3 APRIL 1926, Page 11

SPECTABILIA

THERE is to be no Government intervention in the British film industry for the next year. The President of the Board of Trade informed the deputation which waited on him recently that produCers, renters and exhibitors are to be given a year in which to come to a voluntary arrange- Ment to provide a fair quota of British films. Will the trade be able to set its house in order without Government interference ? I wonder.

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