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WARNER BROK
Close
An impatient girl-
an impulsive man --
and a bold, bright look at what made their love go 'round!
to my
Heart'
will be very
close to yours!
RAY MILLAND GENE TIERNEY
FAY BAINTER WILLIAM KEIGHLEY Written by JAMES R. WEBB
From his story in Good Housekeeping Magazines to mas delet
ROX & BROADWAY
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GILBERT
ROLAND
ANGER In A Man
FURY In A Woman! bursting into flame in the tense, breathless
whirlwind of their love!
PAULETTE
PEDRO
GODDARD
ARMENDARIZ
THE
TORCH
ROXY ADDED ATTRACTION: "Diary of Princess Elizabeth
and Duke of Edinburgh," BROADWAY ADDED ATTRACTION: Technicolor Cartoon.
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&
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1952.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAŅ
SAY--TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY! 1 ALMOST FORGOT! THAT CALLS FOR A LITTLE CELEBRATION. THAT'LL BREAK THE
MONOTONY.
JUNE
|--A SHOW, AND THEN'SUPPER--
TONIGHT? GILMANDRAKE, | I CAN'T. I HAVE A MEETING. WAS IT ANYTHING SPECIAL TONIGHT
L-NO-NOTHING SPECIAL,NARDA.
SEE YOU TOMORROW.
OF COURSE. SORRY ABOUT TONIGHT, GOODBYE.
By Lee Fall and Phil Davla
I THOUGHT NARDA WOULD REMEM· BER THAT TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY. OH,WELL--I'LL TRY
| SOMEBODY ELSE--
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TOMORROW BUSY PEOPLE
AN ACCENT More Sun, Please, This
FOR THE
GENERAL
Pedro Armendariz Was presented with a unique problem for his role in "The Torch." The actor, who was born in Mexico, had to learn to speak English with an accent!
Armendariz has lives in the United States since he was six years old and completed college a: the Californim Polytechnic Institute. Consequently ho cart His role as a revolutionary speaks English like an Ameri- general in The Torch called
for a Mexican accent and he
The
Is A Night Scene
By FRED MAJDALANY
(Who is watching a British film being made in the desert)
were
•
the gh. Eventually they was not satisfled. In order to ready to start the day's fim the dust-storm that occurs in this pleture it was necessary
cques
end.
Bou Saada, Algeria. ganised chaos happily because one, But the Anicky camera
worst thing about of filming is the appalling shooting of "Enst of Algiers." hours of work. Ruthlessly The chain of command which to
to create one. Three aeroplanes we were dragged from our brought this about was intri were borrowed
from a fying beds at six. Ruthlessly we gunk... First a whistle blew, club and lined up. Their were murched into a hired sistant director, "Silence yelled sand was shovelled by all spare "Quiet!" shouted the first as-
engines were started and loose Tunisian bus and driven the second assistant director in hands into the slipstream. Man
French. along a rough desert track schoolboy
"Skut!" will always beat Nature in the had to practise long and hard to Eddis, a few miles from Bou
to the Arab village of Ain bawled the Arab interpreter.
cameras turned, and Уал WORTHY OF ASCOT
Charles perfect it.
Goldner, and We break for lunch, which is Most of "The Torch," set in Saada. Forty of ឃុន
Brunius appeared brought Out by production Mesicu
during the 1018 ro- actors, technicians, and round П corner dressed as manager Ceell Foster Kemp and volution, was filmed in the tiny parasites.
fugitive archeologists.
a girl named Parn, It is This city of Cholula, Mexico.
quiet. I don't like of
is worthy tco quiet. Electric cables,
Ascot, This
aspect uttle was one of the flourish-vans, people, and shouls ilfled " hissos Van Hellin. They roughing it is most pleasing.
generators, "It's
-walk ing Aztec capitals at the time of
the stealthily. towards was not sur-
In the afternoon visitors to the square. It the Spanish conquest.
camera. Ax Arab child yells the location include a Caid, a prising that the Ay-rabs (63 Village street
is B-hand- 100 the mike. "Cut!" says local tribal chief, He is
near our allies from Oklahoma used to call
director Jack Lee. them) turned out in
playboy
with a dashing In Arabian force to watch the majesty of
clothing. Western Civilisation at work.
It was not tong
before Prominence is given to Western Civilisation was terior-and-exterior-scenes. of.
-the-interest Goddard Paulette
and laughs. In
realism the wardrobe
in
scenes
Almed
The City Churches, which has 365
edifices, one for each igitais
in the year.
stars
colonial
Fernandez
Emilio "The Torch".
were
of
re-
day
some
line
of
ini
to hin
It all happen again, and this lime the
the first acroplane to pass thought this kind existed only here for a month roars slowly in superior productions of "The overhead. "Out!"
Desert Sons
He is
greatly The third time the camera taken with Wanda Hendrix, t-of-
wobbles on the wooden rails, one of the stars of the Alm. man which lick the constancy of the in the historic started rubbing some beautifully metal kind used in a studio,
The Front Office, staring an- Pedro A, the Tafeslui
xiously at approaching turbans
clouds laundered
the on de San Francisco de Calapec.
their The fourth attempt at the are biling
nails. The them dirty. ground to make directed The Ay-rabs seemed to think when
"take" is going splendidly Cald pays elaborale compit-
ments and rocked with when a grey figure nobody had
to Miss Hendrix this strange, Playing "mood music" on
French. Her, French being even film set is not new, but for per- laughter. Then nothing hap- anticipated climbs on a rooftop
and glorts
-the worke
than mine.
