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...Enter Ernst. The English are two-minded about such monopolies. Britain fears the stultifying effects of one-man control as much as it fears too much Government control. But the British want a united front powerful enough to challenge the near-monopoly of her own film markets by Hollywood pictures...
Last week a U.S. citizen clippered home from a four-weeks' London powwow with Rank bigshots, full of plans for a British blitz on Hollywood. The man: Manhattan's suave, swart lawyer Morris Ernst. New Dealish Ernst-who was also in Britain to carry out an esoteric "cultural" U.S.-British mission-had persuaded his clients that, to win over the U.S. market, British films must be distributed by the Big Five U.S. producers...
Died. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, 66, "the Clarence Darrow of Germany"; after long illness; in Queens, L.I. A Socialist, onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
...Karl Ernst will provide the music for the first in a series of dances to be presented by the Hasty Pudding Officers' Club. The socials will continue every Saturday evening throughout the fall and winter, if the demand from College training school officers is strong enough to back the plan...
Leader of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thalmann, works on a prison farm outside Hanover, is healthy, is still a Communist. On his last birthday he received thousands of letters...