INTERNATIONAL: Sensitive Europeans

European protest against U. S. film domination last week erupted thrice:

Fake Alps. In Switzerland, sensitive students attended a performance of a U. S. film entitled King of the Bernina, discovered that the advertised Swiss scenes were really taken in Alaska. Enraged at the artificial Alps, they paraded the streets of Zurich, forced the theatre manager to stop showing the film.

Tommyrot for Negroes. In Denmark, one Max Fornaes, vehement member of the Municipal Board of Frederiksberg, ringingly denounced all U. S. cinemactions:

"The American tommyrot which constitutes 90% of all films shown...

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