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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER · 22, “1951, §
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN'
HE MUST BE THE BORGONIAN
AMBASSADOR,
VERA-ELLEN
All Told, One Must Pay Tribute
Says ADC
For the first time in the history of motion pictures it's possible to say "some- thing good about a British musical.
It's not true to suggest that it's anything like gorgeous American produc- tions in the same field, for restraint limits. its ex- travagance, but "Happy Go Lovely" is more than a pleasant film-in some ways it's almost like an experi- ment in luxurious sobriety.
It is sober in every respect- in Ils lavishness, in the impos- sibility of its story, in its choice of talent, and in its version of technicolour.
Nothing in it is calculated dazzle--its diamonds are
10
apt
30
but
carat monsumsilies, abundant gems sparkle in the Cartier refined manner of a
ring.
Accent is on the word happy, and appealing situations enrich the Cinderella story. The paco Is fast throughout, with dashes of gay humour and catchy songs providing their own embellish- ment.
THE ACCENT STOPS 'In
on the
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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| HUN--WHAT Y I'LL BET THOSE ARE -WHO--ARE THE WAR PLANS
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WHAT?
I'LL GIVE
I'LLGET THEM-BUT
I'M AFTER. ~~~ DON'T BE ALARMED,
AMBASSADOR-
HELP YOU. WHAT ARE
THE VOSNIAN WAR
PLANS WORTH TO YOU?
DO YOU HAVE THEM?
YOU FIFTY THOUSAND WHERE ARE THEY?
THEY'LL COST YOU-
TO-DAY
QUEEN
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
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MEVER BEFORE)
FRED ASTAIRE JANE POWELL.
BLANKET RE
IT IS HAPPY, LOVELY AND STUPENDOUS!
Britain Has Gate-crashed An American Domain
now
Says SUE DAWSON
night; the suddenness of recognition as her skirt brushes against д
@gures of the London
Gay & Refreshing doubled up guro sitting on the
dance
Britain has gate-crashed bara Couper) in the flurry of dances a mad whirl with shady an American domain and is the new excitement, takes for bowing under the granted Bruno will pay. tumultuous thunder of กรุง- plause! Lend an eur, all
leaps alarmingly into Such a ticklish situation pro- you who say She can't raise vides endless complications and the two policemen; the now- the turned backs of a musicni worth the name Vera-Ellen is as gay and refreshe
well- so had better leave Holly. ng as the story, in which she paper boy and all the little
dim-lit remembered
things triumphs. wood the bow and concen-
David Niven-well-no "acting" will make a Londoner
about Plecadilly Circus which wherever trate on drama-here is a calls for him to be his natural he is smile, a knowing smile production which sets an happily whimsical self, but with such polish displayed he, Is com- International standard pletely enchanting. musical comedy.
Transparent though
in
some
the
adjectives ring hollow through everyday use. Because this is not a sales blurb' but a
ere criticism, 000 must think
me-
"Just go ahead and try to basis of the plot is, there are sincere beat this," challenge that e unexpected Jittle twists twice and then again before difficult body of individuals, you now and again as the story
which turn round and wink at risking and meaning a super- lative like “stupendous" which the dictionary the exhibitors, confident that streaks on.
assures the miracle of production
Watch "Betty"-Sandra Dorne Here it is no risk.
signifles astounding magnitude". which is "Happy Go Lovely" who keeps trying to get a word with producer John
Thinking how to describe the has transcended everything Frost, for one of the snapplest impression you feel, I decided associated with the words Twinkling stars thickly clus that the nearest one can get is 'musical comedy,' One tered over Piccadilly Circus "All the world goes gay", and veteran booking manager combine with light from the the calety lingers in an aura of
called it better than any British or American musical he had ever seen.
neon signs to throw a colour,
movement,
Sony and Dimosphere on one of happy-go-lucky zest long after the moments of both shows the curtain is rung down and the "Frolica to You" and "Happy cchoes of "God Save the King" go Lovely" itself.
are faded into the big cinema's Hoppy, lovely, It is the scene round the empty corners, chortled
statue of Eros as Vera-Ellen yes-Stupendous
Next to me in the Theatre a Chinese Gentlemen
Intermittently all through the
film. Now that in itself is a very cheerful sign in this parti
cular spot of the hemisphere
48
where unless he chorties, few of us know the thing's been' on at all before it is whisked away
Box Office loss
.. And a high-time change that such a chortle-prover should be a Bri- tish feath
Admittedly, the Director, Bruce Humberstone, and two of the leading stars, Vera-Ellen and Cesar Romero are imported from across the Atlantic, but Associated British decided that for a real breath-taker
they must wink at that National
Institution- -Insularity -and
obtain the finest artists, if not at home, then from abroad,
But sot in historie Edinburgh during
the annual Festival time, and with the so-English David Niven in the fore as. Multi-
B. millionaire G. Bruns there is no need to emphasise that the whole sturdy supporting cast, the_technicianc and the studio at Elstree were British to the marrow to make one realise that here is a home-grown child of the Anest stature.
