A lone, large crocodile tear last week stole down a column of the London Times. It was shed for Hollywood movies, which may soon be forced from British screens by a 75% tax on their earnings (TIME, Sept. 22).
"We shall all bear up as manfully as we may," sighed the Times (under the heading "England, Their England"), "but it would be folly to deny that something will be missing from our lives. . . . Neither our climate nor the mouths of our horses are particularly well adapted to the making of westerns, but there is no reason why we should...
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