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CINEMA WORLD
SHADOWS BEFORE
"DATHING BLAUTY" (Queen's). { All in all, there is apt to Be
STARS: Any Skelton, Esther Williams.
If you are one of those who can roll in an aisle with the best of them, this is you ment.
titulé fault found with "Bathing Beauty" by anyøre. It is con- sistently bright, it is in Technicolor and it finishes with
Sumatran Beauty Is
South Seas Queen
SINGAPORE, her Arat. Her truc Ufe story reads like a Hollywood publicity- man's dream.
a water ballet on the grand scale A flashing-eyed Sumatran which always seems a sure win-beauty has become the first Even ner in sending the customers
movie queen of the South Karma was born in Medan, if you don't custoinurity roll but home soothed and happy.
Seas. She in Kasma Booty,
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. She merely convulse in
semi-
'her strangled fashion in your scal,
shapely 18-year-old who had had to go to work when
two motion father died during the Japanese this is still for you.
.seen only one or You may die, But Win „kaive, it WII" "DR "BE
pictures before she starred ination. The family
ing--hungry, Thon--jun-ton yours lovely death.
olt, she got a job as a chorus girl. in a fravelling show. fhrough
That is all dependent on whe- ther you find Red Skelton funny or not, it you' uc not; go back to reading the obituarles and lake no further notice of this.
AN songwriter who prefers Esther WBIians to songwriting Land who wouldn't) Skelton is placed in about GR many idiculous situation as he сап handle.
ile is funny in all of them in bla own quaint epileptic way, but probably the most hilarious scene in the film is his ballet les- son to girls' school. He is the only male student at the school and is there for the same reason that he isn't writing songs.
The combination of the knob- bly Skelton knees showing coyly beneath a winsome ballet skirt, his unique daneing style and some fantastic sense with a piece of sileky paper, 1 likely In 'The apoplexy to bring out the weaker patrons so take your own strait juckets.
Quite apart from the antles of Skelton,
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One of the overal reasona why "Bathing Beauty" is more than enjoyable show is *lovely swimming star Esther Willams.
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one.
was 霹
The picture was, the Malay-the occupation years she toured Janguage "Chempaka", a jungle the East Indies and Malaya. epic produced on Singapore island. Mer costume sarong. Wearing the Aarong was Just doing what comes natural- ly out here. It is normal dress for Indonesian and Malay Wo- men, Miss Booty didn't pay much attention to the costume.
Stranded in Penang, Malaya, when the war ended, she fell i In love. Two years ago she married a follow East Indian, miso in show 'business. She was 14; he was 28,
When Show Brothers Studio
Lana Turner On The BBC
BBC
On her recent honeymoon trip to Britain, film star Lana Turner made her only personal appear- ance in the British Broadcasting Corporation's programme "In Town Tonight.'
The ex-redhead, ex-Sweater
decided to make Chempaka they J. Topping, the tinplate million- sent a talent scout out hunting
female lead. He asked
Girl is now the wife of Henry Curtain Down) [On pleasure The Iron Curtain'
combined
Audiences did. They lined up outside the first-run theatre by the thousands. The picture was
Mr. aire who held over for 13 days local re-
Booty for อ recommendation, with business on this visit to cord. People who didn't under-Booty recommended his wife. She introduce midget car racing in stand Malay went twice to
won the role. sco Booty and sarong.
England.
Antwerp, September 30. Performances of the Amer- The picture, mostly shot in the Hin wife started her stage
ican film "The Iron Curtain", A local sensation, Miss Booty
open air with primitive equip career in a hell in her home state based on the Canadian spy has set her eyes on Hollywood. who sought to marry Chempaka a half under her baptisteal name movie theatre here, were sus
ment, told of a Malayan prince of Idaho at the age of three and trial, being screened in a large that stars there are paid more than against her will. The hero,
of Julia Jean Mildred Frances pended Inst, night after Com- Maloyan bearing
Te a strange the U.S.$350 she received
Turner. The Lana was adopted munist demonstrators carried for semblance to Tarzan, saved her. later when her mother migrated on a running battle with police two months emoting under the Interladen with clip shots of to California and the fifteen-year fropical sun.
She
bas heard
about
rumours
"Chempaka" itself Cost only U.8.$30,000, most of which was earned back In first Singapore run. Since the Malay people or races closely akin to them number about 200,000,000 and are spread from Madagascar to the Philippines. it some sure to earn treman. dous profits.
