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...SIDEWALKS OF LONDON:--Chiefly notable for the performance of the pre-GWTW Vivien Leigh. Added attractions: views of pre-war London, lead performance by a post-prime Laughton, and a distinctly pre- (or post) Hayes office clinch involving Miss Leigh and "Strangler Rex" Harrison. Highly recommended for all Leigh fans,--and their name is legion...
Newsprint. The pre-war price of newsprint in Great Britain was ?11 55 a ton. Immediately after war began it jumped to ?17. Last week, at ?21 108 ($86), newsprint's price had almost doubled (while in the U. S. newsprint still sold for $50). A further rise to ?25 had been ordered by the Ministry of Supply for July 1, but after the invasion of Norway (two-thirds of Britain's newsprint came from Scandinavia, the rest from Canada and Newfoundland) the increase was expected to take effect immediately...
Leaving his ace Czech cameraman, Alexander Hackensmid, in England to film the last spasms of pre-war civilian life there. Kline and his wife hurried to Poland. As the last hours of peace ran out, the Klines photographed the reactions of average Poles and the frantic defense preparations of the Polish Army. In Danzig another Kline cameraman photographed Nazi doings...
...could hardly think of a timelier subject than the effect of war on human relations, but its idyllic treatment in "Ultimatum" is bound to appear somewhat outmoded on the eve of total war. Maybe we have just grown too cynical, maybe in 1914 they still had international courtesy and men who burned to sacrifice their lives for a woman or the fatherland; but particularly when such pre-War idealism is worked into as threadbare a plot as that of "Ultimatum," we may well be permitted to respond with a sad smile...
...level of new buying was around 45%, below Big Steel's 55% break-even rate. A whacking slice of production, percentagewise, was still going into already bulky inventory. The story of the situation was written in the price of steel scrap, down to $16.50 a ton (the pre-war level). Worst of all: after a good fall, Steel's biggest customer, the auto industry, was running into signs of a production slump which, if it materializes, will slow down the consumption of steel inventories at auto plants...