OBSCURE POSITION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 10

OBSCURE POSITION

TELEVISION AND CINEMA ’ The installation of television appari alus in several new English theatres j has raised the question ol whether the i British Broadcasting Corporation will • forbid the public screening of teleI vision programmes. The British Broadcasting Corporation States that it is not, co-operating in any way in the projection of television pro-grammes on cinema screen.-, but this does not necessarily mean that it will actually forbid the showing ol its television on public screens. 1 lie position is obscure. Without doubt the British Government intends the British Broadcasting Corporation to have a monopoly ol television broadcasting as it has with sc-und broadcasting, tins rules out the posibility of cinemas obtniiiin- their television programmes Hom a private transmitting station over the air. But it is doubtful if it rule, out distribution of programmes t u cinemas by land-line from a central noint. However, it is eenain that teleI vision is not yet sufficiently advanced to be a serious rival of tfie lailtiu c [ film. ! One UpI Tliv almost impossible has oceuiieI ilt the Gaumont-British Studios, accord I in.. to Dewan Sharar, Hindu authoi ' ami playwright, and now acting as I ll.lsteiu'adviser to the new G.-B. draimi “East Meets West.” He has met roi I the first time in his life a white man I olio rail pronounce with all its correct stress the sacred name of “Allah. i That man is George Arliss, now ar ' i;.v..il in silks ami satins ami holding I swav down at Saepherd’s Bush ovei i cii'.iu'-t ms Sultan oi las coloured su. >.!»?• I* as Reran" Sultan Arliss is called upon to otter the ■lame of Allah many times in the film ami Sharar »ai expecting the usual incorrect English version. It his amaze nent there came in impec I cable accents tile correct pronuncia

bir Guy Standing has neon given cue. leading male role in Paramount’s ** End of the World.” Julie Haydon will play opposite him. Selected. Harry Carey, star of the silent days who has .just had a big chance with a role in the Darryl Zauuck’s Twentieth Century production “The .Prisoner of Shark Island.” has been selected for another Fox picture, “Little Miss Nobody,” starring Jane Withers. Reward. As a reward for his splendid performance in “The Country Doctor’ for Fox, John Quallen was advised by Darryl Zanuck that ho draws one of the featured roles in the Twentieth Century production “Zero Hour,” a French war story which co-stars I rederic March and Warner Baxter, with Lionel Barrymore.