... . TALKIE PUBLICITY FILMS. This newly organised firm is of the opportunist order, and has a good and carefully worked-out scheme by which the wares of various big firms will be incorporated in a story, but not to the extent of detracting from the picture's fictional interest. They will then be shown by means of daylight kinematograpoy through out the land. Some 300 towns and village* are ...

... . EMPIRE--''POLITICS.'' (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.) Although American politics are often strange to us, the humour of Marie Dressler has a wide appeal. In this case we hare her as a hard-working housewife who, infuriated by a gang murder, decides to enter the arena of local politics and purify the town. The women support her whole heartedly, but the men make things very unpleasant* and an awkward ...

... FILM VIEW Margaret Cowan's THIS week saw the beginning of the new Autumn schedules, and among them the new filmed series. More will follow as time slots become available. So this is as good a time as any to review the TV film field from the actor's point of view. What are the opportunities and what, if any, are the draw backs One thing is certain the filmed series, in one form or an other, ...

... Brasil Women in the eighties, 51 minutes, no subtitles WOMAN'S lot today seen through the eyes of seven women who have made their career in music was the subject of this entry which must have been spoiled for many because it was in Portuguese and there were no subtitles. Each of the women talked and then performed, but since there was quite a lot of conversation in the form of interviews, it ...

... West Germany Julia's Guide to the Opera, 26 minutes, English subtitles OPERA singer and comedienne Julia Migenes was the star of this satirical Iook at popular opera. A striking red head, she began with some clowning at a dress rehearsal before intro ducing straight to camera the main sequence which was a take-off of Don Giovanni. Thanks to the star's performance this had some very funny and ...

... Yugoslavia Don't shut your TV, 29 minutes ITHIS had English subtitles for links only and. since it was meant to be a satirical look at contemporary life and at television, this was a pity. The designer had put in some good work on the sets, animation, graphics and chromakey to fit his subject. A very glamorous blonde dancer doing a rock number got the show under way, followed by a group who ...

... WHAT she claims to be the first Welsh television puppet series is the creation of Jane Phillips. It all started, the says. when she gave a five-minute glove-puppet show in Welsh last Christinas as part of the BBC's Welsh children's magazine gramme. Telewek, which goes out in the mornings on Satur days. Following (he Initial ven ture, Ifan O. Williams, the pro gramme's producer, invited ...

... RICHARD MARKS, designer for ihe Liverpool Repertory Com pany, has excelled himself in the boiuifuHy s'.agcd and dressed pro duction of Glad Tidings, an American comedy by Edward Mably, presented on Tuesday last, at (he Liverpool Playhouse. The whole spirit of ihe play is gay and exhilarating, with wedJ- clched and well pUived charactci studies. Taking place on (he terrace of Steve Whitney's ...

... 'Two Plays' TWO one-act plays by the Polish author Slawomir Mrozek, were presented at the Traverse Theatre. Edinburgh, on August 28. The Party in its original language may have held some deep significance for Polish audiences, but it must be admitted that most of the audience at the Traverse at the opening performance seemed somewhat puzzled. Three young men noisily burst into a room, ...

... . While Samuel Goldwin and other people are hunting for stars in every walk of life exccpt those most likely to produce them, and Douglas Fairbanksi from the opulent seclusion of a Paris hotel, is telling us we never shall be able to make pictures, certain publicity experts are Jetting dawn the dig nity of a hard-working section of tho profej-sion by referring to its members as supers ...

... . BLACK WATERS (W. and P. British and Dominione.) Adapted from John Willard's play, Fog, this feature has several distinctions. It is the first all-talking picture which can be called international it was made by a famous American producer in Hollywood for a British firm iit naa inniuu ow ferent theatres, the New Gallery and the Tivoli, on tho same day, and it is undoubtedly the best ...

... THE CHANTICLEER EASTER On Saturday last, the Anglo- Arts (Drama) Club presented Easter. uv August Strindberg in a new translation by Elizabeth Sprlgge. with d6cor by Geoffrey Moss. The plot tells, it will be recalled, of an ill-fated family's return to happiness over the Easter period, and is full of sym bolism The producer Margaret Morris, rightly stressed this, for the characters are ...