MERCANTILE MARINE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 14

MERCANTILE MARINE

GREAT BRITAIN MENACED. TIMELY FILM ANNOUNCED. Air. Alexander Shaw, chairman of thc P. and O. Company, said in a recent speech in Melbourne that Great Britain must either her position among thc maritime nations or must vigorously retaliate against the ruthless competition of foreign powers which subsidised their ineicautile marine. Before the war, 43 per cent, of the wc-rld’s merchant snipping tonnage was British. In 1933 1l was only 29 per cent. Some 35 countries competing with the British carrying trade command, between them, more than £30,000,000 a year in State subsidies. The British Chamber of Shipping has admitted the necessity for some form of reprisal against the effective if ■unorthodox foreign practice of carrying nt a loss which is the method adopted for nullifying British competition and the matter it is understood, has been officially discussed in Parliamentary quarters. But the evil still continues. Hc-w great that evil is has DCen forcefully brought home by a Gaumont-

British film entitled “Red Ensign/’ about to be released throughout New Zealand by Fox Films. Giving, as it does, a convincing picture or tne economic dislocation which must mevitably accompany, even as it nas already done in actual fact, thc crippling of one of the greatest British industries, the film may help to serve a use.'u? puipose. Thc need was never greater for the popular voice to press for practical measures in defence or Britain’s mercantile marine, trie sorry state of which, and of its allied industries, this picture by no means overd raws. Dazzling Dances. New, different, ultra modern dunce steps, directed and conceived by Georgic Hale, thc creator or the dances for “Broadway to Hollywood,” “The Uocoanuts,” Earl Carroll's •■Vanities” and “Of Thee I Sing.” * ♦ ♦ * “Keep ’Em Rolling.” Frances Dee, who will be immortalised in screen history along with other characters in “Little Women-' ror her role of Aleg, is cast in the reminine lead with Walter Huston in “Keep ’Em Rolling,” RKO Radio picture from the Saturday Evening Pc-st story, “Rodney,” by Leonard Nason. ADss Dee is scon as Alarjorie Deane in “Keep ’Em Rolling,” the Hie-long friend of Benny Walsh. Walsh is a refractory soldier until he befriends Rodney, ’an artillery horse equally hard to manage. The two- become devoted friends. Afiss Dee and Huston are ably supported by Ailnna Gombell, Robert Shaync. Frank Conroy, G. Pat Collins and Ralph Remley.