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226 Worty-tHird p^qiVtfY Anntvenary VednesJay, Jawnary 5, 1949 Season's Greetings To All My Friends In the U.S.A. SID Two Cities Film "THE CARDBOARD CAVALIER" "HARVEY" PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE LONDON, W.l. Direction: LEN BARRY ARCHIE PARNELL & CO., LTD. 3, Golden Square, London, W.l. rui Producer and General Manager IE LIDO LES AMBASSADEURS (PARIS) Consrutidations to on Its 43d Anniversary! \7 I Austrian 'EroicaV Budget Sets Postwar Pix Record Vienna. The postwar record figure for a ■ Single film of &,500,000i schillings I ($550,000) has been spent on I "Eroica," a film about,Beethoven, starring Ewald Balser, which has | just been completed, only six days I behind schedule. Net profits, es- 1 timated at around 1.000,000 schil- I lings, will be given to needy Vien- I nese children, it's announced. 1 The reason for the record budget i I is, that, production Was first started I I in 1947 by a new firm with a cap-1 I ital joi 2,000,000 schillings. Soon | afterwards the nut was spent, with i I only 300 finished feet of celluloid. [ In 1948 director Karl Hartl was ' called in to finish the job* ^ China Show Biz Continued from page 207 ! revenue on local bookings she I would long ago have been out of i business. 1 Time was when this town im- pported name artists such as the I late Fay Courtney. Ella Shields, the Six Hollywood Blondes, Bo-' I Diddly, and others—paid them r plenty of good American coin. |: Music men are almost as badly off. despite their strong; no-non- ; sense union. But the days of such i bandmen as the late Teddy Weath- ■ erford. Buck Clayton, Terry Dantz- ' ler. Whitey Smith, Earl Whaley, Al Uhles and Danny" Danforth are igone; There- remains one lone : American bandman. Bob Hill, col- i ored, who does very well at an American .Army officers club. Buck Clayton macfe muaic his- tory here, but he now would have to labor a year or more to dam what he formerly was paid in a [ couple weeks. -At the Casanova j iBallroom, where Clayton played i (for the highest salary ever paid to t a jiye man in Shanghai, a 10-man I Chinese band holds forth for the equivalent of less than $50 per month. ^ Reasons for this deplorable state of affairs: The H. C. L., the gov- ernment's Austerity program and the M'relched exchange. K & P PRODUCTIONS LEON KIMBERLY and HELEN PAGE (Two Americans From England) Once More Wish Everyone the Happiest of Holiday Seasons Phonei: Tampli Bar 7255,7256. 7257 CflANDOS HOUSE Grams: "Star.vue" Usquar., Lgnden 45-46.-^handos Plact L. u. .. , „ . London, W. C. 2 Cablet: Kifflbcrjy, Variety, London . .k,.» ENGLAND- MR. and MRS. SIDNEY FISHER Send Greetings To Their Friends All Oter the World Glad to. Welcome Our Old Customers Now Working in England HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON Spet'lal Sliop-to-Ship Export Arrangemenl« Still TAILORING to the Best People in the Show World 75-77 Shaftesbury Avenue London, W» 1, England