World Film and Television Progress (1937-1938)

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LORUM By Rodney Hobson Taboo or not Taboo Hollywood has been surveying the world market and finding the outlook, mainly for political and censorship reasons, discouraging. The producer's problem is that every country has different taboos. France does not object to an individual French villain, but will not tolerate a reflection on the French nation. Italy will not accept an Italian character who is not the hero. China complains that Chinese are usually shown as coolies. Quebec will not allow even a reference to divorce. Japan will tolerate no reflection on authority. Scandinavia bans crime and cruelty. Great Britain is regarded as touchy in the matter of cruelty to animals and bedroom scenes. — News Item. You will never win the Frenchman's homage If you show too many of them as being pieces of fromage. Though all Italians at heart are Neroes They prefer to see themselves as heroes. If you show one of their compatriots as a coolie A Chinese audience gets quite unroolie. In order to appeal to the Teuton Never show a character with a Non-Aryan seut on. If your dialogue mentions a decree nisi Your reception in Quebec will be isi. The Japs Are authority-loving chaps. For Scandinavia Your characters should be on their best behavia. And if there's one thing a British audience is constantly dreading It's a picture that gives them even a glimpse of bedding. Sayings "In every woman there is a little of the angel and a little of the devil." — Ernst Lubitsch Sure you mean a little of the latter, Mr. Lubitsch? "Clothes should not be important to an actress." — Dita Parlo Really, Miss Parlo! And just as we were getting our actresses accustomed to wearing them again. SHUT UP CECIL ! There stood host Cecil Beaton illuminated alternately by flares from incessant fireworks and the flashes of photographers' lamps. He wore a white dress, covered with vegetation and beetles, but composed chiefly of broken eggs — egg shells broken in half with complete white and yolk glazed to the costume. By the end of the evening Mr. Beaton had changed his fancy dress three times — ending up as a scarecrow. — News Item No need to have changed three times if you wanted to finish up as a scarecrow, Mr. Beaton. Mrs. Greiser's little boy Snooks, W.F.N. 's malicious lift-boy, put Lord Strabolgi on the spot yesterday. Snooks: "So you are advocating not only British control, but also British policy for the Industry, hey?" Lord S.: "We owe it to our compatriots — " Snooks: "No more films about Vienna or the South Seas, hey?" Lord S.: "Don't misunderstand me — ." Snooks: "And what's going to happen to the Argentines, the Americans and the Greeks who run the racket? Only Englishmen can starve like gentlemen. Third floor, unexplored avenues, sound bases, unturned stones, and World Film News." 0, Tell Ale the Inside Stor\ Animated diagrams of a skeleton drinking from a glass, showing the various digestive processes, and X-ray moving pictures of the movements of the lungs, are among the many films used in this country in the modern practice of medicine. — News Item. Accustomed as we are To gazing upon the usual exposed portions of a film-star — Such as the eyes, ears, nose, etcetera — We feel that it would be a lot betterer If, by this X-ray idea, We could peer Into the internal workings of these fascinating creatures Instead of at their more obvious features. How much better to witness, As a change from mere pritness, The effect upon a film-queen's digestion Of the suggestion That there are some very interesting etchings upstairs, If she cares ? . . . Or to watch the reaction of her left lung To an embrace from, shall we say, Robert Young ? And we might Also be vouchsafed the delight Of studying the inside Of a film-star who has had to swallow his pride — Which, if we guess rightly, Would pack it pretty tightly. 1 £ 1 " But don't you want to be a star, Miss Postlethwaite ? ' 29