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UNITED ARTISTS
TO-MORROW. "ADVENTURES
ROBINHOOD"!
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN:
SO THE ANTI-GRAVITY. PAINT WAS ALLA KOAXI NATURALLY? WHO COULD BELIEVE SUCH AN IMPOSSIBLE IDEA”
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THEYZO "RADAR, SELF-GUIDED MISSILES~~ HAVE SAID RADIO, AIRPLANES, AND WHO'D HAVE DREAMED OF THEM? IMPOSSIBLE TELEVISION WERE IMPOSSIBLE--*| ANYTHING MEN DREAM OF IS
POSSIBLE — EVEN ANTI-GRAVITY PUNË. NARDA?
WHAT'S MORE, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, WHO'D HAVE DREAMED OFA GIALI AS PRETTY
AS YOUT
I JUST LOVE
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KEN SMITH Discovers
There Is Yet Hope For
The Girls Who
Went
To Film Charm Schools
THE
THERE is yet hope for the unfortunate girls who went to film charm schools.
They entered school thinking they would win scholarships to stardom,. but at the end of the last; term, though they had do- dress- glamour, grees in
sense and how to appear in
public, they knew little
about
I could give you a list of
names of starlets who may
never reach stardom. True, they have all made film ap- pearances, but I doubt if any of them
were
given schooling enough to lead to
NEXT WEEK THE HAUNTED FARM.|
Gary Cooper
Likes His Dip
---
Au Naturel
Says Ben Cook
Someday, Gary Cooper says, you may think it quite natural to go to the beach, shuck off all your clothes and trot into the surf without bothering to WHEN the Baby, that's one of the re-
rain sends slip on a pair of trunks. our cricketers of the He does it now when he cords I shall want to break.
FILMGOERS, say's
bir during broadcast can find a beach that isn't Hollywood, spend 7- this summer, the gap will be
up
with other 000,000 dollars a week led by Hamish Menzies, sing-cluttered
Ing and playing the plang, sweets and popcorn. And I'd always thought that There's one man who's look- to a wet sum too much sugar came out of ing forward
on
Hollywood anyway.
mer.
Harold Conway's Show Talk
HARRISON (the man who attacked Hollywood) gets Hollywood's prize part...
"I do not like Hollywood
a successful acting career. very much. I honestly don't.
To them all I
recommend care if I never
the words of Susan Shaw, ex-fornia again."
see Call-
charm school girl, who has Who said that two years just finished a five-week tour
ago? British actor Rex In Harrison.
in "Peter Pan" "What an ex- perience! I learned more those five weeks than I learn- For whom is Hollywood ed making 20 alms."
now reserving its biggest
full-length picture only two characters? Harrison of course.
with
Rex
Susan is under contract to compliment-the star role in the Rank Organisation, and 1 asked her if she'd like to Alm for six months and act on the stage for the rest of the year.
"No." she said,
frmly.
There is nothing' the film
"Nine months on the stage, capital respects more than and three filming."
Has the stage experience won her any prizes? Well, managements are sending her plays to read.
EVERY PICTURE....
a hearty attack from one of its stars-so long as the attacker can still bring in the money.
THE HARRISONS marriage in six stages
+
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PHOTOGRAPHER Cecli Beat- --Aa-a-money-maker, Mr Horon has had to walt more than
two
people.
"Once you've done it you realise what you've been missing" he said. "It's like first eating avocados."
"Civilised people have been going swimming that way for centuries, anyway."
Cooper realises it is not exactly a universal praetlee nowadays. He thinks it may be some day. About the only thing that holds people back now, he said, is the Cear of being caught.
DIFFERENT NOW
"We're still in a hangover from the 1880s when a man couldn't look at a woman's ankle with- out blushing," he said. "Take a look at any beach today. You may note the progress.”
Cooper did a little missionary work while he was in Florida recenlty on location for "Distant Picture
Drums," a United States being produced in Technicolour
Warner
Bros. distribution.
for
He had the whole crew heading for the beach whenever they could give the slip to the leading lady, Mari Aldon, so they could take a dip au naturel.
Even Mari got the idea. She
it a try Rave
on the beach at Naplas with a
a pair of husky wardrobe women for protection. "Swimming, to me, Is like flying." Cooper said. "I feel free and unencumbered when I'm in the waler. Wrapping mysel up in sufts that weigh me down spolls the Illusion,"
Of My Aunt"
rison the heart-throb of Bri- two years for his first play, "The The Poison Pen
to get a NOW that the "If you tish and American audiences Gainsborough Giris,"
Now, only alike-is still highly dependable. production. 50 you're a are over
His own share, between stage weeks before its pre-Broadway grund romantic hero"
and screen, is about £50,000 a opening
In Brighton New York idea is sweeping Hollywood,
wants to see it before the West
The 13th Letter (Roxy In Hollywood's first two- End-two important parts re- Ronald Colmun is being bad year. gered by scripts which ask the
will main
un-cast.
and Broadway) is a Holly- hero to fight ducis before he character Alm, Harrison
have to hold the customers' ut-
arc They
the puinter's wood remake-in French- gets the girl.
tention for some 90 minutes, daughters the Gainsborough Canadian setting - of a with only his wife-Lilli Palmer girls themselves.
sharing the screen with him. Two attractive candidates will French film which for Eng-
consumption Miss Palmer has considerable be rehearsing on approval but lish
might think, with no contracts. Only if they have been aoting talent-mare, I
(but wasn't) than her husband. But it is have lasted the course and satis- Harrison who is being relied fled the author, producer and called "The Poison-pen of
the parts be My Aunt." box-office support. His manager-will for salary, I imagine, will be one of theirs.
