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...took Hollywood no time at all to make up its mind. Less than 24 hours after Britain's Government levied a new tax which, in effect, will take 75% of the gross earnings of U.S. films, Movie Czar Eric Johnston announced that Britain would get no more of them. Cinemoguls, meeting in a 3½-hour session with Johnston, angrily charged that the tax was confiscatory. "If the British want American pictures," said Johnston, "they shouldn't expect to get a dollar's worth for a quarter...
...producers also charged a breach of faith. The tax came just as they were negotiating a voluntary reduction in their "take-home" earnings from Britain. They had sent Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, Inc. (as well as of the Motion Picture Association of America) to London to work out a solution. He came back with a dozen different proposals for Hollywood to consider, including one to hold part of the movie companies' earnings in blocked accounts in England. But before he even submitted them to producers, Britain fired...
Boomerang? At least part of Hollywood's movie community was not nearly so angry as Representative Worley. There were many, particularly among independent producers, who considered the Johnston Office's action too rash. A prolonged dearth of U.S. films, they thought, might give the British industry an opportunity to cop the home market for good...
...surprised to find the Princesses so small. They were particularly impressed with the Queen and one admitted later that King George "was certainly attractive." Most of them were startled to find their British counterparts as well-dressed as themselves. "I saw only one or two curtains," said Denise Lawson-Johnston, of the New York Bovril people, in wondering tones...
...took his Johnston code in hand...