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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I AM THE DARK ONE. PRINCESS NARDA IS WITH ME.
ARE YOU THE DARK ONE? IS THAT NARDA WITH YOU
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THEN THE LONG SEARCII IS OVER-- AND WE MEET AT LAST!
TARZAN FINDS THE
REAL JANE
Lex (Tarzan) Barker and his bride, Arlene Dahl, at their wedding reception
in New York. The couple sailed to France on the Ile de France for a Paris honey- The trip will also include a visit to England, where Lex's latest picture, Sol
Lesser's "Tarzan's Peril,” will be released by RKO Radio
moon.
HAROLD CONWAY'S Show Talk
Sir Ralph Weighs The Worth Of Film-making
BUT TOO LATE FOR YOU, YOU'LL, SZI NEVER KNOW WHO I AM.I MISSED THE FIRST TIME AND ONLY WOUNDED YOU? THIS TIME I SKALL! NOT MISS!
|CONTINUED-
ONE WORD NAMES ARE A HIT
Says MELROSE GOWER
There's boxoffice value in a one-word name. Consider, to illustrate, a few of the single-signatured stars who have made fortunes in the entertainment world-Bern- hardt and Duse in the golden age of the theatre, Garbo and Margo in tho golden age of the screen.
Latest of the the lovelies to get the one-name trent- ment is Valli, once called by some enthusiasts "Europe's most
beautiful woman," who WOR introduced American film fans in "The Paradine Case,"
"The Miracle of the Bells," "The Third Man," and "The White Tower."
to
Although she has hardly had time to do more than dip her tootsies in the Hollywood swlan, Valli has appeared in 34 Euro- pean productions and is one of the most popular screen stars in Italy, France and the Balkans.
In 1941 she
was named the best actress of the year at the Venice Fiesta an honour comparable to winning the Academy Award in Hollywood, VERSATILE Blue-eyed, with dark auburn- hair, Valli was born in Pola, Italian port on the Istrian Peninsula. Her screen carcer began in 1937. Less than four years in Hollywood, and con- fronting all the handicaps a foreign-bern actress endure, Valli has shown amaz. ins versatility,
Alida
RILLO,
by the
Sir Ralph Richardson, master of caustic art, for W. S. where the picture is on location Valli's full name back to the West End stagensitive Botor for Arthur Sul- writer Val Guest, who adapted being Oscar
Gibert, Jolyn Mis our most hos come an SOS to script-Valli de Mejo, her husband this month, believes that no van. Mills I gather is interested the story from the play
de Mejo, Italian pianist and composer, but she'll film salary is compensation and willing. Richardson is in- He has had to drop all other probably always be just Valli on for staying out of the terested but hesitant.
work including a West End the aereen--more don't think he need hesitate. play and a new Spanish-setting better boxoffice. And,
intriguing. theatre too long. Not even a This is ideal casting, and is am for Yolande Donian-to way, she loves America and has five-figure salary and he high time we had a screen hurry North,
Offlatal explanation:
appiled for can earn that in England or biography about a British song-
American citizen- writing nome-lol-atmosphere" into ship. writing team of genius after-all-some- Hollywood.
those Hollywood monorials 18 the script. My own guess:
Carbo's real name, as most of mediocrity mediocrity.
taking some Swanson
her fans now BLO-
know, is Greta London
theatre
Gustafsson. Incidentally Garbo's audiences sphere out of the star role. wonk forget Richardson or for
Bette is faithfully eschewing
"Ninotchka," medo
1939,
Here is your true legiti- mate actor talking. The ac-
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tor who temporarily left that matter, John Ms. They temperament for her English still is being shown throughout "A VARIETY PROGRAMME the cast of a London play would probably go to see them trip. But I would not blame her success, "Home At Seven," in the picture. Good films have for not picturing herself to film location scenes
Ceylon-and who found the play off when he returned. So far as the public were con- cerned, the star was Home Too Late,
But Richardson's doubts are hard on the
studios, where outstanding actors are. hard to find, Hard, for instance on Sidney Gillial-who puts his film about Gibert and Sullivan into production this summer.
Glillat would like Sir Ralph,
British
LUNA PARK
-CINEMA
reputationdangered stage stars Yorkshire ring herself
Bad ones, of course, arc a dit- ferent matter. Fortunately our best actors have become, through hard experience, shrewd critics of screen scripts. And with sur- tax what it is. they are no longer tempted to take a chance for the sake of a nice far cheque from the studios.
the world with striking success. OF COLORED CARTOONS!' In a Margo, who gave
up her career temporarily for a quiet QUEEN MARTITA
home life in New York with Martita
x-Madwoman her spouse, Hunt, ex-
Eddle Albert, was of Chaffot, gets that film job-christened Marla Morguerita and stay in England. After a Guadalupe Bolado y Custita. year of Broadway and West End When she whittled that down stage madness she will need to to a two-syllable word, sho make a violent mental switch.
ch.really began to go places, Her Alm part is to be Queen
Then there's Belita, noted Eleanor et Aquitaine in the
Hood."
Gladys Olive Lyne Jepson- Turner. And Charmaine, who Joan Miller is an actress who With Richard Todd as Robin won dame under that single couki probably get all the West Hood and the new
girt Joan namo End starring Jobs she wanted, Rioc, as Maid Marian,
as a Burlesque strip Walt lease artist, the impr
she made In Disney is virtuously proud that Broadway musicals under her
now appears "Pick
Just after the tha English picture of his ac-true name of Christing Ayres, War is not easily forgotten. tually has an all-British cast.
Instead, Miss Miller prefers
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Why provocative? Because the story is easily identifiable with the Thompson - Bywaters mur- der case even more so, I gather, than the Vosper version we saw fow, years back, "People Like Us."
fessional-as Wendy Huller's daughter in the Conrad story, "Quiet of the Island,"
"I have а left shoulder- blade which people come miles to see," says Katisha in "The Mikado." Did Gilbert antici- pate the silliness of 1931 show- world publicity?
Who on earth, for instance, la interested in the claim that 20-year-old Parisian ringer Dany Dauberson, newly arrived in the West Ertl,
If this now play could get a West End transfer, Miss Miller's salary would jump 20-fold. But the Lord Chamberlain, who has had previous family protests on the most shapely the Mrs Thampson subject, is in the world"? st hesitating "about
a public every now cabaret star performance. Beence,
So Joan Miller, with faint hopa, learning her long
love
FOR 'GLORIA' READ BETTE
the appellest other?
possesses shoulders
Why must Imave
something-or
amotional role for £10-and for Crystal Room performance an I thought Mijo. Dauberson's
OPpealing exercise in vibrant Bondamentality-If you were in Principal role in the Alm terested in singing rather than "Another: Man's Polson" was shoulders. But it's
getting written for Gloria Swinson: tough on these visiting artists Inslead, Botte Davis came over when they are expected to be here to play lb. But what was dinner-time curloalty exhibit good for Swanson could be any as a dide-line. other star's poison at least
some of it.
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