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>ecember, 1949
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Censors as well as by some other rovinces.
Mr. Chunilal, President of the Motion Picture Society led a depuation and waited on the Madras remier, Mr. P. S. Kumaraswami laja. As a result of this representaion the Government lifted the ban n the film after excising certain ffensive portions.
BABY CINEMAS London. November 2. The Association of Education bmmittee in England has suggestd to the Minister of Education that lildren should be allowed to run heir own cinemas exclusively for hildren. This would act as a check nd prevent children from seeing unesirable films which keep flooding le market from time to time. That is an idea worth adopting India where neither the children lor the parents know what pictures o see.
Rs. 2000 moke:
New Delhi, November 4. In keeping with his high pressure nethods of publicity, Producer S. S. fasan of "Chandralekha"' fame got Sardar Baldev Singh, Defence Minis:er, Government of India, to see 'Nishan" at the Regal Theatre on Friday the 4th November.
The day's collections amounting to Rs. 20001 were donated towards
The Chinese, who are so near our frontiers, must, ofcourse, learn Hindi if they ever decide to embrace us as long lost friends. It is easier to give orders in Hindi than in Chinese. These boys are from the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi. They are struggling with our Hindi just the same as many of us are
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the provision of amenities to the Indian troops in Kashmir.
BETTER LATE New Delhi, October 20. At the forthcoming session of the Dominion Parliament, a bill designed "to prevent improper use for
On the 6th of \o\emher over two lakhs of people gathered at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Bombay, to hear Curuji Colwalkar, the Sarsanghchalak of the R.S.S. When the people become pregnant with grief and disappointment new leaders arc born. And this bearded Hindu seems destined to make new history even as another bearded Hindu of Maharashtra did in the seventeenth centurv.
commercial purposes of names and emblems of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, the emblem of the national flag of India and names and portraits of her national leaders" is to be introduced.
This bill has been framed in pursuance of filmindia's ceaseless campaign to stop the misuse of the national flag and leaders' portraits in motion pictures and other forms of commercial exploitation.
PROFITABLE !
Madras, October 15.
Receipts from the Entertainments Tax in the Madras Province for the first five months of the current financial year were Rs. 43.51 lakhs as against Rs. 38.3 1 lakhs for the same period last year.
The Budget estimate for 1949-50 of revenue from this source is Rs. 97.90 lakhs. The actual receipts were Rs. 102.38 lakhs in 1948-49.
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Bangalore. October 19. The Government of Mysore have fixed the length of feature films to 11,000 feet and that of trailers to 400 feet. Films exceeding this length would not be shown in the State. This restriction, however,
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