0
stampeding elephants, crocodiles 'old Miss Turner got a job in a inside and outside the theatre. -and-tigers, the flim-wasn't much Hollywood-sola-bar:
of an artistic triumph. But Miss Booty was a sensation.
"They should have called 'Booty and the Bonsts," sighed one reviewer.
it
week.
Several people were injured in the clashes and a number of de.. According to her blographers, monstrators were arrested. her mysterious crey green eyes nim has been shown outside Brus
This is the first time that the and lissom figure attracted the notice of a M.G.M, talent scout als where it has been running who arranged an interview with for just over a
The the Aim direct Mervyn LeRoy,
inter- Brussels police Another picture is in the off- Lann was given a small part in
rupted the first showing of the Ing as soon as Kasma Booty's nim and three days later put
a number of times to eject Arst baby is born in September.
Hemonstrators who were throw- Then well, Hollywood wouldn contract with M.G.M. The South Seas frát big star be nice,
Since 1937 she has starred as a
ing stink bombs and shouting Klamour
catcalia. girl in such flims as is only four and one-half fout Misa Booly doesn't think any "They Won't Forget." "The toll. She is so shy she covered
On Tuesday night 20 people, one there---not even Lamour- Great
Garrick," "Keep her
Your including, four Communist experience Powder Dry" and "Weekend at hors of the Chamber of Deputies,
the Waldorf."
a handkerchief has hadas much
face with durlug most
of our interview, wearing sarongs as she has.
POP
T SEB NOTHING ATTRACTIVE IN
THE MODERN BATHING
COSTUME
Pop!
PITY!
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
|"LEAVING THE PILOT TIED IN THE |PLANE, THE GANGSTER FELLA
BAILS OUT."
RIP - KIRBY
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JANE
AFTER THIS EXCELLENT DINNER, ONCE AGAIN PROVIDED BY OUR CHIEF'S CHARMING DAUGHTER, I'D LIKE TO PROPOSE A TOAST GENTLEMEN !---
"HE MAKES HIS
JUMP AND WATCHES THE PLANE GO ON,
Where is this?
THE
LAGUTHOKAJE
AN
flim a
were arr
mem-
arrested and later released
in Brussels when about 1,000 Communist demonstrators tried to storm the theatra.
Strong forces of police with drawn batons drove the demon- strators off.
of
M. Paul Spaak, the Gelgian Prime Minister, refuard to ban the showing of the picture when he received a députation from the Belgian-Boviet Friend- ahip Association.
The Association declared the im was "an insult to the Hero
Stalingrad"",
Such
for the a question was municipal authorities to decide, Spaakt said, and then only is it was considered that performances
of the film constituted a genuine threat to pubile ordet.-Reuter,
By Loe Falk- and Phil Davis
"THE PLANE GETS JUST SO FAR-- THEN, CRASH? NOW COMES THE BEST PART OF THE STORY~-~
BACK ON THE GROUND HE WALKS OVER TO MAKE SURE THE PILOT'S
DEAD! BUT
THERE'S NO PLANE, THERE NOTHING!
SHE IS LOVELY, GIR..BUT I THOUGHT
YOUR TASTE RAN TO BLONDES!
DON'T WORRY......HONEY IS STILETOPS IN MY BOOK... BUT I CUI STILL APPRECIATE
THE COMPETITION/
BY ALEX RAYMOND
|| DORIAN, I HAVE
SPEAKING OF MISG ) "THIS GUMMER, ISS BAHESTER MO OTHER
MODELS WILL STADS A FASHION SHOYİ BE
DORIAN" WHAT LUCK!” SHE MAY DE THERE NOW
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THE LITTLE LADY WHO HAS REFRESHED
·OUR JADED MINDS, LIGHTENED OUR LABOURS, AND -
JANE!
HEARI
HEAR!
EXCUSE-1: HAF SOME LETTERS TO WRITE~-~~-
TO MY OLD COLLEAGUES FROM:
WINZIGATOMSPLITZEN-!
LOTCH WOKATE DIRECTJOL OF LOSY
WELL, I'M GLAD HE'S DONE, LGVS, BECAUSE YOUR NICE"SPÈECHES HAVE EMBOLDENED ME TO "SUGGEST" A' LITTLE MUSICAL EVENING AND I FEAR_PRÓFESSOR
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