I bawling
have for pened
a long
except time, formers in The Torch" It pro-
translate them, pass on his fiddlings with Muezzin summoning the Faith- the mense vided something out of
ful to prayer. machinery. cables, platforms,
compliments. I pass back her ordinary. The music was play scaffolding, and such like.
LAMPS IN DAYLIGHT polite discouragements. It 1 one of Mexico's finest
The ferocious-looking Arab the first time I have found my 1. lay
hat and bright; guitarists, Antonia Bribiesca.
morale WILS high. This, they whom I have been sitting next self in the position of trans- Even the technicians were told me, was the best day so lo for three hours fishes a mitting another man's passes to affected by Briblesca's strum for. Previously the
a beautiful woman. weather crumpled Times out of his burn-
consider ming of sentimental, nostalgic had not been what you expect pus and tackles the crossword, Mexican melodics-and Pauleste in sunny south Algeria.
discover that he is a Goddard and her co-star, Pedro
(producers scholarly English actor Armendariz, easily melted into Aubrey Baring and Max Setton) Ale
Alec Mango who has lately the mand of torrid romance arrived in a battered shooting been developing a successful, is too dark to shoot night called for by the script.
An amusing situation emerged during the Aiming of "The Turch" when it was discovered that star Paulette Goddard and director Emilio Fernandez had worked together once before. This was in the early. Eddie Cantor film "Kid From Spain".
The sun was
The Front Ofee
brake
and surveyed the or-
Director Plans
A Book On
Fernandez was a bit player and Infant Prodigies
Paulette, A
show girl.
part for Paulette led to her role
in Charlie Chaplin's "Modern
The sayings of past and Times" and eventual stardom.
Fernandez gave up acting to present child stars will be devote his attention to the tech the topic of a book being nical side of film-making. He planned by Norman Taurog has achieved such success that who has directed practical- of his more recent Alms, ly every famous Hollywood "The Torch", received 18 Inter-
juyenile.
one
national honours.
ALLERGIC JEWELS
According to the director of Empress Curlotta of Mexico Warner Bros. "Room For One must have worn ho
he'll make-up More,"
start compiling with her crown jewels, says anecdotes of his juventle charges Paulette Goddard, because If she as soon as he completes the Cary had her skin would have turned Grant - Betsy Drake co-starrer. Book will start with "Skippy" and go up until the present.
creen..
Miss Goddard wore some of the priceless jewellery for scenes
The Torch". The heirloom
Taurog will tell stories on cold formed a chemical reaction Mickey Rooney, Virginia Weld- Judy Garland, Mitzi Green, Paulette's make-up and nade streaks of green on her ler, Margaret O'Brien, Jackie
Jackie Cooper. Searle,
Baby hroat, arms and chest. The LeRoy, Junior Durkin and other ornaments, insured by producer Bert Granet for 1,000,000 dollars, anxious to incorporate the com
ex-child stars. He's particularly were then coated by the make-
ments of 5-year-old George
up men with a thin film of oil winslow who appears in "Room which protected the actress's For One More
skin.
"This is one of the most won- Costumes for Paulette God-derful kids. I've ever met," dard to wear in "The Torch Taurog explained. "He's fur of were designed by Armando Valdez de Peza, a couturier of delightful way of expressing it." childish imagination and has a
the highest standing in Mexico, Director has a title for his where the film was shot in its book: "Where Are My Children?"
entirety.
Story of "The Torch" called for Miss Goddard to have over 25 costume changes, including. ball gowns, night-gowns of the finest Mexican lace and even several "rebosas", the beautiful shawl adopted from the Indians.
Steve Cochran's Dark Threat
BESSIE LOVE'S DAUGHTER MAKES GOOD
Pleased with
Of the work Patricia Hawks, daughter of allent screen star Bessie Love, in "11. Seo You In My Dreams," Warner Bros. has given the pretty 10-year-old the dancor a second role, in Technicolour musical "About
Stova Cochran, on location Face." She starts rehearsing in Utuk for Warner Bros. Immediately with dance direc- "The Lion And The Horse" tor LeRoy Prinz for scenes
TOWN?uting becauseway is with stars Gordon Machae and
MARJORIE MAIN PERCY KILBRIDE
TO-MORROW
“RELUCTANT DRAGON"
nuting because it wasn't given Eddie Brücken.
the canine role in the colour
action drama,
for
The part in the picture, calis
A big shaggy dog and LION ON THE SET
Techaikowsky is too short, ex-
plained the stor.
Jackie, the four - year. old "There's a good skunk role African lion in Warner Bros. in the picture and if Mr T. "The Lion And The Horse,” doesn't stop, sulking · 111 see performing his role without the that he plays it" mys Stove, use of a cage or a leash and "He could do it if I painted a being given free movement......on White, diripo, down fils, back.”.
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adding "Poor Man's Cyrano de Bergerac to my busitiess card.
TOO DARK NOW The clouds become darker. It
An flamboyant banditry (he scenes
line
blower" picture);
for