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FAME OF MICKEY MOUSE Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer and Jessie Matthews are all popular with the Indian film public, but the biggest star of all is Mickey Mouse. This information was given by Mr M. Omalev, an American director who is visiting London to find backgrounds for an Indian talkie called “Modern Youth." “Modern Youth” is all about an Indian student, rich, but unsophisticated, who is led astray by English gold-diggers. This lesson. Mr Omalev says, is very popular in India. Conservative opinion there deplores the "debasing influence" of drinking, meat-eating, dancing and other European habits on idealistic young Indians forbidden these practices by the Brahmin faith. For this reason many pictures made in England and America are almost unintelligible to Indians. Seeing young women going about in public unveiled, drinking and dancing with men, rightthinking Indians can only conclude that they are of the lowest moral character. Indians are very fond of Shakespearean films and opera, although their own music, based on rhythm and melody, but not harmony, is difficult for Europeans to appreciate.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 7
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177MOST POPULAR Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 7
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