1948-05-07

THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948,

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The Half You've Never Heard

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STARS SUFFER IN THE

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Not for a long time have so many actors been asked to go before the cameras as cripples. The roles are difficult," the physteal handicaps painful, but the players seem to enjoy

IL.

OF ART

goes beaming evilly through one' eve in another film in the part

of a vicious killer.

Audionco-Sympathy

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A ferce and deur old Nor-/ wegian, sadly crippled, is Oscar Homolka, co-starring with Irene Dunne. With braces

both legs and using crutches Everett Sloane plays the pollo victim husband of Rita Hayworth in Shanghal." Also "Lady From

And Hulph Morgan rolling around in a wheel-chalr.us he

Dann Andrews. Howard da Silva, 3. Carroll Nuish, Oscar Homolka, Everett Sloane and Ralph Morgan are a few of the Current sufferers, in the 'cause | V

ucts the part of # crippled

of art. But they love it, and for a good reason.

rancher,

In another production Barbara Ever since Lon Chancy Lauge seares decisively DS B jurtrayed a cripple 30 years ago blind young Dutch girl who has In The Miracle “Man," movie been "&"vietim of German atro- actors an actresses have been city white In a concentration enhancing their screen reputa- camp. There is no doubt thai trons by playing physically rules of this nature win audience handicapped characters, Charles appeal. Miss Lange, hitherto not Laughton, in the lile role of very well known, huis in this one The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; bref role established herself as Laucille Ball, confined to a wheel

a splendid actress and is likely chut in "The Big Street"; Robert te make a name for herself Young disfigured and Herbart

future importani parts. Morshall. hind for "The En- chanted Cottage: Charles Dick- ford a blind painter in "A Wo- man on the Beach"; Dickie Moore the deaf and dumb in'"Out of Past": Jane Wyman also a deaf mule in "Johnny Belinda"-the fist is long indeed over the xcurs. But never before have D many players suffered cinema. tic infirmities during the same

brief period.

However, after seeing these Aims and the actors and actresses who simulate physical infirmities to win nudience sympathy, I wonder if they give thought to two great personalities before the cameras, who arc

real victims of crippling illness...

The Delightful Disney

1 refer to gallant old Lionel The story of Walt Disney Barrymore Dari courageous, is a simple one-like the man beautiful young Susan Pelers. Aimself. The faculty of know-

sufferer from arthrills for years,

Institute and then began the pre- carious life of a free-lance com- mercint artist

NOC-

Serving oversens during the Mr. Barrymore now is compelled ing what people like, and the First World War as tus ambulance Blind Pianist

play all his roles in a wheel- talent to give it to them, is driver, he ofterwards returned to chair _Of_all_the_actors_essaying_ihis

really the secret of his amaz-America, bought himself a Susan Peters suffered an Injury

ond-hand movie __camera__and, type of rule, Dana Andrews has to her spine three years ago when ing success.

with but a slight technical know- scored the greatest hit. His pre- she was accidentally shot while Bom in Chicago, U.S.A., on ledge about film making, at- sent role in "Night Song" is that on a hunting trip near San Diego. December 5, 1901, Walt Disney tempted to earn a living turning of # blind young planist-com- Last month she returned to pic-earned his first dollar hawking out newsreels. poser, There have been

(ures inny

as the wheel-chair star in newspapers on the streets, of the supposed sightless characters on "The Sign of the Rtam," in which Windy Cily. After vorious ef- The screen in the post, but never she ironically plays a-victim of forts to launch a business career, entered-the-infant-cartoon-Indus-- one so blind us Andrews.

The studied nt the Chicago Art

Going all out for authenticity, the producer of the Blm engaged A noted ore specialist to design contuet lenses for the star, opa- que of all things. As a result, the actor, once the lenses were

ited to his

eyes,

paralysis.

SHADOWS BEFORE

could dis-"DECEPTION" (Leo). tinguish only light and shadow Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Haareld,

as he went about the sound stage,

Merle Oberon, who "pinys, Ar- drews sweetheart in the story, bas to be bls Seeing Eye" and and leads him through all his trying

scenes.

cannot read a note

_Claude Rains..........

Story: Pianist Christine Rati-

tence and death for the Fury's

Following several false starts, Disney came to Hollywood and

13. In a few years, with the help of the inimitable Mickey Mouse success was his, and since

time he has been recognized -as-the-mastor of the animated

cartoon field.

Disney is simple, reserved- the rare sort of person, who can

and Philip Thorn.--(Cinegulid). make pictures that are universally

SONG OF THE, OPEN ROAD"

(Lee).

ville.

Star: Jane-Powell, Bonita Gran-

the accialmed

world over by the

the great and the obarure. children and grownups, young cliffe (Bette Davis) Joves Karci Novak (Paul Henreid), a brilliant

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old. Walt Disney offers in his latest young violinist. During the years

Story. Frothy nonsense which full-length musicul cartoon tea- of Europe's destruction he is gives

ives June Powell an excuse to iure, "Fun and Fancy Free." " dead.

exercise her wonderful Christine

voice. gay and colourful entertalanier.1 composer Screen-star- Jane Powell decides which tells the adventures--of- Hollenius (Claude to do something for the

War Mickey and the Beanstalk, and Rains). Eventually Karel returns, Effort, dyes her hair and runs Eungo, the circus bear.

Furthermore, he has to play the lost, I come from of music. Max Rabinowitch,

and he piano.

noted concert pianist, took

Ana

drews hands in hand and taught the "blind" man some fingering that will probably fool every film fun, who sees the tricky exhibi- tion on the screen.

seeks...

The to and they marry. Christine, how-awa

a farm. There she IKO Radio release also features that Hol- forgets farming in an ever, cannot forget

effort to Faper Bergen and Dinah. Shore. lenius has it in his power to des- straighten out her friends' love Colour by Technicolour. troy her happiness by revealing

ling affairs, and eventually brings at!

Bros.).

When a man is blind in

both

former relationship with him. the Hollywood celebrities, plus суса,

works he

up herself

to two name bands, out to the farm ttracts sympathy, When She he's blind in only one eye, he's ysteria, and kills Hollenius Just to help bring in the oranges be-

That truism before Karel's concert.-(Warner, Lore usually a villain.

the winds come.-(United Artists). upplies forcefully just now to J. Carroll Naish und Howard da

"FUN &'FRANCY FREE" (King's) Stars: Edgar Bergon, Dinah Shore,

plus Disney & Co. Story: Jiminy Cricket is the connecting link between the Tale of-the-Circus' Bear, the Tale of

Silva.

In "Joan of Arc," Ingrid Berg man's

pretentious technicolour pleture being filmed by her own -company-Naish-plays-John-of-

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Samuel Goldwyn's "The Best That it does not rain in Lon-Years of Our Lives" looks like one-eyed rat Mickey and the Beanstalk, and costs is proved by the fact that, the life of the motion-picture becoming of the best-sellers in who_sells the Maid of Orleans to this is Walt Disney at his best, in order to shoot a scene for In-industry.

the English, Howard da Silva

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