TURKISH DELIGHT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 212, 8 September 1941, Page 5

TURKISH DELIGHT

IZMIR'S FAIR OPENS

NEWS FILMS FROM BRITAIN

LONDON, August 14

A British pavilion is duly toi appear in the heart of the Middle East when Izmir's famous Fair opens on August 20 at Smyrna, with battles by land, sea and air, threatening or in being at each point of the compass.

News films will be flown from! Britain to the pavilion to give Turkey the latest news of the war. Britain 1 at War is the main theme, and the cinema its chief medium. In the cinema, audiences of 200 at a time

will be shown Britain's fighting ser-l vices, the war effort in industry and; agriculture, the Empire's vast! resources in raw materials, travelogues of Empire scenes, and "The jLion Has Wings." All, of course, have been done Into [Turkish. George Formby will be in Turkish, too. Among the lighter! 'films is "Let George Do It"; for, in ;the Middle East as elsewhere, George jhas long since eclipsed Charlie Chaplin as the people's star. j Apart from the movies, Britain's will give the story in photographs and books of life in Britain and the Dominions and of British achievements in industry, the social services, livestock breeding, education and wartime organisation. A quiet and reasoned outline of the civilised alternative to Hitler has been specially written by Sir Wyr.diham Deedes.

As souvenirs for visitors to the pavilion 150,000 picture postcards of Britain at War, her Royal Family, and her Prime Minister have been sent out to Turkey.