The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-23
AMERICAN MADE M0VTEN HAVE W U IUU HI A ' A
 BIG PATRONAGE
English Producers Cannot Compete With
 Technicians
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated PreSS.)
 LONDON, Nov. 22.-Last years tragedy, when a 140 pound pumpkin sent from France to provide pies for the Thanksgiving dinner for 800 lonely American in London, exploded just after it was landed from an airplane IS to have happy sequel this year. Five pumpkins, one weighting TO pounds, grown from the seeds saved from last years debacle, are to be made into tempting "tarts"-as the English call pies-for the great feast.
 Another treat will be turkeys, to be shot in Norfolk few days in advance and shipped to London especially for the occasion. The American ambassador and Mrs. Kellogg and the Prince of Wales will be among the principal guests at the dinner, which will be under the auspices of the American society.
 A magazine written and edited by lunatics has been started in England. Some cynics may say there is nothing new in this, judging from some Of the exhibits on the news stands, but these and are not merely literary bugs: They are inmates of the city mental hospltal lunactics are actually in an asylum at Humberstone, Leicester. The patients magazine, which con tains both prose and poetry, IS never edited or censored by saner outsloers, according to the medical superintendent. He added, however, that it was not qnlte correct to say that the patients were insane as the majority of the cases were between convalescence and cure:
 A recent number of the magazine con tained some verses on the buttercup ana sociological study captloned: ohouid married women work!'
 While the flood of American made motion picture films still pour into Great Britain and her dominions. the production end of the British film in- dustry continues at a standstill, and, ac- cerding to a correspondent of the Daily Mail, for the first time in years not a single studio is operating in England at present.
 The producers ascribe the situation to various causes, particularly that the tbeaters will not use homemade films even when they are equal or superior to the American product, and they point out that the popularity of the Engllsh movies is provided when the exhibitors have been finally persuaded to exhibit such pictures as "Zeebruggle, a film version of the war time attack on the German naval base.
 Another asserted that the British studios were not as well equipped as the American, the technicians were not as good and above al! the British producers wasted money. thus raising the final costs above the American with conse- quent higher prices to the exhibitors.
 The press, which is embarklnS upon campaign to develop the industry, points to the tremendous propaganda value of British films, especially Tn the dominions, and the possibility that busy studios would take care ot thousands ol British's unemployed.
 Americans who observe the eighteenth amendment and expect thelr countrymeh to do likewise can point with pride to their two chief representatives in King Georges wet domain, Ambassador kel- logg and Consul General Washington
 The consul general has been on the water wagon for ten years, most Of which time he has lived in places where there were plenty of other legal bever- ages. ,..,e
 Ambassador Kellogg confined himself to a pitcher of water the other night while presiding over the moot court at Gray's inn. Almost everybody else in the courtroom quaffed stronger stuff
 MT. Kellogg's abstention was partlcu- larly noticeable and perhaps significant for the hypothetical case at law over which he presided involved a British contractor liability to carry out further I deliveries of whisky to a consignee Tn the United States after one of his con signments had been confiscated under the prohibition law.
 One of the things on which the am, bassador often comments in informal conversations is the relatively small amount of drinking which goes on at fashionable British gatherings these days as compared with his earlier visits to England in pre-war times. At the lord mayors banquet, which he attended i there was only one bottle of port for the eight or ten men at the speakers table.
 "In the old days every man had bottle of port for himself" the anibassa- dor recalled. #