the
cries
Nothing startlingly new goes into the story; it has all appeal of the traditional musi- its starts it is certainly
cal, but without the ustial more Anglo-American than
spineless padding as story for purely British, but the Amerl-
the music and dancing. There can accent stops there. For
a well-knit ២. the rest it is unlike anything situation which simply
plot in a comedy СУСТ produced
other out for a musical background. side. of the Atlantic, What is
superbly where too many dollars have 100 achieved is the synchronisation ofien simply gilded the lily.
of story, stars, music, dances, Here you have the Illy, serene
setting, photography and colour by itself
its own plain vase, in
into a film of live personality. and good taste is not outraged.
The story, too, moves along with a laugh and no jolt. It is far-fetched, but in the ac- ceptable manner of 'fairy tales, as charming and earthy 14 Alice.
A millionaire, a bankrupt show, an ambitious chorus girl
all the familler Ingredi
sellfully blended
enia, but 50 that in the end one is constrain- ed to say: “It's almost u now cocktail, though . I know the drinks."
Vora-Ellen's dancing pattern of the ballet conditioned to the cabaret a mixture of the classic with the slap-bang but always so alry, so life and graceful that the perversion is a pleasure to watch.
The Piccadilly sequence, par- ticularly, emerges. as a lesson in what to do if you must deny the gospel of Colonel de Basil that originality in the ballet ended with Les Bylphides.
Ballet & Tap
MAKE NO
MISTAKE
Make no mistake. "Frenchie Fonteyne (Shelley Winters) is a great gal. But if you judge her- or the picture by the rather ordinary shoot-an-gallop trailer you'll miss a lot of fun.
The only girl in show business who does ballet, toe, tap and The quantity which keeps aerobatle dancing is Vern-Ellen, one guessing in this delightful and she, as "Janet Jones", gets way is Frenchie herself, gay and
avivacious, who wakes up the break of a lifetime in Festival show "Frolled to You" alcopy little mid-West Law which is being produced by abiding town called "Bottle- Cesar Romero as John Frost-neck" by starting up a saloon- who is practically bankrupt.
outfit which cum-gambling The key
to the solution all shortly becomes the rage of the happens through a delicious countryside, misunderstanding.
Janet has
certainly, but not one to quailly for that nasty American adjec tive you're thinking of--the one that sounds like a foot' allment. -8.8.
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The motive to solve another. dige someway out of town with her English friend "Mine" mystery in the eternal, triangle.
THE: NICHST. -LITTLE crooks.oze the same show.
Dlane Harta chorus girl in There were three
of whom was Frenchio's Father,THEATRE IN side alarm
When one morning their bed- and the other two shot him.
fails to
function, Okay. She has one tapeo,
But Janet who has to be there first who was The Thi and on the dot, thumbs in de- You guess pretty early on Ughtful US, fashion her way to because that is the gray of the theatre.
Westerns they reveal to y Not for a long time does she ing
to conceal too-obvious discover that the liveried chauf- character.. But never mind,
And so, all told, one must (eur, with whom she hitched there is still the rest of
employed by the mult how Right triumphs, as of
pay tribute. Hollywood will millionaire B. G. Bruno, and by coun
does, And chiace probably remain Supreme in that. Ume she is in the swim up through a sunless, and wh musical extravaganza-it's till to her neck, for "Holes" the
Impossible to picture a British chauffeur has returned to the times garrulous / Inwen tarpei
studio turning
(Joel McCrea) who talks first (occasionally); after, hid ear, and John Frost at the and shools
out anyheatro the handbag sho; left in
really sumptuous ghaltored.. the rest of them have leapt to many and do nearly got himaalt
Go Lovely" has
hangod through trying to curb myth that the British, sunk in alarming conclusiona, the gloom at their fog-bound Janet finds herself hurtling is the impetuous Frenchie, Isles, only know what to do with stardom without1,
Elan Lanchester, the "Coun knowing why, dramape
For Frost immédiately informs tess" lends an intriguing, touch They now know
Fre
THERINEROAREN his Scottish' creditors that he bas jaf: the "mechante !(which la'no į
will musical comedy, too. And
Bruno's booking for the show, more French What's more, one suporta while the equally, Innocent 30. By pay rinKTurda, tive really applies to their first receives an envelope with a riteriainment, no- by effort. When the Americans white rogs attached bill Rere a life wild wa lily have exhausted all of theire, we nenged and an woning gown pupions
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