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Last month he made a deal with French Gaumont for a picture exchange with the French-a deal that may leave Hollywood, which before the war was allowed to exhibit only a limited number of pictures a year in France, still further out in the cold. Visiting Canada, where a year ago he bought a half interest in the 110-theater Odeon chain, Rank let it be known through one of his aides (he seldom speaks for himself) that he would build 50 more theaters in Canada to compete with Hollywood's outlets and perhaps a "showcase theater...
Throughout that world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...
...Some 600 cinema theaters, worth ?24,000,000. This is less than 15% of the British total, but since they include Gaumont-British's 275, and Odeon's 300 cinemas and supercinemas, they cater to almost one-third of Britain's 23,000,000 weekly cinemaddicts...
Rank's 24 cinema companies are also variously hooked up with big U.S. producers. M.G.M. and Fox own 49% of his Gaumont-British Pictures; United Artists has an important interest in Odeon; General Film distributes all of Universal's pictures in Britain. So far as the rest of British production is concerned, just about all Rank lacks of a complete cinemonopoly is the ?15,000,000 Associated British Pictures which has some 500 theaters...
...colleague, meticulous Robert Stevenson, 36, moved into his directorship with the precision of a mathematics teacher. Son of an English businessman, he took a "first" in mathematics at Cambridge University. A postgraduate thesis on the psychology of the cinema got him so interested in the subject that he persuaded Gaumont-British to take him on as a reader...