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> In Chicago, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt told Motion Picture Daily about the movies: "At the White House, we find them excellent entertainment and relaxation."

> In Hollywood, all actors in all major studios last week began to punch time clocks to enable them to collect time-and-a-half pay for overtime after 48 hours a week, according to the Screen Actors Guild's new agreement with producers.

> Cast in the role of Sherlock Holmes in Twentieth Century-Fox's forthcoming Hound of the Baskervilles was lean, long-nosed Basil Rathbone. Watson: Nigel Bruce.

> In New York, Dr. Robert W. Carter, research head of Taylor-Sloane Corp., which has been trying for ten years to perfect metal alloy photographic film, announced that it had succeeded, that the new film would be on sale within 90 days. According to Dr. Carter, Taylor-Sloane film is cheap, grainless, sensitive, non-inflammable, indestructible, non-shrinkable, capable of being used on both sides.

Images on ordinary transparent cellulose film are projected on a screen by a light behind the film. Images on non-transparent metal alloy film are projected by reflection from a light in front of the film. Major potentialities of metal alloy film outside the entertainment industry: mapmaking, microfilm reproductions of checks and documents, historical records for which cellulose film, which lasts only about 25 years, is unsatisfactory.

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