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AN ABORTIVE ATTEMPT
The first post-war planning activity among the film people of India expressed itself in the AllIndia Film Conference, inaugurated by Mr. B. G. Kher, Premier of Bombay, on the 14th November and presided over by Rai Bahadur Chuni Lall.
Barring the brilliant inaugural speech of the Premier, the discussions amongst the film people petered out by passing some indecisive resolutions which will remain on paper as usual without any further executive action.
Though several people were invited, the entire attendance hardly reached the ridiculously low figure of 30 persons.
IN LONDON
London is having a post-war boom in the entertainment trade. 40 leading show houses in the city are continuously playing to capacity and a number of newproductions are queueing up for theatres.
As in India, there is no black market racket prevalent in the exhibition trade and Londoners are getting a chance tu see better
pictures which naturally get priority of release owing to the theatre shortage.
In India we get only those pictures for which the producers have paid black market bonuses to the exhibitors for securing theatre releases.
UNFORTUNATE
During the last three months. September, October and November, the wells from which our film producers usually satisfied their greedy thirst, went dry. incidentally saving our millions of film goers from being poisoned, at least temporarily, with some doubtful entertainment. We refer to the Indian show houses which were closed completely owing to the riots in Bombay. Calcutta. Delhi. Benares, Patna. Allahabad and many other small and big stations.
The net loss to the Indian film industry, during this period, should be in the region of a crore of rupees though foreign picture houses, situated in safe localities, reaped a rich harvest.
ANOTHER CHURCHILL Thirty-year old Sarah Churchill, daughter of war-mon^erin^
Dixit, one of our very few versatile artistes, looks pretty wild in "Kaun Hamara ', a Ranjit picture. Surely, not because it is Ranjit?
Ex-premier. AVinston Churchill, is reported to have played the lead in Director Mario Soldati's Italian movie. "Daniele Cortis."
Playing opposite her is Vittorio Gassman. the well-known Italian stage star.
This heavy English girl with patrician features and dusky blonde hair was selected after Director Soldati testing and rejecting twenty-seven Italian actresses. In Sarah he had found the face and the ability.
DECCAN QUEEN
Contrary to the much-echoed <vail that film people are losing money, it is good news to learn that Film actor Ashok Kumar has purchased in his wife's name an expensive bungalow in Corner Park. Warden Road, Bombay at the prohibitive price of Rs. 1 .75,000'-. The house is called ' Deccan Queen."
SOME DEMOCRACY
In democratic America where Yankees brag of human equality and rights, there seems to be a terrific colour bar and racial discrimination.
Going to play Joan of Arc in a new stage play by Maxwell Anderson in Washington. Ingrid Bergman, the famous film actreaf;, said, "Washington is a bad place to open a play because it has racial discrimination.''
You can almost count the thirty that made the All-India Film Conference which Premier B. G. Kher inaugurated. Mr. Kher is telling: the film men a few home truths.
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