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A-B-C Countries. Latin America bought more U. S. film last year than Europe, but Latins are getting more and more excited about the "invasion of English language talkies." Today the study of English is compulsory in Chilean schools, but last week a writer in the authoritative monthly Chile warned that "a reaction" (by Chileans against talkies in English) "may lead to total exclusion and even reflect back on the teaching of English in the schools."
Brazilians are growing equally vexed, and in the Argentine last week the City Council of Buenos Aires debated a choice between two ordinances, one entirely forbidding the exhibition of talkies in English, the other increasing by 50% the tax on theatres showing such films.