Says Ronald: "If only they knew that I find it more and more difficult to walk round the room."
once
ACE is also-beginning to tell on Bing Crosby. He has just
turned down $135,000 for 30 perform ances in Centda because:
"I can't afford the exhausting time with the Press and my fans."
upon
the biggest individual items, it Who are these young hope- the biggest, in the picture's fuls? One is a promising actress cost which is likely to total who has had some unlucky breaks in the past year or so. close on £100,000,
Subject of this screen experl- The other also has a name and ment
Four-Poster"
reputation to lose, τόπι 私 play which had
BUT THE PASSING of ortish run in London last
AS a
in the early thirties he storm ed Shaftesbury Avenue
hero romantic great Autumn Crocus and The And The Fiddle,
was
It deals with upsets in and about A small-town hospital when anonymous letters vic- hospital's timising one of the doctors start reaching all and sundry.
The treatment leads not so much to tension as to a pica- REMEMBER the time when it sant puzzle, in which you have the years seems to have la
to year, It will show the Harrisons
balanced fatal to meet your Alm
half a dozen neatly made no difference
Way back in six stages of marriage-from heroes off-screen-unicas Francis Lederer.
you suspects to guess from. For wedley Kramer, most inde- Nowadays it is just the reverse,
night to death.
Ronnio were prepared for disillusion? good measure Michael
is twice bitten by Linda Darnell, Stanley la pendent of Hollywood producers,
time, Lex Barker, honeymooning in and likes it the second Cat is determined not to cheat on the London recently, talked as much thus killing another old
pro- The whole film will be sound sense as he talks screen confined to one set-the bed nonsense in those Tarzan roles.
verb.
The acting is efficient chiefly
of interest In two room; and not one subsidiary. Now comes Burt Lancaster,
Mr Lancaster has been boring respects: the debut of Constance character will be introduced.
If the cinemagoers of two me for the past year or so with Smith, an Irish beauty who Continents grow weary of the his dead-pan-tough-man parts. may
This month-18 years after
-he reappears In Shaftesbury Avenue In Collector's Item....
as a great romantic her.
and
Dept. of Odd Quotes:] Harrison features, that is going Talk to him off-duty-and he do well if the Irishness is
not groomed out of her; and the
Warnke BrOS. PRESENT
Humphrey Bogart
The Enforcer
Screen's fine story of
the man who smashed the underworld network `of hired kitferal
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RUDOLF FRIML
No. 1. One young to be just too bad for all con proves more entertaining than second debut of Charles Boyer ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951, at 9 p.m.
Q
British nctress to acerned. Including Mr Kramer, second: "We plan to get ried just as soon as he me....."
mar-
0
asks
in-London:
"In Hollywood
and
from
all his film roles put together.
bearded like the pard, More candid, too, than he can ALEO GUINNESS sald fare afford to be in studio time. My making the change-over well to Hamlet last Saturday, as favourite quote from Lancaster-romantic leads to character, Dept. of Oda Quotes; philosophically as the Prince
you
just Too late have some
BAD IS GOOD No. 2.-A Folles
Ber- himself
critics begun to praise his per- daren't make an entirely adull- chorus girl gere
formance; too late are audiences minded picture, it would mean plaining to the stage manage decking in. The theatre is assuming that all your audiences What man "A why she was late:
booked for another show-just were adult-minded too. was following me, and he was "Hamlet" is beginning to pay optimist assumes anything of their success to bad luck are walking slowly."
the kind?"
*
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MARGARET
ກ.
his keep.
LOCK- So Guinness sets off on a WOOD, invited to star much-needed holiday.
The
On
Where
start rehearsals of a new West
•
TWO men
the од Prince of Wales Theatre hill in London who owd
Peg-Leg Bates, a man who dances better with one leg than WALT DISNEY'S Cinderella most men will two,
two, and BUI in Another Man's Po has he chosen to go? Denmark. film has doubled and trebled the McComb, the magician.
script. But not to brood at Elsinore, sale of ice-creams in cinemax,
Baica lost his leg in an ao- son, said: "No.
"I just hoppen to love the coun-
reports Wardour Street with cident and thought his dancing docm't ring true."
was finished. But: "It was, the Bette Davis, asked the same his return, Guinness will some excitement.
This, explains the trade, is boat thing that could .... have |End play. What play is a secret ecause of the sbpormally, large happened," he told me, “although
number af adolescents newly aldn't think so at the time,
than at the moment though my own attracted to the box-offices by make more money now guess is "Colombo," the Jean
the picture"Its value in this over I did." Anouilh parable of a
modern
dern direction is of inestimable value McComb, until mix
months *WARNI
tago Columbine.
to the industry in general” ago, was all set to be a doo- KATHRYN GRAYSON If this guess is corroot, he has
a duodenal ulcer
Ja to make a
record deliberately picked another ex So now our producers know tor... But /with her two-year acting part for himsel the where they stand and what to forced him to give up study Kate, play has both interested and aim at. For them, the crucial ing for his finals and ho took question of the future is liable up conjuring instead, Today sing in puzzled Paris. Mr Guinness to be Is your picture lee he's a member of the Magid Circle, and, in all met for a tope her bath. The song? Baby It's man look sántler but "ho fa 4) creamworthệt Bik
***(kenden, Express Merelang of-the-hill-career, Colà Qutelde.
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