FilmIndia (1946)

November, 1946 FILMINDI A THE PRESIDENT THREATENED The world-famous singer and film star Paul Robeson had a quarrel recently with President Truman. Heading a Negro delegation protesting against lynching he requested the President to issue a strong protest and to recommend Federal Anti-lynching legislation. Paul told the President that there was little to choose between the Nuremberg crimes and the recent South American lynchings of Negroes. Hurt to the quick the President said, "I don't think that. You ought to stand behind your own country. Great Britain and America are the last refuges of freedom left in this world." Robeson cut Truman short and said "The British Empire is one of the greatest enslavers of human beings in the world. The temper of the Negroes may change, Mr. President." "Just what do you mean?" asked Mr. Truman. "Well", said Paul Robeson, America's greatest living Shakespearian actor, "if some protection is not brought to them soon, some international immergency may arise which may call for Federal intervention.'' WITH REGRETS A news has appeared in the papers that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Home Member in the Interim Government, intends to sponsor the production of a film based on the life of the late Subhas Chandra Bose. Though this would have been an admirable project, we understand that the news is not authentic. The old Sardar is too busy solving political problems to find time to become a motion picture producer. POLITE PROPAGANDA In their ceaseless efforts to propagate the message of Christianity, Catholic missionaries seem to be using all modern resources obtained in the present-day world. The latest move is to make gramophone dramatizations of several attractive myths from the Bible. This will be done by employing radio actors who have so far thrilled juvenile audiences by playing detective and murder dramas and in a manner to appeal to the children. Along with the gramophone records will be issued illustrated stories, giving the full text to enable the little listeners to follow the Christian stories. And yet they say that Jesus Christ in preaching, "Love thy neighbour", gave to the world a religion that did not intrude on anyone. A WARNING Of the two persons sent by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of India to America to know the ropes of the 16 mm film invasion, one Indian, by the name of Govind Amonkar, returned recently, completely qualified to watch the foreigners' interest in his native land. His return to India provided an opportunity to the bilious-looking A. Rowland Jones to call the local press at lunch and to give some tongue-in-the-cheek talk about M.G.M.'s intentions to enlighten and educate Indians in distant villages with his 16 mm 'Metro mobiles'. But he forgot to tell them how much more of the Indian money he would be able to remit annually to his Yankee headquarters in America. That, of course, must remain a trade secret shared by the Indian Amonkar. HIGH LEVEL ACTING Twenty-two year blonde Margaret Truman, President Truman's daughter, has been exercising her voice for the last seven years, irrespective of what the neighbours thought, to become an opera singer. Though the whole of America know her as Truman's daughter, she has modestly decided not to use the family name and will be known as Margaret Wallace, the name plate of her mother's family. President Truman, who is a piano player himself, and permits seating accommodation to film stars on his own piano, wanted Maggie to become a concert pianist, but Maggie discovered a voice in her throat which travelled between B. C. G. Keys and she For (are -free Old Age Starting at your age 25, pay us Rs.136/-, every year, for 30 years. I Starting at your age 5 5, we pay Rs. 500/-, every year, for 10 years. Should, unfortunately, death take place before 55, our instalment commences immediately. contact tfzz !Sianc/z <zAl\anac^z.i , at 'Western India House', Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Road, Fort, BOMBAY (I). ( Phone 26905). WESTERN INDIA LIFE INSURANCE (0., LTD., SATA&A. 71