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"VIRTUE IN THE DUST''
A Human Tragedy
AVA GARDNER This One Is Dressed
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A Weakness
For The Human Male
Venus has always hnd weakness, however fleeting, for the human male. On her little
Vacations from Olympus she invariably breaks a heart or two, just to keep in practice,
In "One Touch
Venus," coming tomorrow at the Queen's theatre, she chooses for the scene of her escapade a large depart-
Tragic Royal Love Affair Theme Of Queen's Theatre Film
SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS
Towards the end of the 17th Century one of the leading problems in European political 'circles was the question of Hanover's ambitious claim to the succession of the English throne. The move which did more than anything else to secure recognition of the Hanoverian claim was "The marriage, for purely politicut reusis, of the Elector's son, Prince George-Louis (later George I of England), to the Princess Sophie-Dorothea, a granddaughter of James I.
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Take a crowded hotel suite originally reserved for 4 honeymoon couple, add an as- sortment of characters ranging from a female Sergeant York to a Wet Wash King, throw in a wollish broadcaster, a female judge, soybean-to-fuel process and three lovely ex-chorus girls whore marital status is being investigated by the FBI, mix well and you have "the Doughing wheir opens it
the Lee Theatre next week- end.
Into war-crowded Washington, newly married by a phoney Jus- tier of the Peace, come Arthur Halstead (Jack Carson) and his bride, Vivien not-too-bright (Jane Wyman).
When
"married" the newly couple take over their suite In the hotel, they are forced to il with Julian Cadmon share
and his wifò (John Ridgely) Edna (Ann Sheridan).
Comes Dissension Arthur, who is the new aide to Ad- Slade (Charles Buggles), ministrator of Inter-Bureau Co- and Julian, who in ordination.
trying to sell a soybean-to-fuel sension appears in the person of process, get along fine, but dis-
History
has provided some premiva performance as Countess romantic, but many more tragle Platen, the ageing beauty, mistress stories of politica] marriages, and of the Elector, ambitious, ruthless more touching than the and Jealous, the power behind the
Hanover, nlight, and history of Sophie- throne of
She falls in love with Konigs- Dorothea.
Married at the age of 16 to the mark, who accepts her paralon, coarse and brutal George-Louis, help and influential assistance, who was openly unfaithful to tongue in cheek. It is her rage and her from the beginning, the young Jealous fury which finally destroys princess lived a life of humiliation him when he is caught, perhaps and loneliness in the dissolute for the Arst time in his life, by
tender and genuine love for the court of Hanover.
Ealing Studio's Technicolor pro-Young Sophie. duction
Saraband For Dead What the Aim lacks in story and animation is made up for by the Lovers",
Queen's colourful pageantry of the court, coming to the nrent store, and for the medium Theatre, next week tells the story the beautiful old-world buildings Non (Alexis Smith), the future
Sophlo's brief. of Sop
tragic love
affair and somewhat and quaint streets with the dashing and
of Prague, bride of a flyer, Lieutenant Dil- meet modern concepts of beauty, unscrupulous Swedish soldier of and most of all, by one particular
where many scenes were filmed, lon (Craig Stevens), scene, the Hanover Fair sequence Vivian learns, vin a news broad- For this indiscretion
enough life and cast, with his fe unfortunate males have mark paid
that she is not legally mar→ The
ander colour to satisfy the most demand-ried. At this point if you are which rather a hectic time of it Both
circumstances
wore,
for ing
tonte.
still able to follow the story Hobert Walker and Dick Haymes generations, a secret of the Royal The Fair scene in a spectacle of
Mr.
Cadman (the spend most of their, time dashing d'amily of hither and yon, perspiring freely Dorothea was forced to renounce our licence, fantasy and clamour one, that is) enters the scene and
kaleidoscope of col- Mi, Sylvia and pulling faces depicting har marriage rights and was with
informs Edna (the second Mrs. 1 slightly nightmareish various degrees of anguish.
Cadman that is) that due to a banished dor the rest of her life to pality added Everyone puts in a lot of time the Castle of Ahlden, while efforts blind struggle by Sophie's technicality in the divorce pa- pulling faces, except Venus, who to supress the Acandal
through the mob
pers she (the first one, that is) is the cause of it all. Olga Sanate her name from history con- phore being subtly calculated to feiler, that is). In search of her lover, the atmos-is, still Julian's Juan registers bewilderment, an- tinued for the next half-century, chime with the tumult of her This is as
statue suitably
streamlined 10
which duly comes to life in the delectable form of Ava Gardner.
noyance, exasperation
neer or alternately ur hysterics, either simultaneously, and the poor girl has a pretty thin time until the nim winds up in a spate of happy endings:
fortune, Count Philip Komhich provides
Hanover. Sophie-
and
has
obiller-
contrast, a
Joan
who plays heart. Dwood, Sophie
all the delicate beauty and gentle charm Drezden.figurine. but scarcely animation, Stewart Granger, Konigsmark, in stil! Granger
of a more
Even the cynical secretary, (afrst and gives a faithful portrayal neat vignette by Eve Arden) finds that a touch of Venus sets self.
of a 17th Century version of him-
a big way!
Chinese Film Opens Today
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things begin
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out. with the aid
three of another characters (including Eva Arden
Although intended primari-ns a Russian guerilla fighter) and ly for Chinese audiences, Alan Mobray.
A good choice for laughs. "Virtue in the Dust," latest production of Yung Hwa
of the life of a country opens today at the Liberty and the large cities of Pelping and girl in
provided with explanatory titles her employer, of the loss of her Central Theatres. has been Shanghal, of her seduction by in English for the benefit of daughter and of a general train film- of events which made her days a non-Mandarin-speaking
transcends lving hell. How sho Photographed in modern set-all these tragedies is the main tings, the film tells of the tragedy theme of the film.
-the Wedding bells ringing.
French Francoisę Roony, Venus has a go at everything, from a simple girl-in-love to the stress of great distinction, is super siren vamping the wealthy confined as by a straitjacket in Studios in Kowloon, which
role of Electress of Hanover. store owner (Tom Conway), and her rol does she go for modern dresses in and self-denial that she can send mother RO frozen by ambition If the producers had been able her favourite son to his death in to make up their aninds between the Morea aiding England against slapstick comedy and farce fan- the Turks in order to further the tasy, they would have avoided an claims of her House and the son unfortunate tendency to dissolve the despises. into bathos ht the wrong moments,
Flora Robson provides the only plere of real acting with her im-
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