saints Road, Birmingham 14. All other communications except those relating to entry forms should be addressed to Hon. Exhibition Secretary, L. Vernon Bates, A.R.P.S., 41 Spies Lane, Birmingham 32. LIFE IN WAX London, November 8. Hollywood comedian, Danny Kaye, who will be in England soon for thj Royal Command Variety Perfor: ance, will join the band of "im mortals". At Madame Tussand's, the famou London gallery of wax works wher stand life-like models of well-knowi men and women, Danny Kaye wil unveil a model of himself. The 'Wonder man' must stop won dering now, seeing that while livin} he joins the gallery of the dead. Dllsf cal in A GRAND MYTHOLOGICAL WITH AN INSPIRING MESSAGE — A SPECTACULAR BOX-OFFICE RECORD SMASHER WHEREVER RELEASED — RANJIVS HIT OF THE SEASON JAI HANUMAN Starring: KAILAS, PUROHIT, BABU RAJE S. N. TRIPATHI & NIRUPA ROY Director: RAMCHANDRA THAKUR Drawing Crowds at a Dozen Big Cities Now 'I SI sad