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WE
UGANDA, Tuesday.
E are rendy to cast off tonight and sail up the Budongo Nile through the Forest on the last stage of a 6,000-mile jungle journey to film C. S. Forester's "African Queen" against its natural setting.
A Hollywood director_ with his Hollywood stars technicians and 34 British
to
and their equipment-made the safari fom London the Belgian Congo and Uganda. This is our jungle story begining last week:
FRIDAY: At three o'clock in the morning. Boldier ants in two columns advance smartly into the riverside clearing we have hacked from the Congo jungle at Blondo. Each column is a foot wide and
three the ants travel
on top of one another. The columns look like furry ropes.
One column strikes ut Katharine Hepburn. The other goes right for Hum- phrey Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall.
In minutes the camp is in an uproar. The alarm turn sounds. The guards out. Africans shout "In- vasion," and the tom-toms beat along the river.
Some ants start to climb Katharine Hepburn's legs. others work their way through the Bogarts' bed-
room.
ON AN AFRICAN RIVER..... Humphrey Bogart-after seven not out at cricket and a statement hardly fit for Lord's.
The victors chair Rogart back SATURDAY: We are at work polsonous flies. Saya Bogart:
"Nothing bites me. A solid to the pavilion. Ile spoils it by by seven this morning, with our
River wall of whisky keeps Insects at saying: "Well, I carried my flotilla moving down the
stick." Hardly Lords talk.. Ruiki, Sixty-five of us, including bay." local helpers, are crowded on a raft about the size of an ordinary living-room in London. The raft
was built to hold 30,
With us is the motor-boat African Queen, the real star of the film. Two other rafts carry Director John Huston seizes the electric generator and lamps his elephant gun, but large-scale There is a floating dressing-room weapons are no "good"agedret and a dozen-canoes--to-run. ants Says Huston: "We pro- messages, pared against the expected lions, hippos, buffalo, and stakes, Bul we are defeated by ants half-an inch long."
We live all day on our raft Occasionally someone gets swept
black river by low into the hanging tree branches, Orce we nearly lose our equipment this
The Invaders are repelled by
At dawn we way, burning them out.
The next are at pence again, attack ix expected soon-in strength. Then there will be rothing we can do. We decide to pull out.
The unit sings: "Borgo, Bongo, Bongo, I do want to leave the stard by Congo." Four fanners the artists to brush Eway
Ku-Klux-Klan V. Ginger Rogers
down
Says Huston: "Arything that bites me soon drops dead, so I
am safe.
The rest of us are not so lucky. Sound equipment is even used on the river. Bogart has dialogue scere this afternoon with Hepburn.
MONDAY: We are In the Budongo Forest now, where we have bullt mud village. It is supposed to be the hose of Katharine Hepburn and her mis- stonary brother. played by Robert Morley.
German soldiers kill Morley off in the first 20 minutes of the The period is World War I, ond-picture. He dig not think it was they are saling down the river worth while coming 6,000 miles in a crazy attempt to blow up a and lerving his West End play German gunboat which domire just to be buried in Africa. So ates a like. And they are having he will die in the studio in Lo- a row.
don
Saya Bogart, who in the book Two hundred coloured men is a Cockney, which the script are wanted for crowd scenes in changes to a Canadian: " ain't the film, and we are trying to sorry for you no more, you crazy persuade them they will not be psalm-singing skinny old maid.".
When the scene is over Katha rine Hepburn discusses that line. "Very apt. You could call me that. I even like singing pealms."
She wears a floor-length skirt,
caten. Tribesmen agree to send eight men as hostages. If they are all right the balance will be delivered in the morning.
The price list for those who act for us is: men 4s, a dny. women 2s. 6d., children (small)
a high collar and a foot-wide 6d. (big) is. Chickens in a scent
When it comes to look town to see her married sister. hat. Inevitably in the evenings cost 3d. and goats Gd.
und as she walks she changes into an embroidered But there is Inflation in the ing ugly facts about their is night,
bow and
Brrow Main-street the town white shirt and white slacks.
department. Archers used to coot is. esch, own affairs squarely in the alors up on her-the shops
At night we prepare to eye, American film pro- shut, the people disappear evacuate our camp and leave it now the price is up to 6s.
She doesn't understand" why for the ants. ducers are still the bravest
and there is no one around, of them all.
thilde the air smelts so
why
Huston, six feet four Inches They fill our screens for with menace, until she hears and tough as a jungle tree, goes out hunting with Hepburn, She most of the year with up- running, shouting, and shots. palling rot and rubbish--- A man fulls dead a tow yards is his gun girl now, carrying a false sentiments, fake at from her, as the crouches in ught rifle.
doorway. She pres the men John Huston has crammed a titudes to life, real issues o have murdered him. They lot into his 44 years: Mexican glossed over with the help are dressed in robes and boods, cavalry officer, boxer actor, of nyloned legs, the wrong They tre members of the Ku-artist, sculptor and student of the bagpipes. All this, as well kind of female uplift, and Klux-Klan.
When one all the artificial atimulus of
of the men re-as being now a top Hollywood moves his hood, sho renem-director-the American Carol two-dimensional sex-appeal. bere his face. But she doesn't Reed-with two Oscars in his
And then, wham! They sud- know, until much later in the bag. denly turn honest. As if shock evening, that the Klanaman Is ed by the evidence of their her sister's husband.
own
phoney moralising, they With that eituation establish- put into production nimed, "Storm Warning" takes of its on a merciless study of the
- is devotional In that crusading sincerity.
Such
9 KKK, of small-town bigotry
film is "Storm Werning". It is and fear.
SUNDAY: We fy' from the Congo to Entebbe la Uganda this morning for our first day off
in three works.
The British here invite us to
play cricket on the pitch over-
a nasty film, because it bites. It never leaves your mind looking Lake Victoris, which is 临 teeth into some extremely some, mudging you overy about the size of Ireland.
unpalatable facts-but my, it movement with a new study of
•
-mean-mindedness and
cowar-
Bogart goes in eighth wicket
dice, and of how big and bully-down when things look black for What helps to make it good ing weak men can become when the jungle eleven. We have 45 behind a hood on the board, and Bogart's in.
[STANWYCK - LUND]
is a good film, too.
•
MITCHELL LEASER
OF
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TO-MORROW
The Jolson Story
they can hide
Doris
[structions are to slam out..
is the work put into it by two, and while sheet. Hollywood stars who are usual- Yes, it is strong stuff,
"That's dne by me," he says ly at home la song-and-dance films,
imms, Ginger Rogers and Doria
as the marked through the blackening beard ho
•Day, 25
has to wear for his part in the Day--who carn with their pur sister, turns your boart over him. The nearest I've ever been Kormancea
nees in this picture their
with her pozdangal of a ghi to a cricket match before was right to put the word Actress lowly discovering that the watching Ronald Colman putting after their names. The plot of husband she loves is a drunken, on his pads for a scene in "Storm Warning": is as simple, boastful little slunk.
Raffles Alm,"
and as jolting, as a bang the head with, a rock.
on
Ginger Rogers, a.hard, world-
·ly toodel. Jatorri Nerve York, stops off in a small Southerri
What a film! I felt as if I had been sweating out" 'an ordeal from real life.
Bogie, holding his bat like a „baseball stick, sinys la to the end LEONARD MOHLEY and is even not out. The scor --(London Express Service), in 53 and we lose by 108 runs.
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